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Researcher · Linfield College · United States

Tom Mertes

Tom Mertes publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as American Constitutional Law and Politics, Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies and Financial Crisis of the 21st Century.

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World rank
#3,989,205
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,088,918
of 1,627,098
Works
26
Citations
285
Citations per work
11.0
h-index
4
i10-index 2Top 58% in Political Science and International Relations
Tom Mertes

What does Tom Mertes research?

Tom Mertes's work is mostly in Social Sciences (49%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (10%), Arts and Humanities (6%).

Social Sciences: 17 works · 65.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 48.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 works · 22.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 14.3% of their workSafety Research: 2 works · 6.1% of their workUrban Studies: 2 works · 6.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 works · 10.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 works · 10.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 6.1% of their workHistory: 2 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 34.8% of their workTHEIR WORKTom Mertes26works
Social Sciences65%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1348.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance310.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities26.1%
  2. Everything else934.8%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations22% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics10% of their works
  4. 4Urban Studies6% of their works
  5. 5Safety Research6% of their works
  6. 6History6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tom Mertes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Trade Unions, Welfare State, American founding, Constitutional government, Labor Market, Social Policy and Community Intervention.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization63 topics
  2. Trade Unions52 topics
  3. Welfare State52 topics
  4. American founding41 topic
  5. Constitutional government41 topic
  6. Labor Market31 topic
  7. Social Policy31 topic
  8. Community Intervention21 topic
  9. Financial Crisis21 topic
  10. Global World21 topic
  11. Labor Movement21 topic
  12. Shrinking Cities21 topic
  13. Social Work21 topic
  14. Union Revitalization21 topic
  15. Urban Decline21 topic
  16. Agroecology11 topic
  17. Ecotourism11 topic
  18. Food Sovereignty11 topic
  19. Sustainable Development11 topic

Where does Tom Mertes work?

Tom Mertes's main affiliation in the publication record is Linfield College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Tom Mertes have?

OpenAlex counts 26 works and 285 citations for Tom Mertes, an h-index of 4, ranking #3,989,205 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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