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Researcher · Leipzig University · Germany

Torsten Masson

Torsten Masson publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Applied Psychology, on topics such as Environmental Education and Sustainability, Behavioral Health and Interventions and Climate Change Communication and Perception.

ORCID 0000-0001-9870-0846 OpenAlex
World rank
#110,983
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#5,862
of 364,343
Works
89
Citations
2.7k
Citations per work
30.4
h-index
23
i10-index 35Top 4.6% in Sociology and Political Science
Torsten Masson

What does Torsten Masson research?

Torsten Masson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (33%), Environmental Science (25%), Psychology (15%).

Social Sciences: 42 works · 47.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 29 works · 32.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 29 works · 32.6% of their workPsychology: 13 works · 14.9% of their workApplied Psychology: 7 works · 7.9% of their workSocial Psychology: 6 works · 7.0% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 27.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 22 works · 25.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 22 works · 25.1% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 13 works · 14.9% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 7 works · 7.9% of their workPollution: 2 works · 2.3% of their workTHEIR WORKTorsten Masson89works
Physical Sciences25%Social Sciences48%

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 Sciences2932.6%
    2. Psychology1314.9%
  2. Everything else2427.4%
    1. Environmental Science2225.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science33% of their works
  2. 2Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law15% of their works
  3. 3Applied Psychology8% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change8% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology7% of their works
  6. 6Pollution2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Torsten Masson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Environmental Attitudes, Pro-environmental Behavior, Social Norms, Climate Change, Risk Perception, Public Perception, Self-Regulation and Theory of Planned Behaviour.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Attitudes442 topics
  2. Pro-environmental Behavior291 topic
  3. Social Norms291 topic
  4. Climate Change252 topics
  5. Risk Perception252 topics
  6. Public Perception242 topics
  7. Self-Regulation171 topic
  8. Theory of Planned Behaviour171 topic
  9. Media Coverage151 topic
  10. Science Communication151 topic
  11. Intergroup Contact141 topic
  12. Social Identity141 topic
  13. Disaster121 topic
  14. Resilience121 topic
  15. Flood Risk101 topic
  16. Remote Sensing101 topic
  17. Renewable Energy91 topic
  18. Social Acceptance91 topic
  19. Ostracism61 topic
  20. Social Exclusion61 topic

Where does Torsten Masson work?

Torsten Masson's main affiliation in the publication record is Leipzig University, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Torsten Masson have?

OpenAlex counts 89 works and 2,705 citations for Torsten Masson, an h-index of 23, ranking #110,983 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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