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Researcher · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · Germany

Ulrich Beck

Ulrich Beck publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Sociology and Education Studies, Economic and Social Issues and Social Policy and Reform Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,902
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#185
of 364,343
Works
524
Citations
76k
Citations per work
145.9
h-index
95
i10-index 258Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Ulrich Beck

What does Ulrich Beck research?

Ulrich Beck's work is mostly in Social Sciences (57%), Engineering (3%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (3%).

Social Sciences: 311 works · 59.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 298 works · 56.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 202 works · 38.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 81 works · 15.5% of their workGeneral Social Sciences: 14 works · 2.7% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 13 works · 2.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 13 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 187 works · 35.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 26 works · 5.0% of their workEngineering: 17 works · 3.3% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 17 works · 3.3% of their workMaterials Science: 9 works · 1.7% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 9 works · 1.7% of their workTHEIR WORKUlrich Beck524works
Physical Sciences5%Social Sciences59%

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 Sciences29856.8%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance132.5%
  2. Everything else18735.7%
    1. Engineering173.3%
    2. Materials Science91.7%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science39% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations16% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering3% of their works
  4. 4General Social Sciences3% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics2% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ulrich Beck's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Welfare State, Bildungsungleichheit, Globalization, Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse, Global Capitalism, Imperialism, Political Economy and Social Policy.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Welfare State542 topics
  2. Bildungsungleichheit531 topic
  3. Globalization532 topics
  4. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse531 topic
  5. Global Capitalism501 topic
  6. Imperialism501 topic
  7. Political Economy311 topic
  8. Social Policy311 topic
  9. Epistemic Practices251 topic
  10. Sociological History251 topic
  11. Community Intervention231 topic
  12. Social Work231 topic
  13. Cultural221 topic
  14. Identity221 topic
  15. Habermas211 topic
  16. Social Pathologies211 topic
  17. Biomaterials201 topic
  18. Scaffolds201 topic

Where does Ulrich Beck work?

Ulrich Beck's main affiliation in the publication record is Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Ulrich Beck have?

OpenAlex counts 524 works and 76,430 citations for Ulrich Beck, an h-index of 95, ranking #4,902 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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