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Researcher · Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen · Germany

Volker Roelcke

Volker Roelcke publishes mostly in History, Clinical Psychology and General Health Professions, on topics such as Medical History and Research, Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices and Psychoanalysis and Social Critique.

ORCID 0000-0002-7841-4954 OpenAlex
World rank
#231,340
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#11,722
of 364,343
Works
125
Citations
874
Citations per work
7.0
h-index
18
i10-index 29Top 2.3% in History
Volker Roelcke

What does Volker Roelcke research?

Volker Roelcke's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (36%), Psychology (17%), Social Sciences (10%).

Social Sciences: 80 works · 64.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 45 works · 36.2% of their workHistory: 38 works · 30.3% of their workPhilosophy: 7 works · 5.9% of their workPsychology: 22 works · 17.4% of their workClinical Psychology: 22 works · 17.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 10.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 7 works · 5.6% of their workCultural Studies: 6 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 35 works · 28.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 10 works · 7.7% of their workHealth Professions: 10 works · 7.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 10 works · 7.7% of their workTHEIR WORKVolker Roelcke125works
Health Sciences8%Social Sciences64%

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. Arts and Humanities4536.2%
    2. Psychology2217.4%
    3. Social Sciences1310.5%
  2. Everything else3528.2%
    1. Health Professions107.7%
  1. 1History30% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology17% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions8% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy6% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Volker Roelcke's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Psychiatry, Eugenics, Nazi Era, History, Mental Health, Psychopharmacology, Psychoanalysis and Social Theory.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Psychiatry1192 topics
  2. Eugenics731 topic
  3. Nazi Era731 topic
  4. History693 topics
  5. Mental Health461 topic
  6. Psychopharmacology461 topic
  7. Psychoanalysis232 topics
  8. Social Theory232 topics
  9. Gender212 topics
  10. Sexuality212 topics
  11. Gender Studies141 topic
  12. Religion141 topic
  13. Forced Laborers121 topic
  14. Nazi Propaganda121 topic
  15. Health Surveys101 topic
  16. Public Health101 topic
  17. Epistemic Practices91 topic
  18. Healthcare91 topic
  19. Reproduction91 topic
  20. Sociological History91 topic
  21. neurological history61 topic
  22. neuroscience pioneers61 topic

Where does Volker Roelcke work?

Volker Roelcke's main affiliation in the publication record is Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Volker Roelcke have?

OpenAlex counts 125 works and 874 citations for Volker Roelcke, an h-index of 18, ranking #231,340 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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