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Researcher · Florida Southern College · United States

W. Alan Smith

W. Alan Smith publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Education and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Religious Education and Schools, Theatre and Performance Studies and Education and Islamic Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,517,065
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,200,819
of 1,627,098
Works
15
Citations
46
Citations per work
3.1
h-index
4
i10-index 1Top 62% in Sociology and Political Science
W. Alan Smith

What does W. Alan Smith research?

W. Alan Smith's work is mostly in Social Sciences (36%), Arts and Humanities (32%).

Social Sciences: 10 works · 67.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 35.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 19.4% of their workEducation: 2 works · 16.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 32.4% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 works · 12.9% of their workPhilosophy: 1 works · 6.5% of their workReligious studies: 1 works · 6.5% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 works · 6.5% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 32.1% of their workTHEIR WORKW. Alan Smith15works
Social Sciences68%

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 Sciences535.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities532.4%
  2. Everything else532.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science19% of their works
  2. 2Education16% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory13% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy6% of their works
  5. 5Religious studies6% of their works
  6. 6Visual Arts and Performing Arts6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. Alan Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Religious Education, Globalization, Diversity, Religion, Schools, Faith-Based Organizations, Islamic Education and Pedagogy.

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. Religious Education52 topics
  2. Globalization42 topics
  3. Diversity31 topic
  4. Religion32 topics
  5. Schools31 topic
  6. Faith-Based Organizations21 topic
  7. Islamic Education21 topic
  8. Pedagogy21 topic
  9. Performance Art21 topic
  10. Social Services21 topic
  11. Theatre21 topic
  12. Cross-modal Plasticity11 topic
  13. Interaction Techniques11 topic
  14. Literary Criticism11 topic
  15. Literature11 topic
  16. Modernism11 topic
  17. Modernist Poetry11 topic
  18. Tactile Perception11 topic
  19. Tangible User Interfaces11 topic

Where does W. Alan Smith work?

W. Alan Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Florida Southern College, United States.

How many publications and citations does W. Alan Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 46 citations for W. Alan Smith, an h-index of 4, ranking #4,517,065 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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