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Researcher · Stafford College · United Kingdom

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and History, on topics such as Irish and British Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies and Poetry Analysis and Criticism.

OpenAlex
World rank
#276,056
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#24,760
of 367,258
Works
489
Citations
3.5k
Citations per work
7.2
h-index
27
i10-index 69Top 3% in Sociology and Political Science
William Butler Yeats

What does William Butler Yeats research?

William Butler Yeats's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (43%), Social Sciences (26%).

Social Sciences: 339 works · 69.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 212 works · 43.4% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 111 works · 22.6% of their workHistory: 35 works · 7.1% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 30 works · 6.1% of their workPhilosophy: 22 works · 4.4% of their workMusic: 16 works · 3.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 127 works · 26.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 127 works · 26.0% of their workEverything else: 150 works · 30.6% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam ButlerYeats489works
Social Sciences69%

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 Humanities21243.4%
    2. Social Sciences12726.0%
  2. Everything else15030.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science26% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory23% of their works
  3. 3History7% of their works
  4. 4Visual Arts and Performing Arts6% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy4% of their works
  6. 6Music3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Butler Yeats's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Conflict, Northern Ireland, Cultural Identity, Performance Art, Theatre, Literary Criticism and Modernist Poetry.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Nationalism1942 topics
  2. Conflict1811 topic
  3. Northern Ireland1811 topic
  4. Cultural Identity502 topics
  5. Performance Art381 topic
  6. Theatre381 topic
  7. Literary Criticism371 topic
  8. Modernist Poetry371 topic
  9. Culture322 topics
  10. Literature322 topics
  11. Colonialism282 topics
  12. Fairy Tales231 topic
  13. Folklore231 topic
  14. Cultural Diversity181 topic
  15. Educational Leadership181 topic
  16. Adaptation171 topic
  17. Film171 topic
  18. Art151 topic
  19. Modernism151 topic
  20. Wales131 topic
  21. Welsh literature131 topic

Where does William Butler Yeats work?

William Butler Yeats's main affiliation in the publication record is Stafford College, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does William Butler Yeats have?

OpenAlex counts 489 works and 3,545 citations for William Butler Yeats, an h-index of 27, ranking #276,056 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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