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Researcher · WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF · Switzerland

Walter W Benjamin

Walter W Benjamin publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation, German Literature and Culture Studies and Art, Politics, and Modernism.

ORCID 0000-0003-0282-8605 OpenAlex
World rank
#241,015
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#4,725
of 80,918
Works
451
Citations
29k
Citations per work
64.5
h-index
56
i10-index 122Top 0.1% in Literature and Literary Theory
Walter W Benjamin

What does Walter W Benjamin research?

Walter W Benjamin's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (40%), Social Sciences (10%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (4%).

Social Sciences: 230 works · 50.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 183 works · 40.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 69 works · 15.4% of their workPhilosophy: 60 works · 13.4% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 30 works · 6.6% of their workHistory: 23 works · 5.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 47 works · 10.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 47 works · 10.4% of their workEverything else: 204 works · 45.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 17 works · 3.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 17 works · 3.8% of their workAtmospheric Science: 17 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter W Benjamin451works
Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences51%

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 Humanities18340.5%
    2. Social Sciences4710.4%
  2. Everything else20445.3%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences173.8%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory15% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy13% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  4. 4Visual Arts and Performing Arts7% of their works
  5. 5History5% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter W Benjamin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Aesthetics, Identity, Cultural History, Walter Benjamin, Autorschaft, Bildung, Climate Change and Contemporary Art.

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. Aesthetics892 topics
  2. Identity682 topics
  3. Cultural History621 topic
  4. Walter Benjamin621 topic
  5. Autorschaft451 topic
  6. Bildung451 topic
  7. Climate Change352 topics
  8. Contemporary Art271 topic
  9. Relational Aesthetics271 topic
  10. Glacier231 topic
  11. Literature231 topic
  12. W.G. Sebald231 topic
  13. Water Availability231 topic
  14. Environmental Participation141 topic
  15. Territorial Governance141 topic
  16. Art Market131 topic
  17. Investment131 topic
  18. Aeolian Processes121 topic
  19. Wind Erosion121 topic

Where does Walter W Benjamin work?

Walter W Benjamin's main affiliation in the publication record is WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Walter W Benjamin have?

OpenAlex counts 451 works and 29,110 citations for Walter W Benjamin, an h-index of 56, ranking #241,015 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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