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Researcher · University of Zurich · Switzerland

Walter Burkert

Walter Burkert publishes mostly in Archeology, Anthropology and Philosophy, on topics such as Classical Antiquity Studies, Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies and Byzantine Studies and History.

OpenAlex
World rank
#200,916
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#4,003
of 80,918
Works
180
Citations
5.8k
Citations per work
32.4
h-index
31
i10-index 53Top 1.2% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
Walter Burkert

What does Walter Burkert research?

Walter Burkert's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (52%), Social Sciences (26%).

Social Sciences: 140 works · 77.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 94 works · 52.0% of their workArcheology: 39 works · 21.8% of their workPhilosophy: 25 works · 13.9% of their workClassics: 19 works · 10.4% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 11 works · 5.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 46 works · 25.5% of their workAnthropology: 35 works · 19.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 11 works · 5.9% of their workEverything else: 40 works · 22.5% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter Burkert180works
Social Sciences78%

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 Humanities9452.0%
    2. Social Sciences4625.5%
  2. Everything else4022.5%
  1. 1Archeology22% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology20% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy14% of their works
  4. 4Classics10% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter Burkert's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ancient Rome, Greek Literature, Ancient Magic, Gnosticism, Cultural Exchange, Byzantium, Eastern Mediterranean and Cultural History.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Ancient Rome741 topic
  2. Greek Literature741 topic
  3. Ancient Magic471 topic
  4. Gnosticism471 topic
  5. Cultural Exchange452 topics
  6. Byzantium271 topic
  7. Eastern Mediterranean271 topic
  8. Cultural History262 topics
  9. Aristotle211 topic
  10. Plato211 topic
  11. Archaeology181 topic
  12. Mediterranean181 topic
  13. Medieval Literature141 topic
  14. Religious Practices141 topic
  15. Autorschaft121 topic
  16. Bildung121 topic
  17. Indo-European121 topic
  18. Linguistics121 topic

Where does Walter Burkert work?

Walter Burkert's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Walter Burkert have?

OpenAlex counts 180 works and 5,830 citations for Walter Burkert, an h-index of 31, ranking #200,916 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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