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Researcher · Duke University · United States

Walter D. Mignolo

Walter D. Mignolo publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Latin American Cultural Politics, Anthropological Studies and Insights and Globalization and Cultural Identity.

ORCID 0000-0002-2948-0656 OpenAlex
World rank
#20,530
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#7,481
of 1,627,098
Works
388
Citations
31k
Citations per work
79.7
h-index
64
i10-index 155Top 0.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Walter D. Mignolo

What does Walter D. Mignolo research?

Walter D. Mignolo's work is mostly in Social Sciences (54%), Arts and Humanities (14%).

Social Sciences: 262 works · 67.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 208 works · 53.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 87 works · 22.4% of their workAnthropology: 67 works · 17.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 30 works · 7.7% of their workCultural Studies: 24 works · 6.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 54 works · 14.0% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 36 works · 9.3% of their workHistory: 18 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 126 works · 32.5% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter D. Mignolo388works
Social Sciences67%

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 Sciences20853.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities5414.0%
  2. Everything else12632.5%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology17% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory9% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies6% of their works
  6. 6History5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter D. Mignolo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Social Movements, Postcolonialism, Decolonization, Latin America, Colonialism, Coloniality and Eurocentrism.

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.

All 26 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization1486 topics
  2. Social Movements802 topics
  3. Postcolonialism722 topics
  4. Decolonization712 topics
  5. Latin America712 topics
  6. Colonialism674 topics
  7. Coloniality571 topic
  8. Eurocentrism571 topic
  9. Neoliberalism392 topics
  10. Identity382 topics
  11. Nationalism312 topics
  12. Human Rights292 topics
  13. Cultural231 topic
  14. Ethnography231 topic
  15. Governmentality231 topic
  16. Sustainability231 topic
  17. Capitalism161 topic
  18. Internationalism161 topic
  19. Marxism161 topic
  20. Transnationalism161 topic
  21. Cosmopolitanism151 topic
  22. Literature151 topic
  23. Humanitarianism141 topic
  24. Interculturalism141 topic
  25. International Aid141 topic
  26. Poetry141 topic

Where does Walter D. Mignolo work?

Walter D. Mignolo's main affiliation in the publication record is Duke University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Walter D. Mignolo have?

OpenAlex counts 388 works and 30,941 citations for Walter D. Mignolo, an h-index of 64, ranking #20,530 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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