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Researcher · University of Toronto · Canada

Walter A. Goffart

Walter A. Goffart publishes mostly in History, Classics and Archeology, on topics such as Medieval Literature and History, Historical and Religious Studies of Rome and Byzantine Studies and History.

OpenAlex
World rank
#362,186
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#12,627
of 183,316
Works
175
Citations
2.4k
Citations per work
13.6
h-index
27
i10-index 36Top 0.6% in History
Walter A. Goffart

What does Walter A. Goffart research?

Walter A. Goffart's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (70%), Social Sciences (16%).

Social Sciences: 150 works · 86.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 123 works · 70.5% of their workHistory: 47 works · 27.1% of their workClassics: 43 works · 24.6% of their workArcheology: 27 works · 15.5% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 6 works · 3.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 27 works · 15.5% of their workAnthropology: 17 works · 9.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 10 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 14.0% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter A. Goffart175works
Social Sciences86%

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 Humanities12370.5%
    2. Social Sciences2715.5%
  2. Everything else2514.0%
  1. 1History27% of their works
  2. 2Classics25% of their works
  3. 3Archeology16% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology10% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  6. 6Language and Linguistics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter A. Goffart's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Medieval, Religion, Late Antiquity, Cultural Exchange, Middle Ages, Urban Development, Literature and Society.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Medieval722 topics
  2. Religion722 topics
  3. Late Antiquity642 topics
  4. Cultural Exchange592 topics
  5. Middle Ages542 topics
  6. Urban Development542 topics
  7. Literature471 topic
  8. Society471 topic
  9. Ceremonial401 topic
  10. Rome401 topic
  11. Byzantium341 topic
  12. Eastern Mediterranean341 topic
  13. Scandinavia251 topic
  14. Viking Age251 topic
  15. Ancient Rome241 topic
  16. Greek Literature241 topic
  17. Bronze Age191 topic
  18. Corded Ware Culture191 topic
  19. Arabia141 topic
  20. Byzantine141 topic
  21. Cultural History141 topic
  22. Medieval Literature141 topic

Where does Walter A. Goffart work?

Walter A. Goffart's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Toronto, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Walter A. Goffart have?

OpenAlex counts 175 works and 2,381 citations for Walter A. Goffart, an h-index of 27, ranking #362,186 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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