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Researcher · Boston College · United States

William A. Gamson

William A. Gamson publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Social Media and Politics, Media Studies and Communication and Rhetoric and Communication Studies.

World rank
#13,252
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#6,386
of 358,040
Works
44
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
31.3

What does William A. Gamson research?

Sociology and Political Science: 29.2%Communication: 20.8%Political Science and International Relations: 16.7%Philosophy: 6.3%other fields: 27.0%29%top field
Sociology and Political Science29.2%Communication20.8%Political Science and International Relations16.7%Philosophy6.3%other fields27.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science29% of their works
  2. 2Communication21% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations17% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy6% of their works
  5. 5History4% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William A. Gamson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Digital Divide, Social Media, Social Justice, Agenda Setting, Globalization, Media Framing, Democracy and Rhetoric.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Digital Divide61 topic
  2. Social Media61 topic
  3. Social Justice52 topics
  4. Agenda Setting41 topic
  5. Globalization42 topics
  6. Media Framing41 topic
  7. Democracy31 topic
  8. Rhetoric31 topic
  9. Academic Writing21 topic
  10. American founding21 topic
  11. Constitutional government21 topic
  12. Discourse Analysis21 topic
  13. International Institutions21 topic
  14. Power21 topic
  15. Public Sociology21 topic
  16. Social Theory21 topic
  17. Student Participation21 topic
  18. Teacher Immediacy21 topic

Where does William A. Gamson work?

William A. Gamson's main affiliation in the publication record is Boston College, United States.

How many publications and citations does William A. Gamson have?

Science Explorer counts 44 works and 1,375 citations for William A. Gamson, ranking #13,252 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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