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Researcher · Wellesley College · United States

William E. Cain

William E. Cain publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Civil and Structural Engineering and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as American and British Literature Analysis, Poetry Analysis and Criticism and Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis.

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World rank
#1,087,392
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#352,170
of 1,627,098
Works
256
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
6.2
h-index
20
i10-index 30Top 1.5% in Literature and Literary Theory
William E. Cain

What does William E. Cain research?

William E. Cain's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (32%), Engineering (19%), Social Sciences (11%).

Social Sciences: 112 works · 43.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 83 works · 32.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 60 works · 23.4% of their workPhilosophy: 12 works · 4.8% of their workHistory: 11 works · 4.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 29 works · 11.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 16 works · 6.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 13 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 95 works · 37.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 49 works · 19.1% of their workEngineering: 49 works · 19.1% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 49 works · 19.1% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam E. Cain256works
Physical Sciences19%Social Sciences44%

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 Humanities8332.5%
    2. Social Sciences2911.4%
  2. Everything else9537.0%
    1. Engineering4919.1%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory23% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering19% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy5% of their works
  6. 6History4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William E. Cain's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Literary Criticism, Hemingway, Literature, Modernist Poetry, Sylvia Plath, Footbridges, Vibration Serviceability and Civil Engineering.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Literary Criticism362 topics
  2. Hemingway261 topic
  3. Literature261 topic
  4. Modernist Poetry251 topic
  5. Sylvia Plath251 topic
  6. Footbridges241 topic
  7. Vibration Serviceability241 topic
  8. Civil Engineering191 topic
  9. Construction191 topic
  10. Embankment Dams171 topic
  11. Internal Erosion171 topic
  12. American founding141 topic
  13. Constitutional government141 topic
  14. Slope Stability Analysis121 topic
  15. Spatial Variability121 topic
  16. Children's Literature111 topic
  17. Young Adult111 topic

Where does William E. Cain work?

William E. Cain's main affiliation in the publication record is Wellesley College, United States.

How many publications and citations does William E. Cain have?

OpenAlex counts 256 works and 1,580 citations for William E. Cain, an h-index of 20, ranking #1,087,392 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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