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Researcher · Paine College · United States

William F. Lawless

William F. Lawless publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Management Science and Operations Research and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems, Complex Systems and Decision Making and Ecosystem dynamics and resilience.

ORCID 0000-0002-3142-6923 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,223,462
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#391,691
of 1,627,098
Works
207
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
5.4
h-index
17
i10-index 38Top 9.1% in Sociology and Political Science
William F. Lawless

What does William F. Lawless research?

William F. Lawless's work is mostly in Social Sciences (31%), Decision Sciences (19%), Environmental Science (11%).

Social Sciences: 108 works · 52.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 65 works · 31.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 61 works · 29.7% of their workSafety Research: 4 works · 1.7% of their workDecision Sciences: 40 works · 19.2% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 40 works · 19.2% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 works · 1.7% of their workManagement Information Systems: 4 works · 1.7% of their workEverything else: 58 works · 27.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 41 works · 19.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 23 works · 11.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 23 works · 11.3% of their workComputer Science: 18 works · 8.6% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 18 works · 8.6% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam F.Lawless207works
Physical Sciences20%Social Sciences52%

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 Sciences6531.4%
    2. Decision Sciences4019.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting41.7%
  2. Everything else5827.8%
    1. Environmental Science2311.3%
    2. Computer Science188.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science30% of their works
  2. 2Management Science and Operations Research19% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change11% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence9% of their works
  5. 5Management Information Systems2% of their works
  6. 6Safety Research2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William F. Lawless's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sustainability, Modeling, Climate Change, Interdependence, Soft Systems Methodology, System Dynamics, Early-warning Signals and Regime Shifts.

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. Sustainability2003 topics
  2. Modeling1092 topics
  3. Climate Change1071 topic
  4. Interdependence1071 topic
  5. Soft Systems Methodology871 topic
  6. System Dynamics871 topic
  7. Early-warning Signals511 topic
  8. Regime Shifts511 topic
  9. Decision Support221 topic
  10. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps221 topic
  11. Risk Perception131 topic
  12. Trust131 topic
  13. Altruism111 topic
  14. Cooperation111 topic
  15. Analytics61 topic
  16. Big Data61 topic
  17. Innate Immunity61 topic
  18. Viral Infection61 topic

Where does William F. Lawless work?

William F. Lawless's main affiliation in the publication record is Paine College, United States.

How many publications and citations does William F. Lawless have?

OpenAlex counts 207 works and 1,127 citations for William F. Lawless, an h-index of 17, ranking #1,223,462 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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