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Researcher · Western Illinois University · United States

William Faulkner

William Faulkner publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and History, on topics such as American and British Literature Analysis, Short Stories in Global Literature and Themes in Literature Analysis.

ORCID 0009-0005-7767-3638 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,324,114
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#420,401
of 1,627,098
Works
313
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
5.8
h-index
21
i10-index 38Top 1.3% in Literature and Literary Theory
William Faulkner

What does William Faulkner research?

William Faulkner's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (46%), Social Sciences (11%).

Social Sciences: 179 works · 57.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 143 works · 45.8% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 109 works · 34.7% of their workHistory: 18 works · 5.8% of their workPhilosophy: 9 works · 2.8% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 8 works · 2.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 35 works · 11.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 26 works · 8.2% of their workCultural Studies: 10 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 134 works · 42.9% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam Faulkner313works
Social Sciences57%

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 Humanities14345.8%
    2. Social Sciences3511.3%
  2. Everything else13442.9%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory35% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  3. 3History6% of their works
  4. 4Cultural Studies3% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy3% of their works
  6. 6Visual Arts and Performing Arts2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Faulkner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender, Literature, Literary Criticism, Identity, Race, Cultural Identity, Postcolonialism and Hemingway.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Gender643 topics
  2. Literature643 topics
  3. Literary Criticism603 topics
  4. Identity492 topics
  5. Race492 topics
  6. Cultural Identity422 topics
  7. Postcolonialism402 topics
  8. Hemingway361 topic
  9. Masculinity361 topic
  10. Postmodernism292 topics
  11. Global Literature271 topic
  12. Short Story Cycles271 topic
  13. Children's Literature181 topic
  14. Young Adult181 topic
  15. Adaptation151 topic
  16. Film151 topic
  17. Modernist Poetry151 topic
  18. Sylvia Plath151 topic
  19. Contemporary Fiction141 topic
  20. Thomas Pynchon141 topic
  21. History131 topic
  22. Power131 topic
  23. Air Force111 topic
  24. Modernization111 topic

Where does William Faulkner work?

William Faulkner's main affiliation in the publication record is Western Illinois University, United States.

How many publications and citations does William Faulkner have?

OpenAlex counts 313 works and 1,825 citations for William Faulkner, an h-index of 21, ranking #1,324,114 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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