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Researcher · New School · United States

William C. Hirst

William C. Hirst publishes mostly in Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Social Psychology, on topics such as Memory Processes and Influences, Identity, Memory, and Therapy and Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration.

OpenAlex
World rank
#88,912
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#34,332
of 1,627,098
Works
178
Citations
8k
Citations per work
45.2
h-index
49
i10-index 108Top 4.2% in Cognitive Neuroscience
William C. Hirst

What does William C. Hirst research?

William C. Hirst's work is mostly in Psychology (35%), Neuroscience (26%), Social Sciences (8%).

Social Sciences: 75 works · 42.3% of their workPsychology: 62 works · 34.6% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 30 works · 17.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 22 works · 12.1% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10 works · 5.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 14 works · 7.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 14 works · 7.7% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 26.9% of their workLife Sciences: 46 works · 25.9% of their workNeuroscience: 46 works · 25.9% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 46 works · 25.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 4.9% of their workComputer Science: 9 works · 4.9% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 9 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam C. Hirst178works
Life Sciences26%Physical Sciences5%Social Sciences42%

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. Psychology6234.6%
    2. Social Sciences147.7%
  2. Everything else4826.9%
    1. Neuroscience4625.9%
    1. Computer Science94.9%
  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience26% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology17% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology12% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William C. Hirst's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Episodic Memory, Memory Retrieval, Cultural Psychology, Psychological Well-being, Autobiographical Memory, Narrative Identity, Collective Memory and Trauma.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Episodic Memory741 topic
  2. Memory Retrieval741 topic
  3. Cultural Psychology642 topics
  4. Psychological Well-being622 topics
  5. Autobiographical Memory531 topic
  6. Narrative Identity531 topic
  7. Collective Memory231 topic
  8. Trauma231 topic
  9. Identity Construction212 topics
  10. Narrative Analysis212 topics
  11. Social Interaction192 topics
  12. Dialogical Self111 topic
  13. Hippocampus111 topic
  14. Memory111 topic
  15. Social Representations Theory111 topic
  16. Conversation Analysis101 topic
  17. Interactional Linguistics101 topic
  18. Child Development91 topic
  19. Curiosity91 topic
  20. Exploration91 topic
  21. Theory of Mind91 topic

Where does William C. Hirst work?

William C. Hirst's main affiliation in the publication record is New School, United States.

How many publications and citations does William C. Hirst have?

OpenAlex counts 178 works and 8,040 citations for William C. Hirst, an h-index of 49, ranking #88,912 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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