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Researcher · St. George's School · United States

William John Thoms

William John Thoms publishes mostly in History, Literature and Literary Theory and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Scottish History and National Identity, Historical Economic and Social Studies and Digital Humanities and Scholarship.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,844,222
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#823,314
of 1,627,098
Works
172
Citations
45
Citations per work
0.3
h-index
3
i10-index 0Top 62% in History
William John Thoms

What does William John Thoms research?

William John Thoms's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (37%), Social Sciences (14%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%).

Social Sciences: 98 works · 56.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 64 works · 37.3% of their workHistory: 32 works · 18.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 22 works · 12.7% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 10 works · 6.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 24 works · 13.7% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 15 works · 8.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 9 works · 5.2% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 works · 5.8% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 10 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 74 works · 43.2% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam JohnThoms172works
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 Humanities6437.3%
    2. Social Sciences2413.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance105.8%
  2. Everything else7443.2%
  1. 1History18% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory13% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science6% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William John Thoms's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: History, Literature, Empire, National Identity, Scotland, Union of 1707, Philosophy and Society.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. History353 topics
  2. Literature353 topics
  3. Empire262 topics
  4. National Identity262 topics
  5. Scotland181 topic
  6. Union of 1707181 topic
  7. Philosophy172 topics
  8. Society172 topics
  9. Colonialism162 topics
  10. Economic Growth121 topic
  11. Height121 topic
  12. Digital Humanities101 topic
  13. Literary History101 topic
  14. Artistic Exchange91 topic
  15. Cultural Transfer91 topic
  16. Medieval91 topic
  17. Religion91 topic
  18. Australian history81 topic
  19. British imperialism81 topic
  20. Natural Philosophy81 topic
  21. Postcolonialism81 topic
  22. Race81 topic
  23. Scientific Culture81 topic

Where does William John Thoms work?

William John Thoms's main affiliation in the publication record is St. George's School, United States.

How many publications and citations does William John Thoms have?

OpenAlex counts 172 works and 45 citations for William John Thoms, an h-index of 3, ranking #2,844,222 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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