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Researcher · U.S. National Science Foundation · United States

William Sims Bainbridge

William Sims Bainbridge publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as Digital Games and Media, Religion and Society Interactions and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life.

OpenAlex
World rank
#192,239
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#78,190
of 358,040
Works
121
Citations
220
Citations per work
1.8

What does William Sims Bainbridge research?

Sociology and Political Science: 27.9%Philosophy: 11.5%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 9.8%Political Science and International Relations: 5.7%other fields: 45.1%28%top field
Sociology and Political Science27.9%Philosophy11.5%Astronomy and Astrophysics9.8%Political Science and International Relations5.7%other fields45.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science28% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy12% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics10% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  5. 5History4% of their works
  6. 6Management of Technology and Innovation3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Sims Bainbridge's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Online Gaming, Video Games, Religion, Secularism, Astrobiology, Extraterrestrial Life, Digital Religion and Internet.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Online Gaming101 topic
  2. Video Games101 topic
  3. Religion81 topic
  4. Secularism81 topic
  5. Astrobiology71 topic
  6. Extraterrestrial Life71 topic
  7. Digital Religion61 topic
  8. Internet61 topic
  9. Occultism61 topic
  10. Spiritualism61 topic
  11. Altruism41 topic
  12. Cooperation41 topic
  13. Space Policy41 topic
  14. Space Tourism41 topic
  15. Innovation31 topic
  16. Open Source Software31 topic

Where does William Sims Bainbridge work?

William Sims Bainbridge's main affiliation in the publication record is U.S. National Science Foundation, United States.

How many publications and citations does William Sims Bainbridge have?

Science Explorer counts 121 works and 220 citations for William Sims Bainbridge, ranking #192,239 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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