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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.

ORCID 0009-0002-5724-0593 OpenAlex
World rank
#82,367
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#31,800
of 1,627,098
Works
468
Citations
11k
Citations per work
23.9
h-index
43
i10-index 104Top 0.7% in Sociology and Political Science
William Sims Bainbridge

What does William Sims Bainbridge research?

William Sims Bainbridge's work is mostly in Social Sciences (31%), Arts and Humanities (8%), Physics and Astronomy (6%).

Everything else: 231 works · 49.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 195 works · 41.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 145 works · 31.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 131 works · 28.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 14 works · 3.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 37 works · 7.9% of their workPhilosophy: 37 works · 7.9% of their workPsychology: 13 works · 2.7% of their workSocial Psychology: 13 works · 2.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 43 works · 9.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 29 works · 6.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 29 works · 6.2% of their workComputer Science: 14 works · 2.9% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 14 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam SimsBainbridge468works
Physical Sciences9%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. Everything else23149.3%
    1. Social Sciences14531.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities377.9%
    3. Psychology132.7%
    1. Physics and Astronomy296.2%
    2. Computer Science142.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science28% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy8% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics6% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations3% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence3% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Sims Bainbridge's research?

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

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Religion762 topics
  2. Nationalism752 topics
  3. Online Gaming751 topic
  4. Video Games751 topic
  5. Public Sphere571 topic
  6. Secularism571 topic
  7. Astrobiology411 topic
  8. Extraterrestrial Life411 topic
  9. Digital Religion331 topic
  10. Internet331 topic
  11. Occultism281 topic
  12. Spiritualism281 topic
  13. Altruism211 topic
  14. Cooperation211 topic
  15. Faith-Based Organizations191 topic
  16. Social Services191 topic
  17. American founding181 topic
  18. Constitutional government181 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?

OpenAlex counts 468 works and 11,162 citations for William Sims Bainbridge, an h-index of 43, ranking #82,367 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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