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Researcher · Maastricht University · Netherlands

William Smith

William Smith publishes mostly in History, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Mormonism, Religion, and History, Classical Antiquity Studies and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-8688-4561 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,796,830
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#39,658
of 107,149
Works
40
Citations
393
Citations per work
9.8
h-index
11
i10-index 11Top 8.3% in History
William Smith

What does William Smith research?

William Smith's work is mostly in Social Sciences (24%), Arts and Humanities (14%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%).

Everything else: 23 works · 58.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 15 works · 38.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 23.7% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 works · 9.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 9.2% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 5.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 6 works · 14.4% of their workHistory: 4 works · 10.5% of their workReligious studies: 2 works · 3.9% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 3.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 3.9% of their workPlant Science: 2 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam Smith40works
Life Sciences4%Social Sciences38%

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 else2358.0%
    1. Social Sciences923.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities614.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences23.9%
  1. 1History10% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations9% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology5% of their works
  5. 5Plant Science4% of their works
  6. 6Religious studies4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ancient Rome, Greek Literature, Mormonism, Polygamy, American founding, Archaeoastronomy, Biblical Monotheism and Constitutional government.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Ancient Rome41 topic
  2. Greek Literature41 topic
  3. Mormonism41 topic
  4. Polygamy41 topic
  5. American founding21 topic
  6. Archaeoastronomy21 topic
  7. Biblical Monotheism21 topic
  8. Constitutional government21 topic
  9. Cultural Landscapes21 topic
  10. Geodesy21 topic
  11. Jewish Society21 topic
  12. Mammal Evolution21 topic
  13. Map Projections21 topic
  14. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis21 topic
  15. Psilocybin21 topic
  16. Psychedelics21 topic

Where does William Smith work?

William Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Maastricht University, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does William Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 40 works and 393 citations for William Smith, an h-index of 11, ranking #1,796,830 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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