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William V. Spanos

William V. Spanos publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism, Poetry Analysis and Criticism and Contemporary Literature and Criticism.

World rank
#144,085
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#60,764
of 358,040
Works
50
Citations
44
Citations per work
0.9

What does William V. Spanos research?

Literature and Literary Theory: 34.0%Philosophy: 21.3%Sociology and Political Science: 17.0%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 8.5%other fields: 19.2%34%top field
Literature and Literary Theory34.0%Philosophy21.3%Sociology and Political Science17.0%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology8.5%other fields19.2%

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

  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory34% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy21% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology8% of their works
  5. 5Education4% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William V. Spanos's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ethics, Postmodernism, Philosophy, Religion, Literature, Narrative, Derrida and Levinas.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Ethics103 topics
  2. Postmodernism103 topics
  3. Philosophy93 topics
  4. Religion72 topics
  5. Literature63 topics
  6. Narrative62 topics
  7. Derrida51 topic
  8. Levinas51 topic
  9. Aesthetics42 topics
  10. Contemporary Fiction41 topic
  11. Literary Criticism41 topic
  12. Modernist Poetry41 topic
  13. Thomas Pynchon41 topic
  14. Phenomenology31 topic
  15. Psychology31 topic
  16. Existentialism21 topic
  17. Fictionality21 topic
  18. Habermas21 topic
  19. Kierkegaard21 topic
  20. Modernism21 topic
  21. Samuel Beckett21 topic
  22. Social Pathologies21 topic
  23. Unreliable Narration21 topic

Where does William V. Spanos work?

William V. Spanos's main affiliation in the publication record is Binghamton University, United States.

How many publications and citations does William V. Spanos have?

Science Explorer counts 50 works and 44 citations for William V. Spanos, ranking #144,085 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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