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Researcher · United States Coast Guard · United States

William W. Whitson

William W. Whitson publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Vietnamese History and Culture Studies, Chinese history and philosophy and Military History and Strategy.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,804,094
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#554,261
of 1,627,098
Works
47
Citations
283
Citations per work
6.0
h-index
5
i10-index 5Top 53% in Sociology and Political Science
William W. Whitson

What does William W. Whitson research?

William W. Whitson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (81%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4%), Environmental Science (2%).

Social Sciences: 40 works · 85.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 38 works · 80.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 23 works · 48.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 15 works · 31.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 works · 4.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 10.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 4.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 2.3% of their workPollution: 1 works · 2.3% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 2.2% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 works · 1.1% of their workSignal Processing: 1 works · 1.1% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam W.Whitson47works
Physical Sciences5%Social Sciences85%

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. Social Sciences3880.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance24.5%
  2. Everything else510.3%
    1. Environmental Science12.3%
    2. Computer Science12.2%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science49% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations32% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  4. 4Pollution2% of their works
  5. 5Signal Processing1% of their works
  6. 6Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William W. Whitson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: History, Religion, Gender, Vietnam, China, Regulation, British Army and Counterinsurgency.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. History382 topics
  2. Religion382 topics
  3. Gender211 topic
  4. Vietnam211 topic
  5. China171 topic
  6. Regulation171 topic
  7. British Army131 topic
  8. Counterinsurgency131 topic
  9. Global Governance92 topics
  10. International Law92 topics
  11. Private Security Companies51 topic
  12. Privatized Military Industry51 topic
  13. 1960s41 topic
  14. Economic Growth41 topic
  15. Global41 topic
  16. International Institutions41 topic
  17. Military Expenditure41 topic
  18. Power41 topic
  19. Analysis31 topic
  20. Intelligence31 topic

Where does William W. Whitson work?

William W. Whitson's main affiliation in the publication record is United States Coast Guard, United States.

How many publications and citations does William W. Whitson have?

OpenAlex counts 47 works and 283 citations for William W. Whitson, an h-index of 5, ranking #1,804,094 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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