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Willibald Ruch

Willibald Ruch publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Humor Studies and Applications, Communication in Education and Healthcare and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition.

World rank
#90,835
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#2,185
of 19,404
Works
116
Citations
575
Citations per work
5.0

What does Willibald Ruch research?

Social Psychology: 51.9%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 8.3%Sociology and Political Science: 7.5%Literature and Literary Theory: 5.3%other fields: 27.0%52%top field
Social Psychology51.9%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology8.3%Sociology and Political Science7.5%Literature and Literary Theory5.3%other fields27.0%

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

  1. 1Social Psychology52% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology8% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory5% of their works
  5. 5Gender Studies4% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Willibald Ruch's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Humor Styles Questionnaire, Psychological Well-being, Mental Health, Well-being, Student Participation, Teacher Immediacy, Advertising and Bullying.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Humor Styles Questionnaire431 topic
  2. Psychological Well-being431 topic
  3. Mental Health92 topics
  4. Well-being82 topics
  5. Student Participation71 topic
  6. Teacher Immediacy71 topic
  7. Advertising51 topic
  8. Bullying51 topic
  9. Cyberbullying51 topic
  10. Gender Roles51 topic
  11. Metaphor51 topic
  12. Time51 topic
  13. Addiction41 topic
  14. Narrative Persuasion41 topic
  15. Positive Emotions41 topic
  16. Positive Psychology41 topic
  17. Social Media41 topic
  18. Transportation41 topic

Where does Willibald Ruch work?

Willibald Ruch's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Willibald Ruch have?

Science Explorer counts 116 works and 575 citations for Willibald Ruch, ranking #90,835 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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