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Researcher · University of Zurich · Switzerland

Willibald Ruch

Willibald Ruch publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Humor Studies and Applications, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction and Communication in Education and Healthcare.

ORCID 0000-0001-5368-3616 OpenAlex
World rank
#27,738
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#591
of 80,918
Works
490
Citations
21k
Citations per work
41.9
h-index
75
i10-index 276Top 0.5% in Social Psychology
Willibald Ruch

What does Willibald Ruch research?

Willibald Ruch's work is mostly in Psychology (70%), Arts and Humanities (5%), Social Sciences (4%).

Social Sciences: 384 works · 78.4% of their workPsychology: 343 works · 70.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 231 works · 47.2% of their workClinical Psychology: 48 works · 9.7% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 37 works · 7.6% of their workApplied Psychology: 27 works · 5.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 24 works · 4.8% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 24 works · 4.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 3.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 17 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 106 works · 21.6% of their workTHEIR WORKWillibald Ruch490works
Social Sciences78%

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. Psychology34370.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities244.8%
    3. Social Sciences173.5%
  2. Everything else10621.6%
  1. 1Social Psychology47% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology10% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology8% of their works
  4. 4Applied Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% 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, Positive Psychology, Resilience, Positive Emotions, Happiness and Well-being.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Humor Styles Questionnaire2251 topic
  2. Psychological Well-being2251 topic
  3. Mental Health1633 topics
  4. Positive Psychology1362 topics
  5. Resilience1362 topics
  6. Positive Emotions1312 topics
  7. Happiness921 topic
  8. Well-being921 topic
  9. Psychological Adjustment762 topics
  10. Student Participation741 topic
  11. Teacher Immediacy741 topic
  12. Hope Theory441 topic
  13. Optimism441 topic
  14. Adversity391 topic
  15. Psychological Resilience391 topic
  16. Metaphor371 topic
  17. Narrative Persuasion371 topic
  18. Time371 topic
  19. Transportation371 topic
  20. Bullying321 topic
  21. Cyberbullying321 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?

OpenAlex counts 490 works and 20,551 citations for Willibald Ruch, an h-index of 75, ranking #27,738 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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