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Researcher · University of Wisconsin–Madison · United States

Yi‐Fu Tuan

Yi‐Fu Tuan publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Historical Geography and Geographical Thought, Geographies of human-animal interactions and Culinary Culture and Tourism.

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World rank
#25,330
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,473
of 1,627,098
Works
191
Citations
23k
Citations per work
122.4
h-index
44
i10-index 82Top 0.7% in Sociology and Political Science
Yi‐Fu Tuan

What does Yi‐Fu Tuan research?

Yi‐Fu Tuan's work is mostly in Social Sciences (32%), Arts and Humanities (8%), Environmental Science (5%).

Everything else: 106 works · 55.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 76 works · 39.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 60 works · 31.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 29 works · 15.0% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 24 works · 12.4% of their workAnthropology: 8 works · 4.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 16 works · 8.2% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 8 works · 4.1% of their workPhilosophy: 8 works · 4.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 4.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 4.7% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 9 works · 4.7% of their workTHEIR WORKYi‐Fu Tuan191works
Physical Sciences5%Social Sciences40%

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 else10655.6%
    1. Social Sciences6031.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities168.2%
    1. Environmental Science94.7%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  2. 2Geography, Planning and Development12% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law5% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy4% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yi‐Fu Tuan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Geography, Public Policy, Academic Discourse, International Journals, Sustainability, Affect and Multispecies Ethnography.

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. Globalization303 topics
  2. Geography282 topics
  3. Public Policy242 topics
  4. Academic Discourse171 topic
  5. International Journals171 topic
  6. Sustainability152 topics
  7. Affect111 topic
  8. Multispecies Ethnography111 topic
  9. Food Tourism81 topic
  10. Gastronomy81 topic
  11. Geospatial Crowdsourcing81 topic
  12. Volunteered Geographic Information81 topic
  13. Conservation71 topic
  14. Rewilding71 topic
  15. Social Movements71 topic
  16. Urbanization71 topic
  17. Cultural Identity61 topic
  18. Environmental Attitudes61 topic
  19. Post-Modernity61 topic
  20. Pro-environmental Behavior61 topic

Where does Yi‐Fu Tuan work?

Yi‐Fu Tuan's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States.

How many publications and citations does Yi‐Fu Tuan have?

OpenAlex counts 191 works and 23,377 citations for Yi‐Fu Tuan, an h-index of 44, ranking #25,330 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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