David Cairns

346 total papers · 3.0k total citations
97 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

David Cairns is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, David Cairns has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 29 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 15 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in David Cairns’s work include Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (14 papers), Higher Education Governance and Development (13 papers) and Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 papers). David Cairns is often cited by papers focused on Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (14 papers), Higher Education Governance and Development (13 papers) and Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 papers). David Cairns collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United Kingdom and Australia. David Cairns's co-authors include Karen Cohen, Shaun Richards, Michael Parle, Jill Gallagher, Jim Smyth, Thaís França, Katarzyna Growiec, Daniel Malet Calvo, Valentina Cuzzocrea and Nuno de Almeida Alves and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Molecular Biology and Neural Computation.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Cairns

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Cairns. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Cairns based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Cairns. David Cairns is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

David Cairns

79 papers receiving 997 citations

Fields of papers citing papers by David Cairns

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by David Cairns

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