Kevin Bales

44 papers and 1.3k indexed citations
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About

Kevin Bales is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Bales has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 8 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Kevin Bales’s work include Sex work and related issues (15 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 papers). Kevin Bales is often cited by papers focused on Sex work and related issues (15 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 papers). Kevin Bales collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Kevin Bales's co-authors include Håkan Friman, Gay W. Seidman, Bernard W. Silverman, Martin Bulmer, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Zoe Trodd, Peter Robbins, Bethany Jackson, Doreen S. Boyd and Benjamin K. Sovacool and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Cognition and ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Bales

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kevin Bales. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kevin Bales 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 Kevin Bales. Kevin Bales is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Bales

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kevin Bales. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kevin Bales. The network helps show where Kevin Bales may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Bales

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