Michael Woolcock

86 papers and 8.5k indexed citations
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About

Michael Woolcock is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Development and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Woolcock has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 24 papers in Development and 16 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Michael Woolcock’s work include International Development and Aid (24 papers), Social Capital and Networks (11 papers) and Income, Poverty, and Inequality (10 papers). Michael Woolcock is often cited by papers focused on International Development and Aid (24 papers), Social Capital and Networks (11 papers) and Income, Poverty, and Inequality (10 papers). Michael Woolcock collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Michael Woolcock's co-authors include Deepa Narayan, Lant Pritchett, Matt Andrews, Mark R. Warren, Berk Özler, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Sarah Baird, Veronica Nyhan Jones, Matthew Andrews and Scott Guggenheim and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Social Forces and World Development.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Woolcock

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

Michael Woolcock

82 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Woolcock

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Michael Woolcock

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