American University

13.7k papers and 300.6k indexed citations i.

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In recent decades, authors affiliated with American University have published 13.7k papers, which have received a total of 300.6k indexed citations. Scholars at this organization have produced 3.1k papers in Sociology and Political Science, 2.1k papers in Political Science and International Relations and 1.6k papers in Economics and Econometrics on the topics of Corporate Finance and Governance (377 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (262 papers) and Legal Systems and Judicial Processes (254 papers). Their work is cited by papers focused on Sociology and Political Science (64.7k citations), Economics and Econometrics (36.1k citations) and Accounting (28.8k citations). Authors at American University collaborate with scholars in United States, United Kingdom and Canada and have published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science and Cell. Some of American University's most productive authors include David M. Reeb, William DeLone, Philip Keefer, Rolph E. Anderson, Ephraim R. McLean, Howard Reiss, Stephen Knack, Matthew C. Nisbet, Catherine J. Stoodley and Deborah Bräutigam.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published by authors at American University

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers affiliated with American University at the time of their publication. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers affiliated with American University at the time of their publication.

Countries citing scholars working at American University

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Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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