General Social Sciences

67.0k papers and 373.2k indexed citations i.

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67.0k papers covering General Social Sciences have received a total of 373.2k indexed citations since 1950. Papers on subfields are most often about the specific topic of Social Sciences and Policies, Social Issues in Poland and Computational and Text Analysis Methods and also cover the fields of Sociology and Political Science, Education and Political Science and International Relations. Papers citing papers on subfields are usually about Sociology and Political Science, Education and Political Science and International Relations. Some of the most active scholars covering General Social Sciences are Glenn A. Bowen, Donald E. Polkinghorne, H. Russell Bernard, Gery W. Ryan, Rob Kitchin, Brandon Stewart, Justin Grimmer, Klaus Krippendorff, Andrew F. Hayes and David M. Blei.

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