Michael Welch

4.7k total citations
117 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Michael Welch is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Welch has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 20 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 12 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael Welch's work include Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (19 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (17 papers) and Crime Patterns and Interventions (17 papers). Michael Welch is often cited by papers focused on Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (19 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (17 papers) and Crime Patterns and Interventions (17 papers). Michael Welch collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Michael Welch's co-authors include Charles R. Tittle, David C. Leege, Þóroddur Bjarnason, David Sikkink, Liza Schuster, Thomas A. Petee, Matthew T. Loveland, Rory McVeigh, Eric A. Price and Harold G. Grasmick and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Michael Welch

109 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Peers

Michael Welch
Comparison fields: 5 of 114
  • Sociology and Political Science 2.3k
  • Health 709
  • Clinical Psychology 552
  • Political Science and International Relations 529
  • Social Psychology 296
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Countries citing papers authored by Michael Welch

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Welch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Welch

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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The Immigration Crisis: Detention as an Emerging Mechanism of Social Control
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2
Clinical Torture: Drifting in the Atrocity Triangle
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3
Torture and its Division of Labor
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4
Illusions in Truth Seeking: The Perils of Interrogation and Torture in the War on Terror
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The re-emergence of torture in political culture: Tracking it’s discourse and genealogy
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6 0
7
Private Corrections, Financial Infrastructure, and Transportation: The New Geo-Economy of Shipping Prisoners
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8
La cruzada de estados Unidos contra el terror: explorando la religión y la militancia en un mundo post 11 de septiembre
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9 13
10
Los delitos de Estado en la guerra estadounidense contra el terror: una mirada a la cultura de la impunidad
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Quiet Constructions in the War on Terror: Subjecting Asylum Seekers to Unnecessary Detention
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12 47
13 23
14 29
15
The Role of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the Prison-Industrial Complex
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16 6
17 220
18 109
19 5
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