Ryan Light

47 total papers · 866 total citations
26 papers, 514 citations indexed

About

Ryan Light is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Social Sciences and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Light has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 514 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in General Social Sciences and 6 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Ryan Light’s work include Computational and Text Analysis Methods (8 papers), scientometrics and bibliometrics research (6 papers) and Social and Cultural Dynamics (6 papers). Ryan Light is often cited by papers focused on Computational and Text Analysis Methods (8 papers), scientometrics and bibliometrics research (6 papers) and Social and Cultural Dynamics (6 papers). Ryan Light collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Switzerland. Ryan Light's co-authors include James Moody, jimi adams, Aliya Saperstein, Andrew M. Penner, Richard York, Vincent J. Roscigno, Alexandra Kalev, S. Kellogg, James E. Sutton and Paul E. Bellair and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan Light

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

Ryan Light

25 papers receiving 459 citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Ryan Light

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Ryan Light

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