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Public Affairs Research Institute

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Research works
18
▼ 74% vs 2018-21
Citations
113
6.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Public Affairs Research Institute

Not ranked overall: Public Affairs Research Institute is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Public Affairs Research Institute work in?

In all years, 86% of research at Public Affairs Research Institute is in Social Sciences, 6% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (60%), Arts and Humanities (17%), Environmental Science (4%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 15 fractional works · 85.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 59.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 22.8% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 14.9% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workLinguistics and Language: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 17.2% of its workConservation: 2 fractional works · 8.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workALL ITS WORKPublic AffairsResearch…18fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences86%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1159.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities317.2%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance13.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting02.5%
    5. Decision Sciences01.8%
    6. Psychology00.9%
    1. Environmental Science14.0%
    2. Computer Science01.1%
    3. Engineering01.1%
    1. Medicine13.7%
    2. Health Professions00.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences13.4%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2.81× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Computer Science: 1.50× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.34× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.62× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Social Sciences: 3.56× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting3.62×0 works
  2. Social Sciences3.56×1 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.81×0 works
  4. Computer Science1.50×0 works
  5. Environmental Science1.34×0 works
  6. Engineering0.78×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Public Affairs Research Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Gaynor Gamuchirai Paradza lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Public Affairs Research Institute.

  1. 1 Gaynor Gamuchirai Paradza South Africa · #1,680,480 worldwide 377 citations · 34 works
All ranked researchers at Public Affairs Research Institute

What are the most cited papers from Public Affairs Research Institute?

The most cited paper from Public Affairs Research Institute is "Partnerships and Stakeholder Participation in the Management of National Parks: Experiences of the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe" (Walter Musakwa, Trynos Gumbo, Gaynor Gamuchirai Paradza et al., 2020), with 37 citations. Next come "The Decline of African Nationalism and the State of South Africa" (36) and "Reform in the contract state: Embedded directions in public procurement regulation in South Africa" (25).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Partnerships and Stakeholder Participation in the Management of National Parks: Experiences of the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe Walter Musakwa, Trynos Gumbo, Gaynor Gamuchirai Paradza et al. · Land Open access 22 Oct 2020 37
2 The Decline of African Nationalism and the State of South Africa Ivor Chipkin · Journal of Southern African Studies 3 Mar 2016 36
3 Reform in the contract state: Embedded directions in public procurement regulation in South Africa Ryan Brunette, Jonathan Klaaren, Patronella Nqaba · Development Southern Africa Open access 17 Apr 2019 25
4 Capitalism, city, apartheid in the twenty-first century Ivor Chipkin · Social Dynamics 20 May 2013 24
5 The effects of an administrative and policy vacuum on access to archives in South Africa Graham Dominy · Archives and Museum Informatics Open access 28 Oct 2017 18
All 28 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Public Affairs Research Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Communism, Protests, Social Movements, African history and culture studies, Urban and Rural Development Challenges and Smart Cities and Technologies.

Communism, Protests, Social Movements: 0 fractional worksAfrican history and culture studies: 0 fractional worksUrban and Rural Developm…0Urban and Rural Development Challenges: 0 fractional worksSmart Cities and Technol…0Smart Cities and Technologies: 0 fractional worksICT in Developing Commun…0ICT in Developing Communities: 0 fractional worksInnovative Approaches in…0Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development: 0 fractional worksLand Rights and Reforms: 0 fractional worksAgriculture, Land Use, Rural Development: 0 fractional worksConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management: 0 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceAnthropologyUrban StudiesMedia Technology5 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Communism, Protests, Social Movements Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  2. 2 African history and culture studies Anthropology 0 works
  3. 3 Urban and Rural Development Challenges Urban Studies 0 works
  4. 4 Smart Cities and Technologies Media Technology 0 works
  5. 5 ICT in Developing Communities Information Systems 0 works
  6. 6 Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development Management of Technology and Innovation 0 works
  7. 7 Land Rights and Reforms Soil Science 0 works
  8. 8 Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0 works
  9. 9 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available26.8%not open73.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.1%domestic only77.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Public Affairs Research Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 74% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Public Affairs Research Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000010% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Public Affairs Research Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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