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Umalusi

umalusi.org.zaROR OpenAlex
Research works
8
fractional, all time
Citations
41
5.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
75%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Umalusi

Not ranked overall: Umalusi is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Umalusi work in?

In all years, 94% of research at Umalusi is in Social Sciences, 6% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (59%), Arts and Humanities (21%), Decision Sciences (10%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 7 fractional works · 94.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 59.0% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 28.8% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 12.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workLinguistics and Language: 0 fractional works · 6.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 21.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 11.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 9.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 10.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 8.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.7% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workALL ITS WORKUmalusi8fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences6%Social Sciences94%

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 2 domains and 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences559.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities221.1%
    3. Decision Sciences110.0%
    4. Psychology04.2%
    1. Mathematics04.2%
    2. Computer Science01.5%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Umalusi?

The most cited paper from Umalusi is "Education service delivery" (Stephanie Allais, 2007), with 53 citations. Next come "The significance of constructivist classroom practice in national curricular design" (7) and "The standing of the curriculum for Consumer Studies as school subject in the South African context" (6).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Education service delivery Stephanie Allais · Progress in Development Studies 2007 53
2 The significance of constructivist classroom practice in national curricular design Celia Booyse, Rajendra Chetty · Africa Education Review 2 Jan 2016 7
3 The standing of the curriculum for Consumer Studies as school subject in the South African context Celia Booyse, Gerrie du Rand, Adri Koekemoer · UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria) Open access 2013 6
4 PEDAGOGICAL GUIDANCE FOR CONSUMER STUDIES REFLECTED IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT POLICY STATEMENT (CAPS): AN INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKING Adri Du Toit, Celia Booyse 2015 4
5 The (re)making of an African language: Revisiting epistemologies for quality assessment practices Shilela Nkadimeng, Leketi Makalela · Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Open access 2 Jan 2023 3
All 13 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Umalusi publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Disability Education and Employment, Second Language Learning and Teaching, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning and Higher Education Learning Practices.

Disability Education and…1Disability Education and Employment: 1 fractional worksSecond Language Learning and Teaching: 1 fractional worksEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 1 fractional worksHigher Education Learnin…1Higher Education Learning Practices: 1 fractional worksMultilingual Education a…0Multilingual Education and Policy: 0 fractional worksEducation Systems and Policy: 0 fractional worksEducational Assessment and Improvement: 0 fractional works
Safety ResearchLiterature and Literary TheoryLanguage and LinguisticsEducation2 others

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

  1. 1 Disability Education and Employment Safety Research 1 works
  2. 2 Second Language Learning and Teaching Literature and Literary Theory 1 works
  3. 3 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 1 works
  4. 4 Higher Education Learning Practices Education 1 works
  5. 5 Multilingual Education and Policy Linguistics and Language 0 works
  6. 6 Education Systems and Policy Education 0 works
  7. 7 Educational Assessment and Improvement Information Systems and Management 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 available74.7%not open25.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.5%domestic only90.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Umalusi's research output changed?

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