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Researcher · University of Kent · United Kingdom

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and History, on topics such as Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies, Global Maritime and Colonial Histories and Caribbean history, culture, and politics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,617,138
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#183,376
of 367,258
Works
40
Citations
126
Citations per work
3.2
h-index
6
i10-index 6Top 24% in Literature and Literary Theory
Abdulrazak Gurnah

What does Abdulrazak Gurnah research?

Abdulrazak Gurnah's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (42%), Social Sciences (28%), Environmental Science (3%).

Social Sciences: 28 works · 69.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 17 works · 41.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 14 works · 33.8% of their workHistory: 3 works · 7.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 27.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 6 works · 13.8% of their workAnthropology: 3 works · 7.7% of their workCultural Studies: 2 works · 6.2% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 27.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 3.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 3.1% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 works · 3.1% of their workTHEIR WORKAbdulrazak Gurnah40works
Physical Sciences3%Social Sciences69%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities1741.5%
    2. Social Sciences1127.7%
  2. Everything else1127.7%
    1. Environmental Science13.1%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory34% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  3. 3History8% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology8% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies6% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Abdulrazak Gurnah's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Postcolonialism, Feminism, Literature, African Studies, Cosmopolitanism, Race and Culture.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization192 topics
  2. Postcolonialism192 topics
  3. Feminism182 topics
  4. Literature182 topics
  5. African Studies161 topic
  6. Cosmopolitanism161 topic
  7. Race62 topics
  8. Culture52 topics
  9. Politics52 topics
  10. Media42 topics
  11. Caribbean31 topic
  12. Dancehall31 topic
  13. Indian Ocean31 topic
  14. South Africa31 topic
  15. prehistoric movement31 topic
  16. protests31 topic
  17. Adaptation21 topic
  18. Cultural Hermeneutics21 topic
  19. Film21 topic
  20. Literary Theory21 topic
  21. Middle East21 topic
  22. Qatar21 topic
  23. Dormancy11 topic
  24. Fruit Trees11 topic

Where does Abdulrazak Gurnah work?

Abdulrazak Gurnah's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Kent, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Abdulrazak Gurnah have?

OpenAlex counts 40 works and 126 citations for Abdulrazak Gurnah, an h-index of 6, ranking #2,617,138 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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