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Researcher · IIE MSA · South Africa

Abraham Gert van der Vyver

Abraham Gert van der Vyver publishes mostly in Communication, Media Technology and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as ICT Impact and Policies, E-Government and Public Services and ICT in Developing Communities.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,192,620
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#22,391
of 29,826
Works
32
Citations
51
Citations per work
1.6
h-index
4
i10-index 2Top 75% in Communication
Abraham Gert van der Vyver

What does Abraham Gert van der Vyver research?

Abraham Gert van der Vyver's work is mostly in Social Sciences (36%), Engineering (14%), Computer Science (13%).

Everything else: 12 works · 36.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 36.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 36.2% of their workCommunication: 5 works · 15.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 works · 14.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 5.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 27.5% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 14.5% of their workMedia Technology: 5 works · 14.5% of their workComputer Science: 4 works · 13.0% of their workInformation Systems: 3 works · 8.7% of their workComputer Science Applications: 1 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKAbraham Gert vander Vyver32works
Physical Sciences28%Social Sciences36%

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. Everything else1236.3%
    1. Social Sciences1236.2%
    1. Engineering514.5%
    2. Computer Science413.0%
  1. 1Communication16% of their works
  2. 2Media Technology14% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations14% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems9% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Computer Science Applications4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Abraham Gert van der Vyver's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Digital Divide, Social Media, Economic Development, Telecommunications, Trust, E-Government, Transparency and Deliberative Democracy.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Digital Divide132 topics
  2. Social Media133 topics
  3. Economic Development91 topic
  4. Telecommunications91 topic
  5. Trust92 topics
  6. E-Government61 topic
  7. Transparency61 topic
  8. Deliberative Democracy41 topic
  9. Mobile Technology41 topic
  10. Political Participation41 topic
  11. Rural Communities41 topic
  12. Knowledge Sharing31 topic
  13. Virtual Communities31 topic
  14. Competitive Intelligence21 topic
  15. European Legal Systems21 topic
  16. Information Management21 topic
  17. Judicial Review21 topic
  18. Ontology11 topic
  19. Semantic Web11 topic

Where does Abraham Gert van der Vyver work?

Abraham Gert van der Vyver's main affiliation in the publication record is IIE MSA, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Abraham Gert van der Vyver have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 51 citations for Abraham Gert van der Vyver, an h-index of 4, ranking #5,192,620 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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