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Researcher · University of the West Indies · Barbados

Alan Cobley

Alan Cobley publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Cultural Studies, on topics such as South African History and Culture, African history and culture studies and Caribbean history, culture, and politics.

ORCID 0000-0003-2693-6029 OpenAlex
World rank
#456,063
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Barbados
#7
of 190
Works
38
Citations
598
Citations per work
15.7
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 23% in Sociology and Political Science
Alan Cobley

What does Alan Cobley research?

Alan Cobley's work is mostly in Social Sciences (75%), Arts and Humanities (3%).

Social Sciences: 29 works · 77.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 28 works · 74.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 16 works · 42.3% of their workAnthropology: 6 works · 15.5% of their workCultural Studies: 3 works · 7.0% of their workLaw: 2 works · 5.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 works · 4.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 1 works · 2.8% of their workPhilosophy: 1 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 22.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan Cobley38works
Social Sciences77%

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. Social Sciences2874.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities12.8%
  2. Everything else922.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science42% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology16% of their works
  3. 3Cultural Studies7% of their works
  4. 4Law6% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan Cobley's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Race, protests, South Africa, Nationalism, Colonialism, Post-Colonial Africa, Globalization and Caribbean.

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. Race282 topics
  2. South Africa231 topic
  3. protests231 topic
  4. Nationalism142 topics
  5. Colonialism91 topic
  6. Post-Colonial Africa91 topic
  7. Globalization62 topics
  8. Caribbean51 topic
  9. Culture51 topic
  10. Constitutionalism41 topic
  11. Developmental Local Government41 topic
  12. Atlantic History21 topic
  13. Transatlantic Slave Trade21 topic
  14. Agricultural Origins11 topic
  15. American Culture11 topic
  16. Baseball11 topic
  17. Forensic Toxicology11 topic
  18. Medical Chemistry11 topic
  19. Radiocarbon Dating11 topic

Where does Alan Cobley work?

Alan Cobley's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the West Indies, Barbados.

How many publications and citations does Alan Cobley have?

OpenAlex counts 38 works and 598 citations for Alan Cobley, an h-index of 10, ranking #456,063 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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