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Researcher · Makerere University · Uganda

Alí A. Mazrui

Alí A. Mazrui publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology, on topics such as African history and culture studies, Global Peace and Security Dynamics and African history and culture analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#36,679
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Uganda
#2
of 3,724
Works
454
Citations
5.8k
Citations per work
12.7
h-index
38
i10-index 121Top 0.6% in Political Science and International Relations
Alí A. Mazrui

What does Alí A. Mazrui research?

Alí A. Mazrui's work is mostly in Social Sciences (69%), Arts and Humanities (7%).

Social Sciences: 345 works · 76.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 311 works · 68.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 124 works · 27.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 85 works · 18.7% of their workAnthropology: 76 works · 16.8% of their workEducation: 26 works · 5.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 34 works · 7.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 20 works · 4.3% of their workHistory: 15 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 109 works · 23.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAlí A. Mazrui454works
Social Sciences76%

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 Sciences31168.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities347.5%
  2. Everything else10923.9%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations27% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science19% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology17% of their works
  4. 4Education6% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works
  6. 6History3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alí A. Mazrui's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, African History, Post-Colonial Africa, Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to Protect, Decolonization, Eritrea and Ethiopia.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Colonialism1563 topics
  2. African History1031 topic
  3. Post-Colonial Africa1031 topic
  4. Humanitarian Intervention691 topic
  5. Responsibility to Protect691 topic
  6. Decolonization532 topics
  7. Eritrea501 topic
  8. Ethiopia501 topic
  9. NGOs422 topics
  10. African Philosophy341 topic
  11. Ubuntu341 topic
  12. Indian Ocean291 topic
  13. prehistoric movement291 topic
  14. Development Policies231 topic
  15. Foreign Aid231 topic
  16. Black Studies211 topic
  17. Civil Rights Movement211 topic
  18. Human Rights191 topic
  19. Humanitarianism191 topic

Where does Alí A. Mazrui work?

Alí A. Mazrui's main affiliation in the publication record is Makerere University, Uganda.

How many publications and citations does Alí A. Mazrui have?

OpenAlex counts 454 works and 5,776 citations for Alí A. Mazrui, an h-index of 38, ranking #36,679 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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