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Researcher · Mintek · South Africa

Buhle Sinaye Xakalashe

Buhle Sinaye Xakalashe publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Bauxite Residue and Utilization, Extraction and Separation Processes and Coal and Its By-products.

ORCID 0000-0003-0069-7082 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,670,284
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#16,000
of 29,826
Works
22
Citations
330
Citations per work
15.0

What does Buhle Sinaye Xakalashe research?

Buhle Sinaye Xakalashe's work is mostly in Engineering (52%), Environmental Science (12%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (7%).

Physical Sciences70%

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. Engineering1151.7%
    2. Environmental Science311.7%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences16.7%
  1. Everything else729.9%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering38% of their works
  2. 2Geochemistry and Petrology7% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Building and Construction7% of their works
  5. 5Water Science and Technology7% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Chemistry5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Buhle Sinaye Xakalashe's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Recycling, Utilization, Metal Recovery, Rare Earth Elements, Metallurgy, Bauxite Residue, Mineralogy and Red Mud.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Recycling112 topics
  2. Utilization112 topics
  3. Metal Recovery92 topics
  4. Rare Earth Elements92 topics
  5. Metallurgy82 topics
  6. Bauxite Residue71 topic
  7. Mineralogy72 topics
  8. Red Mud71 topic
  9. Battery Recycling51 topic
  10. Lithium-ion Batteries51 topic
  11. Bioleaching41 topic
  12. Brick Production41 topic
  13. Coal Geochemistry41 topic
  14. Databases41 topic
  15. Microbial Communities41 topic
  16. Thermochemical41 topic
  17. Trace Elements41 topic
  18. Waste Materials41 topic
  19. Nanobubbles31 topic
  20. Remediation31 topic
  21. Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria31 topic
  22. Water Treatment31 topic

Where does Buhle Sinaye Xakalashe work?

Buhle Sinaye Xakalashe's main affiliation in the publication record is Mintek, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Buhle Sinaye Xakalashe have?

OpenAlex counts 22 works and 330 citations for Buhle Sinaye Xakalashe, an h-index of 9, ranking #3,670,284 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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