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Charles van Onselen

Charles van Onselen publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Marketing, on topics such as African history and culture studies, South African History and Culture and Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis.

World rank
#234,088
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#593
of 5,570
Works
17
Citations
164
Citations per work
9.6

What does Charles van Onselen research?

Sociology and Political Science: 38.5%Anthropology: 23.1%Marketing: 7.7%History and Philosophy of Science: 7.7%other fields: 23.0%38%top field
Sociology and Political Science38.5%Anthropology23.1%Marketing7.7%History and Philosophy of Science7.7%other fields23.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science38% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology23% of their works
  3. 3Marketing8% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science8% of their works
  5. 5Archeology8% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Charles van Onselen's research?

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

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Nationalism42 topics
  2. Colonialism31 topic
  3. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic
  4. Race32 topics
  5. Social Movements32 topics
  6. Globalization22 topics
  7. South Africa21 topic
  8. protests21 topic
  9. Archaeology11 topic
  10. Black Studies11 topic
  11. Branding11 topic
  12. Caribbean11 topic
  13. Civil Rights Movement11 topic
  14. Culture11 topic
  15. Legal Education11 topic
  16. Marketing11 topic
  17. Scientific History11 topic
  18. Southern Africa11 topic
  19. Technological Development11 topic
  20. Welfare Rights Advice11 topic

Where does Charles van Onselen work?

Charles van Onselen's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Charles van Onselen have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 164 citations for Charles van Onselen, ranking #234,088 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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