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Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies, Historical Linguistics and Language Studies and Literature and Culture Studies.

World rank
#176,994
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Nigeria
#53
of 1,758
Works
19
Citations
173
Citations per work
9.1

What does Chinua Achebe research?

Literature and Literary Theory: 54.5%Anthropology: 9.1%Political Science and International Relations: 9.1%Language and Linguistics: 9.1%other fields: 18.2%55%top field
Literature and Literary Theory54.5%Anthropology9.1%Political Science and International Relations9.1%Language and Linguistics9.1%other fields18.2%

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

  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory55% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology9% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations9% of their works
  4. 4Language and Linguistics9% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology9% of their works
  6. 6Linguistics and Language9% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Chinua Achebe's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Literature, Feminism, Postcolonialism, Cultural Studies, Social Impact, Children's Literature and Colonialism.

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. Globalization42 topics
  2. Literature42 topics
  3. Feminism31 topic
  4. Postcolonialism31 topic
  5. Cultural Studies22 topics
  6. Social Impact22 topics
  7. Children's Literature11 topic
  8. Colonialism11 topic
  9. Cultural Exchange11 topic
  10. Flâneur11 topic
  11. Language Change11 topic
  12. Language Teaching11 topic
  13. Linguistic Historiography11 topic
  14. Metaphor11 topic
  15. Post-Colonial Africa11 topic
  16. Sociolinguistic Variation11 topic
  17. Time11 topic
  18. Urban Culture11 topic
  19. World Literature11 topic
  20. Young Adult11 topic

Where does Chinua Achebe work?

Chinua Achebe's main affiliation in the publication record is National Open University of Nigeria, Nigeria.

How many publications and citations does Chinua Achebe have?

Science Explorer counts 19 works and 173 citations for Chinua Achebe, ranking #176,994 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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