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Researcher · National University of Lesotho · Lesotho

Chris Dunton

Chris Dunton publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and Anthropology, on topics such as African history and culture studies, South African History and Culture and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,241,356
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Lesotho
#26
of 82
Works
72
Citations
261
Citations per work
3.6
h-index
7
i10-index 6Top 38% in Sociology and Political Science
Chris Dunton

What does Chris Dunton research?

Chris Dunton's work is mostly in Social Sciences (49%), Arts and Humanities (30%).

Social Sciences: 57 works · 78.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 35 works · 49.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 18 works · 25.0% of their workAnthropology: 15 works · 20.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 works · 3.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 21 works · 29.7% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 16 works · 21.9% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 4 works · 5.5% of their workPhilosophy: 2 works · 2.3% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 21.1% of their workTHEIR WORKChris Dunton72works
Social Sciences79%

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 Sciences3549.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities2129.7%
  2. Everything else1521.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science25% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory22% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology20% of their works
  4. 4Visual Arts and Performing Arts6% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Chris Dunton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Colonialism, Human Rights, Globalization, African History, Literature, Post-Colonial Africa and protests.

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. Nationalism423 topics
  2. Colonialism333 topics
  3. Human Rights263 topics
  4. Globalization232 topics
  5. African History221 topic
  6. Literature222 topics
  7. Post-Colonial Africa221 topic
  8. South Africa171 topic
  9. protests171 topic
  10. Identity161 topic
  11. Postcolonialism161 topic
  12. Gender132 topics
  13. Africa71 topic
  14. Performance Art71 topic
  15. Sexuality71 topic
  16. Theatre71 topic
  17. Adaptation61 topic
  18. Film61 topic
  19. History41 topic
  20. Zimbabwe41 topic
  21. Constitutionalism31 topic
  22. Developmental Local Government31 topic

Where does Chris Dunton work?

Chris Dunton's main affiliation in the publication record is National University of Lesotho, Lesotho.

How many publications and citations does Chris Dunton have?

OpenAlex counts 72 works and 261 citations for Chris Dunton, an h-index of 7, ranking #3,241,356 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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