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Clifford Shearing

Clifford Shearing publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Law, on topics such as Policing Practices and Perceptions, Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses and South African History and Culture.

World rank
#51,640
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#88
of 5,570
Works
78
Citations
238
Citations per work
3.1

What does Clifford Shearing research?

Sociology and Political Science: 22.2%Political Science and International Relations: 20.8%Law: 9.7%Nature and Landscape Conservation: 5.6%other fields: 41.7%22%top field
Sociology and Political Science22.2%Political Science and International Relations20.8%Law9.7%Nature and Landscape Conservation5.6%other fields41.7%

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 Science22% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations21% of their works
  3. 3Law10% of their works
  4. 4Nature and Landscape Conservation6% of their works
  5. 5Strategy and Management6% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Clifford Shearing's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Police Legitimacy, Procedural Justice, Public Health, Illegal Wildlife Trade, Parrot Poaching, protests, South Africa and Global Health.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Police Legitimacy61 topic
  2. Procedural Justice61 topic
  3. Public Health52 topics
  4. Illegal Wildlife Trade41 topic
  5. Parrot Poaching41 topic
  6. South Africa41 topic
  7. protests41 topic
  8. Global Health31 topic
  9. Securitization31 topic
  10. Constitutionalism21 topic
  11. Developmental Local Government21 topic
  12. Health21 topic
  13. Homelessness21 topic
  14. Humanitarian Intervention21 topic
  15. Legal Semiotics21 topic
  16. Responsibility to Protect21 topic
  17. Visual Jurisprudence21 topic

Where does Clifford Shearing work?

Clifford Shearing's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Clifford Shearing have?

Science Explorer counts 78 works and 238 citations for Clifford Shearing, ranking #51,640 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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