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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Erin McCandless

Erin McCandless publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Development, on topics such as Peacebuilding and International Security, International Development and Aid and Global Peace and Security Dynamics.

ORCID 0000-0003-4240-8090 OpenAlex
World rank
#618,716
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#2,364
of 29,826
Works
59
Citations
414
Citations per work
7.0
h-index
11
i10-index 13Top 20% in Sociology and Political Science
Erin McCandless

What does Erin McCandless research?

Erin McCandless's work is mostly in Social Sciences (82%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%), Health Professions (2%).

Social Sciences: 49 works · 83.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 48 works · 81.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 28 works · 47.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 11 works · 18.6% of their workDevelopment: 9 works · 15.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 works · 2.1% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 11.4% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 2.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 2.9% of their workSoil Science: 2 works · 2.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 2.1% of their workHealth Professions: 1 works · 2.1% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 1 works · 2.1% of their workTHEIR WORKErin McCandless59works
Life Sciences3%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences84%

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 Sciences4881.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12.1%
  2. Everything else711.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22.9%
    1. Health Professions12.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science48% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations19% of their works
  3. 3Development15% of their works
  4. 4Soil Science3% of their works
  5. 5General Economics, Econometrics and Finance2% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Erin McCandless's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Local Turn, Resilience Governance, NGOs, Development Policies, Foreign Aid, Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to Protect and Civil War.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Local Turn361 topic
  2. Resilience Governance361 topic
  3. NGOs252 topics
  4. Development Policies211 topic
  5. Foreign Aid211 topic
  6. Humanitarian Intervention181 topic
  7. Responsibility to Protect181 topic
  8. Civil War111 topic
  9. Democracy111 topic
  10. Faith-Based Organizations41 topic
  11. History41 topic
  12. Social Services41 topic
  13. Zimbabwe41 topic
  14. Climate Change31 topic
  15. Conflict31 topic
  16. Risk Management31 topic
  17. Vulnerability31 topic

Where does Erin McCandless work?

Erin McCandless's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Erin McCandless have?

OpenAlex counts 59 works and 414 citations for Erin McCandless, an h-index of 11, ranking #618,716 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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