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Researcher · University of Pretoria · South Africa

Ernest Van Eck

Ernest Van Eck publishes mostly in Religious studies, Sociology and Political Science and Education, on topics such as Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Christian Theology and Mission and Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-3810-4190 OpenAlex
World rank
#111,434
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#338
of 29,826
Works
202
Citations
863
Citations per work
4.3
h-index
15
i10-index 37Top 4.3% in Religious studies
Ernest Van Eck

What does Ernest Van Eck research?

Ernest Van Eck's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (55%), Social Sciences (25%), Health Professions (3%).

Social Sciences: 161 works · 79.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 112 works · 55.2% of their workReligious studies: 92 works · 45.6% of their workArcheology: 11 works · 5.4% of their workPhilosophy: 8 works · 4.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 50 works · 24.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 28 works · 13.9% of their workEducation: 22 works · 10.7% of their workEverything else: 35 works · 17.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 3.0% of their workHealth Professions: 6 works · 3.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 6 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKErnest Van Eck202works
Health Sciences3%Social Sciences80%

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. Arts and Humanities11255.2%
    2. Social Sciences5024.6%
  2. Everything else3517.2%
    1. Health Professions63.0%
  1. 1Religious studies46% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  3. 3Education11% of their works
  4. 4Archeology5% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy4% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ernest Van Eck's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biblical Monotheism, Jewish Society, African Christianity, Global Christianity, Short-Term Missions, Biblical Interpretation, Pentecostalism and Spirituality.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Biblical Monotheism1281 topic
  2. Jewish Society1281 topic
  3. African Christianity782 topics
  4. Global Christianity521 topic
  5. Short-Term Missions521 topic
  6. Biblical Interpretation412 topics
  7. Pentecostalism261 topic
  8. Spirituality261 topic
  9. Faith-Based Organizations251 topic
  10. Social Services251 topic
  11. Christian-Muslim Relations211 topic
  12. Gospel Translation211 topic
  13. Arabia191 topic
  14. Byzantine191 topic
  15. Christian Education151 topic
  16. Church Leadership151 topic
  17. Research Methods141 topic
  18. Social Work141 topic

Where does Ernest Van Eck work?

Ernest Van Eck's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pretoria, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Ernest Van Eck have?

OpenAlex counts 202 works and 863 citations for Ernest Van Eck, an h-index of 15, ranking #111,434 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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