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Researcher · University of KwaZulu-Natal · South Africa

Fikile Vilakazi

Fikile Vilakazi publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Law, on topics such as South African History and Culture, African history and culture studies and Legal Issues in South Africa.

ORCID 0000-0002-9110-6438 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,369,679
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#14,628
of 29,826
Works
58
Citations
23
Citations per work
0.4
h-index
2
i10-index 1Top 85% in Sociology and Political Science
Fikile Vilakazi

What does Fikile Vilakazi research?

Fikile Vilakazi's work is mostly in Social Sciences (88%), Arts and Humanities (3%).

Social Sciences: 53 works · 91.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 51 works · 88.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 20 works · 34.2% of their workAnthropology: 14 works · 23.9% of their workLaw: 10 works · 18.1% of their workArcheology: 5 works · 8.4% of their workLinguistics and Language: 2 works · 3.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 2.6% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 8.9% of their workTHEIR WORKFikile Vilakazi58works
Social Sciences91%

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 Sciences5188.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities22.6%
  2. Everything else58.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science34% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology24% of their works
  3. 3Law18% of their works
  4. 4Archeology8% of their works
  5. 5Linguistics and Language4% of their works
  6. 6Language and Linguistics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fikile Vilakazi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: protests, South Africa, Colonialism, Nationalism, African History, Post-Colonial Africa, Constitutionalism and Developmental Local Government.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. South Africa451 topic
  2. protests451 topic
  3. Colonialism392 topics
  4. Nationalism392 topics
  5. African History341 topic
  6. Post-Colonial Africa341 topic
  7. Constitutionalism281 topic
  8. Developmental Local Government281 topic
  9. Archaeology131 topic
  10. Southern Africa131 topic
  11. Sociolinguistics72 topics
  12. History51 topic
  13. Multilingualism51 topic
  14. Translanguaging51 topic
  15. Zimbabwe51 topic
  16. Indian Ocean31 topic
  17. prehistoric movement31 topic
  18. Language Contact21 topic
  19. Linguistic Borrowing21 topic

Where does Fikile Vilakazi work?

Fikile Vilakazi's main affiliation in the publication record is University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Fikile Vilakazi have?

OpenAlex counts 58 works and 23 citations for Fikile Vilakazi, an h-index of 2, ranking #3,369,679 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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