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Researcher · University of Toronto · Canada

Fikile Nxumalo

Fikile Nxumalo publishes mostly in Education, Sociology and Political Science and Cultural Studies, on topics such as Indigenous and Place-Based Education, Posthumanist Ethics and Activism and Children's Rights and Participation.

ORCID 0000-0003-2039-9146 OpenAlex
World rank
#83,485
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#2,573
of 183,316
Works
114
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
17.0
h-index
24
i10-index 45Top 2.5% in Education
Fikile Nxumalo

What does Fikile Nxumalo research?

Fikile Nxumalo's work is mostly in Social Sciences (64%), Psychology (7%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%).

Social Sciences: 82 works · 71.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 74 works · 64.5% of their workEducation: 37 works · 32.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 19 works · 16.7% of their workCultural Studies: 12 works · 10.8% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 6 works · 4.9% of their workPsychology: 8 works · 7.2% of their workSocial Psychology: 8 works · 7.2% of their workEverything else: 27 works · 24.0% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 4.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 4.3% of their workPlant Science: 5 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKFikile Nxumalo114works
Life Sciences4%Social Sciences72%

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 Sciences7464.5%
    2. Psychology87.2%
  2. Everything else2724.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences54.3%
  1. 1Education32% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  3. 3Cultural Studies11% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology7% of their works
  5. 5Geography, Planning and Development5% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fikile Nxumalo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Environmental Education, Place-Based Education, Rural Communities, Affect, Anthropocene, Ethical Considerations, Performativity and Posthumanism.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Education632 topics
  2. Place-Based Education521 topic
  3. Rural Communities521 topic
  4. Affect412 topics
  5. Anthropocene412 topics
  6. Ethical Considerations402 topics
  7. Performativity261 topic
  8. Posthumanism261 topic
  9. Children's Participation251 topic
  10. Research with Children251 topic
  11. Attitudes151 topic
  12. Conservation151 topic
  13. Geography151 topic
  14. Multispecies Ethnography151 topic
  15. School Engagement151 topic
  16. Student-Teacher Relationships151 topic
  17. Indigenous Knowledge121 topic
  18. Soil Fertility121 topic
  19. Environmental Attitudes111 topic
  20. Pro-environmental Behavior111 topic

Where does Fikile Nxumalo work?

Fikile Nxumalo's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Toronto, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Fikile Nxumalo have?

OpenAlex counts 114 works and 1,940 citations for Fikile Nxumalo, an h-index of 24, ranking #83,485 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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