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Researcher · National University of Lesotho · Lesotho

Francis K. Makoa

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

OpenAlex
World rank
#937,582
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Lesotho
#7
of 82
Works
33
Citations
175
Citations per work
5.3
h-index
7
i10-index 6Top 38% in Sociology and Political Science
Francis K. Makoa

What does Francis K. Makoa research?

Francis K. Makoa's work is mostly in Social Sciences (86%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (3%).

Social Sciences: 29 works · 88.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 28 works · 85.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 11 works · 34.2% of their workLaw: 7 works · 21.1% of their workAnthropology: 6 works · 17.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 works · 7.9% of their workDevelopment: 2 works · 5.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 works · 2.6% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 11.8% of their workTHEIR WORKFrancis K. Makoa33works
Social Sciences88%

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 Sciences2885.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12.6%
  2. Everything else411.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science34% of their works
  2. 2Law21% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology17% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  5. 5Development5% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Francis K. Makoa's research?

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

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Nationalism253 topics
  2. Colonialism232 topics
  3. Constitutionalism161 topic
  4. Developmental Local Government161 topic
  5. Race142 topics
  6. South Africa142 topics
  7. African History131 topic
  8. Post-Colonial Africa131 topic
  9. Inequality121 topic
  10. protests121 topic
  11. History101 topic
  12. Zimbabwe101 topic
  13. Economic Growth62 topics
  14. Development Policies41 topic
  15. Foreign Aid41 topic
  16. Humanitarian Intervention31 topic
  17. Responsibility to Protect31 topic
  18. Caribbean21 topic
  19. Culture21 topic
  20. HIV/AIDS21 topic
  21. Sub-Saharan Africa21 topic

Where does Francis K. Makoa work?

Francis K. Makoa's main affiliation in the publication record is National University of Lesotho, Lesotho.

How many publications and citations does Francis K. Makoa have?

OpenAlex counts 33 works and 175 citations for Francis K. Makoa, an h-index of 7, ranking #937,582 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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