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Researcher · University of Pretoria · South Africa

Fransjohan Pretorius

Fransjohan Pretorius publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Language and Linguistics and Anthropology, on topics such as South African History and Culture, African history and culture studies and Lexicography and Language Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-6829-6942 OpenAlex
World rank
#374,817
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,041
of 5,570
Works
34
Citations
38
Citations per work
1.1

What does Fransjohan Pretorius research?

Sociology and Political Science: 34.0%Language and Linguistics: 10.6%Anthropology: 10.6%Education: 8.5%other fields: 36.3%34%top field
Sociology and Political Science34.0%Language and Linguistics10.6%Anthropology10.6%Education8.5%other fields36.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science34% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics11% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology11% of their works
  4. 4Education8% of their works
  5. 5Law6% of their works
  6. 6Neurology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fransjohan Pretorius's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: protests, South Africa, Human Rights, Colonialism, Post-Colonial Africa, Constitutionalism, Developmental Local Government and Dictionaries.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. South Africa81 topic
  2. protests81 topic
  3. Human Rights52 topics
  4. Colonialism41 topic
  5. Post-Colonial Africa41 topic
  6. Constitutionalism31 topic
  7. Developmental Local Government31 topic
  8. Dictionaries31 topic
  9. Institutional Child Abuse31 topic
  10. Lexicography31 topic
  11. Redress Schemes31 topic
  12. Education21 topic
  13. Leadership21 topic
  14. Multiculturalism21 topic
  15. Socio-Legal Studies21 topic
  16. Land Tenure11 topic
  17. Property Rights11 topic

Where does Fransjohan Pretorius work?

Fransjohan Pretorius's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pretoria, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Fransjohan Pretorius have?

Science Explorer counts 34 works and 38 citations for Fransjohan Pretorius, ranking #374,817 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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