Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Researcher · Washington Center · United States

George B. N. Ayittey

George B. N. Ayittey publishes mostly in Anthropology, Development and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as African history and culture studies, International Development and Aid and Economic Growth and Development.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,846,676
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#823,878
of 1,627,098
Works
89
Citations
891
Citations per work
10.0
h-index
11
i10-index 11Top 22% in Anthropology
George B. N. Ayittey

What does George B. N. Ayittey research?

George B. N. Ayittey's work is mostly in Social Sciences (63%), Computer Science (6%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4%).

Social Sciences: 60 works · 67.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 56 works · 63.0% of their workAnthropology: 22 works · 24.5% of their workDevelopment: 12 works · 13.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 12 works · 13.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 11 works · 11.9% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 works · 4.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 27.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 5.6% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 5.6% of their workInformation Systems: 5 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKGeorge B. N.Ayittey89works
Physical Sciences6%Social Sciences67%

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 Sciences5663.0%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance44.2%
  2. Everything else2427.2%
    1. Computer Science55.6%
  1. 1Anthropology24% of their works
  2. 2Development13% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems6% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe George B. N. Ayittey's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, Governance, NGOs, African History, Post-Colonial Africa, Development Policies, Foreign Aid and financial access.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Colonialism272 topics
  2. Governance272 topics
  3. NGOs242 topics
  4. African History221 topic
  5. Post-Colonial Africa221 topic
  6. Development Policies191 topic
  7. Foreign Aid191 topic
  8. ICT81 topic
  9. financial access81 topic
  10. Humanitarian Intervention71 topic
  11. Responsibility to Protect71 topic
  12. Indian Ocean61 topic
  13. prehistoric movement61 topic
  14. African Philosophy51 topic
  15. Decolonization51 topic
  16. Faith-Based Organizations51 topic
  17. Social Services51 topic
  18. Natural Resources31 topic
  19. Resource Curse31 topic

Where does George B. N. Ayittey work?

George B. N. Ayittey's main affiliation in the publication record is Washington Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does George B. N. Ayittey have?

OpenAlex counts 89 works and 891 citations for George B. N. Ayittey, an h-index of 11, ranking #2,846,676 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.

Papers, co-authors, who cited this work and researchers on the nearest topics have tabs of their own, above. Is this your page? Claim it with your ORCID iD, or request a correction or removal.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about George B. N. Ayittey. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.