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Gerald West

Gerald West publishes mostly in Religious studies, Sociology and Political Science and Education, on topics such as Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Religion, Society, and Development and Christian Theology and Mission.

World rank
#279,975
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#741
of 5,570
Works
48
Citations
23
Citations per work
0.5

What does Gerald West research?

Religious studies: 42.3%Sociology and Political Science: 28.8%Education: 5.8%Political Science and International Relations: 5.8%other fields: 17.3%42%top field
Religious studies42.3%Sociology and Political Science28.8%Education5.8%Political Science and International Relations5.8%other fields17.3%

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

  1. 1Religious studies42% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science29% of their works
  3. 3Education6% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  5. 5Development6% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerald West's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biblical Monotheism, Jewish Society, Development, Religion, African Christianity, Faith-Based Organizations, Social Services and Global Christianity.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Biblical Monotheism121 topic
  2. Jewish Society121 topic
  3. Development112 topics
  4. Religion102 topics
  5. African Christianity92 topics
  6. Faith-Based Organizations81 topic
  7. Social Services81 topic
  8. Global Christianity71 topic
  9. Short-Term Missions71 topic
  10. Globalization52 topics
  11. African Philosophy31 topic
  12. Decolonization31 topic
  13. Social Change31 topic
  14. Sociopolitical31 topic
  15. Biblical Interpretation21 topic
  16. Eritrea21 topic
  17. Ethiopia21 topic
  18. Indian Ocean21 topic
  19. Pentecostalism21 topic
  20. prehistoric movement21 topic

Where does Gerald West work?

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

How many publications and citations does Gerald West have?

Science Explorer counts 48 works and 23 citations for Gerald West, ranking #279,975 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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