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Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

Herman Wasserman

Herman Wasserman publishes mostly in Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Media Studies and Communication, Social Media and Politics and South African History and Culture.

ORCID 0000-0002-2553-1989 OpenAlex
World rank
#59,690
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#141
of 29,826
Works
286
Citations
3.9k
Citations per work
13.6
h-index
35
i10-index 91Top 1.6% in Communication
Herman Wasserman

What does Herman Wasserman research?

Herman Wasserman's work is mostly in Social Sciences (53%), Arts and Humanities (4%), Medicine (4%).

Social Sciences: 164 works · 57.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 151 works · 52.8% of their workCommunication: 65 works · 22.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 56 works · 19.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 16 works · 5.5% of their workAnthropology: 15 works · 5.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 13 works · 4.4% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 13 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 112 works · 39.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 10 works · 3.6% of their workMedicine: 10 works · 3.6% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 10 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKHerman Wasserman286works
Health Sciences4%Social Sciences57%

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 Sciences15152.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities134.4%
  2. Everything else11239.2%
    1. Medicine103.6%
  1. 1Communication23% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science20% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology5% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works
  6. 6Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Herman Wasserman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agenda Setting, Media Framing, Social Media, Digital Divide, Political Participation, protests, South Africa and Colonialism.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Agenda Setting931 topic
  2. Media Framing931 topic
  3. Social Media522 topics
  4. Digital Divide351 topic
  5. Political Participation351 topic
  6. South Africa341 topic
  7. protests341 topic
  8. Colonialism261 topic
  9. Post-Colonial Africa261 topic
  10. Academic Writing171 topic
  11. Discourse Analysis171 topic
  12. Fake News171 topic
  13. Misinformation171 topic
  14. Multilingualism171 topic
  15. Translanguaging171 topic
  16. Constitutionalism131 topic
  17. Developmental Local Government131 topic

Where does Herman Wasserman work?

Herman Wasserman's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Herman Wasserman have?

OpenAlex counts 286 works and 3,886 citations for Herman Wasserman, an h-index of 35, ranking #59,690 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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