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Ian Phimister

Ian Phimister publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Education, on topics such as African history and culture studies, African studies and sociopolitical issues and South African History and Culture.

World rank
#72,499
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#134
of 5,570
Works
32
Citations
137
Citations per work
4.3

What does Ian Phimister research?

Anthropology: 34.1%Sociology and Political Science: 29.5%Education: 6.8%Aerospace Engineering: 6.8%other fields: 22.8%34%top field
Anthropology34.1%Sociology and Political Science29.5%Education6.8%Aerospace Engineering6.8%other fields22.8%

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

  1. 1Anthropology34% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science30% of their works
  3. 3Education7% of their works
  4. 4Aerospace Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Finance7% of their works
  6. 6Demography2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ian Phimister's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, Nationalism, African History, Post-Colonial Africa, History, Zimbabwe, protests and South 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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Colonialism183 topics
  2. Nationalism152 topics
  3. African History101 topic
  4. Post-Colonial Africa101 topic
  5. History51 topic
  6. Zimbabwe51 topic
  7. South Africa41 topic
  8. protests41 topic
  9. African Diaspora31 topic
  10. Australian history31 topic
  11. Black Feminist Theory31 topic
  12. British imperialism31 topic
  13. Financial Crisis31 topic
  14. Global World31 topic
  15. Hypersonic Effect31 topic
  16. Research Methods31 topic
  17. Social Work31 topic
  18. Ultrasonic Perception31 topic

Where does Ian Phimister work?

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

How many publications and citations does Ian Phimister have?

Science Explorer counts 32 works and 137 citations for Ian Phimister, ranking #72,499 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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