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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Isabel Hofmeyr

Isabel Hofmeyr publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and History, on topics such as South African History and Culture, Global Maritime and Colonial Histories and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-7904-5935 OpenAlex
World rank
#64,937
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#118
of 5,570
Works
49
Citations
120
Citations per work
2.4

What does Isabel Hofmeyr research?

Sociology and Political Science: 31.7%Anthropology: 18.3%History: 11.7%Literature and Literary Theory: 10.0%other fields: 28.3%32%top field
Sociology and Political Science31.7%Anthropology18.3%History11.7%Literature and Literary Theory10.0%other fields28.3%

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 Science32% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology18% of their works
  3. 3History12% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory10% of their works
  5. 5Music3% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Isabel Hofmeyr's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: protests, South Africa, Globalization, Nationalism, Colonialism, Identity, Indian Ocean and prehistoric movement.

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. South Africa101 topic
  2. protests101 topic
  3. Globalization83 topics
  4. Nationalism82 topics
  5. Colonialism62 topics
  6. Identity62 topics
  7. Indian Ocean51 topic
  8. prehistoric movement51 topic
  9. African History41 topic
  10. Literature41 topic
  11. Post-Colonial Africa41 topic
  12. Postcolonialism41 topic
  13. Australian history21 topic
  14. British imperialism21 topic
  15. Culture21 topic
  16. Economic Reforms21 topic
  17. India21 topic
  18. Music21 topic
  19. Narratives21 topic
  20. Oral History21 topic

Where does Isabel Hofmeyr work?

Isabel Hofmeyr's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Isabel Hofmeyr have?

Science Explorer counts 49 works and 120 citations for Isabel Hofmeyr, ranking #64,937 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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