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James Fairhead

James Fairhead publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, African history and culture studies and African studies and sociopolitical issues.

World rank
#70,676
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#6,646
of 90,785
Works
38
Citations
179
Citations per work
4.7

What does James Fairhead research?

Global and Planetary Change: 14.3%Anthropology: 11.4%Sociology and Political Science: 11.4%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 5.7%other fields: 57.2%14%top field
Global and Planetary Change14.3%Anthropology11.4%Sociology and Political Science11.4%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences5.7%other fields57.2%

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

  1. 1Global and Planetary Change14% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology11% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  4. 4General Agricultural and Biological Sciences6% of their works
  5. 5Soil Science6% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James Fairhead's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, Nationalism, Environmental Services, Land Reform, Political Economy, Tropical Deforestation, African History and History.

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. Colonialism62 topics
  2. Nationalism62 topics
  3. Environmental Services51 topic
  4. Land Reform52 topics
  5. Political Economy52 topics
  6. Tropical Deforestation51 topic
  7. African History31 topic
  8. History31 topic
  9. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic
  10. Zimbabwe31 topic
  11. Agroecology21 topic
  12. Food Sovereignty21 topic
  13. Land Tenure21 topic
  14. Property Rights21 topic
  15. Cassava11 topic
  16. Cyanogenic Glycosides11 topic
  17. Genomics11 topic
  18. Medicinal Plants11 topic
  19. Social Insects11 topic
  20. Traditional Ecological Knowledge11 topic

Where does James Fairhead work?

James Fairhead's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does James Fairhead have?

Science Explorer counts 38 works and 179 citations for James Fairhead, ranking #70,676 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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