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Researcher · University of Chicago · United States

Jean Comaroff

Jean Comaroff publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Education and Anthropology, on topics such as African cultural and philosophical studies, Religion, Society, and Development and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies.

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World rank
#12,299
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,945
of 358,040
Works
47
Citations
664
Citations per work
14.1

What does Jean Comaroff research?

Sociology and Political Science: 35.3%Education: 11.8%Anthropology: 7.8%Literature and Literary Theory: 5.9%other fields: 39.2%35%top field
Sociology and Political Science35.3%Education11.8%Anthropology7.8%Literature and Literary Theory5.9%other fields39.2%

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 Science35% of their works
  2. 2Education12% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology8% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works
  5. 5Religious studies4% of their works
  6. 6Demography4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jean Comaroff's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Postcolonialism, African Philosophy, Decolonization, Faith-Based Organizations, Social Services, Identity, Race and Globalization.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Postcolonialism92 topics
  2. African Philosophy61 topic
  3. Decolonization61 topic
  4. Faith-Based Organizations51 topic
  5. Social Services51 topic
  6. Identity42 topics
  7. Race42 topics
  8. Globalization31 topic
  9. Literature31 topic
  10. South Africa31 topic
  11. protests31 topic
  12. Biomedical Research11 topic
  13. Ebola Virus11 topic
  14. Ecology11 topic
  15. Food Tourism11 topic
  16. Gastronomy11 topic
  17. Genetics11 topic
  18. Outbreak11 topic
  19. Virus11 topic

Where does Jean Comaroff work?

Jean Comaroff's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Chicago, United States.

How many publications and citations does Jean Comaroff have?

Science Explorer counts 47 works and 664 citations for Jean Comaroff, ranking #12,299 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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