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Researcher · University of Pretoria · South Africa

Jerry Pillay

Jerry Pillay publishes mostly in Religious studies, Sociology and Political Science and Education, on topics such as Christian Theology and Mission, Religion, Society, and Development and Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-5188-3550 OpenAlex
World rank
#328,300
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,217
of 29,826
Works
52
Citations
361
Citations per work
6.9
h-index
8
i10-index 7Top 18% in Religious studies
Jerry Pillay

What does Jerry Pillay research?

Jerry Pillay's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (47%), Social Sciences (45%).

Social Sciences: 48 works · 92.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 25 works · 47.4% of their workReligious studies: 22 works · 42.0% of their workHistory: 2 works · 3.1% of their workPhilosophy: 1 works · 2.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 23 works · 45.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 18 works · 34.4% of their workEducation: 4 works · 7.6% of their workLaw: 2 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 7.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJerry Pillay52works
Social Sciences92%

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. Arts and Humanities2547.4%
    2. Social Sciences2345.1%
  2. Everything else47.5%
  1. 1Religious studies42% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science34% of their works
  3. 3Education8% of their works
  4. 4History3% of their works
  5. 5Law3% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jerry Pillay's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: African Christianity, Religion, Global Christianity, Short-Term Missions, Faith-Based Organizations, Social Services, Globalization and Biblical Interpretation.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. African Christianity482 topics
  2. Religion362 topics
  3. Global Christianity341 topic
  4. Short-Term Missions341 topic
  5. Faith-Based Organizations331 topic
  6. Social Services331 topic
  7. Globalization172 topics
  8. Biblical Interpretation141 topic
  9. Pentecostalism141 topic
  10. African Philosophy71 topic
  11. Decolonization71 topic
  12. Constitutionalism41 topic
  13. Developmental Local Government41 topic
  14. Biblical Monotheism31 topic
  15. Jewish Society31 topic
  16. Public Sphere31 topic
  17. Secularism31 topic
  18. South Africa31 topic
  19. protests31 topic

Where does Jerry Pillay work?

Jerry Pillay's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pretoria, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Jerry Pillay have?

OpenAlex counts 52 works and 361 citations for Jerry Pillay, an h-index of 8, ranking #328,300 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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