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Researcher · University of Malawi · Malawi

Jimmy Kainja

Jimmy Kainja publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Anthropology, on topics such as ICT in Developing Communities, COVID-19 and Mental Health and African history and culture studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-7036-3144 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,820,116
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Malawi
#217
of 736
Works
37
Citations
91
Citations per work
2.5
h-index
6
i10-index 4Top 45% in Sociology and Political Science
Jimmy Kainja

What does Jimmy Kainja research?

Jimmy Kainja's work is mostly in Social Sciences (43%), Computer Science (7%), Psychology (7%).

Social Sciences: 18 works · 49.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 16 works · 42.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 7 works · 19.4% of their workCommunication: 4 works · 10.7% of their workAnthropology: 3 works · 6.8% of their workEducation: 2 works · 5.8% of their workPsychology: 3 works · 6.8% of their workClinical Psychology: 3 works · 6.8% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 43.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 6.8% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 6.8% of their workInformation Systems: 3 works · 6.8% of their workTHEIR WORKJimmy Kainja37works
Physical Sciences7%Social Sciences49%

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. Social Sciences1642.7%
    2. Psychology36.8%
  2. Everything else1643.7%
    1. Computer Science36.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science19% of their works
  2. 2Communication11% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology7% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems7% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Psychology7% of their works
  6. 6Education6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jimmy Kainja's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, Nationalism, Depression, Psychological Distress, African History, Agenda Setting, COVID-19 and Media Framing.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Colonialism133 topics
  2. Nationalism92 topics
  3. Depression82 topics
  4. Psychological Distress82 topics
  5. African History51 topic
  6. Agenda Setting51 topic
  7. COVID-1951 topic
  8. Media Framing51 topic
  9. Mental Health51 topic
  10. Mobile Technology51 topic
  11. Post-Colonial Africa51 topic
  12. Rural Communities51 topic
  13. African Philosophy41 topic
  14. Decolonization41 topic
  15. History41 topic
  16. Zimbabwe41 topic
  17. Indigenous Knowledge31 topic
  18. Mental Disorders31 topic
  19. Soil Fertility31 topic
  20. Stigma31 topic

Where does Jimmy Kainja work?

Jimmy Kainja's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Malawi, Malawi.

How many publications and citations does Jimmy Kainja have?

OpenAlex counts 37 works and 91 citations for Jimmy Kainja, an h-index of 6, ranking #1,820,116 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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