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Researcher · University of Pretoria · South Africa

Johan Buitendag

Johan Buitendag publishes mostly in Religious studies, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy, on topics such as Christian Theology and Mission, Biblical Studies and Interpretation and Religion, Ecology, and Ethics.

ORCID 0000-0002-3693-0176 OpenAlex
World rank
#190,951
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#640
of 29,826
Works
125
Citations
668
Citations per work
5.3
h-index
15
i10-index 24Top 4.3% in Religious studies
Johan Buitendag

What does Johan Buitendag research?

Johan Buitendag's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (60%), Social Sciences (29%), Medicine (1%).

Social Sciences: 111 works · 88.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 74 works · 59.5% of their workReligious studies: 54 works · 43.5% of their workPhilosophy: 18 works · 14.8% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 works · 1.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 36 works · 29.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 30 works · 23.8% of their workEducation: 6 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 10.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 1.2% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 1.2% of their workSurgery: 2 works · 1.2% of their workTHEIR WORKJohan Buitendag125works
Health Sciences1%Social Sciences88%

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 Humanities7459.5%
    2. Social Sciences3629.0%
  2. Everything else1310.3%
    1. Medicine21.2%
  1. 1Religious studies44% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science24% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy15% of their works
  4. 4Education5% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science1% of their works
  6. 6Surgery1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Johan Buitendag's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: African Christianity, Global Christianity, Short-Term Missions, Biblical Monotheism, Jewish Society, Religion, Climate Change and Environment.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. African Christianity772 topics
  2. Global Christianity671 topic
  3. Short-Term Missions671 topic
  4. Biblical Monotheism601 topic
  5. Jewish Society601 topic
  6. Religion582 topics
  7. Climate Change311 topic
  8. Environment311 topic
  9. Faith-Based Organizations271 topic
  10. Social Services271 topic
  11. Animal Consciousness171 topic
  12. Legal Personhood171 topic
  13. Problem of Evil121 topic
  14. Theodicy121 topic
  15. African Philosophy111 topic
  16. Decolonization111 topic
  17. Biblical Interpretation101 topic
  18. Pentecostalism101 topic

Where does Johan Buitendag work?

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

How many publications and citations does Johan Buitendag have?

OpenAlex counts 125 works and 668 citations for Johan Buitendag, an h-index of 15, ranking #190,951 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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