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John Blacking

John Blacking publishes mostly in Music, Sociology and Political Science and Visual Arts and Performing Arts, on topics such as Diverse Musicological Studies, Musicology and Musical Analysis and Music History and Culture.

World rank
#50,831
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#4,805
of 90,785
Works
35
Citations
182
Citations per work
5.2

What does John Blacking research?

Music: 39.4%Sociology and Political Science: 18.2%Visual Arts and Performing Arts: 6.1%Education: 6.1%other fields: 30.2%39%top field
Music39.4%Sociology and Political Science18.2%Visual Arts and Performing Arts6.1%Education6.1%other fields30.2%

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

  1. 1Music39% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  3. 3Visual Arts and Performing Arts6% of their works
  4. 4Education6% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology6% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Blacking's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ethnomusicology, Ecomusicology, Environmental Sustainability, Colonialism, Musical Theory, Musicology, African History and African Philosophy.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Ethnomusicology92 topics
  2. Ecomusicology51 topic
  3. Environmental Sustainability51 topic
  4. Colonialism42 topics
  5. Musical Theory41 topic
  6. Musicology41 topic
  7. African History21 topic
  8. African Philosophy21 topic
  9. Culture21 topic
  10. Decolonization21 topic
  11. Informal Learning21 topic
  12. Music21 topic
  13. Music Education21 topic
  14. Post-Colonial Africa21 topic
  15. Belief11 topic
  16. Evolutionary Synthesis11 topic
  17. Knowledge11 topic
  18. Mechanistic Explanation11 topic

Where does John Blacking work?

John Blacking's main affiliation in the publication record is Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does John Blacking have?

Science Explorer counts 35 works and 182 citations for John Blacking, ranking #50,831 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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