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Researcher · University of Bern · Switzerland

John Mbiti

John Mbiti publishes mostly in Religious studies, Sociology and Political Science and Education, on topics such as Christian Theology and Mission, Religion, Society, and Development and African cultural and philosophical studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#196,318
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#3,920
of 80,918
Works
103
Citations
7.5k
Citations per work
72.4
h-index
20
i10-index 26Top 2% in Religious studies
John Mbiti

What does John Mbiti research?

John Mbiti's work is mostly in Social Sciences (51%), Arts and Humanities (37%).

Social Sciences: 91 works · 88.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 53 works · 51.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 28 works · 26.7% of their workEducation: 10 works · 10.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 9 works · 9.2% of their workAnthropology: 5 works · 5.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 39 works · 37.4% of their workReligious studies: 36 works · 34.6% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 11.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Mbiti103works
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. Social Sciences5351.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities3937.4%
  2. Everything else1211.5%
  1. 1Religious studies35% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science27% of their works
  3. 3Education10% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations9% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology5% of their works
  6. 6Language and Linguistics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Mbiti's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: African Christianity, Religion, Global Christianity, Short-Term Missions, Faith-Based Organizations, Social Services, Colonialism 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. 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. African Christianity552 topics
  2. Religion542 topics
  3. Global Christianity431 topic
  4. Short-Term Missions431 topic
  5. Faith-Based Organizations391 topic
  6. Social Services391 topic
  7. Colonialism292 topics
  8. African Philosophy221 topic
  9. Decolonization221 topic
  10. Biblical Monotheism181 topic
  11. Jewish Society181 topic
  12. Eritrea151 topic
  13. Ethiopia151 topic
  14. Globalization152 topics
  15. Biblical Interpretation121 topic
  16. Pentecostalism121 topic
  17. African History71 topic
  18. Post-Colonial Africa71 topic
  19. Image Processing31 topic
  20. Ritual31 topic

Where does John Mbiti work?

John Mbiti's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Bern, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does John Mbiti have?

OpenAlex counts 103 works and 7,459 citations for John Mbiti, an h-index of 20, ranking #196,318 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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