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Researcher · Moi University · Kenya

Joyce Nyairo

Joyce Nyairo publishes mostly in Anthropology, Music and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as African history and culture studies, Music History and Culture and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,332,651
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#1,105
of 7,520
Works
20
Citations
291
Citations per work
14.6
h-index
11
i10-index 12Top 22% in Anthropology
Joyce Nyairo

What does Joyce Nyairo research?

Joyce Nyairo's work is mostly in Social Sciences (43%), Arts and Humanities (33%), Psychology (7%).

Social Sciences: 17 works · 83.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 42.9% of their workAnthropology: 6 works · 28.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 14.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 33.3% of their workMusic: 4 works · 21.4% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 works · 11.9% of their workPsychology: 1 works · 7.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 1 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 11.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 4.8% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 4.8% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 works · 4.8% of their workTHEIR WORKJoyce Nyairo20works
Health Sciences5%Social Sciences83%

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 Sciences942.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities733.3%
    3. Psychology17.1%
  2. Everything else211.9%
    1. Medicine14.8%
  1. 1Anthropology29% of their works
  2. 2Music21% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory12% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology7% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joyce Nyairo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Colonialism, Globalization, Identity, African History, Post-Colonial Africa, Culture and Music.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Nationalism173 topics
  2. Colonialism143 topics
  3. Globalization133 topics
  4. Identity112 topics
  5. African History91 topic
  6. Post-Colonial Africa91 topic
  7. Culture61 topic
  8. Music61 topic
  9. Literature51 topic
  10. Postcolonialism51 topic
  11. Social Justice52 topics
  12. History31 topic
  13. Zimbabwe31 topic
  14. Ecomusicology21 topic
  15. Ethnomusicology21 topic
  16. Governmentality21 topic
  17. Neoliberalism21 topic
  18. Female Genital Mutilation11 topic
  19. HIV11 topic
  20. Obstetric Outcome11 topic
  21. Oral Manifestations11 topic

Where does Joyce Nyairo work?

Joyce Nyairo's main affiliation in the publication record is Moi University, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Joyce Nyairo have?

OpenAlex counts 20 works and 291 citations for Joyce Nyairo, an h-index of 11, ranking #1,332,651 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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