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Researcher · Rhodes University · South Africa

Laurence Wright

Laurence Wright publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology, on topics such as African history and culture studies, Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism and Second Language Learning and Teaching.

ORCID 0000-0003-2988-3399 OpenAlex
World rank
#582,760
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,808
of 5,570
Works
35
Citations
20
Citations per work
0.6

What does Laurence Wright research?

Literature and Literary Theory: 29.2%Sociology and Political Science: 12.5%Anthropology: 12.5%Linguistics and Language: 8.3%other fields: 37.5%29%top field
Literature and Literary Theory29.2%Sociology and Political Science12.5%Anthropology12.5%Linguistics and Language8.3%other fields37.5%

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

  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory29% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology12% of their works
  4. 4Linguistics and Language8% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics8% of their works
  6. 6Education6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Laurence Wright's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Policy, Multilingualism, Gender, Colonialism, Post-Colonial Africa, Adaptation, CLIL and Content and Language Integrated Learning.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Policy62 topics
  2. Multilingualism62 topics
  3. Gender52 topics
  4. Colonialism41 topic
  5. Post-Colonial Africa41 topic
  6. Adaptation31 topic
  7. CLIL31 topic
  8. Content and Language Integrated Learning31 topic
  9. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy31 topic
  10. Film31 topic
  11. South Africa31 topic
  12. Translanguaging31 topic
  13. protests31 topic
  14. Autorschaft21 topic
  15. Bildung21 topic
  16. American Literature11 topic
  17. Forensic Toxicology11 topic
  18. Great Depression11 topic
  19. Medical Chemistry11 topic

Where does Laurence Wright work?

Laurence Wright's main affiliation in the publication record is Rhodes University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Laurence Wright have?

Science Explorer counts 35 works and 20 citations for Laurence Wright, ranking #582,760 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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