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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Lesley Cowling

Lesley Cowling publishes mostly in Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology, on topics such as Media Studies and Communication, African history and culture studies and South African History and Culture.

ORCID 0000-0002-0999-9354 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,356,752
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#14,573
of 29,826
Works
25
Citations
67
Citations per work
2.7
h-index
5
i10-index 1Top 65% in Communication
Lesley Cowling

What does Lesley Cowling research?

Lesley Cowling's work is mostly in Social Sciences (61%), Arts and Humanities (18%).

Social Sciences: 20 works · 79.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 15 works · 61.2% of their workCommunication: 8 works · 30.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 18.4% of their workAnthropology: 3 works · 12.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 18.4% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 works · 8.2% of their workPhilosophy: 2 works · 6.1% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 20.4% of their workTHEIR WORKLesley Cowling25works
Social Sciences80%

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 Sciences1561.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities518.4%
  2. Everything else520.4%
  1. 1Communication31% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology12% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory8% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy6% of their works
  6. 6History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lesley Cowling's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agenda Setting, Media Framing, Social Media, Colonialism, Post-Colonial Africa, protests, South Africa and Digital Divide.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Agenda Setting81 topic
  2. Media Framing81 topic
  3. Social Media72 topics
  4. Colonialism61 topic
  5. Post-Colonial Africa61 topic
  6. South Africa61 topic
  7. protests61 topic
  8. Digital Divide41 topic
  9. Political Participation41 topic
  10. Crisis Communication31 topic
  11. Democracy31 topic
  12. Public Relations31 topic
  13. Rhetoric31 topic
  14. Literary Journalism21 topic
  15. Narrative Form21 topic
  16. Performativity21 topic
  17. Posthumanism21 topic

Where does Lesley Cowling work?

Lesley Cowling's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Lesley Cowling have?

OpenAlex counts 25 works and 67 citations for Lesley Cowling, an h-index of 5, ranking #3,356,752 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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