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Researcher · University of the Free State · South Africa

Lochner Marais

Lochner Marais publishes mostly in Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Urban and Rural Development Challenges, Legal Issues in South Africa and Local Economic Development and Planning.

ORCID 0000-0002-0299-3435 OpenAlex
World rank
#43,267
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#91
of 29,826
Works
252
Citations
2.5k
Citations per work
10.0
h-index
26
i10-index 79Top 1.6% in Urban Studies
Lochner Marais

What does Lochner Marais research?

Lochner Marais's work is mostly in Social Sciences (46%), Engineering (7%), Health Professions (6%).

Social Sciences: 117 works · 46.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 117 works · 46.5% of their workUrban Studies: 46 works · 18.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 27 works · 10.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 23 works · 9.0% of their workLaw: 22 works · 8.8% of their workEverything else: 103 works · 40.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 18 works · 7.1% of their workEngineering: 18 works · 7.1% of their workBuilding and Construction: 18 works · 7.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 14 works · 5.7% of their workHealth Professions: 14 works · 5.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 14 works · 5.7% of their workTHEIR WORKLochner Marais252works
Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences46%

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 Sciences11746.5%
  2. Everything else10340.7%
    1. Engineering187.1%
    1. Health Professions145.7%
  1. 1Urban Studies18% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations9% of their works
  4. 4Law9% of their works
  5. 5Building and Construction7% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lochner Marais's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sustainable Development, Slum Upgrading, Urban Poverty, South Africa, Globalization, Constitutionalism, Developmental Local Government and local economic development.

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. Sustainable Development1833 topics
  2. Slum Upgrading911 topic
  3. Urban Poverty911 topic
  4. South Africa732 topics
  5. Globalization592 topics
  6. Constitutionalism571 topic
  7. Developmental Local Government571 topic
  8. Policy491 topic
  9. local economic development491 topic
  10. Mining Industry431 topic
  11. Social License to Operate431 topic
  12. Neoliberalism412 topics
  13. Financialization251 topic
  14. Shareholder Value251 topic
  15. Inequality241 topic
  16. protests241 topic
  17. Gentrification161 topic
  18. Health161 topic
  19. Homelessness161 topic
  20. Urbanism161 topic

Where does Lochner Marais work?

Lochner Marais's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Free State, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Lochner Marais have?

OpenAlex counts 252 works and 2,513 citations for Lochner Marais, an h-index of 26, ranking #43,267 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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