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Researcher · University of Pretoria · South Africa

Malan Nel

Malan Nel publishes mostly in Religious studies, Sociology and Political Science and Education, on topics such as Christian Theology and Mission, Religion, Society, and Development and Biblical Studies and Interpretation.

ORCID 0000-0002-2263-9097 OpenAlex
World rank
#283,353
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,032
of 29,826
Works
127
Citations
488
Citations per work
3.8
h-index
13
i10-index 15Top 6.3% in Religious studies
Malan Nel

What does Malan Nel research?

Malan Nel's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (48%), Social Sciences (31%), Psychology (2%).

Social Sciences: 103 works · 80.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 61 works · 48.0% of their workReligious studies: 59 works · 46.1% of their workPhilosophy: 2 works · 1.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 39 works · 30.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 30 works · 23.8% of their workEducation: 7 works · 5.3% of their workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 works · 1.5% of their workPsychology: 3 works · 2.2% of their workClinical Psychology: 3 works · 2.2% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 19.2% of their workTHEIR WORKMalan Nel127works
Social Sciences81%

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. Arts and Humanities6148.0%
    2. Social Sciences3930.6%
    3. Psychology32.2%
  2. Everything else2419.2%
  1. 1Religious studies46% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science24% of their works
  3. 3Education5% of their works
  4. 4Clinical Psychology2% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy2% of their works
  6. 6General Social Sciences2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Malan Nel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: African Christianity, Global Christianity, Short-Term Missions, Religion, Faith-Based Organizations, Social Services, Social Justice and Biblical Interpretation.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. African Christianity1052 topics
  2. Global Christianity711 topic
  3. Short-Term Missions711 topic
  4. Religion643 topics
  5. Faith-Based Organizations511 topic
  6. Social Services511 topic
  7. Social Justice432 topics
  8. Biblical Interpretation412 topics
  9. Globalization392 topics
  10. Spirituality382 topics
  11. Biblical Monotheism371 topic
  12. Jewish Society371 topic
  13. Hermeneutics341 topic
  14. Pentecostalism341 topic
  15. Black Liberation Theology91 topic
  16. Race91 topic
  17. Christian Education71 topic
  18. Church Leadership71 topic
  19. Image Processing51 topic
  20. Ritual51 topic
  21. Coping41 topic
  22. Health41 topic

Where does Malan Nel work?

Malan Nel's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pretoria, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Malan Nel have?

OpenAlex counts 127 works and 488 citations for Malan Nel, an h-index of 13, ranking #283,353 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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