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Researcher · Rhodes University · South Africa

Malvern van Wyk Smith

Malvern van Wyk Smith publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Classics and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies, African history and culture studies and South African History and Culture.

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World rank
#797,830
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#2,625
of 5,570
Works
16
Citations
6
Citations per work
0.4

What does Malvern van Wyk Smith research?

Sociology and Political Science: 21.4%Classics: 14.3%Literature and Literary Theory: 14.3%History: 14.3%other fields: 35.7%21%top field
Sociology and Political Science21.4%Classics14.3%Literature and Literary Theory14.3%History14.3%other fields35.7%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science21% of their works
  2. 2Classics14% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory14% of their works
  4. 4History14% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology14% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Malvern van Wyk Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Literature, Nationalism, Colonialism, Globalization, History, Post-Colonial Africa, Postcolonialism and protests.

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. Literature43 topics
  2. Nationalism42 topics
  3. Colonialism21 topic
  4. Globalization21 topic
  5. History22 topics
  6. Post-Colonial Africa21 topic
  7. Postcolonialism21 topic
  8. South Africa21 topic
  9. protests21 topic
  10. Art11 topic
  11. Blood Transfusion11 topic
  12. Byzantium11 topic
  13. Eastern Mediterranean11 topic
  14. Italian Renaissance11 topic
  15. Mental Health11 topic
  16. Obstetrics11 topic
  17. Psychiatry11 topic
  18. Renaissance11 topic
  19. Renaissance Florence11 topic

Where does Malvern van Wyk Smith work?

Malvern van Wyk Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Rhodes University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Malvern van Wyk Smith have?

Science Explorer counts 16 works and 6 citations for Malvern van Wyk Smith, ranking #797,830 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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