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Researcher · University of Eswatini · Eswatini

Mandlenkosi Mpofu

Mandlenkosi Mpofu publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Anthropology, on topics such as African studies and sociopolitical issues, Media Studies and Communication and African history and culture studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-9655-5681 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,578,152
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Eswatini
#42
of 118
Works
19
Citations
41
Citations per work
2.2
h-index
4
i10-index 1Top 62% in Sociology and Political Science
Mandlenkosi Mpofu

What does Mandlenkosi Mpofu research?

Mandlenkosi Mpofu's work is mostly in Social Sciences (78%), Arts and Humanities (5%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (5%).

Social Sciences: 17 works · 87.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 15 works · 77.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 8 works · 42.5% of their workCommunication: 3 works · 17.5% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 10.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 works · 7.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 1 works · 5.0% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 works · 5.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 works · 5.0% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 12.5% of their workTHEIR WORKMandlenkosi Mpofu19works
Social Sciences88%

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 Sciences1577.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities15.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance15.0%
  2. Everything else212.5%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science42% of their works
  2. 2Communication18% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology10% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics5% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mandlenkosi Mpofu's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Colonialism, Political Economy, History, Zimbabwe, News Media, Social Media and Agenda Setting.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Nationalism163 topics
  2. Colonialism142 topics
  3. Political Economy132 topics
  4. History111 topic
  5. Zimbabwe111 topic
  6. News Media62 topics
  7. Social Media52 topics
  8. Agenda Setting41 topic
  9. Media Framing41 topic
  10. African History31 topic
  11. Digital Divide31 topic
  12. Political Participation31 topic
  13. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic
  14. Adaptation21 topic
  15. Democratization21 topic
  16. Film21 topic
  17. Government Responsiveness21 topic
  18. Hong Kong Identity21 topic
  19. Media Bias21 topic
  20. Health Claims11 topic
  21. scientific opinion11 topic

Where does Mandlenkosi Mpofu work?

Mandlenkosi Mpofu's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Eswatini, Eswatini.

How many publications and citations does Mandlenkosi Mpofu have?

OpenAlex counts 19 works and 41 citations for Mandlenkosi Mpofu, an h-index of 4, ranking #3,578,152 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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