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Researcher · National University of Lesotho · Lesotho

Matseliso Mapetla

Matseliso Mapetla publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Law and Urban Studies, on topics such as Legal Issues in South Africa, Urban and Rural Development Challenges and South African History and Culture.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,815,630
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Lesotho
#22
of 82
Works
15
Citations
87
Citations per work
5.8
h-index
4
i10-index 2Top 62% in Sociology and Political Science
Matseliso Mapetla

What does Matseliso Mapetla research?

Matseliso Mapetla's work is mostly in Social Sciences (63%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%).

Social Sciences: 10 works · 68.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 62.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 25.0% of their workLaw: 3 works · 18.8% of their workUrban Studies: 2 works · 12.5% of their workAnthropology: 1 works · 6.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 works · 6.3% of their workFinance: 1 works · 6.3% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 24.8% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 6.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 6.3% of their workSoil Science: 1 works · 6.3% of their workTHEIR WORKMatseliso Mapetla15works
Life Sciences6%Social Sciences69%

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 Sciences962.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance16.3%
  2. Everything else424.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences16.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science25% of their works
  2. 2Law19% of their works
  3. 3Urban Studies12% of their works
  4. 4Soil Science6% of their works
  5. 5Finance6% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Matseliso Mapetla's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Constitutionalism, Developmental Local Government, Land Tenure, Colonialism, Land Reform, Slum Upgrading, Urban Poverty and History.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Constitutionalism61 topic
  2. Developmental Local Government61 topic
  3. Land Tenure62 topics
  4. Colonialism52 topics
  5. Land Reform52 topics
  6. Slum Upgrading41 topic
  7. Urban Poverty41 topic
  8. History31 topic
  9. South Africa31 topic
  10. Zimbabwe31 topic
  11. protests31 topic
  12. African History21 topic
  13. Agricultural Investment21 topic
  14. Financialization21 topic
  15. Post-Colonial Africa21 topic
  16. Property Rights21 topic
  17. Shareholder Value21 topic
  18. Community Gardens11 topic
  19. Urban Agriculture11 topic

Where does Matseliso Mapetla work?

Matseliso Mapetla's main affiliation in the publication record is National University of Lesotho, Lesotho.

How many publications and citations does Matseliso Mapetla have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 87 citations for Matseliso Mapetla, an h-index of 4, ranking #2,815,630 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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