Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Researcher · University College London · United Kingdom

Murray Last

Murray Last publishes mostly in Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as African history and culture analysis, African history and culture studies and Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria.

ORCID 0000-0002-0962-7171 OpenAlex
World rank
#187,992
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#17,086
of 367,258
Works
128
Citations
1.5k
Citations per work
11.6
h-index
21
i10-index 35Top 5.8% in Anthropology
Murray Last

What does Murray Last research?

Murray Last's work is mostly in Social Sciences (72%), Arts and Humanities (3%).

Social Sciences: 96 works · 75.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 92 works · 72.2% of their workAnthropology: 28 works · 21.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 27 works · 21.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 20 works · 16.0% of their workGeneral Social Sciences: 11 works · 8.8% of their workEducation: 6 works · 4.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 4 works · 3.1% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 4 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 32 works · 24.7% of their workTHEIR WORKMurray Last128works
Social Sciences75%

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 Sciences9272.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities43.1%
  2. Everything else3224.7%
  1. 1Anthropology22% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations21% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  4. 4General Social Sciences9% of their works
  5. 5Education5% of their works
  6. 6Language and Linguistics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Murray Last's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Globalization, Cultural Exchange, Colonialism, Image Processing, Post-Colonial Africa and Ritual.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Eritrea401 topic
  2. Ethiopia401 topic
  3. Globalization363 topics
  4. Cultural Exchange252 topics
  5. Colonialism231 topic
  6. Image Processing231 topic
  7. Post-Colonial Africa231 topic
  8. Ritual231 topic
  9. Indian Ocean161 topic
  10. prehistoric movement161 topic
  11. Migrations91 topic
  12. Sahara91 topic
  13. Islamic reform71 topic
  14. Middle East71 topic
  15. Radicalization71 topic
  16. Terrorism71 topic
  17. Islamic Education61 topic
  18. Pedagogy61 topic

Where does Murray Last work?

Murray Last's main affiliation in the publication record is University College London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Murray Last have?

OpenAlex counts 128 works and 1,481 citations for Murray Last, an h-index of 21, ranking #187,992 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.

Papers, co-authors, who cited this work and researchers on the nearest topics have tabs of their own, above. Is this your page? Claim it with your ORCID iD, or request a correction or removal.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Murray Last. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.