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Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

Nancy Odendaal

Nancy Odendaal publishes mostly in Urban Studies, Media Technology and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Urban and Rural Development Challenges, Smart Cities and Technologies and ICT Impact and Policies.

ORCID 0000-0003-0706-1247 OpenAlex
World rank
#303,304
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,122
of 29,826
Works
109
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
15.7
h-index
17
i10-index 24Top 5.2% in Urban Studies
Nancy Odendaal

What does Nancy Odendaal research?

Nancy Odendaal's work is mostly in Social Sciences (40%), Engineering (15%), Computer Science (6%).

Social Sciences: 49 works · 44.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 43 works · 39.7% of their workUrban Studies: 18 works · 16.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 15 works · 13.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 10 works · 9.5% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 works · 5.0% of their workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 5 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 34.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 23 works · 21.1% of their workEngineering: 16 works · 15.1% of their workMedia Technology: 16 works · 15.1% of their workComputer Science: 7 works · 6.0% of their workInformation Systems: 7 works · 6.0% of their workTHEIR WORKNancy Odendaal109works
Physical Sciences21%Social Sciences45%

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 Sciences4339.7%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting55.0%
  2. Everything else3734.2%
    1. Engineering1615.1%
    2. Computer Science76.0%
  1. 1Urban Studies17% of their works
  2. 2Media Technology15% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations14% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems6% of their works
  6. 6Management of Technology and Innovation5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nancy Odendaal's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sustainable Development, Slum Upgrading, Urban Poverty, Smart Cities, Urban Innovation, Economic Development, local economic development and South Africa.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Sustainable Development312 topics
  2. Slum Upgrading201 topic
  3. Urban Poverty201 topic
  4. Smart Cities191 topic
  5. Urban Innovation191 topic
  6. Economic Development111 topic
  7. South Africa111 topic
  8. Telecommunications111 topic
  9. local economic development111 topic
  10. Mobile Technology101 topic
  11. Open Innovation101 topic
  12. Rural Communities101 topic
  13. User-Centric Design101 topic
  14. E-Government81 topic
  15. Transparency81 topic
  16. Constitutionalism71 topic
  17. Developmental Local Government71 topic

Where does Nancy Odendaal work?

Nancy Odendaal's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Nancy Odendaal have?

OpenAlex counts 109 works and 1,712 citations for Nancy Odendaal, an h-index of 17, ranking #303,304 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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