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Researcher · Human Sciences Research Council · South Africa

Ngqapheli Mchunu

Ngqapheli Mchunu publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Law and Education, on topics such as Legal Issues in South Africa, South African History and Culture and Corruption and Economic Development.

ORCID 0000-0001-9909-6978 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,391,907
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#10,204
of 29,826
Works
18
Citations
37
Citations per work
2.1
h-index
4
i10-index 1Top 62% in Sociology and Political Science
Ngqapheli Mchunu

What does Ngqapheli Mchunu research?

Ngqapheli Mchunu's work is mostly in Social Sciences (72%), Mathematics (3%).

Social Sciences: 13 works · 71.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 71.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 7 works · 38.5% of their workLaw: 3 works · 15.4% of their workEducation: 1 works · 7.7% of their workCommunication: 1 works · 5.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 25.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 0 works · 2.6% of their workMathematics: 0 works · 2.6% of their workModeling and Simulation: 0 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKNgqapheli Mchunu18works
Physical Sciences3%Social Sciences72%

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 Sciences1371.8%
  2. Everything else525.6%
    1. Mathematics02.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science38% of their works
  2. 2Law15% of their works
  3. 3Education8% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  5. 5Communication5% of their works
  6. 6Modeling and Simulation3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ngqapheli Mchunu's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Constitutionalism, Developmental Local Government, protests, South Africa, Corruption, Governance, COVID-19 and Globalization.

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. Constitutionalism51 topic
  2. Developmental Local Government51 topic
  3. South Africa51 topic
  4. protests51 topic
  5. Corruption31 topic
  6. Governance31 topic
  7. COVID-1922 topics
  8. Globalization22 topics
  9. Police Legitimacy21 topic
  10. Procedural Justice21 topic
  11. Contact Tracing Apps11 topic
  12. Digital Technologies11 topic
  13. Medical Admissions11 topic
  14. Modeling11 topic
  15. Non-Communicable Diseases11 topic
  16. One Health11 topic
  17. Zoonotic Diseases11 topic
  18. transmission dynamics11 topic

Where does Ngqapheli Mchunu work?

Ngqapheli Mchunu's main affiliation in the publication record is Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Ngqapheli Mchunu have?

OpenAlex counts 18 works and 37 citations for Ngqapheli Mchunu, an h-index of 4, ranking #2,391,907 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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