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Researcher · University of South Africa · South Africa

Patrick Ngulube

Patrick Ngulube publishes mostly in Information Systems, Conservation and Education, on topics such as Digital and Traditional Archives Management, Knowledge Management and Sharing and Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture.

ORCID 0000-0002-7676-3931 OpenAlex
World rank
#25,853
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#43
of 29,826
Works
345
Citations
4.9k
Citations per work
14.2
h-index
34
i10-index 148Top 1% in Information Systems
Patrick Ngulube

What does Patrick Ngulube research?

Patrick Ngulube's work is mostly in Social Sciences (27%), Computer Science (11%), Arts and Humanities (10%).

Everything else: 179 works · 51.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 128 works · 37.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 95 works · 27.4% of their workEducation: 33 works · 9.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 22 works · 6.5% of their workLibrary and Information Sciences: 21 works · 6.0% of their workCommunication: 18 works · 5.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 34 works · 9.8% of their workConservation: 34 works · 9.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 38 works · 10.9% of their workComputer Science: 38 works · 10.9% of their workInformation Systems: 38 works · 10.9% of their workTHEIR WORKPatrick Ngulube345works
Physical Sciences11%Social Sciences37%

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. Everything else17951.9%
    1. Social Sciences9527.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities349.8%
    1. Computer Science3810.9%
  1. 1Information Systems11% of their works
  2. 2Conservation10% of their works
  3. 3Education10% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  5. 5Library and Information Sciences6% of their works
  6. 6Communication5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Patrick Ngulube's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archives, Digital Preservation, Digital Literacy, Social Media, Trust, Knowledge Sharing, Virtual Communities and Indigenous Knowledge.

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. Archives791 topic
  2. Digital Preservation791 topic
  3. Digital Literacy612 topics
  4. Social Media552 topics
  5. Trust552 topics
  6. Knowledge Sharing381 topic
  7. Virtual Communities381 topic
  8. Indigenous Knowledge331 topic
  9. Soil Fertility331 topic
  10. Academic Libraries321 topic
  11. Information Literacy321 topic
  12. Mobile Technology291 topic
  13. Rural Communities291 topic
  14. Library Services191 topic
  15. Social Inclusion191 topic
  16. Data Sharing171 topic
  17. E-Government171 topic
  18. Scientific Data Management171 topic
  19. Transparency171 topic

Where does Patrick Ngulube work?

Patrick Ngulube's main affiliation in the publication record is University of South Africa, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Patrick Ngulube have?

OpenAlex counts 345 works and 4,892 citations for Patrick Ngulube, an h-index of 34, ranking #25,853 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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