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Researcher · University of Johannesburg · South Africa

Richard Ballard

Richard Ballard publishes mostly in Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Geography, Planning and Development, on topics such as Urban and Rural Development Challenges, Legal Issues in South Africa and South African History and Culture.

ORCID 0000-0001-6244-6946 OpenAlex
World rank
#408,150
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#1,157
of 5,570
Works
17
Citations
84
Citations per work
4.9

What does Richard Ballard research?

Urban Studies: 17.4%Sociology and Political Science: 13.0%Geography, Planning and Development: 8.7%Law: 8.7%other fields: 52.2%17%top field
Urban Studies17.4%Sociology and Political Science13.0%Geography, Planning and Development8.7%Law8.7%other fields52.2%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Urban Studies17% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  3. 3Geography, Planning and Development9% of their works
  4. 4Law9% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Ocean Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard Ballard's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Slum Upgrading, Urban Poverty, Constitutionalism, Developmental Local Government, protests, Remote Sensing, South Africa and Agile Software Development.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Slum Upgrading31 topic
  2. Urban Poverty31 topic
  3. Constitutionalism21 topic
  4. Developmental Local Government21 topic
  5. Remote Sensing22 topics
  6. South Africa21 topic
  7. protests21 topic
  8. Agile Software Development11 topic
  9. Design Thinking11 topic
  10. Empirical Studies11 topic
  11. End-User Software Engineering11 topic
  12. Engineering Design11 topic
  13. Geometric Processing11 topic
  14. Meta-design11 topic
  15. Photogrammetry11 topic
  16. Satellite Imagery11 topic
  17. UAV11 topic

Where does Richard Ballard work?

Richard Ballard's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Richard Ballard have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 84 citations for Richard Ballard, ranking #408,150 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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