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Researcher · Howard University · United States

Robert Edgar

Robert Edgar publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as South African History and Culture, African history and culture studies and Race, History, and American Society.

ORCID 0009-0002-2837-2335 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,551,317
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#484,313
of 1,627,098
Works
37
Citations
228
Citations per work
6.2
h-index
8
i10-index 7Top 32% in Sociology and Political Science
Robert Edgar

What does Robert Edgar research?

Robert Edgar's work is mostly in Social Sciences (82%), Arts and Humanities (3%).

Social Sciences: 32 works · 85.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 31 works · 82.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 17 works · 45.1% of their workAnthropology: 8 works · 22.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 works · 6.6% of their workEducation: 2 works · 4.4% of their workLaw: 2 works · 4.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 1 works · 3.3% of their workHistory: 1 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 14.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert Edgar37works
Social Sciences86%

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 Sciences3182.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities13.3%
  2. Everything else514.2%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science45% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology22% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  4. 4Law4% of their works
  5. 5Education4% of their works
  6. 6History3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Edgar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, Social Movements, Inequality, Nationalism, protests, South Africa, African History and Post-Colonial 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Colonialism223 topics
  2. Social Movements222 topics
  3. Inequality202 topics
  4. Nationalism182 topics
  5. South Africa171 topic
  6. protests171 topic
  7. African History141 topic
  8. Post-Colonial Africa141 topic
  9. Black Studies51 topic
  10. Civil Rights Movement51 topic
  11. African Philosophy41 topic
  12. Constitutionalism41 topic
  13. Decolonization41 topic
  14. Developmental Local Government41 topic
  15. History41 topic
  16. Zimbabwe41 topic
  17. Globalization31 topic
  18. Humanitarian Intervention31 topic
  19. Responsibility to Protect31 topic
  20. World-Systems Analysis31 topic

Where does Robert Edgar work?

Robert Edgar's main affiliation in the publication record is Howard University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert Edgar have?

OpenAlex counts 37 works and 228 citations for Robert Edgar, an h-index of 8, ranking #1,551,317 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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