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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Roger Southall

Roger Southall publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Law, on topics such as South African History and Culture, Legal Issues in South Africa and African history and culture studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-5635-9096 OpenAlex
World rank
#30,663
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#54
of 29,826
Works
377
Citations
3.7k
Citations per work
9.7
h-index
32
i10-index 72Top 1.8% in Sociology and Political Science
Roger Southall

What does Roger Southall research?

Roger Southall's work is mostly in Social Sciences (77%), Arts and Humanities (6%).

Social Sciences: 312 works · 82.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 290 works · 77.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 136 works · 36.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 58 works · 15.5% of their workLaw: 45 works · 11.9% of their workAnthropology: 33 works · 8.7% of their workDevelopment: 18 works · 4.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 21 works · 5.7% of their workHistory: 21 works · 5.7% of their workEverything else: 65 works · 17.3% of their workTHEIR WORKRoger Southall377works
Social Sciences83%

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 Sciences29077.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities215.7%
  2. Everything else6517.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science36% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations16% of their works
  3. 3Law12% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology9% of their works
  5. 5History6% of their works
  6. 6Development5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Roger Southall's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, protests, South Africa, Human Rights, Nationalism, Constitutionalism, Developmental Local Government and NGOs.

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. Colonialism1273 topics
  2. South Africa1101 topic
  3. protests1101 topic
  4. Human Rights1072 topics
  5. Nationalism942 topics
  6. Constitutionalism741 topic
  7. Developmental Local Government741 topic
  8. NGOs642 topics
  9. African History481 topic
  10. Post-Colonial Africa481 topic
  11. History461 topic
  12. Zimbabwe461 topic
  13. Humanitarianism331 topic
  14. International Aid331 topic
  15. Development Policies311 topic
  16. Foreign Aid311 topic
  17. Humanitarian Intervention271 topic
  18. Responsibility to Protect271 topic
  19. Labor Movement161 topic
  20. Union Revitalization161 topic

Where does Roger Southall work?

Roger Southall's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Roger Southall have?

OpenAlex counts 377 works and 3,673 citations for Roger Southall, an h-index of 32, ranking #30,663 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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