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Rory Pilossof

Rory Pilossof publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Soil Science, on topics such as African history and culture studies, African studies and sociopolitical issues and Land Rights and Reforms.

World rank
#729,585
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#2,378
of 5,570
Works
15
Citations
12
Citations per work
0.8

What does Rory Pilossof research?

Sociology and Political Science: 50.0%Anthropology: 37.5%Soil Science: 12.5%50%top field
Sociology and Political Science50.0%Anthropology37.5%Soil Science12.5%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science50% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology38% of their works
  3. 3Soil Science12% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rory Pilossof's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, Nationalism, Land Reform, African History, History, Post-Colonial Africa, Zimbabwe and Land Tenure.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 4 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 11 words, with their numbers
  1. Colonialism62 topics
  2. Nationalism62 topics
  3. Land Reform42 topics
  4. African History31 topic
  5. History31 topic
  6. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic
  7. Zimbabwe31 topic
  8. Land Tenure11 topic
  9. Property Rights11 topic
  10. South Africa11 topic
  11. protests11 topic

Where does Rory Pilossof work?

Rory Pilossof's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Free State, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Rory Pilossof have?

Science Explorer counts 15 works and 12 citations for Rory Pilossof, ranking #729,585 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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