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Researcher · University of Zululand · South Africa

Ruth Barcan

Ruth Barcan publishes mostly in Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Complementary and alternative medicine, on topics such as Gender, Feminism, and Media, Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-1001-9576 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,045,850
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#3,523
of 5,570
Works
16
Citations
9
Citations per work
0.6

What does Ruth Barcan research?

Gender Studies: 30.8%Sociology and Political Science: 23.1%Complementary and alternative medicine: 7.7%History: 7.7%other fields: 30.7%31%top field
Gender Studies30.8%Sociology and Political Science23.1%Complementary and alternative medicine7.7%History7.7%other fields30.7%

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

  1. 1Gender Studies31% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science23% of their works
  3. 3Complementary and alternative medicine8% of their works
  4. 4History8% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies8% of their works
  6. 6Sensory Systems8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ruth Barcan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gender, Feminism, Neoliberalism, Belief, Complementary Medicine, COVID-19, Exploration and Hallyu.

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. Gender52 topics
  2. Feminism41 topic
  3. Neoliberalism41 topic
  4. Belief11 topic
  5. COVID-1911 topic
  6. Complementary Medicine11 topic
  7. Exploration11 topic
  8. Hallyu11 topic
  9. Herbal Medicine11 topic
  10. Hypersexual Disorder11 topic
  11. Knowledge11 topic
  12. Korean Wave11 topic
  13. Olfactory Dysfunction11 topic
  14. Pornography Consumption11 topic
  15. Social Exclusion11 topic
  16. Travel Writing11 topic
  17. Youth Transitions11 topic

Where does Ruth Barcan work?

Ruth Barcan's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Zululand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Ruth Barcan have?

Science Explorer counts 16 works and 9 citations for Ruth Barcan, ranking #1,045,850 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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