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Researcher · University of Eswatini · Eswatini

Samkele Sikhulile Tfwala

Samkele Sikhulile Tfwala publishes mostly in Ecology, Soil Science and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Soil erosion and sediment transport and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

ORCID 0000-0003-0662-4044 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,629,387
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Eswatini
#44
of 118
Works
33
Citations
487
Citations per work
14.8
h-index
12
i10-index 15Top 50% in Ecology
Samkele Sikhulile Tfwala

What does Samkele Sikhulile Tfwala research?

Samkele Sikhulile Tfwala's work is mostly in Environmental Science (57%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (17%).

Physical Sciences: 19 works · 57.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 19 works · 57.0% of their workEcology: 6 works · 18.3% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 works · 12.9% of their workWater Science and Technology: 3 works · 9.7% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 works · 8.6% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 works · 7.5% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 25.8% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 17.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 works · 17.2% of their workSoil Science: 6 works · 17.2% of their workTHEIR WORKSamkele SikhulileTfwala33works
Life Sciences17%Physical Sciences57%

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. Environmental Science1957.0%
  2. Everything else925.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences617.2%
  1. 1Ecology18% of their works
  2. 2Soil Science17% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change13% of their works
  4. 4Water Science and Technology10% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law9% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Engineering8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Samkele Sikhulile Tfwala's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sediment Transport, Land Use Change, Climate Change, Hydrological Modeling, Riparian Vegetation, River Restoration, Agricultural Sustainability and Remote Sensing.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Sediment Transport252 topics
  2. Land Use Change242 topics
  3. Climate Change182 topics
  4. Hydrological Modeling182 topics
  5. Riparian Vegetation161 topic
  6. River Restoration161 topic
  7. Agricultural Sustainability151 topic
  8. Remote Sensing152 topics
  9. Soil Erosion151 topic
  10. Water Resources132 topics
  11. Flood Risk91 topic
  12. Global Hydrology91 topic
  13. Model Evaluation91 topic
  14. Surface Water Mapping91 topic
  15. Hazard61 topic
  16. Landslide61 topic
  17. Hydraulic Engineering41 topic
  18. Hydrology41 topic
  19. Machine Learning41 topic
  20. Scale Effects41 topic
  21. Embankment Dams31 topic
  22. Internal Erosion31 topic

Where does Samkele Sikhulile Tfwala work?

Samkele Sikhulile Tfwala's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Eswatini, Eswatini.

How many publications and citations does Samkele Sikhulile Tfwala have?

OpenAlex counts 33 works and 487 citations for Samkele Sikhulile Tfwala, an h-index of 12, ranking #3,629,387 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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