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Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

Shadreck Chirikure

Shadreck Chirikure publishes mostly in Anthropology, Archeology and Paleontology, on topics such as Archaeology and Rock Art Studies, Anthropological Studies and Insights and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-2183-4253 OpenAlex
World rank
#12,793
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#13
of 29,826
Works
194
Citations
2.8k
Citations per work
14.3
h-index
29
i10-index 72Top 2.3% in Anthropology
Shadreck Chirikure

What does Shadreck Chirikure research?

Shadreck Chirikure's work is mostly in Social Sciences (66%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%), Arts and Humanities (7%).

Social Sciences: 143 works · 73.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 129 works · 66.4% of their workAnthropology: 65 works · 33.7% of their workArcheology: 47 works · 24.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 12 works · 6.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 works · 2.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 14 works · 7.1% of their workArcheology: 14 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 19.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 15 works · 7.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 15 works · 7.5% of their workPaleontology: 15 works · 7.5% of their workTHEIR WORKShadreckChirikure194works
Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences74%

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 Sciences12966.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities147.1%
  2. Everything else3719.0%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences157.5%
  1. 1Anthropology34% of their works
  2. 2Archeology24% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology8% of their works
  4. 4Archeology7% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shadreck Chirikure's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeology, Southern Africa, African Diaspora, Globalization, Neoliberalism, Agricultural Origins, Indian Ocean and prehistoric movement.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Archaeology1051 topic
  2. Southern Africa1051 topic
  3. African Diaspora442 topics
  4. Globalization411 topic
  5. Neoliberalism411 topic
  6. Agricultural Origins371 topic
  7. Indian Ocean371 topic
  8. Radiocarbon Dating371 topic
  9. prehistoric movement371 topic
  10. Archaeology of Resistance261 topic
  11. Black Feminist Theory261 topic
  12. Adaptive Reuse231 topic
  13. Hominin Genetics231 topic
  14. Intangible Heritage231 topic
  15. Paleolithic Archaeology231 topic
  16. Atlantic History181 topic
  17. Transatlantic Slave Trade181 topic

Where does Shadreck Chirikure work?

Shadreck Chirikure's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Shadreck Chirikure have?

OpenAlex counts 194 works and 2,772 citations for Shadreck Chirikure, an h-index of 29, ranking #12,793 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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