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Researcher · Human Sciences Research Council · South Africa

Stephen Rule

Stephen Rule publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Law, on topics such as Legal Issues in South Africa, South African History and Culture and Local Economic Development and Planning.

ORCID 0000-0003-4101-7469 OpenAlex
World rank
#893,350
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#3,521
of 29,826
Works
62
Citations
620
Citations per work
10.0
h-index
11
i10-index 12Top 20% in Sociology and Political Science
Stephen Rule

What does Stephen Rule research?

Stephen Rule's work is mostly in Social Sciences (47%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4%), Decision Sciences (3%).

Social Sciences: 34 works · 54.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 29 works · 46.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 14 works · 22.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 7 works · 11.7% of their workLaw: 6 works · 9.1% of their workEducation: 2 works · 3.9% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 works · 4.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 works · 4.5% of their workDecision Sciences: 2 works · 3.2% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 28 works · 45.5% of their workTHEIR WORKStephen Rule62works
Social Sciences54%

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 Sciences2946.8%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance34.5%
    3. Decision Sciences23.2%
  2. Everything else2845.5%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  3. 3Law9% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  5. 5Education4% of their works
  6. 6Management Science and Operations Research3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stephen Rule's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Constitutionalism, Developmental Local Government, South Africa, Sustainable Development, Inequality, Poverty Alleviation, protests and local economic development.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Constitutionalism141 topic
  2. Developmental Local Government141 topic
  3. South Africa122 topics
  4. Sustainable Development92 topics
  5. Inequality71 topic
  6. Poverty Alleviation72 topics
  7. protests71 topic
  8. Policy51 topic
  9. local economic development51 topic
  10. Faith-Based Organizations41 topic
  11. Slum Upgrading41 topic
  12. Social Services41 topic
  13. Urban Poverty41 topic
  14. COVID-1931 topic
  15. Emerging Markets31 topic
  16. Frugal Innovation31 topic
  17. Modeling31 topic
  18. Risk Management31 topic
  19. Vulnerability31 topic

Where does Stephen Rule work?

Stephen Rule's main affiliation in the publication record is Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Stephen Rule have?

OpenAlex counts 62 works and 620 citations for Stephen Rule, an h-index of 11, ranking #893,350 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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