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Researcher · University of the Free State · South Africa

Theo du Plessis

Theo du Plessis publishes mostly in Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory and Linguistics and Language, on topics such as Multilingual Education and Policy, Second Language Learning and Teaching and Legal Issues in South Africa.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,980,514
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#17,359
of 29,826
Works
30
Citations
134
Citations per work
4.5
h-index
5
i10-index 3Top 47% in Language and Linguistics
Theo du Plessis

What does Theo du Plessis research?

Theo du Plessis's work is mostly in Social Sciences (44%), Arts and Humanities (43%).

Social Sciences: 26 works · 87.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 44.3% of their workLinguistics and Language: 6 works · 19.7% of their workLaw: 4 works · 13.1% of their workEducation: 2 works · 6.6% of their workGender Studies: 1 works · 4.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 13 works · 42.7% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 7 works · 23.0% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 6 works · 19.7% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 13.0% of their workTHEIR WORKTheo du Plessis30works
Social Sciences87%

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 Sciences1344.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities1342.7%
  2. Everything else413.0%
  1. 1Language and Linguistics23% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory20% of their works
  3. 3Linguistics and Language20% of their works
  4. 4Law13% of their works
  5. 5Education7% of their works
  6. 6Gender Studies5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Theo du Plessis's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Policy, Multilingualism, Higher Education, Globalization, Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy, Translanguaging, CLIL and Content and Language Integrated Learning.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Policy232 topics
  2. Multilingualism232 topics
  3. Higher Education142 topics
  4. Globalization132 topics
  5. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy121 topic
  6. Translanguaging121 topic
  7. CLIL111 topic
  8. Content and Language Integrated Learning111 topic
  9. Constitutionalism81 topic
  10. Developmental Local Government81 topic
  11. Language Teaching61 topic
  12. Second Language Acquisition61 topic
  13. Children's Literature31 topic
  14. Gender Stereotyping31 topic
  15. Language Barriers31 topic
  16. Medical Interpreters31 topic
  17. Prior Learning31 topic
  18. Recognition31 topic
  19. Corpus Linguistics21 topic
  20. Translation21 topic

Where does Theo du Plessis work?

Theo du Plessis's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Free State, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Theo du Plessis have?

OpenAlex counts 30 works and 134 citations for Theo du Plessis, an h-index of 5, ranking #3,980,514 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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