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Researcher · North-West University · South Africa

Thulani Tshabangu

Thulani Tshabangu publishes mostly in Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Media Studies and Communication, Media Influence and Politics and Multilingual Education and Policy.

ORCID 0000-0002-1428-2374 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,959,564
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#8,283
of 29,826
Works
17
Citations
106
Citations per work
6.2
h-index
6
i10-index 4Top 56% in Communication
Thulani Tshabangu

What does Thulani Tshabangu research?

Thulani Tshabangu's work is mostly in Social Sciences (73%), Arts and Humanities (16%), Computer Science (7%).

Social Sciences: 15 works · 88.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 73.3% of their workCommunication: 6 works · 37.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 22.2% of their workLinguistics and Language: 2 works · 8.9% of their workAnthropology: 1 works · 4.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 3 works · 15.6% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 works · 15.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 6.7% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 6.7% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 works · 6.7% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKThulani Tshabangu17works
Physical Sciences7%Social Sciences89%

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 Sciences1273.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities315.6%
    1. Computer Science16.7%
  3. Everything else14.4%
  1. 1Communication38% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory16% of their works
  4. 4Linguistics and Language9% of their works
  5. 5Human-Computer Interaction7% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thulani Tshabangu's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: News Media, Agenda Setting, Media Framing, Social Media, Language Policy, Multilingualism, Online Communication and Media Bias.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. News Media172 topics
  2. Agenda Setting121 topic
  3. Media Framing121 topic
  4. Social Media82 topics
  5. Language Policy62 topics
  6. Multilingualism62 topics
  7. Online Communication62 topics
  8. Media Bias51 topic
  9. Political Economy51 topic
  10. Social Interaction52 topics
  11. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy41 topic
  12. Translanguaging41 topic
  13. Computer-Mediated Communication31 topic
  14. Digital Divide31 topic
  15. Emoticons31 topic
  16. Political Participation31 topic
  17. Academic Writing21 topic
  18. CLIL21 topic
  19. Content and Language Integrated Learning21 topic
  20. Discourse Analysis21 topic
  21. Narrative Persuasion21 topic
  22. Transportation21 topic

Where does Thulani Tshabangu work?

Thulani Tshabangu's main affiliation in the publication record is North-West University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Thulani Tshabangu have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 106 citations for Thulani Tshabangu, an h-index of 6, ranking #1,959,564 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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