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Researcher · Moi University · Kenya

Tom Michael Mboya

Tom Michael Mboya publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Music, on topics such as African history and culture studies, Music History and Culture and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-2234-9716 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,153,369
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#1,826
of 7,520
Works
30
Citations
171
Citations per work
5.7
h-index
4
i10-index 4Top 67% in Anthropology
Tom Michael Mboya

What does Tom Michael Mboya research?

Tom Michael Mboya's work is mostly in Social Sciences (56%), Arts and Humanities (31%).

Social Sciences: 26 works · 86.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 55.7% of their workAnthropology: 9 works · 29.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 18.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 works · 4.9% of their workLinguistics and Language: 1 works · 3.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 31.1% of their workMusic: 5 works · 18.0% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 4 works · 13.1% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 13.2% of their workTHEIR WORKTom Michael Mboya30works
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 Sciences1755.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities931.1%
  2. Everything else413.2%
  1. 1Anthropology30% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  3. 3Music18% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory13% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  6. 6Linguistics and Language3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tom Michael Mboya's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Globalization, Colonialism, African History, Identity, Post-Colonial Africa, Culture and Music.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Nationalism162 topics
  2. Globalization154 topics
  3. Colonialism132 topics
  4. African History111 topic
  5. Identity112 topics
  6. Post-Colonial Africa111 topic
  7. Culture61 topic
  8. Music61 topic
  9. Literature51 topic
  10. Postcolonialism51 topic
  11. Ecomusicology41 topic
  12. Ethnomusicology41 topic
  13. Indian Ocean31 topic
  14. prehistoric movement31 topic
  15. African Diaspora21 topic
  16. Governmentality21 topic
  17. Multilingualism21 topic
  18. Neoliberalism21 topic
  19. Translanguaging21 topic
  20. transnational trade21 topic

Where does Tom Michael Mboya work?

Tom Michael Mboya's main affiliation in the publication record is Moi University, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Tom Michael Mboya have?

OpenAlex counts 30 works and 171 citations for Tom Michael Mboya, an h-index of 4, ranking #2,153,369 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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