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Researcher · University of Johannesburg · South Africa

Tom Penfold

Tom Penfold publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and Anthropology, on topics such as South African History and Culture, Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies and African studies and sociopolitical issues.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,442,664
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#5,960
of 29,826
Works
25
Citations
81
Citations per work
3.2
h-index
5
i10-index 3Top 53% in Sociology and Political Science
Tom Penfold

What does Tom Penfold research?

Tom Penfold's work is mostly in Social Sciences (70%), Arts and Humanities (22%).

Social Sciences: 23 works · 92.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 18 works · 70.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 12 works · 48.1% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 9.3% of their workLaw: 1 works · 5.6% of their workUrban Studies: 1 works · 5.6% of their workEducation: 0 works · 1.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 6 works · 22.2% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 6 works · 22.2% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 7.3% of their workTHEIR WORKTom Penfold25works
Social Sciences93%

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 Sciences1870.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities622.2%
  2. Everything else27.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science48% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory22% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology9% of their works
  4. 4Law6% of their works
  5. 5Urban Studies6% of their works
  6. 6Education2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tom Penfold's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, protests, South Africa, Colonialism, Globalization, Human Rights, Literature and Postcolonialism.

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. Nationalism143 topics
  2. South Africa131 topic
  3. protests131 topic
  4. Colonialism93 topics
  5. Globalization92 topics
  6. Human Rights92 topics
  7. Literature71 topic
  8. Postcolonialism71 topic
  9. History41 topic
  10. Zimbabwe41 topic
  11. African History31 topic
  12. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic
  13. Constitutionalism21 topic
  14. Developmental Local Government21 topic
  15. Governmentality21 topic
  16. Graffiti21 topic
  17. Neoliberalism21 topic
  18. Street Art21 topic
  19. Digital Humanities11 topic
  20. Literary History11 topic

Where does Tom Penfold work?

Tom Penfold's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Tom Penfold have?

OpenAlex counts 25 works and 81 citations for Tom Penfold, an h-index of 5, ranking #1,442,664 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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