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Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

Vanessa Watson

Vanessa Watson publishes mostly in Urban Studies, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Urban and Rural Development Challenges, Urban Planning and Governance and Local Economic Development and Planning.

ORCID 0000-0001-9965-6891 OpenAlex
World rank
#24,265
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#41
of 29,826
Works
176
Citations
7.9k
Citations per work
45.2
h-index
41
i10-index 72Top 0.3% in Urban Studies
Vanessa Watson

What does Vanessa Watson research?

Vanessa Watson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (58%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (5%), Psychology (3%).

Social Sciences: 116 works · 65.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 102 works · 57.8% of their workUrban Studies: 56 works · 32.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 21 works · 12.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 15 works · 8.4% of their workLaw: 9 works · 5.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 works · 4.8% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 8 works · 4.8% of their workPsychology: 5 works · 3.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 5 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 60 works · 34.3% of their workTHEIR WORKVanessa Watson176works
Social Sciences66%

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 Sciences10257.8%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance84.8%
    3. Psychology53.1%
  2. Everything else6034.3%
  1. 1Urban Studies32% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  4. 4Law5% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics5% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vanessa Watson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sustainable Development, Slum Upgrading, Urban Poverty, Neoliberalism, Urbanism, South Africa, local economic development and Policy.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Sustainable Development972 topics
  2. Slum Upgrading681 topic
  3. Urban Poverty681 topic
  4. Neoliberalism441 topic
  5. Urbanism441 topic
  6. South Africa402 topics
  7. Policy291 topic
  8. local economic development291 topic
  9. Constitutionalism211 topic
  10. Developmental Local Government211 topic
  11. Inequality111 topic
  12. Intersectionality111 topic
  13. LGBTQ+111 topic
  14. Shrinking Cities111 topic
  15. Urban Decline111 topic
  16. protests111 topic
  17. Community Gardens81 topic
  18. Urban Agriculture81 topic

Where does Vanessa Watson work?

Vanessa Watson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Vanessa Watson have?

OpenAlex counts 176 works and 7,947 citations for Vanessa Watson, an h-index of 41, ranking #24,265 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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