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Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

Vanessa Watson

Vanessa Watson publishes mostly in Urban Studies, Economics and Econometrics and Political Science and International Relations, 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
#164,440
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#401
of 5,570
Works
45
Citations
138
Citations per work
3.1

What does Vanessa Watson research?

Urban Studies: 31.3%Economics and Econometrics: 14.6%Political Science and International Relations: 8.3%Sociology and Political Science: 8.3%other fields: 37.5%31%top field
Urban Studies31.3%Economics and Econometrics14.6%Political Science and International Relations8.3%Sociology and Political Science8.3%other fields37.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Urban Studies31% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics15% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  5. 5Ocean Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Law4% 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, Globalization, Neoliberalism, South Africa, Urbanism and local economic development.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Sustainable Development122 topics
  2. Slum Upgrading91 topic
  3. Urban Poverty91 topic
  4. Globalization62 topics
  5. Neoliberalism51 topic
  6. South Africa52 topics
  7. Urbanism51 topic
  8. Policy31 topic
  9. local economic development31 topic
  10. Constitutionalism21 topic
  11. Developmental Local Government21 topic
  12. Economic Growth21 topic
  13. HIV/AIDS21 topic
  14. Informal Economy21 topic
  15. Tax Evasion21 topic
  16. Agroecology11 topic
  17. Food Quality11 topic
  18. Food Sovereignty11 topic
  19. Organic Agriculture11 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?

Science Explorer counts 45 works and 138 citations for Vanessa Watson, ranking #164,440 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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