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Velma Pollard

Velma Pollard publishes mostly in Cultural Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Linguistics and Language, on topics such as Caribbean history, culture, and politics, Multilingual Education and Policy and Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies.

World rank
#699,533
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Jamaica
#29
of 73
Works
15
Citations
24
Citations per work
1.6

What does Velma Pollard research?

Cultural Studies: 35.7%Sociology and Political Science: 21.4%Linguistics and Language: 14.3%Social Psychology: 7.1%other fields: 21.5%36%top field
Cultural Studies35.7%Sociology and Political Science21.4%Linguistics and Language14.3%Social Psychology7.1%other fields21.5%

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

  1. 1Cultural Studies36% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science21% of their works
  3. 3Linguistics and Language14% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology7% of their works
  5. 5Law7% of their works
  6. 6Demography7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Velma Pollard's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Politics, Postcolonialism, Caribbean, Culture, Feminism, Multilingualism, Social Movements and Translanguaging.

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. Politics52 topics
  2. Postcolonialism52 topics
  3. Caribbean41 topic
  4. Culture41 topic
  5. Feminism22 topics
  6. Multilingualism21 topic
  7. Social Movements22 topics
  8. Translanguaging21 topic
  9. Black Studies11 topic
  10. Children's Literature11 topic
  11. Civil Rights Movement11 topic
  12. Gender Stereotyping11 topic
  13. Gender Studies11 topic
  14. Islands11 topic
  15. Legal Semiotics11 topic
  16. Performativity11 topic
  17. Posthumanism11 topic
  18. Psychoanalysis11 topic
  19. Small States11 topic
  20. Visual Jurisprudence11 topic

Where does Velma Pollard work?

Velma Pollard's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

How many publications and citations does Velma Pollard have?

Science Explorer counts 15 works and 24 citations for Velma Pollard, ranking #699,533 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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