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Researcher · Rhodes University · South Africa

Vernon S. Forbes

Vernon S. Forbes publishes mostly in History, Anthropology and Geography, Planning and Development, on topics such as Travel Writing and Literature, Historical Geography and Geographical Thought and History of Science and Natural History.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,607,257
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#11,157
of 29,826
Works
15
Citations
85
Citations per work
5.7
h-index
5
i10-index 2Top 34% in History
Vernon S. Forbes

What does Vernon S. Forbes research?

Vernon S. Forbes's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (30%), Social Sciences (26%), Computer Science (4%).

Social Sciences: 8 works · 55.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 4 works · 29.6% of their workHistory: 3 works · 18.5% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 works · 11.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 25.9% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 14.8% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 works · 11.1% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 37.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 7.4% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 3.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 1 works · 3.7% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 3.7% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKVernon S. Forbes15works
Physical Sciences7%Social Sciences55%

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. Arts and Humanities429.6%
    2. Social Sciences425.9%
  2. Everything else637.1%
    1. Computer Science13.7%
    2. Engineering13.7%
  1. 1History18% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology15% of their works
  3. 3Geography, Planning and Development11% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science11% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vernon S. Forbes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Exploration, Travel Writing, Imperialism, Geography, Public Policy, Colonialism, Global History and Indian Ocean.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Exploration51 topic
  2. Travel Writing51 topic
  3. Imperialism42 topics
  4. Geography31 topic
  5. Public Policy31 topic
  6. Colonialism21 topic
  7. Global History21 topic
  8. Indian Ocean21 topic
  9. Post-Colonial Africa21 topic
  10. Science Circulation21 topic
  11. prehistoric movement21 topic
  12. Antarctic11 topic
  13. Education11 topic
  14. Hypersonic Effect11 topic
  15. Microorganisms11 topic
  16. Robotics Programming11 topic
  17. Ultrasonic Perception11 topic

Where does Vernon S. Forbes work?

Vernon S. Forbes's main affiliation in the publication record is Rhodes University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Vernon S. Forbes have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 85 citations for Vernon S. Forbes, an h-index of 5, ranking #2,607,257 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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