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Researcher · University of Johannesburg · South Africa

Victor Shale

Victor Shale publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Law, on topics such as African studies and sociopolitical issues, Legal Issues in South Africa and Political Conflict and Governance.

ORCID 0000-0003-2114-6685 OpenAlex
World rank
#994,513
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#3,995
of 29,826
Works
24
Citations
124
Citations per work
5.2
h-index
7
i10-index 4Top 38% in Sociology and Political Science
Victor Shale

What does Victor Shale research?

Victor Shale's work is mostly in Social Sciences (88%), Business, Management and Accounting (4%).

Social Sciences: 22 works · 91.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 21 works · 87.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 8 works · 35.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 works · 22.8% of their workLaw: 3 works · 14.0% of their workAnthropology: 3 works · 10.5% of their workDevelopment: 1 works · 5.3% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 works · 3.5% of their workStrategy and Management: 1 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 8.8% of their workTHEIR WORKVictor Shale24works
Social Sciences91%

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 Sciences2187.7%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting13.5%
  2. Everything else28.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science35% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations23% of their works
  3. 3Law14% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology10% of their works
  5. 5Development5% of their works
  6. 6Strategy and Management4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Victor Shale's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, Nationalism, History, Human Rights, Land Reform, Zimbabwe, Constitutionalism and Developmental Local Government.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Colonialism163 topics
  2. Nationalism142 topics
  3. History132 topics
  4. Human Rights133 topics
  5. Land Reform101 topic
  6. Zimbabwe101 topic
  7. Constitutionalism61 topic
  8. Developmental Local Government61 topic
  9. Civil War51 topic
  10. Democracy51 topic
  11. NGOs52 topics
  12. African History41 topic
  13. Post-Colonial Africa41 topic
  14. Development Policies31 topic
  15. Eritrea31 topic
  16. Ethiopia31 topic
  17. Foreign Aid31 topic
  18. South Africa31 topic
  19. protests31 topic
  20. Humanitarianism21 topic
  21. International Aid21 topic

Where does Victor Shale work?

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

How many publications and citations does Victor Shale have?

OpenAlex counts 24 works and 124 citations for Victor Shale, an h-index of 7, ranking #994,513 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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