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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Wendy Willems

Wendy Willems publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Communication, on topics such as African studies and sociopolitical issues, African history and culture studies and Media Studies and Communication.

ORCID 0000-0002-9185-4268 OpenAlex
World rank
#245,135
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#876
of 29,826
Works
66
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
16.2
h-index
19
i10-index 22Top 7.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Wendy Willems

What does Wendy Willems research?

Wendy Willems's work is mostly in Social Sciences (62%), Arts and Humanities (5%).

Social Sciences: 44 works · 67.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 41 works · 62.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 20 works · 30.5% of their workAnthropology: 12 works · 17.7% of their workCommunication: 7 works · 11.3% of their workUrban Studies: 2 works · 2.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 3 works · 4.9% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 works · 2.8% of their workMusic: 1 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 32.8% of their workTHEIR WORKWendy Willems66works
Social Sciences67%

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 Sciences4162.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities34.9%
  2. Everything else2232.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science30% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology18% of their works
  3. 3Communication11% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory3% of their works
  5. 5Urban Studies3% of their works
  6. 6Music2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wendy Willems's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Colonialism, Land Reform, History, Zimbabwe, African History, Post-Colonial Africa and Agenda Setting.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Nationalism493 topics
  2. Colonialism452 topics
  3. Land Reform252 topics
  4. History231 topic
  5. Zimbabwe231 topic
  6. African History221 topic
  7. Post-Colonial Africa221 topic
  8. Agenda Setting101 topic
  9. Media Framing101 topic
  10. Social Media72 topics
  11. Digital Divide51 topic
  12. Political Participation51 topic
  13. Democratization41 topic
  14. Hong Kong Identity41 topic
  15. Culture31 topic
  16. Music31 topic
  17. Digital Education21 topic
  18. Land Tenure21 topic
  19. Property Rights21 topic
  20. Technological Literacy21 topic

Where does Wendy Willems work?

Wendy Willems's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Wendy Willems have?

OpenAlex counts 66 works and 1,066 citations for Wendy Willems, an h-index of 19, ranking #245,135 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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