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Researcher · University of Nevada, Las Vegas · United States

Wolé Soyinka

Wolé Soyinka publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as African history and culture studies, Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies and Global Peace and Security Dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#18,972
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,021
of 358,040
Works
53
Citations
199
Citations per work
3.8

What does Wolé Soyinka research?

Anthropology: 23.1%Sociology and Political Science: 15.4%Political Science and International Relations: 15.4%Literature and Literary Theory: 12.8%other fields: 33.3%23%top field
Anthropology23.1%Sociology and Political Science15.4%Political Science and International Relations15.4%Literature and Literary Theory12.8%other fields33.3%

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

  1. 1Anthropology23% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations15% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory13% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science5% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wolé Soyinka's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nationalism, Colonialism, Post-Colonial Africa, Globalization, Literature, Postcolonialism, Conflict and Eritrea.

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. Nationalism102 topics
  2. Colonialism61 topic
  3. Post-Colonial Africa61 topic
  4. Globalization52 topics
  5. Literature41 topic
  6. Postcolonialism41 topic
  7. Conflict32 topics
  8. Eritrea21 topic
  9. Ethiopia21 topic
  10. Humanitarian Intervention21 topic
  11. Responsibility to Protect21 topic
  12. Arabia11 topic
  13. Byzantine11 topic
  14. Computational Physics11 topic
  15. Detection11 topic
  16. Hate Speech11 topic
  17. Health11 topic
  18. Morphological Analysis11 topic
  19. Mortality11 topic

Where does Wolé Soyinka work?

Wolé Soyinka's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States.

How many publications and citations does Wolé Soyinka have?

Science Explorer counts 53 works and 199 citations for Wolé Soyinka, ranking #18,972 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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