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Researcher · University of Limpopo · South Africa

Xolani Thusi

Xolani Thusi publishes mostly in Law, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Legal Issues in South Africa, Local Economic Development and Planning and South African History and Culture.

ORCID 0000-0001-7316-6165 OpenAlex
World rank
#693,428
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#2,656
of 29,826
Works
47
Citations
218
Citations per work
4.6
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 9.5% in Law
Xolani Thusi

What does Xolani Thusi research?

Xolani Thusi's work is mostly in Social Sciences (45%), Business, Management and Accounting (6%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (5%).

Social Sciences: 26 works · 56.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 21 works · 44.6% of their workLaw: 9 works · 19.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 6 works · 12.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 works · 8.0% of their workSafety Research: 2 works · 4.5% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 works · 6.3% of their workStrategy and Management: 3 works · 6.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 works · 5.4% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 21 works · 43.7% of their workTHEIR WORKXolani Thusi47works
Social Sciences56%

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 Sciences2144.6%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting36.3%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance35.4%
  2. Everything else2143.7%
  1. 1Law20% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  4. 4Strategy and Management6% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics5% of their works
  6. 6Safety Research4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Xolani Thusi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Constitutionalism, Developmental Local Government, South Africa, local economic development, Policy, Poverty Reduction, Economic Growth and Inequality.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Constitutionalism211 topic
  2. Developmental Local Government211 topic
  3. South Africa183 topics
  4. Policy91 topic
  5. Poverty Reduction92 topics
  6. local economic development91 topic
  7. Economic Growth82 topics
  8. Inequality61 topic
  9. protests61 topic
  10. Development Policies51 topic
  11. Foreign Aid51 topic
  12. Collaborative Governance41 topic
  13. Conditional Cash Transfers41 topic
  14. Public Management Reform41 topic
  15. School Subsidies41 topic
  16. HIV/AIDS31 topic
  17. Public-Private Partnerships31 topic
  18. Risk Allocation31 topic
  19. Sub-Saharan Africa31 topic

Where does Xolani Thusi work?

Xolani Thusi's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Limpopo, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Xolani Thusi have?

OpenAlex counts 47 works and 218 citations for Xolani Thusi, an h-index of 9, ranking #693,428 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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