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Researcher · University of Hong Kong · China

Yash Pal Ghai

Yash Pal Ghai publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Law, on topics such as Island Studies and Pacific Affairs, Legal Issues in South Africa and Human Rights and Development.

OpenAlex
World rank
#104,433
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in China
#9,119
of 978,568
Works
157
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
12.3
h-index
24
i10-index 44Top 2.6% in Political Science and International Relations
Yash Pal Ghai

What does Yash Pal Ghai research?

Yash Pal Ghai's work is mostly in Social Sciences (79%), Arts and Humanities (5%).

Social Sciences: 132 works · 84.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 124 works · 78.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 41 works · 25.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 34 works · 21.9% of their workLaw: 28 works · 17.7% of their workDemography: 13 works · 8.4% of their workAnthropology: 8 works · 5.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 8 works · 5.1% of their workHistory: 8 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 16.0% of their workTHEIR WORKYash Pal Ghai157works
Social Sciences84%

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 Sciences12478.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities85.1%
  2. Everything else2516.0%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations26% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  3. 3Law18% of their works
  4. 4Demography8% of their works
  5. 5History5% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yash Pal Ghai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Human Rights, Decolonization, Global Governance, Nationalism, Colonialism, Islands, Small States and Constitutionalism.

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. Human Rights684 topics
  2. Decolonization382 topics
  3. Global Governance332 topics
  4. Nationalism272 topics
  5. Colonialism252 topics
  6. Islands241 topic
  7. Small States241 topic
  8. Constitutionalism211 topic
  9. Developmental Local Government211 topic
  10. Development191 topic
  11. Millennium Development Goals191 topic
  12. Judicial Politics171 topic
  13. Legal Consciousness171 topic
  14. Democratization161 topic
  15. Hong Kong Identity161 topic
  16. Humanitarianism141 topic
  17. International Aid141 topic
  18. International Criminal Law141 topic
  19. International Humanitarian Law141 topic
  20. African History111 topic
  21. Post-Colonial Africa111 topic

Where does Yash Pal Ghai work?

Yash Pal Ghai's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Hong Kong, China.

How many publications and citations does Yash Pal Ghai have?

OpenAlex counts 157 works and 1,925 citations for Yash Pal Ghai, an h-index of 24, ranking #104,433 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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