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Researcher · University of Asmara · Eritrea

Yonas Mesfun Asfaha

Yonas Mesfun Asfaha publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Linguistics and Language and Education, on topics such as African history and culture analysis, Multilingual Education and Policy and Reading and Literacy Development.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,095,249
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Eritrea
#10
of 53
Works
30
Citations
257
Citations per work
8.6

What does Yonas Mesfun Asfaha research?

Yonas Mesfun Asfaha's work is mostly in Social Sciences (56%), Arts and Humanities (22%), Psychology (12%).

Social Sciences90%

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 Sciences1755.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities722.2%
    3. Psychology412.5%
  1. Everything else39.7%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations25% of their works
  2. 2Linguistics and Language18% of their works
  3. 3Education12% of their works
  4. 4Developmental and Educational Psychology12% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics12% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory10% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yonas Mesfun Asfaha's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Policy, Multilingualism, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy, Translanguaging, Language Teaching and Reading Comprehension.

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. Language Policy192 topics
  2. Multilingualism192 topics
  3. Eritrea161 topic
  4. Ethiopia161 topic
  5. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy131 topic
  6. Translanguaging131 topic
  7. Language Teaching93 topics
  8. Reading Comprehension92 topics
  9. Dyslexia71 topic
  10. Reading Acquisition71 topic
  11. CLIL61 topic
  12. Content and Language Integrated Learning61 topic
  13. Linguistic Diversity41 topic
  14. Semitic Languages41 topic
  15. Corrective Feedback31 topic
  16. Second Language Acquisition31 topic
  17. Colonialism21 topic
  18. Post-Colonial Africa21 topic
  19. Second Language Learning21 topic
  20. Vocabulary Acquisition21 topic

Where does Yonas Mesfun Asfaha work?

Yonas Mesfun Asfaha's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Asmara, Eritrea.

How many publications and citations does Yonas Mesfun Asfaha have?

OpenAlex counts 30 works and 257 citations for Yonas Mesfun Asfaha, an h-index of 9, ranking #2,095,249 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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