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Researcher · Human Sciences Research Council · South Africa

Zama M Mthombeni

Zama M Mthombeni publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Linguistics and Language, on topics such as Multilingual Education and Policy, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning and Second Language Learning and Teaching.

ORCID 0000-0002-7940-7094 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,620,426
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#6,767
of 29,826
Works
22
Citations
154
Citations per work
7.0
h-index
6
i10-index 4Top 38% in Political Science and International Relations
Zama M Mthombeni

What does Zama M Mthombeni research?

Zama M Mthombeni's work is mostly in Social Sciences (45%), Arts and Humanities (21%).

Social Sciences: 14 works · 65.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 44.9% of their workLinguistics and Language: 3 works · 12.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 works · 12.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 12.1% of their workEducation: 2 works · 8.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 20.6% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 works · 10.3% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 works · 10.3% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 34.5% of their workTHEIR WORKZama M Mthombeni22works
Social Sciences66%

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 Sciences1044.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities520.6%
  2. Everything else834.5%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  3. 3Linguistics and Language12% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory10% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics10% of their works
  6. 6Education9% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Zama M Mthombeni's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Policy, Multilingualism, Globalization, Higher Education, Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy, Translanguaging, Neoliberalism and CLIL.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Policy122 topics
  2. Multilingualism122 topics
  3. Globalization113 topics
  4. Higher Education113 topics
  5. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy71 topic
  6. Translanguaging71 topic
  7. Neoliberalism62 topics
  8. CLIL51 topic
  9. Content and Language Integrated Learning51 topic
  10. Language Teaching51 topic
  11. Second Language Acquisition51 topic
  12. Academic Identity31 topic
  13. African Philosophy31 topic
  14. Comparative Education31 topic
  15. Decolonization31 topic
  16. Education Policy31 topic
  17. Internationalization31 topic
  18. South Africa31 topic
  19. protests31 topic
  20. Doctoral Education21 topic
  21. Graduate School Socialization21 topic

Where does Zama M Mthombeni work?

Zama M Mthombeni's main affiliation in the publication record is Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Zama M Mthombeni have?

OpenAlex counts 22 works and 154 citations for Zama M Mthombeni, an h-index of 6, ranking #1,620,426 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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