Africa Spectrum

551 papers and 3.6k indexed citations i.

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The 551 papers published in Africa Spectrum in the last decades have received a total of 3.6k indexed citations. Papers published in Africa Spectrum usually cover Sociology and Political Science (292 papers), Political Science and International Relations (162 papers) and Anthropology (119 papers) specifically the topics of International Development and Aid (78 papers), Political Conflict and Governance (73 papers) and African history and culture studies (72 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Africa Spectrum are Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Abimbola O. Adesoji, Christian Lund, Munyaradzi Mawere, Henning Melber, Stef Vandeginste, Jon Abbink, Roman Loimeier, Lewis Abedi Asante and Roger Southall.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in Africa Spectrum

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Africa Spectrum. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Africa Spectrum.

Countries where authors publish in Africa Spectrum

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Africa Spectrum. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in Africa Spectrum with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Africa Spectrum more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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