African Identities

524 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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African Identities
Comparison fields: 5 of 136
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.8k
  • Anthropology 517
  • Political Science and International Relations 474
  • Education 458
  • Gender Studies 313
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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in African Identities. 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 African Identities with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites African Identities more than expected).

Fields of papers published in African Identities

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in African Identities. 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 African Identities.

About African Identities

The 703 papers published in African Identities in the last decades have received a total of 3.3k indexed citations . Papers published in African Identities usually cover Anthropology (191 papers), Sociology and Political Science (428 papers) and Literature and Literary Theory (102 papers) specifically the topics of African history and culture studies (136 papers), African studies and sociopolitical issues (109 papers) and South African History and Culture (78 papers). The most active scholars publishing in African Identities are Cedric Bheki Mpungose, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Jonathan Hill, Dessalegn Rahmato, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Achille Mbembé, Bhekizizwe Peterson, Franklin Obeng‐Odoom, Maurice Taonezvi Vambe and Fassil Demissie.

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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