Development Southern Africa

1.9k papers and 18.8k indexed citations i.

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The 1.9k papers published in Development Southern Africa in the last decades have received a total of 18.8k indexed citations. Papers published in Development Southern Africa usually cover Sociology and Political Science (530 papers), Economics and Econometrics (471 papers) and Urban Studies (254 papers) specifically the topics of Urban and Rural Development Challenges (242 papers), Legal Issues in South Africa (238 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (236 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Development Southern Africa are Christian M. Rogerson, Ralph Hamann, Dorrit Posel, Ephraim Chirwa, Charlie M. Shackleton, Derek Yu, Ingrid Woolard, Johann F. Kirsten, Servaas van der Berg and Ben Cousins.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in Development Southern Africa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Development Southern Africa. 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 Development Southern Africa.

Countries where authors publish in Development Southern Africa

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Development Southern Africa. 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 Development Southern Africa with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Development Southern Africa more than expected).

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