Nirmala Gopal

30 papers and 211 indexed citations
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About

Nirmala Gopal is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nirmala Gopal has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 211 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Education and 7 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nirmala Gopal’s work include Legal Issues in South Africa (5 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (3 papers) and Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (3 papers). Nirmala Gopal is often cited by papers focused on Legal Issues in South Africa (5 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (3 papers) and Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (3 papers). Nirmala Gopal collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Russia. Nirmala Gopal's co-authors include Brij Maharaj, Thavendran Govender, Stephen T. Wilson, Hendrik G. Kruger, Sooraj Baijnath, Steven Collings, Tricia Naicker, Julian Buchanan, Renuka Vithal and Sanil D. Singh and has published in prestigious journals such as Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, ACS Omega and Addiction Biology.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nirmala Gopal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nirmala Gopal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nirmala Gopal based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nirmala Gopal. Nirmala Gopal is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Nirmala Gopal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Nirmala Gopal

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