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D-Index
43
Citations
7232
World Ranking
4452
National Ranking
38

Melanie Walker publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Melanie Walker sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 152 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Melanie Walker D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Melanie Walker sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Melanie Walker is affiliated with the University of the Free State in South Africa. Their research focuses primarily within the social sciences, with contributions spanning sociology and political science, education, business and international management, political science and international relations, as well as safety research.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics, including:

  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Children's Rights and Participation

Among recent publications, Melanie Walker has authored several papers, including:

  • Sustainable development goals and capability-based higher education outcomes, 2022, published in Third World Quarterly
  • Student decision-making about accessing university in South Africa, 2020, published in Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education
  • An Epistemological Break: Redefining Participatory Research in Capabilitarian Scholarship, 2022, published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
  • Towards just futures: a capabilitarian approach to transforming undergraduate learning outcomes, 2023, published in Cambridge Journal of Education

The scientist's book publication includes:

  • Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa, published by African Minds eBooks in 2022

Melanie Walker has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, such as:

  • Monica McLean
  • Mikateko Mathebula
  • Patience Mukwambo
  • Alejandra Boni Aristizábal
  • Carmen Martinez-Vargas

Publication venues where the scientist's work appears include:

  • Third World Quarterly
  • Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
  • Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education
  • Cambridge Journal of Education

Best Publications

  • Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education

    Melanie Walker;Elaine Unterhalter

  • Towards a capability‐based theory of social justice for education policy‐making

    Melanie Walker

  • Amartya Sen's capability approach and education

    Melanie Walker

  • The Capability Approach: Its Potential for Work in Education

    Melanie Walker;Elaine Unterhalter

  • Framing Social Justice In Education: What Does The ‘Capabilities’ Approach Offer?

    Melanie Walker

  • Towards a New Academic Professionalism: A manifesto of hope

    Jon Nixon;Andrew Marks;Stephen Rowland;Melanie Walker

  • A human capabilities framework for evaluating student learning

    Melanie Walker

  • Human Development and Capabilities : Re-imagining the university of the twenty-first century

    Alejandra Boni;Melanie Walker

  • Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good: The role of universities in promoting human development

    Melanie Walker;Monica McLean

  • Rainbow nation or new racism? Theorizing race and identity formation in South African higher education

    Melanie Walker

  • Race is nowhere and race is everywhere: narratives from black and white South African university students in post-apartheid South Africa

    Melanie Walker

  • Higher Education Pedagogies: A Capabilities Approach

    Melanie Walker

  • Reconstructing professionalism in university teaching : teachers and learners in action

    Melanie Walker

  • Capabilities, Values and Education Policy

    Rosie Peppin Vaughan;Melanie Walker

  • A Capital or Capabilities Education Narrative in a World of Staggering Inequalities

    Melanie Walker

  • Higher education and the post-2015 agenda: A contribution from the human development approach

    Alejandra Boni;Aurora Lopez-Fogues;Melanie Walker

  • Critical Capability Pedagogies and University Education.

    Melanie Walker

  • A capabilities-friendly conceptualisation of flourishing in and through education

    Merridy Wilson-Strydom;Melanie Walker

  • Universities, Employability and Human Development

    Melanie Walker;Samuel Fongwa

  • Universities and Global Human Development: Theoretical and empirical insights for social change

    Alejandra Boni;Melanie Walker

  • South African universities and human development: Towards a theorisation and operationalisation of professional capabilities for poverty reduction

    Melanie Walker;Melanie Walker;Monica McLean;Arona Dison;Rosie Peppin-Vaughan

  • The Routledge Doctoral Student's Companion: Getting to Grips With Research in Education and the Social Sciences

    Pat Thomson;Melanie Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

Pat Thomson
Pat Thomson University of Nottingham
Chris Warhurst
Chris Warhurst University of Warwick
Wilfred Carr
Wilfred Carr University of Sheffield

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