Skip to content

SankoreAfrican research intelligence

Countries
Institutions
Fields
Rankings
Compare

Search institutions, scholars, countries and publications

Sankore

Named after the University of Sankore in Timbuktu — one of the world’s oldest centres of learning. Every figure here is computed from work-level records in our own graph, never copied from a source’s summary count.

Built from

OpenAlex — works, authorships, subject classification
ROR — institutional identity
ORCID — researcher identity
Crossref — publisher confirmation

Browse

Countries
Institutions
Fields
Rankings
What we cover

Coverage is partial and says so. A country appears with its research output only once its works have been swept; until then the portal shows whatever the graph happens to hold for it and labels it as exactly that.

R.L. Thomson · Sankore

R.L. Thomson

ORCID, self-asserted

ORCID 0000-0002-6958-1259

This profile carries an ORCID the researcher published on their own record — the strongest evidence available short of a human confirming it.

Publications

22

Citations

142

h-index

6

Computed over the works the graph holds, so it is a floor rather than a career figure.

i10-index

4

Publications

2 works in the graph, newest first.

All savanna islands of fertility are not equal: colonial birds influence soil nutrient stoichiometries with consequences for tree seedling growth
2023Plant EcologyJournalOpen access6 citations10.1007/s11258-023-01333-1
Positive feedbacks between savanna tree size and the nutritional characteristics of “Islands of fertility” are amplified by sociable weaver colonies
2022Journal of Arid EnvironmentsJournalSenior author6 citations10.1016/j.jaridenv.2022.104903