Adriana Petryna

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Adriana Petryna is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Physiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Adriana Petryna has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Physiology and 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Adriana Petryna's work include Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (7 papers), Ethics in Clinical Research (5 papers) and Public Health in Brazil (4 papers). Adriana Petryna is often cited by papers focused on Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (7 papers), Ethics in Clinical Research (5 papers) and Public Health in Brazil (4 papers). Adriana Petryna collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Adriana Petryna's co-authors include João Biehl, Joseph J Amon, Mariana P. Socal, Alex K. Gertner, Paulo Dornelles Picon, Karolina Follis, Arthur Kleinman, Sjaak van der Geest and Andrew Lakoff and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Annual Review of Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Adriana Petryna

34 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adriana Petryna United States	15	692	379	289	237	171	36	1.7k
João Biehl United States	22	942 1.4×	211 0.6×	373 1.3×	90 0.4×	185 1.1×	54	2.3k
Vincanne Adams United States	24	849 1.2×	241 0.6×	304 1.1×	54 0.2×	61 0.4×	51	2.0k
Larissa Remennick Israel	27	1.3k 1.9×	236 0.6×	395 1.4×	52 0.2×	65 0.4×	92	2.6k
Michelle Murphy Canada	19	583 0.8×	158 0.4×	190 0.7×	43 0.2×	44 0.3×	50	1.8k
Stuart Plattner United States	14	305 0.4×	251 0.7×	171 0.6×	99 0.4×	134 0.8×	35	1.2k
Charlotte Aull Davies United Kingdom	17	626 0.9×	124 0.3×	276 1.0×	114 0.5×	44 0.3×	41	1.6k
Troy Duster United States	21	481 0.7×	340 0.9×	265 0.9×	94 0.4×	35 0.2×	66	2.0k
Linda L. Smith United States	19	423 0.6×	80 0.2×	311 1.1×	235 1.0×	70 0.4×	45	2.1k
Stephen Zavestoski United States	19	587 0.8×	110 0.3×	376 1.3×	46 0.2×	62 0.4×	30	1.6k
Peter Redfield United States	15	782 1.1×	86 0.2×	155 0.5×	23 0.1×	40 0.2×	23	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adriana Petryna

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Petryna, Adriana. (2023). De‐occupation as planetary politics. American Ethnologist. 50(1). 10–18. 6 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (2022). Horizon Work. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana, et al.. (2021). The COVID Horizon: Introduction to the Special Section. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(1). 1–7. 1 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (2017). Ciudadanía biológica: la ciencia y la política de las poblaciones expuestas a Chernóbil. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 103–121. 2 indexed citations

5.

Biehl, João & Adriana Petryna. (2014). Peopling Global Health. Saúde e Sociedade. 23(2). 376–389. 31 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (2013). The Origins of Extinction. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (2013). Life Exposed. Princeton University Press eBooks. 69 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (2013). Life Exposed. Princeton University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (2011). Pharmaceuticals and the Right to Health: Reclaiming Patients and the Evidence Base of New Drugs. Anthropological Quarterly. 84(2). 305–329. 6 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (2011). Experimentalidade: ciência, capital e poder no mundo dos ensaios clínicos. Horizontes Antropológicos. 17(35). 127–160. 12 indexed citations

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Biehl, João, Adriana Petryna, Alex K. Gertner, Joseph J Amon, & Paulo Dornelles Picon. (2009). Judicialisation of the right to health in Brazil. The Lancet. 373(9682). 2182–2184. 52 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (2009). When Experiments Travel. Princeton University Press eBooks.

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Petryna, Adriana. (2009). When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 310 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (2007). Experimentality: On the Global Mobility and Regulation of Human Subjects Research. PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 30(2). 288–304. 27 indexed citations

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Geest, Sjaak van der, Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff, & Arthur Kleinman. (2006). Anthropology and the. 22 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (2005). Ethical variability: Drug development and globalizing clinical trials. American Ethnologist. 32(2). 183–197. 145 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (2004). Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations. Osiris. 19. 250–265. 115 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (2003). Science and Citizenship under Postsocialism. Social research. 70(2). 551–577. 5 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana & Arthur Kleinman. (2001). La mondialisation des catégories : la dépression à l'épreuve de l'universel. L Autre. Volume 2(3). 467–480. 2 indexed citations

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Petryna, Adriana. (1998). Specificities: A Technical Error: Measures of Life after Chernobyl. Social Identities. 4(1). 73–92. 3 indexed citations

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