Alan Lester

2.7k total citations
54 papers, 931 citations indexed

About

Alan Lester is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Lester has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 931 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 24 papers in Anthropology and 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Alan Lester's work include Australian History and Society (17 papers), South African History and Culture (8 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 papers). Alan Lester is often cited by papers focused on Australian History and Society (17 papers), South African History and Culture (8 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 papers). Alan Lester collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Alan Lester's co-authors include David Lambert, Fae Dussart, Rob Skinner, Zoë Laidlaw, G. Lang Farmer, Tony Binns, Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom, Peter Mitchell and Peter Mitchell and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Progress in Human Geography and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

In The Last Decade

Alan Lester

51 papers receiving 725 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Lester United Kingdom 15 625 310 227 132 81 54 931
Dane Kennedy United States 16 503 0.8× 349 1.1× 149 0.7× 186 1.4× 74 0.9× 45 938
Amy Kaplan United States 13 657 1.1× 133 0.4× 171 0.8× 175 1.3× 46 0.6× 32 1.3k
Ian Tyrrell Australia 14 387 0.6× 81 0.3× 132 0.6× 177 1.3× 41 0.5× 54 729
Elliott West United States 13 237 0.4× 171 0.6× 99 0.4× 75 0.6× 40 0.5× 54 647
Ronald N. Satz United States 9 226 0.4× 241 0.8× 66 0.3× 116 0.9× 38 0.5× 22 649
Stuart E. Prall United States 11 578 0.9× 125 0.4× 246 1.1× 432 3.3× 117 1.4× 27 1.2k
Miles Ogborn United Kingdom 16 492 0.8× 216 0.7× 175 0.8× 132 1.0× 107 1.3× 52 1.1k
Peter Robb United Kingdom 12 265 0.4× 230 0.7× 56 0.2× 217 1.6× 97 1.2× 53 636
James Belich New Zealand 5 245 0.4× 74 0.2× 53 0.2× 63 0.5× 65 0.8× 9 463
Isser Woloch United States 10 472 0.8× 74 0.2× 137 0.6× 270 2.0× 37 0.5× 29 724

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Lester

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Lester

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Lester

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alan Lester. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alan Lester 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 Alan Lester. Alan Lester is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lester, Alan. (2023). The British Empire in the Culture War: Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History. 51(4). 763–795. 3 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan, et al.. (2020). Ruling the World. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan. (2015). Commentary: New directions for historical geographies of colonialism. New Zealand Geographer. 71(3). 120–123. 3 indexed citations
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Damodaran, Vinita, Anna Winterbottom, & Alan Lester. (2014). The East India Company and the Natural World. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 10 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan & Fae Dussart. (2014). Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 63 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan. (2014). The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania. Journal of Historical Geography. 47. 104–105. 1 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan. (2011). Personifying Colonial Governance: George Arthur and the Transition from Humanitarian to Development Discourse. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102(6). 1468–1488. 16 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan, et al.. (2011). ‘British India on trial’: Brighton Military Hospitals and the politics of empire in World War I. Journal of Historical Geography. 38(1). 18–34. 10 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan & David Lambert. (2010). Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century. Figshare. 159 indexed citations
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Lambert, David & Alan Lester. (2004). Geographies of colonial philanthropy. Progress in Human Geography. 28(3). 320–341. 38 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan. (2003). Making native space: colonialism, resistance, and reserves in British Columbia. Area. 35(3). 327–329. 64 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan. (2002). Obtaining the ‘Due Observance of Justice’: The Geographies of Colonial Humanitarianism. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 20(3). 277–293. 28 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan. (1998). [Review] Timothy Keegan (1996) Colonial South Africa and the origins of the racial order. Figshare. 3 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan. (1998). Reformulating Identities: British Settlers in Early Nineteenth‐Century South Africa. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 23(4). 515–531. 24 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan, et al.. (1998). Textual Discourse and Reader Interaction. Figshare. 1 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan. (1997). The margins of order: strategies of segregation on the eastern Cape frontier, 1806‐c. 1850. Journal of Southern African Studies. 23(4). 635–653. 6 indexed citations
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Lester, Alan. (1996). CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION AND SPATIAL STRATEGY ON THE EASTERN CAPE FRONTIER, 1806-C1838. South African Geographical Journal. 78(2). 98–107. 4 indexed citations
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Dillane, J.B., et al.. (1966). Group practice--future patterns?. PubMed. 12(2). 184–8.

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