Alessandro Rippa

533 total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 293 citations indexed

About

Alessandro Rippa is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Rippa has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 293 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Rippa's work include Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (9 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (8 papers) and China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (7 papers). Alessandro Rippa is often cited by papers focused on Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (9 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (8 papers) and China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (7 papers). Alessandro Rippa collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Estonia and United States. Alessandro Rippa's co-authors include Galen Murton, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Tyler Harlan, Tim Oakes, Yi Yang, Yang Yang, Tim Winter, Shaun Lin, Jonathan Rigg and June Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Political Geography, The China Quarterly and Landscape Research.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Rippa

24 papers receiving 275 citations

Hit Papers

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Views from the ground 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 25 50 75 100
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Views from the ground
    2020 109 citations Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Galen Murton et al. Political Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alessandro Rippa Germany 9 191 163 83 37 28 25 293
Galen Murton United States 10 271 1.4× 243 1.5× 99 1.2× 34 0.9× 26 0.9× 21 424
Jordan Branch United States 9 190 1.0× 179 1.1× 50 0.6× 33 0.9× 22 0.8× 13 356
Jamie S. Davidson Singapore 13 233 1.2× 318 2.0× 40 0.5× 11 0.3× 27 1.0× 27 460
Gertjan Dijkink Netherlands 8 189 1.0× 185 1.1× 35 0.4× 35 0.9× 15 0.5× 28 346
Teo Ballvé United States 7 118 0.6× 202 1.2× 42 0.5× 9 0.2× 13 0.5× 27 337
Kären Wigen United States 13 88 0.5× 192 1.2× 106 1.3× 64 1.7× 45 1.6× 35 404
Ben Hillman Australia 12 241 1.3× 249 1.5× 21 0.3× 18 0.5× 18 0.6× 28 395
Penelope Anthias United Kingdom 8 138 0.7× 94 0.6× 84 1.0× 25 0.7× 5 0.2× 15 309
Austin Lord United States 8 152 0.8× 153 0.9× 45 0.5× 24 0.6× 9 0.3× 10 255
Denis Retaillé France 12 89 0.5× 241 1.5× 156 1.9× 32 0.9× 10 0.4× 65 339

Countries citing papers authored by Alessandro Rippa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alessandro Rippa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandro Rippa

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rippa, Alessandro, et al.. (2024). Cultural mobilities and cultural heritage: concepts for an Asia-centric approach. Journal of the British Academy. 12. 0–0. 2 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro. (2024). Where tourism fails: the (un)making of a post-working landscape in the Italian Alps. Landscape Research. 49(7). 934–945. 1 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro & Tim Oakes. (2023). Infrastructural Thinking in China: A Research Agenda. The China Quarterly. 255. 547–559. 7 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro, et al.. (2023). ‘ We don’t eat those bananas ’: Chinese plantation expansions and bordering on Northern Myanmar’s Kachin borderlands. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 64(7-8). 842–868. 10 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro. (2023). Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology. Social Science Information. 63(1). 25–46. 6 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro. (2022). From Guest Traders to Live Streamers. Social Analysis. 66(1). 44–63.
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Rippa, Alessandro, et al.. (2022). Infrastructures and b/ordering: how Chinese projects are ordering China–Myanmar border spaces. Territory Politics Governance. 12(8). 1177–1198. 15 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro. (2021). Borderland Infrastructures. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 10 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro. (2021). Hunting, Rewilding, and Multispecies Entanglements in the Alps. Ethnos. 88(5). 949–971. 9 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro, et al.. (2020). Building Highland Asia in the Twenty-First Century. 6(2). 83–83. 8 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Gustavo de L. T., et al.. (2020). China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Views from the ground. Political Geography. 82. 102225–102225. 109 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rippa, Alessandro. (2020). Borderland Infrastructures : Trade, Development, and Control in Western China. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 2 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro. (2020). Borderland Infrastructures. Amsterdam University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro, et al.. (2019). Road animism. Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 9(2). 373–389. 17 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro. (2019). Infrastructure of Desire: Rubble, Development, and Salvage Capitalism in Rural China. Made in China Journal. 4(2). 1 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro. (2018). Cross-Border Trade and “the Market” between Xinjiang (China) and Pakistan. Journal of Contemporary Asia. 49(2). 254–271. 17 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro & Yi Yang. (2017). The Amber Road: Cross-Border Trade and the Regulation of the Burmite Market in Tengchong, Yunnan. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 5(2). 243–267. 8 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro. (2014). From Uyghurs to Kashgaris (and back?): Migration and Cross-Border Interactions Between Xinjiang and Pakistan. bonndoc (University of Bonn). 7 indexed citations
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Rippa, Alessandro. (2014). Re-Writing Mythology in Xinjiang: The Case of the Queen Mother of the West, King Mu and the Kunlun. The China Journal. 71. 43–64. 1 indexed citations

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