Alison Kafer

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 556 citations indexed

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Alison Kafer is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Gender Studies and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison Kafer has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 556 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Social Psychology, 3 papers in Gender Studies and 2 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alison Kafer's work include LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (3 papers), Disability Rights and Representation (2 papers) and Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (2 papers). Alison Kafer is often cited by papers focused on LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (3 papers), Disability Rights and Representation (2 papers) and Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (2 papers). Alison Kafer collaborates with scholars based in United States. Alison Kafer's co-authors include and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Sex Roles and South Atlantic Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Alison Kafer

10 papers receiving 394 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.

Feminist, Queer, Crip

2013 335 citations Alison Kafer Indiana University Press eBooks profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alison Kafer United States	8	222	210	133	68	62	10	556
Eli Clare	7	247 1.1×	190 0.9×	142 1.1×	85 1.3×	100 1.6×	10	608
Sami Schalk United States	11	221 1.0×	211 1.0×	98 0.7×	60 0.9×	45 0.7×	24	575
Robert McRuer United States	16	339 1.5×	361 1.7×	243 1.8×	113 1.7×	138 2.2×	36	874
Ellen Samuels United States	7	146 0.7×	136 0.6×	77 0.6×	37 0.5×	53 0.9×	15	400
G. Thomas Couser United States	14	220 1.0×	163 0.8×	81 0.6×	98 1.4×	67 1.1×	50	749
Petra Küppers United States	14	182 0.8×	169 0.8×	59 0.4×	30 0.4×	26 0.4×	63	567
Tobin Siebers United States	13	334 1.5×	352 1.7×	112 0.8×	96 1.4×	40 0.6×	35	993
Carrie Sandahl United States	10	154 0.7×	182 0.9×	91 0.7×	22 0.3×	41 0.7×	15	430
Shelley Tremain Canada	12	279 1.3×	269 1.3×	103 0.8×	79 1.2×	32 0.5×	28	640
Tanya Titchkosky Canada	14	392 1.8×	544 2.6×	111 0.8×	99 1.5×	54 0.9×	30	906

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Kafer, Alison. (2021). After Crip, Crip Afters. South Atlantic Quarterly. 120(2). 415–434. 33 indexed citations

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Kafer, Alison. (2019). Crip Kin, Manifesting. Catalyst Feminism Theory Technoscience. 5(1). 1–37. 20 indexed citations

3.

Kafer, Alison. (2016). Other People's Shit (and Pee!). South Atlantic Quarterly. 115(4). 755–762. 6 indexed citations

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Kafer, Alison. (2016). Un/Safe Disclosures. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 10(1). 1–20. 39 indexed citations

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Kafer, Alison. (2015). Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 35(4). 1 indexed citations

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Kafer, Alison, et al.. (2014). Guest Editors' Introduction: Growing Disability Studies: Politics of Access, Politics of Collaboration. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 34(2). 7 indexed citations

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Kafer, Alison. (2013). Feminist, Queer, Crip. Indiana University Press eBooks. 335 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kafer, Alison. (2008). What’s Crip About Queer Theory Now?. Sex Roles. 60(3-4). 291–294. 7 indexed citations

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Kafer, Alison. (2003). Claudia Castaneda.Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds.Durham: Duke UP, 2002.. Women s Studies. 32(5). 686–686. 25 indexed citations

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Kafer, Alison. (2003). Compulsory Bodies: Reflections on Heterosexuality and Able-bodiedness. Journal of women's history. 15(3). 77–89. 83 indexed citations

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