Arjun Appadurai

70.6k total citations · 15 hit papers
103 papers, 24.3k citations indexed

About

Arjun Appadurai is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Arjun Appadurai has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 24.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 18 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 16 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Arjun Appadurai's work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (11 papers), Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (5 papers). Arjun Appadurai is often cited by papers focused on Anthropological Studies and Insights (11 papers), Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (5 papers). Arjun Appadurai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and France. Arjun Appadurai's co-authors include Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Nancy Farriss, Patrick J. Geary, Lee V. Cassanelli, William H. Davenport, Brian S. Spooner, James Holston, Carol A. Breckenridge, Jonathan Parry and Maya Unnithan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Arjun Appadurai

91 papers receiving 18.1k citations

Hit Papers

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. 1981 2026 1996 2011 1998 1986 1990 1990 1988 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.
    1998 8.4k citations Arjun Appadurai et al. profile →
  2. The Social Life of Things
    1986 3.0k citations Arjun Appadurai et al. profile →
  3. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
    1990 2.1k citations Arjun Appadurai Public Culture profile →
  4. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
    1990 1.6k citations Arjun Appadurai profile →
  5. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
    1988 1.0k citations Arjun Appadurai et al. profile →
  6. Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination
    2000 716 citations Arjun Appadurai Public Culture profile →
  7. The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition
    2013 637 citations Arjun Appadurai profile →
  8. Deep democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics
    2001 616 citations Arjun Appadurai profile →
  9. Fear of Small Numbers
    2006 609 citations Arjun Appadurai profile →
  10. Cities and Citizenship
    1996 452 citations Arjun Appadurai et al. Public Culture profile →
  11. gastro‐politics in Hindu South Asia
    1981 441 citations Arjun Appadurai profile →
  12. Putting Hierarchy in Its Place
    1988 432 citations Arjun Appadurai profile →
  13. How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India
    1988 375 citations Arjun Appadurai profile →
  14. is homo hierarchicus?
    1986 371 citations Arjun Appadurai profile →
  15. Theory in Anthropology: Center and Periphery
    1986 185 citations Arjun Appadurai profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Arjun Appadurai United States 41 12.0k 4.8k 4.6k 2.6k 2.2k 103 24.3k
Benedict Anderson United States 22 14.4k 1.2× 4.5k 0.9× 6.4k 1.4× 2.3k 0.9× 680 0.3× 110 24.4k
George E. Marcus United States 51 10.7k 0.9× 3.4k 0.7× 4.3k 0.9× 1.2k 0.5× 754 0.3× 202 19.6k
Stuart Hall United Kingdom 55 14.3k 1.2× 1.6k 0.3× 4.1k 0.9× 1.3k 0.5× 1.5k 0.7× 255 25.3k
Clifford Geertz United States 57 17.0k 1.4× 4.3k 0.9× 6.5k 1.4× 1.5k 0.6× 912 0.4× 169 37.7k
David Harvey United Kingdom 62 13.7k 1.1× 1.7k 0.4× 5.6k 1.2× 1.6k 0.6× 8.8k 3.9× 266 34.0k
Mary Douglas United Kingdom 50 13.2k 1.1× 2.8k 0.6× 2.8k 0.6× 821 0.3× 774 0.3× 187 27.7k
Victor Turner United States 46 9.5k 0.8× 3.4k 0.7× 2.0k 0.4× 1.0k 0.4× 784 0.4× 94 20.6k
John Urry United Kingdom 64 15.1k 1.3× 1.1k 0.2× 2.5k 0.5× 3.6k 1.4× 3.6k 1.6× 208 26.8k
Alan Sheridan 16 12.5k 1.0× 1.6k 0.3× 3.7k 0.8× 630 0.2× 830 0.4× 36 24.9k
Arturo Escobar United States 45 6.1k 0.5× 2.2k 0.5× 3.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 909 0.4× 199 13.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arjun Appadurai

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Appadurai, Arjun. (2024). Theory in Anthropology: Center and Periphery. 8–13.
2.
Appadurai, Arjun, et al.. (2023). Solidarity's Fragilities. Public Culture. 35(1). 1–6.
3.
Appadurai, Arjun. (2022). The Haptic and the Phatic in the Era of Globalization. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
4.
Appadurai, Arjun. (2021). The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination. Public Culture. 33(1). 115–128. 5 indexed citations
5.
Appadurai, Arjun. (2020). Life after Debt. differences. 31(3). 21–28.
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Appadurai, Arjun. (2013). Diversity and disciplinarity as cultural artifacts. 427–437. 6 indexed citations
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Appadurai, Arjun. (2012). The Spirit of Calculation. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. 30(1). 41 indexed citations
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Appadurai, Arjun. (2011). The Ghost in the Financial Machine. Public Culture. 23(3). 517–539. 57 indexed citations
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Appadurai, Arjun & Bettina Engels. (2009). Die Geographie des Zorns. Suhrkamp eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Appadurai, Arjun. (2009). Higher Education's Coming Leadership Crisis.. ˜The œchronicle of higher education. 55(31). 7 indexed citations
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Appadurai, Arjun. (2008). Los riesgos del diálogo. 268–270.
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Appadurai, Arjun. (2006). Muerte segura: Violencia étnica en la Era de la Globalización. Relaciones Internacionales. 1–26.
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DeLanda, Manuel, et al.. (2003). Information is Alive : Art and Theory on Archiving and Retrieving Data. E-Artexte (Artexte). 46 indexed citations
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Appadurai, Arjun, et al.. (2001). Après le colonialisme : les conséquences culturelles de la globalisation. Payot eBooks. 54 indexed citations
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Appadurai, Arjun. (1999). Soberanía sin territorialidad. Notas para una geografía posnacional. Nueva sociedad. 109–124. 14 indexed citations
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Appadurai, Arjun. (1999). Globalization and the research imagination. International Social Science Journal. 51(160). 229–238. 87 indexed citations
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Appadurai, Arjun. (1997). Discussion: Fieldwork in the Era of Globalization. Anthropology & Humanism. 22(1). 115–118. 35 indexed citations
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Appadurai, Arjun. (1984). Wells in Western India: irrigation and cooperation in an agricultural society. Expedition: The magazine of the University of Pennsylvania. 26(3). 3–14. 3 indexed citations
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Appadurai, Arjun. (1984). How Moral Is South Asia's Economy?— A Review Article. The Journal of Asian Studies. 43(3). 481–497. 49 indexed citations
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Appadurai, Arjun. (1981). The Past as a Scarce Resource. Man. 16(2). 201–201. 209 indexed citations

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