Benjamin Alberti

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 656 citations indexed

About

Benjamin Alberti is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Alberti has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 656 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Anthropology, 8 papers in Paleontology and 7 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Alberti's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 papers). Benjamin Alberti is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 papers). Benjamin Alberti collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Argentina. Benjamin Alberti's co-authors include Yvonne Marshall, Tamara L. Bray, Severin Fowles, Martin Holbraad, Christopher Witmore, Gustavo G. Politis and Andrés Laguens and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Annual Review of Anthropology and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Alberti

16 papers receiving 566 citations

Hit Papers

Archaeologies of Ontology 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 40 80 120
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. Archaeologies of Ontology
    2016 132 citations Benjamin Alberti Annual Review of Anthropology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin Alberti United States 9 379 269 190 128 109 18 656
Christopher Gosden 6 327 0.9× 338 1.3× 149 0.8× 113 0.9× 189 1.7× 7 771
Chris Fowler United Kingdom 14 346 0.9× 431 1.6× 139 0.7× 114 0.9× 289 2.7× 30 881
Christopher Witmore United States 14 487 1.3× 402 1.5× 369 1.9× 138 1.1× 283 2.6× 37 1.1k
Margaret W. Conkey United States 6 490 1.3× 448 1.7× 98 0.5× 158 1.2× 194 1.8× 12 776
Severin Fowles United States 10 265 0.7× 243 0.9× 123 0.6× 110 0.9× 60 0.6× 16 467
Michael Dietler United States 13 338 0.9× 310 1.2× 72 0.4× 87 0.7× 312 2.9× 25 952
Bjørnar Olsen Norway 15 526 1.4× 442 1.6× 313 1.6× 136 1.1× 307 2.8× 39 1.3k
Julia A. Hendon United States 12 377 1.0× 515 1.9× 129 0.7× 113 0.9× 153 1.4× 32 766
Marcia‐Anne Dobres United States 8 450 1.2× 501 1.9× 61 0.3× 181 1.4× 273 2.5× 17 838
Susan D. Gillespie United States 11 289 0.8× 386 1.4× 89 0.5× 84 0.7× 119 1.1× 38 650

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benjamin Alberti

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Alberti

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All Works

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Laguens, Andrés & Benjamin Alberti. (2019). Habitando espacios vacíos. Cuerpos, paisajes y ontologías en el poblamiento inicial del centro de Argentina. Revista del Museo de Antropología. 55–66. 6 indexed citations
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Alberti, Benjamin. (2018). Art, craft, and the ontology of archaeological things. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 43(3-4). 280–294. 1 indexed citations
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Laguens, Andrés & Benjamin Alberti. (2016). Towards a situated ontology of bodies and landscapes in the archaeology of the southern Andes (first millennium AD northwest Argentina).
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Alberti, Benjamin. (2016). Archaeologies of Ontology. Annual Review of Anthropology. 45(1). 163–179. 132 indexed citations breakdown →
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Alberti, Benjamin. (2016). Archaeologies of risk and wonder. Archaeological Dialogues. 23(2). 138–145. 10 indexed citations
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Alberti, Benjamin, et al.. (2015). Introdução. Arqueología del cuerpo en el Mundo Moderno. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(1). 9–27. 2 indexed citations
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Marshall, Yvonne & Benjamin Alberti. (2014). A Matter of Difference: Karen Barad, Ontology and Archaeological Bodies. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 24(1). 19–36. 64 indexed citations
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Alberti, Benjamin, Severin Fowles, Martin Holbraad, Yvonne Marshall, & Christopher Witmore. (2011). “Worlds Otherwise”. Current Anthropology. 52(6). 896–912. 155 indexed citations
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Alberti, Benjamin & Tamara L. Bray. (2009). Introduction. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 19(3). 337–343. 81 indexed citations
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Alberti, Benjamin & Yvonne Marshall. (2009). Animating Archaeology: Local Theories and Conceptually Open-ended Methodologies. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 19(3). 344–356. 129 indexed citations
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Alberti, Benjamin. (2008). DOS PASSOS, Cyril F.: A synonymic list of the Nearctic Rhopalocera. The Lepidopterists' Society, Memoir No. 1, 1964, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A., 145 S.. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 12(1-2). 179–179. 3 indexed citations
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Alberti, Benjamin & Tamara L. Bray. (2006). Destabilizing Meaning in Anthropomorphic Forms from Northwest Argentina. 209–230. 9 indexed citations
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Alberti, Benjamin & Gustavo G. Politis. (2005). Archaeology in Latin America. 39 indexed citations
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Alberti, Benjamin. (2001). De Género a Cuerpo: Una Reconceptualización y sus Implicaciones Para la Interpretación Arqueológica. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations
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Alberti, Benjamin. (2001). Faience goddesses and ivory bull-leapers: The aesthetics of sexual difference at Late Bronze Age Knossos. World Archaeology. 33(2). 189–205. 20 indexed citations
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Alberti, Benjamin. (2001). Faience goddesses and ivory bull-leapers: the aesthetics of sexual difference at Late Bronze Age Knossos. World Archaeology. 33(2). 189–205. 2 indexed citations
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Alberti, Benjamin. (1999). Los cuerpos en Prehistória: Más allá de la división entre sexo/género. 57–57. 1 indexed citations

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