Bill Freund

285 total papers · 3.9k total citations
95 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Bill Freund is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Bill Freund has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 23 papers in Anthropology and 17 papers in Law. Recurrent topics in Bill Freund’s work include South African History and Culture (30 papers), African history and culture studies (21 papers) and Legal Issues in South Africa (17 papers). Bill Freund is often cited by papers focused on South African History and Culture (30 papers), African history and culture studies (21 papers) and Legal Issues in South Africa (17 papers). Bill Freund collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Bill Freund's co-authors include Sara Berry, Andrew Coulson, I. William Zartman, Surendra Bhana, Elizabeth A. Eldredge, Hamza Alavi, Теодор Шанин, James C. McCann, P. Greenhalgh and Leroy Vail and has published in prestigious journals such as Foreign Affairs, The American Historical Review and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bill Freund

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

Bill Freund

77 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Bill Freund

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Bill Freund. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Bill Freund. The network helps show where Bill Freund may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Bill Freund

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