Brian Boyd

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Brian Boyd is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Education and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Boyd has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Cultural Studies, 15 papers in Education and 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Brian Boyd's work include Vladimir Nabokov Literary Studies (21 papers), Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (15 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 papers). Brian Boyd is often cited by papers focused on Vladimir Nabokov Literary Studies (21 papers), Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (15 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 papers). Brian Boyd collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and United Kingdom. Brian Boyd's co-authors include Pekka Tammi, D. Barton Johnson, Vladimir Nabokov, Dale Peterson, Zoë Crossland and John J. White and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Annual Review of Anthropology and Quaternary International.

In The Last Decade

Brian Boyd

38 papers receiving 775 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years.

1992 76 citations Brian Boyd et al. profile →
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years

1992 67 citations Pekka Tammi, Brian Boyd The Russian Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Boyd New Zealand	13	321	258	252	223	187	54	1.0k
Richard J. Parmentier United States	14	378 1.2×	410 1.6×	111 0.4×	123 0.6×	87 0.5×	49	1.5k
Steven Feld United States	23	402 1.3×	580 2.2×	241 1.0×	55 0.2×	235 1.3×	68	2.5k
Jamshid J. Tehrani United Kingdom	18	258 0.8×	493 1.9×	525 2.1×	283 1.3×	91 0.5×	37	1.3k
Richard Kearney United States	17	123 0.4×	387 1.5×	178 0.7×	48 0.2×	105 0.6×	76	1.1k
Rane Willerslev Denmark	19	547 1.7×	349 1.4×	86 0.3×	128 0.6×	35 0.2×	54	1.2k
Whitney Davis United States	18	589 1.8×	140 0.5×	199 0.8×	470 2.1×	218 1.2×	75	1.5k
Eduardo Kohn Canada	9	468 1.5×	344 1.3×	202 0.8×	47 0.2×	44 0.2×	31	1.6k
Andrew Pawley Australia	19	231 0.7×	54 0.2×	155 0.6×	226 1.0×	252 1.3×	48	1.6k
Lyle Campbell United States	25	255 0.8×	129 0.5×	560 2.2×	222 1.0×	634 3.4×	103	3.1k
Howard Morphy Australia	15	429 1.3×	251 1.0×	69 0.3×	108 0.5×	56 0.3×	70	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Boyd

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Boyd

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Boyd

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Boyd, Brian. (2017). Does Austen Need Narrators? Does Anyone?. New Literary History. 48(2). 285–308. 2 indexed citations

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Boyd, Brian. (2017). Archaeology and Human–Animal Relations: Thinking Through Anthropocentrism. Annual Review of Anthropology. 46(1). 299–316. 63 indexed citations

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Boyd, Brian. (2017). Ecologies of fiber-work: Animal technologies and invisible craft practices in prehistoric Southwest Asia. Quaternary International. 468. 250–261. 10 indexed citations

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Boyd, Brian, et al.. (2014). Whistles in the wind: the noisy Moche city. World Archaeology. 46(3). 362–379. 9 indexed citations

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Boyd, Brian. (2010). On the Origin of Stories. Harvard University Press eBooks. 186 indexed citations

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Boyd, Brian. (2009). On the Origin of Stories. Harvard University Press eBooks. 84 indexed citations

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Boyd, Brian. (2008). Art and Evolution: Spiegelman's The Narrative Corpse. Philosophy and literature. 32(1). 31–57. 4 indexed citations

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Boyd, Brian. (2007). Nabokov's Transition from Russian to English: Repudiation or Evolution?. ResearchSpace (University of Auckland). 11(1).

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Boyd, Brian. (2006). Nabokov, Time, and Timelessness: A Reply to Martin Hagglund. New Literary History. 37(2). 469–478.

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Boyd, Brian. (2006). Theory Is Dead--Like a Zombie. Philosophy and literature. 30(1). 289–298. 3 indexed citations

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Boyd, Brian. (2005). Human Paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor. 2005(1). 1–4. 154 indexed citations

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Boyd, Brian. (2004). Ada, the Bog and the Garden: or, Straw, Fluff, and Peat: Sources and Places in Ada. 8(1). 107–133.

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Boyd, Brian & Zoë Crossland. (2000). New fieldwork at Shuqba Cave and in Wadi en-Natuf, Western Judea. Antiquity. 74(286). 755–756. 2 indexed citations

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Boyd, Brian. (1999). Literature and Discovery. Philosophy and literature. 23(2). 313–333. 2 indexed citations

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Nabokov, Vladimir & Brian Boyd. (1996). Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 5 indexed citations

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Peterson, Dale & Brian Boyd. (1993). Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Comparative Literature. 45(2). 200–200. 2 indexed citations

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Tammi, Pekka & Brian Boyd. (1993). Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years. The Russian Review. 52(2). 265–265. 11 indexed citations

18.

Boyd, Brian. (1992). Nabokov's Otherworld (review). Modern fiction studies. 38(2). 477–478. 1 indexed citations

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Boyd, Brian. (1987). The Problem of Pattern: Nabokov's Defense. Modern fiction studies. 33(4). 575–604. 2 indexed citations

20.

Johnson, D. Barton & Brian Boyd. (1986). Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness. The Slavic and East European Journal. 30(4). 583–583. 20 indexed citations

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