Brian Larkin

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Brian Larkin is a scholar working on Anthropology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Larkin has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Anthropology, 12 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Brian Larkin's work include African history and culture studies (9 papers), Latin American history and culture (8 papers) and Early Modern Women Writers (6 papers). Brian Larkin is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (9 papers), Latin American history and culture (8 papers) and Early Modern Women Writers (6 papers). Brian Larkin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Algeria and Canada. Brian Larkin's co-authors include Birgit Meyer, Charles Hirschkind, Neil Safìer, Paul Edwards, Lisa Gitelman, Gabrielle Hecht, Adrian Johns, Richard C. Sadler, Thomas Wyatt and Debra Furr-Holden and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Annual Review of Anthropology and Journal of the American Planning Association.

In The Last Decade

Brian Larkin

31 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure

2013 1.7k citations Brian Larkin Annual Review of Anthropology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Larkin United States	13	1.3k	1.2k	685	403	384	35	2.9k
Lee V. Cassanelli United States	8	495 0.4×	1.3k 1.0×	906 1.3×	362 0.9×	276 0.7×	15	3.3k
Andrew Barry United Kingdom	22	749 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	150 0.2×	349 0.9×	163 0.4×	48	2.9k
Robert David Sack United States	19	814 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	287 0.4×	465 1.2×	584 1.5×	53	3.3k
Jonathan Rutherford France	16	493 0.4×	1.5k 1.2×	212 0.3×	76 0.2×	207 0.5×	68	2.9k
Teresa Caldeira Portugal	14	645 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	205 0.3×	219 0.5×	1.5k 3.9×	29	3.1k
AbdouMaliq Simone United Kingdom	25	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	545 0.8×	371 0.9×	1.7k 4.4×	119	3.4k
Brett Neilson Australia	18	771 0.6×	2.0k 1.6×	222 0.3×	112 0.3×	285 0.7×	79	2.9k
Kevin Hetherington United Kingdom	23	189 0.1×	933 0.8×	173 0.3×	531 1.3×	310 0.8×	40	2.2k
David Ley Canada	40	457 0.3×	3.1k 2.6×	221 0.3×	659 1.6×	2.5k 6.6×	103	6.1k
Chandra Mukerji United States	19	238 0.2×	660 0.5×	158 0.2×	102 0.3×	135 0.4×	60	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Larkin

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Larkin, Brian. (2022). The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521–1600. Ethnohistory. 69(3). 368–369. 1 indexed citations

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Sadler, Richard C., et al.. (2021). Right Sizing Flint’s Infrastructure in the Wake of the Flint Water Crisis Would Constitute an Additional Environmental Injustice. Journal of the American Planning Association. 87(3). 424–432. 12 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (2021). Políticas e Poéticas da Infraestrutura. 31(2). 1 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (2021). The Cinematic Milieu. Public Culture. 33(3). 313–348. 1 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (2020). Signal and Noise. 7 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (2014). Techniques of Inattention: The Mediality of Loudspeakers in Nigeria. Anthropological Quarterly. 87(4). 989–1015. 49 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (2013). The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure. Annual Review of Anthropology. 42(1). 327–343. 1699 indexed citations breakdown →

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Larkin, Brian. (2008). Signal and Noise. 388 indexed citations

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Hirschkind, Charles & Brian Larkin. (2008). Introduction. Social Text. 26(3). 1–9. 27 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (2008). Ahmed Deedat and the Form of Islamic Evangelism. Social Text. 26(3). 101–121. 40 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (2008). Iglesia, justicia y sociedad en la Nueva España. La audiencia del arzobispado de México, 1528-1668. By Jorge E. Traslosheros. Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, 2004. Pp. xvi, 220. Notes. Bibliography.. The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History. 65(3). 453–454.

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Larkin, Brian. (2007). The Nollywood Rising Conference. Film International. 5(4). 109–111. 3 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian & Birgit Meyer. (2006). Pentecostalism, Islam and culture: New religious movements in West Africa. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 286–312. 34 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (2004). Bandiri Music, Globalization, and Urban Experience in Nigeria. Social Text. 22(4). 91–112. 24 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (2002). [Review of: Dale F. Eickelman, Jon W. Anderson (1999) New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere]. American Ethnologist. 1 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (2001). "Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities.". UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 5 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (1999). The splendor of worship: Baroque Catholicism, religious reform, and last wills and testaments in eighteenth-century Mexico City.. PubMed. 8(4). 404–42. 4 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (1999). Cinema Theatres and Moral Space in Northern Nigeria. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 3(1). 13–13. 3 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (1998). Theaters of the Profane: Cinema and Colonial Urbanism. Visual Anthropology Review. 14(2). 46–62. 12 indexed citations

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Larkin, Brian. (1997). Indian films and Nigerian lovers: media and the creation of parallel modernities. Africa. 67(3). 406–440. 193 indexed citations

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