Carolin Schurr

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Carolin Schurr is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development and Reproductive Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Carolin Schurr has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 12 papers in Reproductive Medicine. Recurrent topics in Carolin Schurr's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (12 papers), Reproductive Health and Technologies (12 papers) and Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (7 papers). Carolin Schurr is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (12 papers), Reproductive Health and Technologies (12 papers) and Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (7 papers). Carolin Schurr collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Canada. Carolin Schurr's co-authors include Martín Müller, Elisabeth Militz, Nicole Laliberté, Anke Strüver, Caroline Faria, Nadine Marquardt, Georg Weichhart, Anne Vogelpohl and Susanne Schultz and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

Carolin Schurr

45 papers receiving 977 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.

  1. Assemblage thinking and actor‐network theory: conjunctions, disjunctions, cross‐fertilisations
    2016 240 citations Martín Müller, Carolin Schurr Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Carolin Schurr 511 247 181 148 117 47 1.1k
Carol J. Greenhouse 660 1.3× 62 0.3× 93 0.5× 64 0.4× 339 2.9× 56 1.3k
Catherine Nash 811 1.6× 642 2.6× 79 0.4× 34 0.2× 165 1.4× 49 1.7k
Heidi J. Nast 714 1.4× 338 1.4× 147 0.8× 16 0.1× 112 1.0× 29 1.1k
Davina Cooper 706 1.4× 88 0.4× 378 2.1× 26 0.2× 303 2.6× 73 1.4k
Sylvia Yanagisako 549 1.1× 44 0.2× 137 0.8× 28 0.2× 139 1.2× 31 998
Sharon Macdonald 622 1.2× 201 0.8× 62 0.3× 17 0.1× 199 1.7× 73 1.7k
Lynne Brydon 632 1.2× 135 0.5× 224 1.2× 10 0.1× 147 1.3× 33 1.6k
Deborah Dixon 451 0.9× 456 1.8× 68 0.4× 9 0.1× 152 1.3× 60 1.1k
Natalie Oswin 804 1.6× 198 0.8× 205 1.1× 13 0.1× 170 1.5× 33 1.2k
Lorraine Dowler 869 1.7× 189 0.8× 256 1.4× 8 0.1× 207 1.8× 37 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Carolin Schurr

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carolin Schurr

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carolin Schurr

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schurr, Carolin, et al.. (2025). The afterlife of birth control policies in Mexico: Questioning the normalization of sterilization among racialized (mestiza) low-income women. Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences). 17(1-2025). 11–26. 1 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin, et al.. (2025). Geographies of reproductive justice. Progress in Human Geography. 49(4). 397–417.
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Schurr, Carolin, et al.. (2024). Intimate liminality in Spain's berry industry. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 49(4). 4 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin, et al.. (2022). Geographies of assisted reproduction: The Spanish egg donation economy as a global/intimate contact zone. Documents d Anàlisi Geogràfica. 68(2). 313–333. 4 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin, et al.. (2020). Who Makes Geographical Knowledge? The Gender of Geography’s Gatekeepers. The Professional Geographer. 72(3). 317–331. 38 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin & Georg Weichhart. (2020). From Margin to Center? Theoretische Aufbrüche in der Geographie seit Kiel 1969. Geographica Helvetica. 75(2). 53–67. 8 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin, et al.. (2020). A portrait of assisted reproduction in Mexico: scientific, political, and cultural interactions. New Genetics and Society. 40(2). 240–241. 5 indexed citations
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Marquardt, Nadine, et al.. (2019). Celebrating 30 years of feminist geographies in the German-speaking countries Germany, Switzerland* and Austria. Gender Place & Culture. 26(7-9). 1049–1063. 1 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin & Elisabeth Militz. (2018). The affective economy of transnational surrogacy. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 50(8). 1626–1645. 45 indexed citations
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Müller, Martín & Carolin Schurr. (2016). Assemblage thinking and actor‐network theory: conjunctions, disjunctions, cross‐fertilisations. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 41(3). 217–229. 240 indexed citations breakdown →
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Laliberté, Nicole & Carolin Schurr. (2016). The stickiness of emotions in the field: complicating feminist methodologies. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 37 indexed citations
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Militz, Elisabeth & Carolin Schurr. (2015). Affective nationalism: Banalities of belonging in Azerbaijan. Political Geography. 54. 54–63. 86 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin. (2014). Geography speaks: performative aspects of geography. Geographica Helvetica. 69(2). 131–133. 5 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin, et al.. (2014). Reproductive tourism booms on Mexico’s Mayan Riviera. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 4 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin. (2014). Mütter zu verleihen. Erst Indien, dann Thailand – und jetzt auch Mexiko: Warum das globalisierte Baby-Business boomt. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 1 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin. (2013). Visual ethnography for performative geographies: how women politicians perform identities on Ecuadorian political stages. Geographica Helvetica. 67(4). 195–202. 6 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin. (2013). Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science Understanding. Emotion, space and society. 12. 116–117. 192 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin. (2013). Performing Politics, Making Space: A Visual Ethnography of Political Change in Ecuador. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 3 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin, et al.. (2010). Was kommt nach Gendermainstreaming? Herausforderungen an die geographische Entwicklungsforschung. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 62(10). 58–63. 1 indexed citations
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Schurr, Carolin, et al.. (2010). Was kommt nach Gendermainstreaming?Herausforderungen an die geographische Entwicklungsforschung in der Geschlechterforschung. 2 indexed citations

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