Catherine Lutz

8.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
58 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Catherine Lutz is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Catherine Lutz has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Anthropology and 9 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Catherine Lutz's work include Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (9 papers), Emotions and Moral Behavior (3 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 papers). Catherine Lutz is often cited by papers focused on Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (9 papers), Emotions and Moral Behavior (3 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 papers). Catherine Lutz collaborates with scholars based in United States. Catherine Lutz's co-authors include Geoffrey M. White, Ward H. Goodenough, Jane L. Collins, Theodore Schwartz, Mary W. Helms, Keith Brown, John Morreall, Donald M. Nonini, Susan Pollock and John McManus and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

In The Last Decade

Catherine Lutz

50 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Unnatural Emotions 1986 2026 1999 2012 1988 1986 1988 200 400 600
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. Unnatural Emotions
    1988 624 citations Catherine Lutz profile →
  2. The Anthropology of Emotions
    1986 600 citations Catherine Lutz, Geoffrey M. White Annual Review of Anthropology profile →
  3. Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory
    1988 588 citations Catherine Lutz et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Catherine Lutz United States 20 1.6k 1.1k 610 464 415 58 3.8k
Geoffrey M. White United States 26 1.3k 0.8× 875 0.8× 776 1.3× 240 0.5× 322 0.8× 86 3.7k
David Pellauer United States 9 1.5k 0.9× 606 0.6× 315 0.5× 337 0.7× 311 0.7× 28 4.2k
Tzvetan Todorov France 35 1.8k 1.1× 461 0.4× 525 0.9× 550 1.2× 330 0.8× 234 5.2k
Richard A. Shweder United States 35 2.0k 1.2× 2.2k 2.1× 316 0.5× 216 0.5× 668 1.6× 102 5.6k
James V. Spickard United States 19 1.7k 1.0× 298 0.3× 449 0.7× 341 0.7× 304 0.7× 76 3.6k
Julia Kristeva France 28 2.8k 1.7× 647 0.6× 503 0.8× 777 1.7× 403 1.0× 211 8.4k
Léon S. Roudiez United States 9 1.7k 1.1× 404 0.4× 323 0.5× 405 0.9× 251 0.6× 32 5.0k
Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo United States 15 1.2k 0.8× 400 0.4× 612 1.0× 377 0.8× 294 0.7× 22 3.2k
Arnold van Gennep United States 8 1.4k 0.8× 520 0.5× 481 0.8× 268 0.6× 148 0.4× 24 3.5k
Paul Heelas United Kingdom 21 2.3k 1.4× 734 0.7× 230 0.4× 347 0.7× 207 0.5× 50 4.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Catherine Lutz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Catherine Lutz

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lutz, Catherine. (2017). What Matters. Cultural Anthropology. 32(2). 181–191. 46 indexed citations
2.
Lutz, Catherine, et al.. (2014). US Reconstruction Aid for Afghanistan: The Dollars and Sense. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
3.
Lutz, Catherine. (2008). The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle against U.S. Military Posts. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 131 indexed citations
4.
Lutz, Catherine. (2006). Empire is in the details. American Ethnologist. 33(4). 593–611. 78 indexed citations
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Brown, Keith & Catherine Lutz. (2006). Grunt Lit: The Participant-Observers of Empire. 13 indexed citations
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Lutz, Catherine. (2004). Living Room Terrorists: Rates of Domestic Violence Are Three to Five Times Higher among Military Couples than among Civilian Ones. The Women s Review of Books. 21(5). 17–17. 7 indexed citations
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Lutz, Catherine. (2002). The Wars Less Known. South Atlantic Quarterly. 101(2). 285–296. 7 indexed citations
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Lutz, Catherine, et al.. (2002). When Several Soldiers Killed Their Wives, an Old Problem was Suddenly News: Domestic Terror. 2 indexed citations
9.
Garb, Howard N. & Catherine Lutz. (2001). Cognitive Complexity and the Validity of Clinicians' Judgments. Assessment. 8(1). 111–115. 2 indexed citations
10.
Helms, Mary W., Catherine Lutz, & Jane L. Collins. (1994). Reading "National Geographic". Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 23(5). 738–738. 169 indexed citations
11.
Pollock, Susan & Catherine Lutz. (1994). Archaeology Deployed for the Gulf War. Critique of Anthropology. 14(3). 263–284. 15 indexed citations
12.
Schwartz, Theodore, Geoffrey M. White, & Catherine Lutz. (1993). New Directions in Psychological Anthropology. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 204 indexed citations
13.
Collins, Jane & Catherine Lutz. (1992). Becoming America’s Lens on the World: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century. South Atlantic Quarterly. 91(1). 161–191. 6 indexed citations
14.
Lutz, Catherine. (1992). Language and the Politics of Emotion. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 180(3). 210–210. 391 indexed citations
15.
Morreall, John & Catherine Lutz. (1991). Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory. Philosophy East and West. 41(1). 119–119. 20 indexed citations
16.
White, Geoffrey M. & Catherine Lutz. (1990). Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll & Their Challenge to Western Theory.. Man. 25(4). 735–735. 44 indexed citations
17.
Lutz, Catherine. (1990). the erasure of women's writing in sociocultural anthropology. American Ethnologist. 17(4). 611–627. 76 indexed citations
18.
Lutz, Catherine & Geoffrey M. White. (1986). The Anthropology of Emotions. Annual Review of Anthropology. 15(1). 405–436. 600 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lutz, Catherine. (1983). Parental Goals, Ethnopsychology, and the Development of Emotional Meaning. Ethos. 11(4). 246–262. 63 indexed citations
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Lutz, Catherine. (1982). the domain of emotion words on Ifaluk. American Ethnologist. 9(1). 113–128. 167 indexed citations

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