Christina Sharpe

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Christina Sharpe is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Christina Sharpe has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 3 papers in Cultural Studies and 1 paper in Communication. Recurrent topics in Christina Sharpe's work include Race, History, and American Society (5 papers), Latin American and Latino Studies (3 papers) and Social Media and Politics (1 paper). Christina Sharpe is often cited by papers focused on Race, History, and American Society (5 papers), Latin American and Latino Studies (3 papers) and Social Media and Politics (1 paper). Christina Sharpe collaborates with scholars based in Kenya. Christina Sharpe's co-authors include Rinaldo Walcott and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Signs and The Black Scholar.

In The Last Decade

Christina Sharpe

11 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

In the Wake 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2016 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. In the Wake
    2016 683 citations Christina Sharpe profile →
  2. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
    2016 658 citations Christina Sharpe Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christina Sharpe Kenya 7 894 341 227 211 194 14 1.6k
Alexander G. Weheliye United States 8 715 0.8× 351 1.0× 160 0.7× 209 1.0× 146 0.8× 21 1.4k
Fred Moten United States 14 825 0.9× 433 1.3× 277 1.2× 106 0.5× 163 0.8× 50 1.7k
Sylvia Wynter 7 1.1k 1.3× 533 1.6× 287 1.3× 276 1.3× 252 1.3× 9 2.0k
Gregory J. Seigworth United States 6 517 0.6× 246 0.7× 123 0.5× 186 0.9× 82 0.4× 13 1.1k
Hortense J. Spillers United States 9 1.0k 1.1× 510 1.5× 403 1.8× 129 0.6× 171 0.9× 41 1.9k
Ann Cvetkovich United States 13 1.0k 1.2× 424 1.2× 333 1.5× 104 0.5× 138 0.7× 33 2.2k
Aldon Lynn Nielsen United States 8 1.3k 1.4× 445 1.3× 436 1.9× 94 0.4× 414 2.1× 32 2.3k
Claire Colebrook United States 20 547 0.6× 418 1.2× 308 1.4× 297 1.4× 66 0.3× 118 1.6k
Jodi A. Byrd United States 10 521 0.6× 255 0.7× 91 0.4× 110 0.5× 231 1.2× 26 1.1k
Lorraine O'Donnell United States 2 982 1.1× 240 0.7× 292 1.3× 97 0.5× 315 1.6× 3 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Christina Sharpe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christina Sharpe

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Christina Sharpe. 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 Christina Sharpe. The network helps show where Christina Sharpe may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christina Sharpe

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

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
1.
Sharpe, Christina. (2024). The Shapes of Grief: Witnessing the unbearable. The Yale Review. 112(3). 11–22.
2.
Walcott, Rinaldo, et al.. (2023). Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation.
3.
Sharpe, Christina. (2020). Monstrous Intimacies. 1 indexed citations
4.
Sharpe, Christina. (2018). “And to Survive”. Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 22(3). 171–180. 13 indexed citations
5.
Sharpe, Christina. (2016). Lose Your Kin. 1 indexed citations
6.
Sharpe, Christina. (2016). In the Wake. 683 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sharpe, Christina. (2016). In the Wake. 101 indexed citations
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Sharpe, Christina. (2016). In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 658 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sharpe, Christina. (2014). Black Life, Annotated. 3 indexed citations
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Sharpe, Christina. (2014). The Lie at the Center of Everything. Media (https://www.suub.uni-bremen.de/). 1(1). 189–214. 1 indexed citations
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Sharpe, Christina. (2014). Black Studies. The Black Scholar. 44(2). 59–69. 32 indexed citations
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Sharpe, Christina. (2012). Response to "Ante-Anti-Blackness". SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 2 indexed citations
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Sharpe, Christina. (2010). Monstrous Intimacies. 71 indexed citations
14.
Sharpe, Christina. (1999). Racialized Fantasies on the Internet. Signs. 24(4). 1089–1096. 10 indexed citations

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