Colin Bell

26 total papers · 803 total citations
11 papers, 493 citations indexed

About

Colin Bell is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Bell has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 493 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 3 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 2 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Colin Bell's work include Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 papers), Rural development and sustainability (3 papers) and Work-Family Balance Challenges (2 papers). Colin Bell is often cited by papers focused on Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 papers), Rural development and sustainability (3 papers) and Work-Family Balance Challenges (2 papers). Colin Bell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Colin Bell's co-authors include Ronald Gallimore, Leigh Minturn, Taniya Singh, Thomas R. Williams, Margaret K. Bacon, Carolyn Pope Edwards, James E. Ritchie, Paul C. Rosenblatt, Beatrice B. Whiting and William D. Wilder and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, Social Forces and Human Relations.

In The Last Decade

Colin Bell

9 papers receiving 378 citations

Hit Papers

My Brother's Keeper: Chil... 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 100 200 300
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. My Brother's Keeper: Child and Sibling Caretaking [and Comments and Reply]
    1977 385 citations Thomas S. Weisner, Ronald Gallimore et al. Current Anthropology profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Colin Bell 205 133 91 81 79 11 493
James E. Ritchie 155 0.8× 135 1.0× 91 1.0× 80 1.0× 79 1.0× 13 453
Hinckley A. Jones-Sanpei 123 0.6× 143 1.1× 88 1.0× 120 1.5× 73 0.9× 16 508
Matthias Reitzle 152 0.7× 128 1.0× 120 1.3× 108 1.3× 100 1.3× 22 451
Roger L. Gould 110 0.5× 100 0.8× 122 1.3× 99 1.2× 46 0.6× 7 463
Jaan Valsiner 279 1.4× 184 1.4× 106 1.2× 67 0.8× 57 0.7× 9 526
Anastasia S. Vogt Yuan 182 0.9× 99 0.7× 74 0.8× 132 1.6× 38 0.5× 13 471
Gail Sheehy 160 0.8× 116 0.9× 115 1.3× 86 1.1× 42 0.5× 10 537
F. Philip Rice 139 0.7× 161 1.2× 116 1.3× 174 2.1× 64 0.8× 8 516
Ingeborg Foldøy Solli 145 0.7× 124 0.9× 104 1.1× 29 0.4× 40 0.5× 11 414
Guy J. Manaster 153 0.7× 88 0.7× 135 1.5× 133 1.6× 42 0.5× 27 476

Countries citing papers authored by Colin Bell

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Bell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Bell

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

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