Colin Jerolmack

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Colin Jerolmack is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Jerolmack has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Colin Jerolmack's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 papers), Social and Cultural Dynamics (6 papers) and Human-Animal Interaction Studies (5 papers). Colin Jerolmack is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 papers), Social and Cultural Dynamics (6 papers) and Human-Animal Interaction Studies (5 papers). Colin Jerolmack collaborates with scholars based in United States. Colin Jerolmack's co-authors include Shamus Khan, Alexandra K. Murphy, Iddo Tavory, Edward T. Walker, Douglas V. Porpora, Hillary Angelo, Clinton R. Sanders and Gary D. Jaworski and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Colin Jerolmack

35 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Talk Is Cheap

2014 527 citations Colin Jerolmack, Shamus Khan Sociological Methods & Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin Jerolmack United States	18	832	237	152	146	131	36	1.5k
María Puig de la Bellacasa United Kingdom	10	852 1.0×	563 2.4×	104 0.7×	122 0.8×	196 1.5×	19	2.4k
Ted Benton United Kingdom	18	784 0.9×	350 1.5×	111 0.7×	101 0.7×	189 1.4×	71	1.9k
Ingunn Moser Norway	19	608 0.7×	167 0.7×	115 0.8×	57 0.4×	114 0.9×	32	1.7k
Nickie Charles United Kingdom	24	733 0.9×	312 1.3×	119 0.8×	305 2.1×	144 1.1×	68	1.9k
Warwick Anderson Australia	24	695 0.8×	215 0.9×	41 0.3×	273 1.9×	192 1.5×	132	2.4k
Nina Lykke Sweden	19	601 0.7×	198 0.8×	134 0.9×	72 0.5×	91 0.7×	73	1.4k
Myra J. Hird Canada	21	456 0.5×	319 1.3×	193 1.3×	104 0.7×	103 0.8×	63	1.4k
Timothy Ingold United States	11	541 0.7×	446 1.9×	171 1.1×	57 0.4×	75 0.6×	22	1.8k
Ruth Behar United States	16	1.2k 1.4×	77 0.3×	136 0.9×	138 0.9×	179 1.4×	57	2.3k
Bruce M. Knauft United States	21	1.1k 1.3×	239 1.0×	278 1.8×	85 0.6×	133 1.0×	50	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Jerolmack

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All Works

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Jaworski, Gary D. & Colin Jerolmack. (2025). Erving Goffman, Thomas Sebeok, and “Interaction Ethology”. 1(2). 167–204.

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Jerolmack, Colin, et al.. (2024). The Interactional Zoo: Lessons for Sociology from Erving Goffman’s Engagement with Animal Ethology. Sociological Theory. 42(2). 137–159. 3 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin, et al.. (2024). Frame Analysis and Animal Studies: Erving Goffman's Overlooked Thesis on Animal Metacommunication and Mind. Symbolic Interaction. 47(4). 578–597. 2 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin. (2022). What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?. Sociological Methods & Research. 52(2). 1059–1072. 3 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin. (2021). Up to Heaven and Down to Hell. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin. (2021). Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 4 indexed citations

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Murphy, Alexandra K., et al.. (2021). Ethnography, Data Transparency, and the Information Age. Annual Review of Sociology. 47(1). 41–61. 44 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin & Alexandra K. Murphy. (2017). The Ethical Dilemmas and Social Scientific Trade-offs of Masking in Ethnography. Sociological Methods & Research. 48(4). 801–827. 80 indexed citations

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Murphy, Alexandra K. & Colin Jerolmack. (2016). Ethnographic Masking in an Era of Data Transparency. Contexts. 15(2). 14–17. 12 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin & Shamus Khan. (2014). Talk Is Cheap. Sociological Methods & Research. 43(2). 178–209. 527 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jerolmack, Colin & Shamus Khan. (2014). Toward an Understanding of the Relationship Between Accounts and Action. Sociological Methods & Research. 43(2). 236–247. 29 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin & Iddo Tavory. (2013). Nonhumans and the Constitution of the Social Self. 2 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin. (2013). The Global Pigeon. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 27 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin. (2013). The Global Pigeon. 75 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin. (2012). Who’s worried about turkeys? How ‘organisational silos’ impede zoonotic disease surveillance. Sociology of Health & Illness. 35(2). 200–212. 20 indexed citations

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Khan, Shamus & Colin Jerolmack. (2012). Saying Meritocracy and Doing Privilege. Sociological Quarterly. 54(1). 9–19. 89 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin. (2009). Humans, Animals, and Play: Theorizing Interaction When Intersubjectivity is Problematic. Sociological Theory. 27(4). 371–389. 54 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin. (2008). How Pigeons Became Rats: The Cultural-Spatial Logic of Problem Animals. Social Problems. 55(1). 72–94. 160 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin & Clinton R. Sanders. (2005). Our Animals, Our Selves? Chipping Away. 2 indexed citations

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Jerolmack, Colin & Douglas V. Porpora. (2004). Religion, Rationality, and Experience: A Response to the New Rational Choice Theory of Religion. Sociological Theory. 22(1). 140–160. 33 indexed citations

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