Crystal Biruk

468 total citations
13 papers, 219 citations indexed

About

Crystal Biruk is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Infectious Diseases and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Crystal Biruk has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 219 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 3 papers in Infectious Diseases and 2 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Crystal Biruk's work include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (3 papers), Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (2 papers) and African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 papers). Crystal Biruk is often cited by papers focused on HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (3 papers), Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (2 papers) and African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 papers). Crystal Biruk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Canada. Crystal Biruk's co-authors include Gift Trapence, Frances K. Barg, Marsha Wittink, Dana M. Prince, Gigi Santow, Susan Watkins, Michael Bracher, C. K. N. Patel, Mary Louise Pratt and Francesca Orsini and has published in prestigious journals such as Qualitative Health Research, Medical Anthropology Quarterly and The Journal of Modern African Studies.

In The Last Decade

Crystal Biruk

12 papers receiving 183 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Crystal Biruk United States 6 97 60 48 42 38 13 219
Andrea Nye United States 8 74 0.8× 62 1.0× 33 0.7× 15 0.4× 30 0.8× 36 235
Shamshad Khan Canada 10 129 1.3× 71 1.2× 23 0.5× 37 0.9× 69 1.8× 24 261
Fiona R. Parrott United Kingdom 9 75 0.8× 114 1.9× 33 0.7× 16 0.4× 93 2.4× 11 274
Vincanne Adams 3 81 0.8× 49 0.8× 56 1.2× 14 0.3× 24 0.6× 4 235
Gary Laderman United States 10 81 0.8× 65 1.1× 30 0.6× 36 0.9× 53 1.4× 20 298
Mario Pecheny Argentina 10 162 1.7× 70 1.2× 66 1.4× 59 1.4× 52 1.4× 62 341
Ben Kasstan United Kingdom 9 96 1.0× 34 0.6× 37 0.8× 14 0.3× 54 1.4× 31 250
Abdessamad Dialmy Morocco 7 124 1.3× 46 0.8× 18 0.4× 33 0.8× 21 0.6× 19 241
Dominik Mattes Germany 8 103 1.1× 69 1.1× 11 0.2× 16 0.4× 93 2.4× 15 226
Silviya Nikolova Bulgaria 8 61 0.6× 61 1.0× 32 0.7× 25 0.6× 37 1.0× 46 221

Countries citing papers authored by Crystal Biruk

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Fields of papers citing papers by Crystal Biruk

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Crystal Biruk

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All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Biruk, Crystal. (2021). ‘COVID containers’ in pandemic mediascapes: discursive economies of health, bodies, and race in North America. Anthropology and Medicine. 29(3). 305–322. 2 indexed citations
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Biruk, Crystal & Gift Trapence. (2017). “Gay for Pay” in an Economy of Harms. Anthropology News. 58(2). 1 indexed citations
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Biruk, Crystal & Gift Trapence. (2017). Community engagement in an economy of harms: reflections from an LGBTI-rights NGO in Malawi. Critical Public Health. 28(3). 340–351. 13 indexed citations
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Biruk, Crystal. (2017). Ethical Gifts?: An Analysis of Soap‐for‐data Transactions in Malawian Survey Research Worlds. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 31(3). 365–384. 7 indexed citations
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Biruk, Crystal. (2016). Studying up in critical NGO studies today: reflections on critique and the distribution of interpretive labour. Critical African Studies. 8(3). 291–305. 2 indexed citations
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Biruk, Crystal. (2014). ‘Aid for gays’: the moral and the material in ‘African homophobia’ in post-2009 Malawi. The Journal of Modern African Studies. 52(3). 447–473. 32 indexed citations
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Pratt, Mary Louise, Stephanie LeMenager, Rob Nixon, et al.. (2012). Reviews. Interventions. 14(2). 298–326. 1 indexed citations
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Biruk, Crystal. (2011). The production and circulation of AIDS knowledge in Malawi. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 2 indexed citations
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Biruk, Crystal. (2011). Seeing Like a Research Project: Producing “High-Quality Data” in AIDS Research in Malawi. Medical Anthropology. 31(4). 347–366. 51 indexed citations
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Wittink, Marsha, et al.. (2008). How Older Adults Combine Medical and Experiential Notions of Depression. Qualitative Health Research. 18(9). 1174–1183. 26 indexed citations
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Biruk, Crystal & Dana M. Prince. (2008). ‘Subjects, Participants, Collaborators’. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 10(2). 236–246. 5 indexed citations
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Watkins, Susan, Gigi Santow, Michael Bracher, & Crystal Biruk. (2007). Epistemology and Epidemiology: Diagnosing AIDS in rural Malawi. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 4 indexed citations

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