Daniel Mains

1.2k total citations
18 papers, 582 citations indexed

About

Daniel Mains is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Mains has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 582 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Daniel Mains's work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 papers) and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (2 papers). Daniel Mains is often cited by papers focused on Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 papers) and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (2 papers). Daniel Mains collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Ethiopia. Daniel Mains's co-authors include Craig Hadley and Fasil Tessema and has published in prestigious journals such as American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology and Culture Medicine and Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Mains

17 papers receiving 503 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel Mains United States 11 364 177 118 72 67 18 582
Tatjana Thelen Germany 10 326 0.9× 161 0.9× 62 0.5× 93 1.3× 45 0.7× 38 508
Marc Sommers United States 11 355 1.0× 134 0.8× 38 0.3× 63 0.9× 36 0.5× 23 551
Mary Beth Mills United States 9 445 1.2× 222 1.3× 74 0.6× 42 0.6× 17 0.3× 17 606
Christopher Harker United Kingdom 13 391 1.1× 96 0.5× 25 0.2× 67 0.9× 122 1.8× 25 580
Tamara Jacka Australia 14 629 1.7× 412 2.3× 49 0.4× 67 0.9× 27 0.4× 34 839
Nauja Kleist Denmark 11 478 1.3× 102 0.6× 70 0.6× 51 0.7× 33 0.5× 31 610
Ritty A. Lukose United States 8 267 0.7× 118 0.7× 80 0.7× 25 0.3× 13 0.2× 15 449
Alcinda Honwana South Africa 11 339 0.9× 88 0.5× 65 0.6× 68 0.9× 16 0.2× 17 490
Kathleen Sheldon United States 12 189 0.5× 67 0.4× 141 1.2× 15 0.2× 36 0.5× 39 409
J. S. Eades Japan 11 233 0.6× 74 0.4× 74 0.6× 23 0.3× 45 0.7× 20 423

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Mains

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Mains

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Mains, Daniel, et al.. (2021). The Ethiopian developmental state and struggles over the reproduction of young migrant women’s labor at the Hawassa Industrial Park. Journal of Eastern African Studies. 15(3). 359–377. 14 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel, et al.. (2020). Temporalities of waiting in Africa. Critical African Studies. 12(1). 1–9. 35 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel. (2019). Under Construction. 18 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel. (2019). Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 14 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel. (2019). Under Construction. 1 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel, et al.. (2017). Governing three-wheeled motorcycle taxis in urban Ethiopia: States, markets, and moral discourses of infrastructure. American Ethnologist. 44(2). 263–274. 12 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel. (2017). Too much time. Focaal. 2017(78). 38–51. 9 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel, et al.. (2016). Making the city of nations and nationalities: the politics of ethnicity and roads in Hawassa, Ethiopia. The Journal of Modern African Studies. 54(4). 645–669. 9 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel. (2013). Friends and money: Balancing affection and reciprocity among young men in urban Ethiopia. American Ethnologist. 40(2). 335–346. 27 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel, Craig Hadley, & Fasil Tessema. (2012). Chewing over the Future: Khat Consumption, Anxiety, Depression, and Time Among Young Men in Jimma, Ethiopia. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry. 37(1). 111–130. 14 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel. (2012). Mutilating Khalid: The Symbolic Politics of Female Genital Cutting. Northeast African Studies. 12(1). 325–327. 1 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel. (2012). BLACKOUTS AND PROGRESS: Privatization, Infrastructure, and a Developmentalist State in Jimma, Ethiopia. Cultural Anthropology. 27(1). 3–27. 81 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel. (2011). Hope Is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 154 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel. (2007). Neoliberal times: Progress, boredom, and shame among young men in urban Ethiopia. American Ethnologist. 34(4). 659–673. 179 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel. (2004). Drinking, Rumour, and Ethnicity in Jimma, Ethiopia. Africa. 74(3). 341–360. 10 indexed citations
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Mains, Daniel. (2004). Drinking, Rumour, and Ethnicity in Jimma, Ethiopia. Africa. 74(3). 341–341. 1 indexed citations

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