Darko Suvin

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 854 citations indexed

About

Darko Suvin is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Darko Suvin has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 854 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 33 papers in Philosophy and 21 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Darko Suvin's work include Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (25 papers), Digital Games and Media (10 papers) and Political Economy and Marxism (6 papers). Darko Suvin is often cited by papers focused on Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (25 papers), Digital Games and Media (10 papers) and Political Economy and Marxism (6 papers). Darko Suvin collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Italy and United Kingdom. Darko Suvin's co-authors include Dagmar Barnouw, Tom Lewis, Kathryn Hume, Janelle Reinelt, Thomas D. Clareson, Marc Angenot and Federico Pianzola and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Modern Language Review and Poetics Today.

In The Last Decade

Darko Suvin

55 papers receiving 508 citations

Hit Papers

Metamorphoses of Science Fiction. On the Poetics and Hist... 1980 2026 1995 2010 1980 100 200 300
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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. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction. On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre
    1980 358 citations Darko Suvin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Darko Suvin Canada 9 346 306 268 221 62 90 854
Dagmar Barnouw United States 9 214 0.6× 305 1.0× 261 1.0× 119 0.5× 35 0.6× 42 788
Steven Shaviro United States 10 112 0.3× 146 0.5× 218 0.8× 157 0.7× 18 0.3× 44 726
Lyman Tower Sargent United States 11 228 0.7× 116 0.4× 312 1.2× 54 0.2× 24 0.4× 63 674
Ray Brassier Lebanon 6 232 0.7× 114 0.4× 196 0.7× 109 0.5× 19 0.3× 24 719
John Durham Peters United States 5 186 0.5× 133 0.4× 286 1.1× 72 0.3× 10 0.2× 7 864
Constantin Boundas Canada 6 207 0.6× 151 0.5× 302 1.1× 136 0.6× 6 0.1× 22 843
Gillian Beer United Kingdom 11 104 0.3× 331 1.1× 166 0.6× 58 0.3× 17 0.3× 57 893
Catherine Malabou France 16 256 0.7× 83 0.3× 212 0.8× 106 0.5× 10 0.2× 86 722
Brian McHale United States 16 178 0.5× 650 2.1× 312 1.2× 91 0.4× 9 0.1× 66 1.2k
Jorge Luís Borges United States 15 153 0.4× 363 1.2× 179 0.7× 151 0.7× 7 0.1× 132 905

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Fields of papers citing papers by Darko Suvin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Darko Suvin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Suvin, Darko. (2019). O poetyce gatunku science fiction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations
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Suvin, Darko. (2016). Metamorphoses of Science Fiction. 76 indexed citations
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Suvin, Darko. (2015). Fifteen theses about communism and Yugoslavia, or the two-headed Janus of emancipation through the State: (Metamorphoses and anamorphoses of ‘On the Jewish Question’ by Marx). Critical Quarterly. 57(2). 90–110. 3 indexed citations
4.
Suvin, Darko. (2015). Um breve tratado sobre a Distopia 2001. 10. 465–488. 1 indexed citations
5.
Suvin, Darko. (2012). On Class Relationships in Yugoslavia 1945–1974, with a Hypothesis about the Ruling Class. Debatte Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 20(1). 37–71. 5 indexed citations
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Suvin, Darko. (2011). "Utopian" and "Scientific": Two Attributes for Socialism from Engels. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 1 indexed citations
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Suvin, Darko. (2011). Bureaucracy: a Term and Concept in the Socialist Discourse about State Power (Before 1941). University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE). 48(5). 193–214. 4 indexed citations
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Suvin, Darko. (2007). Of Starship Troopers and Refuseniks: War and Militarism in U.S. Science Fiction, Part 2. Extrapolation. 48(1). 9–34. 1 indexed citations
9.
Suvin, Darko. (2006). On U. K. Le Guin's "Second Earthsea Trilogy" and Its Cognitions: A Commentary. Extrapolation. 47(3). 488–504. 3 indexed citations
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Suvin, Darko. (2002). Goodbye and Hello: Differentiating Within the Later P.K. Dick. Extrapolation. 43(4). 368–397. 4 indexed citations
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Suvin, Darko. (1998). Utopianism from Orientation to Agency: What Are We Intellectuals under Post-Fordism to Do?(1). Utopian Studies. 9(2). 162. 7 indexed citations
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Suvin, Darko. (1995). Goodbye to Extrapolation. Science Fiction Studies. 22(Part 2). 301–301. 1 indexed citations
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Suvin, Darko. (1991). The Soul and the Sense: Meditations on Roland Barthes on Japan (à propos of L'Empire des signes). Canadian review of comparative literature. 18(4). 499–531. 2 indexed citations
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Suvin, Darko. (1982). Transubstantiation of Production and Creation: Metamorphic Imagery in the Grundrisse. Minnesota Review. 18(1). 102–115. 1 indexed citations
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Angenot, Marc & Darko Suvin. (1980). L’implicite du manifeste : métaphores et imagerie de la démystification dans le « manifeste communiste ». Études françaises. 16(3-4). 43–43. 1 indexed citations
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Suvin, Darko. (1979). Poetik der Science Fiction : zur Theorie und Geschichte einer literarischen Gattung. Suhrkamp eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Suvin, Darko. (1977). Pour une poétique de la science-fiction : études en théorie et en histoire d'un genre littéraire. Presses de l'Université du Québec eBooks. 2 indexed citations
18.
Suvin, Darko, et al.. (1977). H.G. Wells and modern science fiction. 4 indexed citations
19.
Suvin, Darko. (1975). Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition. Minnesota Review. 4(1). 106–115. 3 indexed citations
20.
Suvin, Darko. (1970). Reflections on Happenings. The Drama Review TDR. 14(3). 125–144. 2 indexed citations

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