Deborah Pellow

780 total citations
30 papers, 397 citations indexed

About

Deborah Pellow is a scholar working on Anthropology, Urban Studies and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Pellow has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 397 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Anthropology, 9 papers in Urban Studies and 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Deborah Pellow's work include Urban and Rural Development Challenges (9 papers), African history and culture studies (6 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 papers). Deborah Pellow is often cited by papers focused on Urban and Rural Development Challenges (9 papers), African history and culture studies (6 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 papers). Deborah Pellow collaborates with scholars based in United States and Russia. Deborah Pellow's co-authors include Naomi Chazan, Susan Kent, Barbara M. Cooper, Richard E. Lapchick, Ian Smith, Claire Robertson, Suzanne Scheld and Patrick Corcoran and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, American Anthropologist and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Pellow

27 papers receiving 293 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Deborah Pellow United States 13 172 103 94 75 38 30 397
Ineke van Kessel Netherlands 8 269 1.6× 55 0.5× 67 0.7× 91 1.2× 22 0.6× 18 431
Tade Akin Aina Nigeria 10 164 1.0× 82 0.8× 25 0.3× 61 0.8× 33 0.9× 31 340
J. S. Eades Japan 11 233 1.4× 45 0.4× 74 0.8× 74 1.0× 23 0.6× 20 423
Krisztina Fehérváry United States 7 198 1.2× 92 0.9× 63 0.7× 115 1.5× 19 0.5× 11 405
Laurent Fourchard France 11 258 1.5× 107 1.0× 117 1.2× 115 1.5× 43 1.1× 40 432
Lillian Trager United States 11 245 1.4× 54 0.5× 66 0.7× 61 0.8× 29 0.8× 22 398
Peris S. Jones Norway 12 235 1.4× 110 1.1× 24 0.3× 80 1.1× 50 1.3× 24 438
Jeremy Seabrook United States 13 247 1.4× 44 0.4× 34 0.4× 98 1.3× 41 1.1× 56 427
Giorgio Blundo France 10 434 2.5× 63 0.6× 110 1.2× 176 2.3× 52 1.4× 19 590
Maxwell Owusu United States 11 184 1.1× 26 0.3× 98 1.0× 72 1.0× 17 0.4× 35 427

Countries citing papers authored by Deborah Pellow

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Fields of papers citing papers by Deborah Pellow

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Pellow

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pellow, Deborah & Suzanne Scheld. (2023). Africa and Urban Anthropology. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library).
2.
Pellow, Deborah. (2020). Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 55(1). 227–228. 12 indexed citations
3.
Pellow, Deborah. (2015). Multiple Modernities. Home Cultures. 12(1). 55–81. 9 indexed citations
4.
Pellow, Deborah. (2011). Internal transmigrants: A Dagomba diaspora. American Ethnologist. 38(1). 132–147. 15 indexed citations
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Pellow, Deborah. (2005). Lars  Engberg‐Pedersen. Endangering Development: Politics, Projects, and Environment in Burkina Faso. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Pp. 170.. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 53(3). 757–759. 1 indexed citations
6.
Pellow, Deborah. (1999). An Interview with John Middleton. Current Anthropology. 40(2). 217–230.
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Pellow, Deborah & Barbara M. Cooper. (1998). Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900-1989. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 4(4). 818–818. 12 indexed citations
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Kent, Susan & Deborah Pellow. (1997). Setting Boundaries: The Anthropology of Spatial and Social Organization.. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 3(4). 792–792. 14 indexed citations
9.
Pellow, Deborah, et al.. (1996). Washing Dirty Laundry: Organic-Activist-Research Inside Two Social Movement Organizations. 33(2). 138–153. 3 indexed citations
10.
Pellow, Deborah. (1991). The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo. Ethnohistory. 38(4). 414–414. 26 indexed citations
11.
Pellow, Deborah. (1990). Sexuality in Africa. 4(4). 71–96. 15 indexed citations
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Pellow, Deborah, et al.. (1988). Ghana: Coping with Uncertainty. African Studies Review. 31(1). 167–167. 15 indexed citations
13.
Pellow, Deborah, et al.. (1988). Ghana: Coping with Uncertainty. The American Historical Review. 93(2). 474–474. 42 indexed citations
14.
Pellow, Deborah. (1988). What housing does: changes in an Accra community. 4(3). 213–228. 18 indexed citations
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Pellow, Deborah. (1987). Solidarity among Muslim Women in Accra, Ghana. 82. 489–506. 4 indexed citations
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Pellow, Deborah. (1985). Muslim Segmentation: Cohesion and Divisiveness in Accra. The Journal of Modern African Studies. 23(3). 419–444. 20 indexed citations
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Lapchick, Richard E., et al.. (1983). Oppression and Resistance: The Struggle of Women in Southern Africa. Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies. 7(2). 85–85. 3 indexed citations
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Pellow, Deborah. (1981). The New Urban Community: Mutual Relevance of the Social and Physical Environments. Human Organization. 40(1). 15–26. 3 indexed citations
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Pellow, Deborah. (1978). work and autonomy: women in Accra. American Ethnologist. 5(4). 770–785. 9 indexed citations
20.
Pellow, Deborah. (1977). Recent Studies on African Women. African Studies Review. 20(1). 117–117. 5 indexed citations

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