Edward LiPuma

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Edward LiPuma is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Edward LiPuma has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Demography and 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Edward LiPuma's work include Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (11 papers), Social and Cultural Dynamics (7 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (5 papers). Edward LiPuma is often cited by papers focused on Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (11 papers), Social and Cultural Dynamics (7 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (5 papers). Edward LiPuma collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Russia. Edward LiPuma's co-authors include Moishe Postone, Craig Calhoun, Benjamin Lee, Richard Jenkins, Benjamin C. Lee, Thomas A. Koelble, Richard Lachmann, Axel van den Berg, Geoffrey M. White and Lamont Lindstrom and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Anthropologist and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Edward LiPuma

43 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives. 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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. Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives.
    1994 539 citations Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPuma 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
Edward LiPuma United States 18 1.1k 305 248 201 184 46 2.0k
Barry Hindess Australia 25 1.7k 1.6× 937 3.1× 194 0.8× 110 0.5× 138 0.8× 113 2.9k
Anthony M. Orum United States 19 1.6k 1.5× 721 2.4× 137 0.6× 156 0.8× 87 0.5× 57 2.7k
George Steinmetz United States 23 1.6k 1.5× 846 2.8× 308 1.2× 118 0.6× 82 0.4× 97 2.5k
W. D. Halls United Kingdom 8 1.2k 1.1× 467 1.5× 391 1.6× 186 0.9× 76 0.4× 39 2.6k
Jan Nederveen Pieterse United States 29 1.7k 1.6× 883 2.9× 281 1.1× 353 1.8× 80 0.4× 104 3.1k
Moishe Postone United States 13 1.4k 1.3× 414 1.4× 99 0.4× 48 0.2× 122 0.7× 46 2.2k
Paul Routledge United Kingdom 27 1.7k 1.6× 757 2.5× 240 1.0× 140 0.7× 135 0.7× 62 3.0k
John Clammer Japan 19 777 0.7× 194 0.6× 238 1.0× 117 0.6× 58 0.3× 104 1.6k
Alessandro Fontana 4 1.6k 1.5× 771 2.5× 136 0.5× 65 0.3× 238 1.3× 4 2.8k
Patrick Camiller United Kingdom 15 1.1k 1.0× 571 1.9× 84 0.3× 151 0.8× 56 0.3× 22 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Edward LiPuma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Edward LiPuma

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lee, Benjamin & Edward LiPuma. (2020). Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk. 8 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward & Moishe Postone. (2020). Gifts, Commodities, and the Encompassment of Others. 7(1). 167–200. 3 indexed citations
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Koelble, Thomas A. & Edward LiPuma. (2010). Institutional obstacles to service delivery in South Africa. Social Dynamics. 36(3). 565–589. 21 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward & Thomas A. Koelble. (2009). Social Capital in Emerging Democracies. VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 20(1). 1–14. 9 indexed citations
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Koelble, Thomas A. & Edward LiPuma. (2008). Democratizing Democracy: A Postcolonial Critique of Conventional Approaches to the ‘Measurement of Democracy’. Democratization. 15(1). 1–28. 45 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward & Benjamin Lee. (2005). Financial derivatives and the rise of circulation. Economy and Society. 34(3). 404–427. 66 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward & Benjamin C. Lee. (2004). Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk. 69 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward & Benjamin C. Lee. (2004). Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk. 112 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward. (2000). Encompassing Others. University of Michigan Press eBooks. 62 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward, Geoffrey M. White, & Lamont Lindstrom. (1999). Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State. Pacific Affairs. 72(3). 476–476. 71 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward. (1997). History, Identity and Encompassment: Nation‐Making in the Solomon Islands. Identities. 4(2). 213–244. 2 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward, et al.. (1997). The crosscurrents of ethnicity and class in the construction of public policy. American Ethnologist. 24(1). 114–131. 15 indexed citations
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Brown, Andrew, Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPuma, & Moishe Postone. (1995). Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives. The Modern Language Review. 90(4). 1023–1023. 21 indexed citations
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Hays, Terence E., Paula Brown, Simon Harrison, et al.. (1993). "The New Guinea Highlands": Region, Culture Area, or Fuzzy Set? [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 34(2). 141–164. 26 indexed citations
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Strathern, Andrew & Edward LiPuma. (1989). The Gift of Kinship: Structure and Practice in Maring Social Organization.. Pacific Affairs. 62(4). 585–585. 8 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward. (1988). Ethnographic Equilibrium. American Anthropologist. 90(4). 970–973. 1 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward, et al.. (1987). The New England Fishing Economy: Jobs, Income and Kinship. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 16(6). 804–804. 27 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward, et al.. (1986). Brief Communications Hunting for Tuna and Cash in the Solomons: A Rebirth of Artisanal Fishing in Malaita.
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LiPuma, Edward, et al.. (1986). The social and political economy of coastal zone management: Shrimp mariculture in Ecuador. Coastal Zone Management Journal. 14(4). 349–380. 41 indexed citations
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LiPuma, Edward, et al.. (1983). A Japanese fishing joint venture: worker experience and national development in the Solomon Islands. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 11 indexed citations

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