Gary Urton

2.5k total citations
60 papers, 940 citations indexed

About

Gary Urton is a scholar working on Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Anthropology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary Urton has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 940 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts, 10 papers in Anthropology and 8 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Gary Urton's work include Latin American history and culture (23 papers), Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (7 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 papers). Gary Urton is often cited by papers focused on Latin American history and culture (23 papers), Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (7 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 papers). Gary Urton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Peru and Spain. Gary Urton's co-authors include Ben Orlove, Jeffrey Quilter, Anthony F. Aveni, John Meier, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Dumbarton Oaks, R. T. Zuidema, Clive Ruggles, Sabine MacCormack and Alexander Cherkinsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gary Urton

57 papers receiving 755 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gary Urton United States 18 329 241 222 121 104 60 940
Frank Salomon United States 15 325 1.0× 296 1.2× 388 1.7× 116 1.0× 97 0.9× 62 982
Elsa M. Redmond United States 17 237 0.7× 550 2.3× 312 1.4× 179 1.5× 152 1.5× 37 891
Charles S. Spencer United States 18 245 0.7× 702 2.9× 361 1.6× 222 1.8× 174 1.7× 46 1.1k
Dennis Tedlock United States 15 205 0.6× 117 0.5× 265 1.2× 74 0.6× 48 0.5× 42 1.1k
Benjamin Keen United States 16 380 1.2× 160 0.7× 295 1.3× 64 0.5× 49 0.5× 83 899
George Kubler United States 17 346 1.1× 180 0.7× 175 0.8× 66 0.5× 112 1.1× 96 889
Elizabeth DeMarrais United Kingdom 11 177 0.5× 516 2.1× 447 2.0× 166 1.4× 237 2.3× 17 1.1k
Victoria R. Bricker United States 12 260 0.8× 133 0.6× 83 0.4× 46 0.4× 32 0.3× 58 578
Scott R. Hutson United States 20 198 0.6× 662 2.7× 394 1.8× 149 1.2× 278 2.7× 50 1.3k
Charles Gibson United States 20 665 2.0× 315 1.3× 375 1.7× 58 0.5× 63 0.6× 89 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Gary Urton

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Gary Urton's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Gary Urton with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Gary Urton more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Gary Urton

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Gary Urton. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Gary Urton. The network helps show where Gary Urton may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gary Urton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gary Urton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gary Urton 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 Gary Urton. Gary Urton 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
1.
Urton, Gary. (2018). Quipus and Yupanas as Imperial Registers. Oxford University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
2.
Urton, Gary, et al.. (2018). Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru. Ethnohistory. 65(1). 1–23. 15 indexed citations
3.
Urton, Gary. (2017). Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 19 indexed citations
4.
Yoffee, Norman, Susan M. Alt, Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks, et al.. (2015). The Cambridge World History. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 17 indexed citations
5.
Guedes, Jade d’Alpoim, Theodore C. Bestor, Davíd Carrasco, et al.. (2012). Is Poverty in Our Genes?. Current Anthropology. 54(1). 71–79. 29 indexed citations
6.
Urton, Gary. (2011). Tying the Archive in Knots, or: Dying to Get into the Archive in Ancient Peru. Archives and Records. 32(1). 5–20. 3 indexed citations
7.
Boone, Elizabeth Hill, Gary Urton, & Dumbarton Oaks. (2011). Their way of writing : scripts, signs, and pictographies in Pre-Columbian America. 38 indexed citations
8.
Urton, Gary, et al.. (2006). Estudios sobre los quipus. 7 indexed citations
9.
Urton, Gary. (2006). Censos registrados en cordeles con "Amarres". Padrones Poblacionales Pre-Hispánicos y Coloniales Tempranos en los "Khipu Inka". Hispana. 153–196. 4 indexed citations
10.
11.
Urton, Gary. (2003). Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 67 indexed citations
12.
Quilter, Jeffrey & Gary Urton. (2002). Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu. University of Texas Press eBooks. 55 indexed citations
13.
Urton, Gary. (2002). Codificación binaria en los Khipus incainos. 9–68. 2 indexed citations
14.
Urton, Gary. (1993). Moieties and Ceremonialism in the Andes : The Ritual Battles of the Carnival Season in Southern Peru. Senri ethnological studies. 37(37). 117–142. 15 indexed citations
15.
Urton, Gary. (1989). La historia de un mito: Pacariqtambo y el origen de los incas. 129–216. 3 indexed citations
16.
Urton, Gary. (1984). Chuta: el espacio de la práctica social en Pacariqtambo, Perú. 7–56. 9 indexed citations
18.
Aveni, Anthony F. & Gary Urton. (1982). Introductory Remarks. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 385(1). 2 indexed citations
19.
Aveni, Anthony F. & Gary Urton. (1980). Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics. New York Academy of Sciences eBooks. 43 indexed citations
20.
Urton, Gary. (1979). The astronomical system of a community in the Peruvian Andes. University Microfilms International eBooks. 5 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Rankless by CCL
2026