Gavin Williams

52 papers receiving 577 citations

Peers

Gavin Williams
Comparison fields: 5 of 95
  • Sociology and Political Science 440
  • Political Science and International Relations 187
  • Soil Science 141
  • Anthropology 132
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 107
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Countries citing papers authored by Gavin Williams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gavin Williams

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Gavin Williams. 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 Gavin Williams. The network helps show where Gavin Williams may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gavin Williams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gavin Williams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gavin Williams 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 Gavin Williams. Gavin Williams 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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3 1
4 37
5 26
6 39
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Transforming labour tenants
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9 41
10 8
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Capitalists, peasants and land in Africa: A comparative perspective
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12 8
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16 20
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Rural Development: Partners and Adversaries
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18 12
19 32
20 134

About Gavin Williams

Gavin Williams is a scholar working on Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, Music and Archeology, having authored 59 papers that have together received 893 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Land Rights and Reforms (7 papers), African studies and sociopolitical issues (6 papers) and South African History and Culture (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Development (66 citations), Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (27 citations) and Soil Science (141 citations). Gavin Williams has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and South Africa. Frequent co-authors include Frank Parkin, Elizabeth Francis, Judith Heyer, Margaret Peil, Charles van Onselen, Joachim Ewert, Colin Murray, Nick Vink, Brian Williams and Robert Melson. Their work appears in journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, World Development and British Journal of Sociology.

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