George A. Collier

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

George A. Collier is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, George A. Collier has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Anthropology, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in George A. Collier's work include Indigenous Cultures and History (5 papers), Latin American rural development (4 papers) and Latin American history and culture (4 papers). George A. Collier is often cited by papers focused on Indigenous Cultures and History (5 papers), Latin American rural development (4 papers) and Latin American history and culture (4 papers). George A. Collier collaborates with scholars based in United States and Mexico. George A. Collier's co-authors include Bill Maurer, T. Berry Brazelton, John S. Robey, Dwight B. Heath, John J. TePaske, Robert Alvarez, Gary W. McDonogh, Victoria R. Bricker, Ronald Nigh and Renato Rosaldo and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PEDIATRICS and BioScience.

In The Last Decade

George A. Collier

34 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Basic color terms: their universality and evolution. By B... 1973 2026 1990 2008 1973 400 800 1.2k
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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. Basic color terms: their universality and evolution. By Brent Berlin and Paul Kay. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. Pp. xi, 178. $8.50.
    1973 1.4k citations George A. Collier Language profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George A. Collier United States 15 831 494 243 189 188 38 2.1k
E. H. Gombrich United Kingdom 21 528 0.6× 368 0.7× 333 1.4× 64 0.3× 741 3.9× 103 2.9k
René Descartes 25 698 0.8× 363 0.7× 543 2.2× 80 0.4× 540 2.9× 154 4.0k
Arthur C. Danto United States 26 492 0.6× 202 0.4× 574 2.4× 65 0.3× 469 2.5× 168 2.9k
Justus Buchler Chile 10 280 0.3× 184 0.4× 339 1.4× 212 1.1× 129 0.7× 41 1.7k
Steven Feld United States 23 235 0.3× 148 0.3× 580 2.4× 115 0.6× 246 1.3× 68 2.5k
Monroe C. Beardsley United States 22 500 0.6× 172 0.3× 355 1.5× 170 0.9× 385 2.0× 94 2.1k
Frances A. Yates 14 230 0.3× 148 0.3× 228 0.9× 50 0.3× 209 1.1× 52 1.8k
Aron Gurwitsch United Kingdom 14 426 0.5× 377 0.8× 455 1.9× 88 0.5× 305 1.6× 37 2.1k
Gerald Prince United States 17 513 0.6× 103 0.2× 381 1.6× 358 1.9× 36 0.2× 77 2.3k
Bruno Nettl United States 21 197 0.2× 143 0.3× 287 1.2× 72 0.4× 437 2.3× 166 1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George A. Collier

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Collier, George A. & Jane F. Collier. (2005). The Zapatista rebellion in the context of globalization. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 32(3-4). 450–460. 11 indexed citations
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Collier, George A.. (2000). Zapatismo Resurgent Land And Autonomy In Chiapas. NACLA Report on the Americas. 33(5). 20–25. 4 indexed citations
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Collier, George A.. (1999). Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan Maya Activism in Guatemala. American Ethnologist. 26(4). 1009–1010. 10 indexed citations
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Maurer, Bill, et al.. (1998). Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas.. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 4(3). 580–580. 115 indexed citations
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Stephen, Lynn & George A. Collier. (1997). Reconfiguring Ethnicity, Identity and Citizenship in the Wake of the Zapatista Rebellion. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 3(1). 2–13. 1 indexed citations
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Stephen, Lynn & George A. Collier. (1997). Reconfiguring Ethnicity, Identity and Citizenship in the Wake of the Zapatista Rebellion. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 3(1). 2–13. 8 indexed citations
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Collier, George A.. (1997). Socialistas de la Andalucía rural : Los revolucionarios ignorados de la Segunda República. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations
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Collier, George A.. (1995). La nueva política de exclusión. Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México. 13(37). 55–89. 1 indexed citations
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Alvarez, Robert & George A. Collier. (1994). the long haul in Mexican trucking: traversing the borderlands of the north and the south. American Ethnologist. 21(3). 606–627. 40 indexed citations
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Collier, George A., et al.. (1994). Peasant Agriculture and Global Change. BioScience. 44(6). 398–407. 26 indexed citations
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Collier, George A.. (1994). The Rebellion in Chiapas and the Legacy of Energy Development. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. 10(2). 371–382. 2 indexed citations
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Collier, George A.. (1994). The new politics of exclusion: Antecedents to the rebellion in Mexico. Dialectical Anthropology. 19(1). 1–44. 12 indexed citations
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McDonogh, Gary W. & George A. Collier. (1989). Socialists of Rural Andalusia: Unacknowledged Revolutionaries of the Second Republic. Ethnohistory. 36(3). 344–344. 24 indexed citations
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Collier, George A.. (1987). Peasant Politics and the Mexican State: Indigenous Compliance in Highland Chiapas. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. 3(1). 71–98. 12 indexed citations
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Collier, George A., et al.. (1982). We Come to Object: The Peasants of Morelos and the National State.. Man. 17(1). 190–190. 38 indexed citations
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Collier, George A.. (1976). Further Evidence for Universal Color Categories. Language. 52(4). 884–890. 27 indexed citations
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Collier, George A.. (1976). Fields of the Tzotzil. University of Texas Press eBooks. 40 indexed citations
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Heath, Dwight B. & George A. Collier. (1976). Fields of the Tzotzil: The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas. Ethnohistory. 23(1). 77–77. 49 indexed citations
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Collier, George A.. (1975). a reinterpretation of color nomenclature systems1. American Ethnologist. 2(1). 111–125. 3 indexed citations
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Collier, George A.. (1973). Basic color terms: their universality and evolution. By Brent Berlin and Paul Kay. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. Pp. xi, 178. $8.50.. Language. 49(1). 245–248. 1354 indexed citations breakdown →

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