George Saunders

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 585 citations indexed

About

George Saunders is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, George Saunders has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 585 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 2 papers in Anthropology and 2 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in George Saunders's work include Language Development and Disorders (2 papers), Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography (1 paper) and Christian Theology and Mission (1 paper). George Saunders is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (2 papers), Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography (1 paper) and Christian Theology and Mission (1 paper). George Saunders collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. George Saunders's co-authors include David D. Gilmore, Martine Segalen, Anne Jacobson Schutte, Illene C. Noppe, Carl N. Degler, Martin Davies, Stephen D. Johnson, Joseph B. Tamney, David I. Kertzer and Roy Medvedev and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Marriage and the Family, Modern Language Journal and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

George Saunders

19 papers receiving 426 citations

Hit Papers

Honor and Shame and the Unity of the Mediterranean 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 50 100 150 200 250
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. Honor and Shame and the Unity of the Mediterranean
    1988 266 citations George Saunders, David D. Gilmore Anthropological Quarterly 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 Saunders United States 10 221 147 121 92 78 21 585
Joel C. Kuipers United States 11 124 0.6× 115 0.8× 144 1.2× 60 0.7× 41 0.5× 40 541
Diana Eades Australia 18 125 0.6× 299 2.0× 323 2.7× 39 0.4× 57 0.7× 47 791
Sjaak Kroon Netherlands 14 191 0.9× 297 2.0× 229 1.9× 62 0.7× 38 0.5× 75 600
Alan Woolfolk United States 5 155 0.7× 48 0.3× 81 0.7× 34 0.4× 38 0.5× 17 472
Ross Chambers United States 9 185 0.8× 71 0.5× 127 1.0× 19 0.2× 34 0.4× 65 749
Bonnie McElhinny Canada 15 182 0.8× 364 2.5× 303 2.5× 23 0.3× 66 0.8× 33 750
David E. López United States 8 430 1.9× 427 2.9× 303 2.5× 32 0.3× 74 0.9× 16 983
Lee Haring United States 8 157 0.7× 46 0.3× 54 0.4× 13 0.1× 30 0.4× 58 480
Thomas Kochman United States 9 215 1.0× 220 1.5× 261 2.2× 58 0.6× 14 0.2× 18 774
Calvin Veltman Canada 11 268 1.2× 396 2.7× 195 1.6× 72 0.8× 39 0.5× 31 675

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Saunders

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Saunders

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of George Saunders. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of George Saunders 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 George Saunders. George Saunders 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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Saunders, George. (2006). In Persuasion Nation. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations
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Saunders, George. (2005). The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 2 indexed citations
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Tamney, Joseph B., et al.. (2003). Strictness and Congregational Growth in Middletown. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 42(3). 363–375. 9 indexed citations
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Saunders, George & David I. Kertzer. (1999). The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. Anthropological Quarterly. 72(3). 146–146. 1 indexed citations
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Saunders, George. (1995). the crisis of presence in Italian Pentecostal conversion. American Ethnologist. 22(2). 324–340. 18 indexed citations
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Saunders, George & Anne Jacobson Schutte. (1993). :Madonnas That Maim: Popular Catholicism in Italy Since the Fifteenth Century. Sixteenth Century Journal. 24(4). 1037–1039. 1 indexed citations
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Saunders, George. (1993). “Critical Ethnocentrism” and the Ethnology of Ernesto De Martino. American Anthropologist. 95(4). 875–893. 27 indexed citations
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Saunders, George & David D. Gilmore. (1990). Aggression and Community: Paradoxes of Andalusian Culture. Ethnohistory. 37(3). 349–349. 2 indexed citations
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Saunders, George, et al.. (1990). Bilingual Children: From Birth to Teens. Modern Language Journal. 74(3). 388–388. 107 indexed citations
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Saunders, George & David D. Gilmore. (1988). Honor and Shame and the Unity of the Mediterranean. Anthropological Quarterly. 61(3). 141–141. 266 indexed citations breakdown →
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Saunders, George & Martine Segalen. (1985). Love and Power in the Peasant Family. Ethnohistory. 32(1). 84–84. 25 indexed citations
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Saunders, George, et al.. (1984). Bilingual Children: Guidance for the Family. Comhar. 43(6). 27–27. 67 indexed citations
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Saunders, George. (1982). Bilingual Children: Guidance for the Family. Multilingual Matters 3.. 19(1). E22–E23. 1 indexed citations
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Saunders, George. (1982). Infant bilingualism: A look at some doubts and objections. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 3(4). 277–292. 8 indexed citations
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Noppe, Illene C., George Saunders, Anne Jacobson Schutte, & Carl N. Degler. (1981). At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 43(4). 993–993. 20 indexed citations
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Medvedev, Roy, et al.. (1981). October 1917 Revisited. Labour / Le Travail. 7. 174–174.
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Saunders, George. (1980). Adding a second native language in the home. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 1(2). 113–144. 13 indexed citations
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Saunders, George. (1979). Social Change and Psychocultural Continuity in Alpine Italian Family Life. Ethos. 7(3). 206–231. 3 indexed citations
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Saunders, George & Martin Davies. (1976). The Validity of the Jesness Inventory with British Delinquents. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 15(1). 33–39. 10 indexed citations

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