Ghislaine Lydon

1.2k total citations
20 papers, 471 citations indexed

About

Ghislaine Lydon is a scholar working on Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ghislaine Lydon has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 471 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Anthropology, 12 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Ghislaine Lydon's work include African Studies and Geopolitics (9 papers), Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (8 papers) and African history and culture studies (4 papers). Ghislaine Lydon is often cited by papers focused on African Studies and Geopolitics (9 papers), Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (8 papers) and African history and culture studies (4 papers). Ghislaine Lydon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. Ghislaine Lydon's co-authors include Jane I. Guyer, James L. A. Webb, Jean-Louis Triaud, David Robinson, Sandra E. Greene, Alice Bellagamba, Paul E. Lovejoy, Mariana P. Candido, Martin A. Klein and Kristin Mann and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and The International Journal of African Historical Studies.

In The Last Decade

Ghislaine Lydon

20 papers receiving 327 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ghislaine Lydon United States 11 268 186 157 45 30 20 471
David Birmingham United Kingdom 14 270 1.0× 237 1.3× 108 0.7× 40 0.9× 42 1.4× 62 574
Dietmar Rothermund Germany 12 127 0.5× 211 1.1× 140 0.9× 80 1.8× 28 0.9× 72 447
Jerry H. Bentley United States 15 183 0.7× 230 1.2× 140 0.9× 59 1.3× 32 1.1× 51 578
Ian J. Kerr Canada 11 163 0.6× 171 0.9× 155 1.0× 52 1.2× 23 0.8× 33 383
Allan Kulikoff United States 13 170 0.6× 178 1.0× 101 0.6× 130 2.9× 32 1.1× 32 483
Kären Wigen United States 13 106 0.4× 192 1.0× 88 0.6× 45 1.0× 35 1.2× 35 404
Raymond F. Betts United States 14 218 0.8× 270 1.5× 166 1.1× 44 1.0× 40 1.3× 48 613
Donal B. Cruise O’Brien United Kingdom 14 231 0.9× 365 2.0× 260 1.7× 25 0.6× 43 1.4× 36 575
Charles W. McClellan United States 12 116 0.4× 210 1.1× 290 1.8× 17 0.4× 27 0.9× 31 445
Nigel Worden South Africa 12 196 0.7× 310 1.7× 35 0.2× 37 0.8× 21 0.7× 31 484

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ghislaine Lydon

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ghislaine Lydon

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All Works

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Lovejoy, Paul E., Walter Hawthorne, Edward A. Alpers, et al.. (2021). Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa: A Controlled Vocabulary for Linking Open-Source Data in Digital History Projects. History in Africa. 48. 9–34. 3 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine. (2019). Michael A. Gomez. African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa.. The American Historical Review. 124(2). 581–585. 2 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine. (2018). Inventions and Reinventions of Sharia in African History and the Recent Experiences of Nigeria, Somalia and Mali. Ufahamu A Journal of African Studies. 40(1). 4 indexed citations
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Bellagamba, Alice, Alice Bellagamba, Alice Bellagamba, et al.. (2016). African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine. (2015). SAHARAN OCEANS AND BRIDGES, BARRIERS AND DIVIDES IN AFRICA'S HISTORIOGRAPHICAL LANDSCAPE. The Journal of African History. 56(1). 3–22. 14 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine, et al.. (2011). The Trans-Saharan Book Trade. 17 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine. (2009). A paper economy of faith without faith in paper: A reflection on Islamic institutional history. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 71(3). 647–659. 20 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine. (2008). Contracting caravans: partnership and profit in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century trans-Saharan trade. Journal of Global History. 3(1). 89–113. 6 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine. (2007). Islamic legal culture and slave-ownership contests in nineteenth-century Sahara. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 40(3). 391–439. 10 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine. (2007). Droit islamique et droits de la femme d’après les registres du TribunalMusulman de Ndar (Saint-Louis du Sénégal). Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 41(2). 289–307. 7 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine. (2005). Slavery, Exchange, and Islamic Law: A Glimpse From the Archives of Mali and Mauritania. African Economic History. 33(33). 117–148. 7 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine. (2005). Writing trans-Saharan history: Methods, sources and interpretations across the African divide. The Journal of North African Studies. 10(3-4). 293–324. 15 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine, et al.. (2002). Groupes serviles au Sahara: Approach comparative a partir cas des arabophones de Mauritanie. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 35(1). 197–197. 7 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine, et al.. (2002). Negotiating Development: African Farmers and Colonial Experts at the Office du Niger, 1920-1960. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 35(2/3). 494–494. 55 indexed citations
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Robinson, David, Jean-Louis Triaud, & Ghislaine Lydon. (1997). Le temps des marabouts : itinéraires et stratégies islamiques en Afrique occidentale française v.1880-1960. Karthala eBooks. 583. 25 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine. (1997). The Unraveling of a Neglected Source : A Report on Women in Francophone West Africa in the 1930s.. Cahiers d études africaines. 37(147). 555–584. 6 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine & James L. A. Webb. (1996). Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change along the Western Sahel 1600-1850. African Economic History. 178–178. 38 indexed citations
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Lydon, Ghislaine & Jane I. Guyer. (1996). Money Matters: Instability, Values and Social Payments in the Modern History of West African Communities. African Economic History. 180–180. 127 indexed citations

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