Greg Urban

1.3k total citations
26 papers, 614 citations indexed

About

Greg Urban is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Greg Urban has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 614 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Anthropology and 4 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Greg Urban's work include Management and Organizational Studies (2 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 papers). Greg Urban is often cited by papers focused on Management and Organizational Studies (2 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 papers). Greg Urban collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and South Sudan. Greg Urban's co-authors include Joël Sherzer, Laura Rival, Greg M. Nielsen, Peter Wade, Mark A. Pinsk, Jonathan D. Hill, Joseph I. Tracy, Louis Galambos, Walter Friedman and Daniel Pope and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Annual Review of Anthropology and Brain and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Greg Urban

23 papers receiving 471 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Greg Urban United States 10 168 140 111 102 92 26 614
Paul Manning Canada 12 179 1.1× 89 0.6× 87 0.8× 95 0.9× 77 0.8× 33 560
Constantine V. Nakassis United States 12 184 1.1× 88 0.6× 98 0.9× 117 1.1× 61 0.7× 29 584
Yoshio Sugimoto Australia 14 446 2.7× 69 0.5× 85 0.8× 79 0.8× 137 1.5× 43 835
Malcolm Crick Australia 13 434 2.6× 176 1.3× 62 0.6× 28 0.3× 73 0.8× 25 879
Jacqueline Urla United States 15 315 1.9× 87 0.6× 214 1.9× 361 3.5× 113 1.2× 39 986
Oriol Pi‐Sunyer United States 11 401 2.4× 84 0.6× 95 0.9× 146 1.4× 97 1.1× 38 829
Susana Narotzky Spain 13 488 2.9× 127 0.9× 38 0.3× 41 0.4× 184 2.0× 60 928
Andrew P. Lyons Canada 8 339 2.0× 125 0.9× 30 0.3× 28 0.3× 103 1.1× 15 713
Ian Birchall 4 418 2.5× 110 0.8× 39 0.4× 33 0.3× 143 1.6× 12 831
Harumi Befu United States 16 443 2.6× 82 0.6× 76 0.7× 65 0.6× 89 1.0× 55 863

Countries citing papers authored by Greg Urban

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Fields of papers citing papers by Greg Urban

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Greg Urban

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Greg Urban. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Greg Urban 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 Greg Urban. Greg Urban 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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Urban, Greg. (2017). The Editor's Two Cents. 6(2). 124–126. 1 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg. (2017). Pathways to the Future. Anthropology News. 58(6). 1 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg. (2016). Corporations in the Flow of Culture. Seattle University law review. 39(2). 321. 2 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg. (2015). Symbolic Force: A Corporate Revitalization Video and Its Effects. Signs and Society. 3(S1). S95–S124. 5 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg, et al.. (2015). The Semiotic Corporation: An Introduction to the Supplement Issue. Signs and Society. 3(S1). S1–S12. 4 indexed citations
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Friedman, Walter, Louis Galambos, Geoffrey Jones, et al.. (2014). Opinions: Business History and Anthropology. 3(1). 15–78. 1 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg, et al.. (2013). Ethnographic Research on Modern Business Corporations. Annual Review of Anthropology. 42(1). 139–158. 34 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg. (2010). A Method for Measuring the Motion of Culture. American Anthropologist. 112(1). 122–139. 16 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg. (2008). The Circulation of Secularism. International Journal of Politics Culture and Society. 21(1-4). 17–37. 4 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg & Greg M. Nielsen. (2003). The Norms of Answerability: Social Theory between Bakhtin and Habermas. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 32(5). 653–653. 22 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg. (2002). Metasignaling and Language Origins. American Anthropologist. 104(1). 233–246. 4 indexed citations
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Tracy, Joseph I., et al.. (2001). Test of a Potential Link between Analytic and Nonanalytic Category Learning and Automatic, Effortful Processing. Brain and Cognition. 46(3). 326–341. 3 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg. (1997). Culture: In and about the World. Anthropology News. 38(2). 1–7. 6 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg. (1996). On the geographical origins and dispersions of tupian languages. Revista de Antropologia. 39(2). 61–104. 16 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg & Jonathan D. Hill. (1996). Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society. Ethnohistory. 43(2). 367–367. 2 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura, Greg Urban, & Joël Sherzer. (1992). Nationstates and Indians in Latin America.. Man. 27(3). 688–688. 96 indexed citations
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Wade, Peter, Greg Urban, & Joël Sherzer. (1992). Nation-States and Indians in Latin America. Bulletin of Latin American Research. 11(2). 224–224. 20 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg. (1988). The pronominal pragmatics of nuclear war discourse. Multilingua. 7(1-2). 67–94. 14 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg. (1985). Ergativity and Accusativity in Shokleng (Gê). International Journal of American Linguistics. 51(2). 164–187. 19 indexed citations
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Urban, Greg. (1981). The semiotics of tabooed food: The Shokleng case. Social Science Information. 20(3). 475–507. 4 indexed citations

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