Harry G. West

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

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Harry G. West is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Harry G. West has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Anthropology, 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Harry G. West's work include African history and culture studies (9 papers), African studies and sociopolitical issues (5 papers) and Culinary Culture and Tourism (5 papers). Harry G. West is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (9 papers), African studies and sociopolitical issues (5 papers) and Culinary Culture and Tourism (5 papers). Harry G. West collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Mexico. Harry G. West's co-authors include Jo Ellen Fair, Heather Paxson, Cristina Grasseni, Susanne Freidberg, Jim Bingen, Todd Sanders, Matt Lobley and Amanda P. Goodwin and has published in prestigious journals such as Appetite, Journal of Rural Studies and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

In The Last Decade

Harry G. West

38 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Harry G. West United Kingdom	16	857	480	365	172	141	41	1.8k
Henrietta L. Moore United Kingdom	22	1.4k 1.6×	422 0.9×	789 2.2×	82 0.5×	167 1.2×	90	3.0k
Chris Hann Germany	25	1.3k 1.5×	922 1.9×	480 1.3×	82 0.5×	212 1.5×	180	2.5k
David Arnold United Kingdom	30	975 1.1×	500 1.0×	707 1.9×	85 0.5×	65 0.5×	149	3.0k
Cheryl McEwan United Kingdom	27	865 1.0×	228 0.5×	137 0.4×	82 0.5×	97 0.7×	61	1.9k
Peter Gran United States	11	1.1k 1.3×	646 1.3×	945 2.6×	85 0.5×	125 0.9×	30	2.7k
Stephen Gudeman United States	20	494 0.6×	246 0.5×	327 0.9×	55 0.3×	129 0.9×	70	1.3k
Sarah A. Radcliffe United Kingdom	33	1.4k 1.7×	815 1.7×	475 1.3×	210 1.2×	286 2.0×	95	2.9k
William Roseberry United States	18	632 0.7×	387 0.8×	337 0.9×	38 0.2×	182 1.3×	46	1.5k
Joel Wainwright United States	22	594 0.7×	375 0.8×	177 0.5×	245 1.4×	251 1.8×	81	1.5k
Stephen J. Collier United States	20	1.1k 1.2×	600 1.3×	196 0.5×	145 0.8×	43 0.3×	47	2.3k

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Lobley, Matt, et al.. (2024). Transforming public food procurement: Stakeholder understandings of barriers and opportunities for more localised procurement. Journal of Rural Studies. 108. 103281–103281. 4 indexed citations

West, Harry G., et al.. (2022). Enduring Socialism. Berghahn Books. 1 indexed citations

West, Harry G.. (2019). Savoring Decay: Cheese, Heritage, and the Allure of Imminent Dissolution. Gastronomica The Journal of Food and Culture. 19(3). 47–59. 4 indexed citations

Grasseni, Cristina, et al.. (2014). Introducing a Special Issue on the Reinvention of Food. Gastronomica The Journal of Food and Culture. 14(4). 1–6. 16 indexed citations

West, Harry G.. (2013). Paxson, Heather. The life of cheese: crafting food and value in America. xiii, 303 pp., tables, figs, illus., bibliogr. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2013. £19.95 (paper). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 19(4). 891–892. 1 indexed citations

West, Harry G., et al.. (2012). Naming Cheese. Food Culture & Society. 15(1). 7–41. 9 indexed citations

West, Harry G.. (2008). Food fears and raw-milk cheese. Appetite. 51(1). 25–29. 43 indexed citations

West, Harry G., et al.. (2008). Enduring socialism : explorations of revolution and transformation, restoration and continuation. Berghahn Books. 35 indexed citations

West, Harry G.. (2008). «Governem-se vocês mesmos!» Democracia e carnificina no Norte de Moçambique**. Análise Social. 347–368. 6 indexed citations

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West, Harry G.. (2008). "Govern Yourselves!" Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique. 5 indexed citations

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West, Harry G., et al.. (2005). Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Indiana University Press eBooks. 19 indexed citations

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West, Harry G.. (2004). Villains, Victims, or Makonde in the Making? Reading the Explorer Henry O'Neill and Listening to the Headman Lishehe. Ethnohistory. 51(1). 1–43. 7 indexed citations

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West, Harry G.. (2003). Transparency and Conspiracy. 178 indexed citations

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West, Harry G.. (2003). Sorcery and Mozambican Democracy. PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 26(1). 119–127.

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Sanders, Todd & Harry G. West. (2003). Introduction: Power Revealed and Concealed in the New World Order. SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London). 3 indexed citations

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West, Harry G.. (2000). Girls with Guns: Narrating the Experience of War of Frelimo's "Female Detachment". Anthropological Quarterly. 73(4). 180–194. 50 indexed citations

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West, Harry G., et al.. (1999). BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: 'TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY' AND DEMOCRATIC DECENTRALIZATION IN POST-WAR MOZAMBIQUE. African Affairs. 98(393). 455–484. 91 indexed citations

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West, Harry G.. (1997). Creative Destruction and Sorcery of Construction: Power, Hope and Suspicion in Post‐War Mozambique. PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 20(1). 13–31. 11 indexed citations

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West, Harry G., et al.. (1996). A Piece of Land in a Land of Peace? State Farm Divestiture in Mozambique. The Journal of Modern African Studies. 34(1). 27–51. 38 indexed citations

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West, Harry G. & Jo Ellen Fair. (1993). Development Communication and Popular Resistance in Africa: An Examination of the Struggle over Tradition and Modernity through Media. African Studies Review. 36(1). 91–91. 15 indexed citations

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