Ivan Karp

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Ivan Karp is a scholar working on Anthropology, Museology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ivan Karp has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Anthropology, 8 papers in Museology and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Ivan Karp's work include Museums and Cultural Heritage (7 papers), African history and culture studies (4 papers) and African cultural and philosophical studies (4 papers). Ivan Karp is often cited by papers focused on Museums and Cultural Heritage (7 papers), African history and culture studies (4 papers) and African cultural and philosophical studies (4 papers). Ivan Karp collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and South Africa. Ivan Karp's co-authors include Steven D. Lavine, Brian Durrans, Christine Mullen Kreamer, Carolyn Hamilton, Charles S. Bird, Ruth Finnegan, Benjamin C. Ray, Michael Jackson, Irving Hexham and Dismas A. Masolo and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Current Anthropology and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

In The Last Decade

Ivan Karp

37 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display.

1992 636 citations Ivan Karp, Steven D. Lavine et al. Man profile →
Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture.

1993 298 citations Carolyn Hamilton, Ivan Karp et al. Journal of American History profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ivan Karp United States	17	619	564	466	368	183	49	1.7k
Barbara Kirshenblatt‐Gimblett United States	13	765 1.2×	337 0.6×	274 0.6×	568 1.5×	191 1.0×	48	1.8k
Sharon Macdonald United Kingdom	25	622 1.0×	593 1.1×	196 0.4×	583 1.6×	355 1.9×	73	1.7k
Raphael Samuel United Kingdom	21	912 1.5×	192 0.3×	275 0.6×	264 0.7×	199 1.1×	50	1.9k
Fred Myers United States	18	413 0.7×	217 0.4×	523 1.1×	258 0.7×	84 0.5×	65	1.5k
Michael M. Ames Canada	16	619 1.0×	210 0.4×	411 0.9×	184 0.5×	92 0.5×	46	1.6k
Mary Bouquet Netherlands	12	336 0.5×	275 0.5×	176 0.4×	137 0.4×	75 0.4×	36	931
Annette B. Weiner United States	15	653 1.1×	120 0.2×	783 1.7×	163 0.4×	59 0.3×	31	1.9k
Michael Rowlands United Kingdom	14	427 0.7×	96 0.2×	510 1.1×	303 0.8×	62 0.3×	36	1.4k
Divya P. Tolia‐Kelly United Kingdom	22	934 1.5×	160 0.3×	247 0.5×	210 0.6×	183 1.0×	38	1.8k
Howard Morphy Australia	15	251 0.4×	151 0.3×	429 0.9×	220 0.6×	48 0.3×	70	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Ivan Karp

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ivan Karp

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ivan Karp

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ivan Karp. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ivan Karp 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 Ivan Karp. Ivan Karp is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Karp, Ivan. (2013). Fields of Change among the Iteso of Kenya.

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Karp, Ivan. (2001). Public scholarship as a vocation : museums and identity. 26(2). 76–82. 1 indexed citations

3.

Karp, Ivan. (1997). Does Theory Travel? Area Studies and Cultural Studies. Africa Today. 44(3). 282–296. 7 indexed citations

4.

Jackson, Michael, et al.. (1995). Personhood and Agency: The Experience of Self and Other in African Cultures. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 29(3). 514–514. 60 indexed citations

5.

Kratz, Corinne A. & Ivan Karp. (1993). Wonder and Worth: Disney Museums in World Showcase. Museum Anthropology. 17(3). 32–42. 13 indexed citations

6.

Hamilton, Carolyn, Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, & Steven D. Lavine. (1993). Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture.. Journal of American History. 80(3). 1041–1041. 298 indexed citations breakdown →

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Karp, Ivan, et al.. (1993). Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 51(1). 75–75. 89 indexed citations

8.

Karp, Ivan, et al.. (1991). Creativity of Power: Cosmology and Action in African Societies. African Studies Review. 34(1). 120–120. 2 indexed citations

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Jackson, Michael & Ivan Karp. (1990). Personhood and agency: the experience of self and other in African cultures: papers presented at a symposium on African folk models and their application, held at Uppsala University, August 23-30, 1987. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis eBooks. 192. 3 indexed citations

10.

Southall, Aidan, Ivan Karp, & Charles S. Bird. (1990). Explorations in African Systems of Thought. African Studies Review. 33(2). 207–207. 16 indexed citations

11.

Baldwin, James, et al.. (1987). Perspectives: Angles on African Art. African Arts. 21(1). 19–19. 11 indexed citations

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Karp, Ivan. (1984). Colonial Evangelism: A Socio‐Historical Study of an East African Mission at the Grassroots. T. O. BEIDELMAN. American Ethnologist. 11(1). 215–216. 2 indexed citations

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Finnegan, Ruth, Ivan Karp, & Charles S. Bird. (1981). Explorations in African Systems of Thought.. Man. 16(3). 496–496. 105 indexed citations

14.

Karp, Ivan & Robert J. Thornton. (1981). Space, Time and Culture among the Iraqw of Tanzania. African Studies Review. 24(4). 223–223. 24 indexed citations

15.

Roberts, Allen F., Ivan Karp, & Charles S. Bird. (1981). Explorations in African Systems of Thought. African Studies Review. 24(4). 128–128. 21 indexed citations

16.

Karp, Ivan, W. Arens, & Anders Hjort. (1981). On the Frontier of Change, Mto Wa Mbu, Tanzania. African Economic History. 220–220.

17.

Karp, Ivan. (1978). New Guinea Models in the African Savannah. Africa. 48(1). 1–16. 23 indexed citations

18.

Scheff, Thomas J., Michael P. Carroll, Arlene Kaplan Daniels, et al.. (1977). The Distancing of Emotion in Ritual [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 18(3). 483–505. 80 indexed citations

19.

Karp, Ivan, et al.. (1975). Super Realism : A Critical Anthology.

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Karp, Ivan. (1974). The dialectics of change among the Southern Iteso. University Microfilms International eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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