James Fairhead

7.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
86 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

James Fairhead is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, James Fairhead has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Anthropology and 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in James Fairhead's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (32 papers), African history and culture studies (12 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers). James Fairhead is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (32 papers), African history and culture studies (12 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers). James Fairhead collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Mexico and Canada. James Fairhead's co-authors include Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, James A. Fraser, Annie Wilkinson, Alexander Dunlap, Jackie Cassell, P. Trutmann, H. J. van Hensbergen, Mark K. Leach and Fred Martineau and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Ecology and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

James Fairhead

78 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of ... 1996 2026 2006 2016 2012 1996 400 800 1.2k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Fairhead United Kingdom 29 1.7k 1.3k 1.1k 667 459 86 4.5k
Paul Richards Netherlands 34 595 0.3× 1.8k 1.4× 1.1k 1.0× 285 0.4× 483 1.1× 192 5.7k
Erwin Bulte Netherlands 48 1.2k 0.7× 1.7k 1.3× 763 0.7× 826 1.2× 272 0.6× 202 8.0k
William Cronon United States 25 1.4k 0.8× 2.1k 1.6× 412 0.4× 1.5k 2.2× 689 1.5× 55 7.2k
Ricardo Godoy United States 42 1.5k 0.9× 732 0.6× 470 0.4× 448 0.7× 117 0.3× 161 5.1k
Gordon Conway United Kingdom 30 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 1.3k 1.2× 782 1.2× 211 0.5× 63 6.2k
Uma Kothari United Kingdom 25 823 0.5× 2.9k 2.3× 420 0.4× 346 0.5× 999 2.2× 72 5.6k
David Wilkie United States 47 2.9k 1.7× 643 0.5× 433 0.4× 1.2k 1.7× 86 0.2× 109 6.9k
Andrea J. Nightingale Sweden 29 2.1k 1.2× 2.6k 2.1× 919 0.9× 595 0.9× 628 1.4× 63 5.3k
Ben Orlove United States 39 1.4k 0.8× 2.0k 1.6× 396 0.4× 687 1.0× 480 1.0× 124 5.1k
Tor A. Benjaminsen Norway 37 1.7k 1.0× 1.7k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.9× 536 1.2× 124 4.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Fairhead

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Fairhead

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wilkinson, Annie & James Fairhead. (2016). Comparison of social resistance to Ebola response in Sierra Leone and Guinea suggests explanations lie in political configurations not culture. Critical Public Health. 27(1). 14–27. 90 indexed citations
2.
Baaz, Maria Eriksson, Esther Marijnen, Judith Verweijen, et al.. (2015). Virunga's white savior complex. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations
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Plante, Alain F., Tsutomu Ohno, Dawit Solomon, et al.. (2014). Characterization of extractable soil organic matter pools from African Dark Earths (AfDE): A case study in historical biochar and organic waste amendments. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 12886. 1 indexed citations
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Chandler, Clare, James Fairhead, Ann H. Kelly, et al.. (2014). Ebola: limitations of correcting misinformation. The Lancet. 385(9975). 1275–1277. 102 indexed citations
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Fairhead, James, et al.. (2014). Query: What are the local beliefs and practices around illnesses and death, the transmission of disease and spirituality, which affect decision-making (around health- seeking behaviour, caring for relatives and nature of burials) and can inform effective behaviour change interventions for preventing Ebola in Sierra Leone?.
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Leach, Melissa, et al.. (2008). New therapeutic landscapes in Africa: Parental categories and practices in seeking infant health in the Republic of Guinea. Social Science & Medicine. 66(10). 2157–2167. 40 indexed citations
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Fairhead, James, et al.. (2006). Where techno-science meets poverty: Medical research and the economy of blood in The Gambia, West Africa. Social Science & Medicine. 63(4). 1109–1120. 131 indexed citations
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Cassell, Jackie, et al.. (2006). Is the cultural context of MMR rejection a key to an effective public health discourse?. Public Health. 120(9). 783–794. 65 indexed citations
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Leach, Melissa, et al.. (2005). ‘MMR talk’ and vaccination choices: An ethnographic study in Brighton. Social Science & Medicine. 61(3). 709–719. 146 indexed citations
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Fairhead, James, et al.. (2005). PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SCIENCE? LOCAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF A VACCINE TRIAL IN THE GAMBIA. Journal of Biosocial Science. 38(1). 103–116. 50 indexed citations
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Allen, W. E. D., et al.. (2004). African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 37(2). 378–378. 18 indexed citations
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Fairhead, James & Melissa Leach. (2003). Science, Society and Power: Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean. Figshare. 97 indexed citations
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Fairhead, James, et al.. (2000). Practising 'biodiversity': the articulation of international, national and local science/policy in Guinea. IDS Bulletin. 33(1). 102–110. 3 indexed citations
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Fairhead, James, et al.. (1998). Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic.. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 4(2). 390–390. 21 indexed citations
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Fairhead, James & Melissa Leach. (1997). Deforestation in Question: Dialogue and Dissonance in Ecological, Social and Historical Knowledge of West Africa. Cases From Liberia and Sierra Leone. Paideuma. 43. 193–225. 5 indexed citations
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Fairhead, James & Melissa Leach. (1995). Reading Forest History Backwards:The Interaction of Policy and Local Land Use in Guinea's Forest-Savanna Mosaic, 1893-1993. Environment and History. 1(1). 55–91. 25 indexed citations
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Fairhead, James & Mark K. Leach. (1995). Local agro-ecological management and forest-savanna transitions: the case of Kissidougou, Guinea.. 163–170. 6 indexed citations
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Fairhead, James & Melissa Leach. (1995). False forest history, complicit social analysis: Rethinking some West African environmental narratives. World Development. 23(6). 1023–1035. 221 indexed citations
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Trutmann, P., et al.. (1993). Management of common bean diseases by farmers in the Central African Highlands. International Journal of Pest Management. 39(3). 334–342. 26 indexed citations
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Fairhead, James. (1990). Fields of struggle : towards a social history of farming knowledge and practice in a Bwisha community, Kivu, Zaire. OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). 9 indexed citations

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