James L. Flexner

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 684 citations indexed

About

James L. Flexner is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Anthropology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, James L. Flexner has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 684 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 24 papers in Anthropology and 22 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in James L. Flexner's work include Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (38 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (22 papers) and Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (16 papers). James L. Flexner is often cited by papers focused on Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (38 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (22 papers) and Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (16 papers). James L. Flexner collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Vanuatu. James L. Flexner's co-authors include Matthew Spriggs, Jeffrey Fleisher, Adria LaViolette, Stuart Bedford, Frédérique Valentin, Philip D. Evans, Mathieu Leclerc, Jim Specht, Mark D. McCoy and Richard Shing and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, American Anthropologist and World Archaeology.

In The Last Decade

James L. Flexner

50 papers receiving 608 citations

Hit Papers

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 100 200 300
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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.

  1. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James L. Flexner Australia 12 246 214 199 139 74 55 684
Paul Roscoe United States 13 284 1.2× 187 0.9× 279 1.4× 221 1.6× 71 1.0× 59 752
Linda A. Newson United Kingdom 14 279 1.1× 123 0.6× 255 1.3× 205 1.5× 50 0.7× 59 954
Samuel M. Wilson United States 11 205 0.8× 168 0.8× 249 1.3× 214 1.5× 100 1.4× 24 720
Elsa M. Redmond United States 17 312 1.3× 179 0.8× 550 2.8× 89 0.6× 152 2.1× 37 891
Gary Urton United States 18 222 0.9× 121 0.6× 241 1.2× 92 0.7× 104 1.4× 60 940
Elizabeth DeMarrais United Kingdom 11 447 1.8× 166 0.8× 516 2.6× 108 0.8× 237 3.2× 17 1.1k
Frank Salomon United States 15 388 1.6× 116 0.5× 296 1.5× 95 0.7× 97 1.3× 62 982
Charles S. Spencer United States 18 361 1.5× 222 1.0× 702 3.5× 151 1.1× 174 2.4× 46 1.1k
Ian Keen Australia 14 312 1.3× 165 0.8× 62 0.3× 215 1.5× 81 1.1× 44 845
Neil L. Whitehead United States 17 445 1.8× 135 0.6× 105 0.5× 239 1.7× 52 0.7× 71 853

Countries citing papers authored by James L. Flexner

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Fields of papers citing papers by James L. Flexner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James L. Flexner

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All Works

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Flexner, James L. & Catherine J. Frieman. (2024). Interdisciplinarity as solidarity: Perspectives from archaeology. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). XX(1). 169–181.
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Valentin, Frédérique, et al.. (2024). Changing subsistence practices in pre-European populations of South Vanuatu. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 59. 104756–104756.
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Valentin, Frédérique, et al.. (2024). “Feeling at home in Vanuatu”: Integration of newcomers from the East during the last millennium. PLoS ONE. 19(1). e0290465–e0290465. 1 indexed citations
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Flexner, James L., et al.. (2024). Repatriation and Ethnographic Archives: Katherine Routledge's Mangareva Field Notes in the Royal Geographic Society Collections. Curator The Museum Journal. 68(3). 534–541. 1 indexed citations
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Frieman, Catherine J., et al.. (2024). An Anarchist Archaeology of Equality: Pasts and Futures Against Hierarchy. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 34(4). 531–545. 1 indexed citations
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Borck, Lewis, et al.. (2023). Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures. American Anthropologist. 126(1). 135–148. 5 indexed citations
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Flexner, James L., et al.. (2022). The Future of Museums. 10(1). 159–169.
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Flexner, James L., et al.. (2021). Prefabrication, Patrilineality, and Intergenerational Reuse: The Ruined Third Church of Aniwa, Southern Vanuatu, and its Integration into Domestic Architecture. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 26(3). 573–598. 2 indexed citations
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Flexner, James L.. (2016). Dark and Bright Futures for Museum Archaeology. 4(1). 1–3. 8 indexed citations
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Flexner, James L.. (2016). Archaeology and Ethnographic Collections. 4(1). 167–180. 1 indexed citations
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Flexner, James L., et al.. (2015). Under the mission steps: An 800 year-old human burial from south Tanna, Vanuatu. 6(2). 49–55. 5 indexed citations
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Flexner, James L. & Matthew Spriggs. (2014). When ‘early’ modern colonialism comes late: Historical archaeology in Vanuatu. 1 indexed citations
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Flexner, James L.. (2014). An archaeology of the margins: Colonialism, amazighity, and heritage management in the Canary Islands [Book Review]. 32. 73. 3 indexed citations
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Flexner, James L.. (2013). Mission archaeology in Vanuatu: Preliminary findings, problems, and prospects. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 31. 14. 13 indexed citations
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Flexner, James L.. (2012). An Institution that was a Village: Archaeology and Social Life in the Hansen’s Disease Settlement at Kalawao, Moloka‘i, Hawaii. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 16(1). 135–163. 11 indexed citations
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Flexner, James L.. (2009). Where is Reflexive Map-Making in Archaeological Research? Towards a Place-Based Approach. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 24(1). 7–21. 8 indexed citations

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