Jan Vansina

9.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
177 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Jan Vansina is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Vansina has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Anthropology, 33 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 30 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Jan Vansina's work include African history and culture studies (47 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (24 papers) and African history and culture analysis (23 papers). Jan Vansina is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (47 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (24 papers) and African history and culture analysis (23 papers). Jan Vansina collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Hungary. Jan Vansina's co-authors include Jack Goody, A. J. H. Latham, Bruce Fetter, Christopher Ehret, Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff, Kwasi Wiredu, Victor Turner, Paul Sullivan and Phyllis M. Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, American Anthropologist and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Jan Vansina

149 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Literacy in Traditional Societies 1969 2026 1988 2007 1969 1986 1992 1986 100 200 300 400 500

Peers

Jan Vansina
Comparison fields: 5 of 142
  • Anthropology 2.1k
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.5k
  • Political Science and International Relations 631
  • Archeology 464
  • Education 419
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Vansina

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jan Vansina. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jan Vansina 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 Jan Vansina. Jan Vansina 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
# Work Indexed citations
1 8
2 5
3
Tradición oral, historia oral: logros y perspectivas
0
4 7
5 1
6
The Politics of History and the Crisis in the Great Lakes
11
7 3
8 0
9
Western Bantu Tradition and the Notion of Tradition
3
10
Vers une histoire des sociétés Mongo
1
11
The Ethnographic Account as a Genre in Central Africa
11
12 0
13
The history of God among the Kuba
3
14
Minasi's Trials
3
15
Études africaines : offertes à Henri Brunschwig
6
16
Finding Food and the History of Pre-Colonial Equatorial Africa
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17
The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa. Studies presented and discussed at the Tenth International African Seminar at Fourah Bay Collège, Freetown, December 1969, éd. with an Introd. by Claude Meillassoux. Foreward by Daryll Forde (L'évolution du commerce africain depuis le XIXe siècle en Afrique de l'Ouest...)
5
18 5
19
Once Upon a Time: Oral Traditions as History in Africa
26
20 94

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