Jan‐Bart Gewald

1000 total citations
51 papers, 383 citations indexed

About

Jan‐Bart Gewald is a scholar working on Anthropology, Literature and Literary Theory and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan‐Bart Gewald has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 383 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Anthropology, 21 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Jan‐Bart Gewald's work include African history and culture studies (22 papers), German Colonialism and Identity Studies (19 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (12 papers). Jan‐Bart Gewald is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (22 papers), German Colonialism and Identity Studies (19 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (12 papers). Jan‐Bart Gewald collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and Russia. Jan‐Bart Gewald's co-authors include Michael Bollig, Sabine Luning, Giacomo Macola, Marja Hinfelaar, Richard A. Voeltz, Terence Ranger, Jocelyn Alexander, Iva Peša, Deborah Fahy Bryceson and A.H.M. Leliveld and has published in prestigious journals such as The International Journal of African Historical Studies, African Affairs and African Studies Review.

In The Last Decade

Jan‐Bart Gewald

46 papers receiving 267 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jan‐Bart Gewald Netherlands 11 172 169 72 60 35 51 383
Marshall S. Clough United States 7 203 1.2× 172 1.0× 86 1.2× 20 0.3× 50 1.4× 17 380
Judith Van Allen United States 7 137 0.8× 92 0.5× 56 0.8× 20 0.3× 22 0.6× 15 287
Mahir Şaul United States 11 233 1.4× 158 0.9× 75 1.0× 13 0.2× 17 0.5× 39 435
Alexis Wick Lebanon 3 144 0.8× 178 1.1× 60 0.8× 12 0.2× 26 0.7× 10 320
Richard Drayton United Kingdom 10 184 1.1× 153 0.9× 96 1.3× 19 0.3× 80 2.3× 35 469
Leonard Leslie Bessant 8 375 2.2× 280 1.7× 58 0.8× 26 0.4× 24 0.7× 11 520
Kathleen Sheldon United States 12 189 1.1× 141 0.8× 67 0.9× 13 0.2× 10 0.3× 39 409
Brenna Bhandar United Kingdom 12 286 1.7× 103 0.6× 140 1.9× 15 0.3× 33 0.9× 34 549
Edward A. Alpers United States 15 275 1.6× 619 3.7× 133 1.8× 31 0.5× 20 0.6× 78 836
Peter Robb United Kingdom 12 265 1.5× 230 1.4× 217 3.0× 15 0.3× 56 1.6× 53 636

Countries citing papers authored by Jan‐Bart Gewald

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan‐Bart Gewald

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gewald, Jan‐Bart. (2015). Forged in the Great War: people, transport, and labour, the establishment of colonial rule in Zambia, 1890-1920. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 3 indexed citations
2.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart, A.H.M. Leliveld, & Iva Peša. (2012). Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 11(11). 301. 10 indexed citations
3.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart, Marja Hinfelaar, & Giacomo Macola. (2012). Living the end of empire: politics and society in late colonial Zambia. Choice Reviews Online. 49(7). 49–4018. 14 indexed citations
4.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart, et al.. (2009). The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 2009(13). 41 indexed citations
5.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart. (2006). More Than Red Rubber and Figures Alone: A Critical Appraisal of the Memory of the Congo Exhibition at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium*. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 39(3). 471–486. 6 indexed citations
6.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart. (2005). Learning to wage and win wars in Africa: A provisional history of German military activity in Congo, Tanzania, China and Namibia. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 3 indexed citations
7.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart, et al.. (2004). From output to outcome? 25 years of IOB evaluations. 2 indexed citations
8.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart, et al.. (2004). Can ICT belong in Africa, or is it owned by the North Atlantic Region?. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 107–146. 8 indexed citations
9.
Gordon, Robert J., et al.. (2004). Words Cannot Be Found. German Colonial Rule in Namibia: An Annotated Report of the 1918 Blue Book. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 37(1). 125–125. 1 indexed citations
10.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart. (2003). Review of Oermann, N.O. : Mission, church and state relations in South West Africa under German rule (1884-1915). The Journal of African History. 44(3). 533–536. 1 indexed citations
11.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart. (2003). The Herero genocide: German unity, settlers, soldiers, and ideas. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 109–127. 3 indexed citations
12.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart, et al.. (2003). Words Cannot Be Found. 15 indexed citations
13.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart. (2002). El Negro, El Niño, witchcraft and the absence of rain. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 16(1). 37–51. 2 indexed citations
14.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart, et al.. (2002). A Teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district : rethinking the anthropology of Guenther Wagner. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 36(2). 19–30. 1 indexed citations
15.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart, et al.. (2001). Herero Heroes: A Socio-Political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923. Africa. 71(4). 713–713. 42 indexed citations
16.
Gordon, Robert J. & Jan‐Bart Gewald. (2001). "We Thought We Would Be Free...": Socio-Cultural Aspects of Herero History in Namibia. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 34(3). 699–699. 3 indexed citations
17.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart. (2000). Review of Negash,G. : A history of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea: The oral and the written 1890-1991. African Affairs. 99(397). 670–671. 1 indexed citations
18.
Bollig, Michael & Jan‐Bart Gewald. (2000). People, cattle and land: transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa. 540. 26 indexed citations
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Bollig, Michael & Jan‐Bart Gewald. (2000). People, cattle and land-transformations of pastoral society : an introduction. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 3–52. 4 indexed citations
20.
Gewald, Jan‐Bart. (1994). The great General of the Kaiser. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 26(1). 67–76. 1 indexed citations

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