Janet Roitman

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Janet Roitman is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Janet Roitman has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Anthropology and 4 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Janet Roitman's work include African Studies and Geopolitics (4 papers), African history and culture studies (4 papers) and African Studies and Ethnography (3 papers). Janet Roitman is often cited by papers focused on African Studies and Geopolitics (4 papers), African history and culture studies (4 papers) and African Studies and Ethnography (3 papers). Janet Roitman collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. Janet Roitman's co-authors include Achille Mbembé, Thomas M. Callaghy, Steven Pierce, Deborah Poole, Florence Bernault, Robert Latham, Ronald Kassimir, William Reno, Michael Barnett and I. Cyril and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The International Journal of African Historical Studies and BMJ Global Health.

In The Last Decade

Janet Roitman

31 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.

Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Janet Roitman United States	14	886	427	423	169	140	39	1.5k
Bill Freund South Africa	24	981 1.1×	508 1.2×	328 0.8×	144 0.9×	240 1.7×	104	1.8k
Roger Southall South Africa	21	1.2k 1.3×	215 0.5×	392 0.9×	155 0.9×	112 0.8×	163	1.8k
Robert K. Schaeffer United States	10	1.1k 1.2×	190 0.4×	643 1.5×	113 0.7×	149 1.1×	29	1.7k
Annelise Riles United States	17	570 0.6×	194 0.5×	363 0.9×	141 0.8×	61 0.4×	66	1.4k
Robert Ross Netherlands	19	789 0.9×	312 0.7×	216 0.5×	167 1.0×	82 0.6×	90	1.5k
J. H. Iliffe United States	17	861 1.0×	827 1.9×	419 1.0×	218 1.3×	103 0.7×	46	2.1k
Jean‐Pascal Daloz France	12	1.1k 1.3×	255 0.6×	526 1.2×	150 0.9×	118 0.8×	36	1.7k
Julia Elyachar United States	13	569 0.6×	295 0.7×	395 0.9×	210 1.2×	185 1.3×	24	1.3k
Colin Murray United Kingdom	20	1.4k 1.6×	416 1.0×	476 1.1×	194 1.1×	253 1.8×	110	2.4k
Béatrice Hibou France	15	848 1.0×	262 0.6×	487 1.2×	96 0.6×	81 0.6×	57	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Janet Roitman

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Anderson, Warwick, Kari Lancaster, Sonja van Wichelen, et al.. (2025). Epistemic preparedness. BMJ Global Health. 10(6). e018719–e018719.

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Roitman, Janet. (2023). Platform economies: Beyond the North-South divide. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(1). 1–13. 14 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet. (2022). Why Urgency, Now?. Social Anthropology. 30(4). 143–148.

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Roitman, Janet. (2021). Framing the Crisis: COVID-19. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet. (2020). Crisis in history or crisis historiography. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(2). 136–140.

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Roitman, Janet, et al.. (2020). Anti-Crisis: thinking with and against crisis excerpt from interview with Janet Roitman. Journal of Cultural Economy. 13(6). 772–778. 6 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet. (2018). Fiscal Disobedience. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet. (2013). Anti-Crisis. 148 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet. (2011). Guest Editor's Letter. Public Culture. 23(1). 1–18. 5 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet. (2006). The Ethics of Illegality in the Chad Basin. SSRN Electronic Journal. 35 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet. (2005). Fiscal Disobedience. Princeton University Press eBooks. 245 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet. (2004). Autour du lac Tchad: intégrations et désintégrations. Politique africaine. 7–104.

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Pierce, Steven, Florence Bernault, & Janet Roitman. (2004). A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 37(2). 354–354. 38 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet, et al.. (2004). Productivity in the Margins: The Reconstitution of State Power in the Chad Basin. 39 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet, et al.. (2001). Guinée-Équatoriale : être « off-shore » pour rester « national ». Politique africaine. N° 81(1). 121–142. 10 indexed citations

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Callaghy, Thomas M., Thomas M. Callaghy, Thomas M. Callaghy, et al.. (2001). Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 86 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet. (2000). Economie morale, subjectivité et politique. Critique internationale. 6(1). 48–56. 8 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet. (1996). Objects of the economy and the language of politics in northern Cameroon. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 3 indexed citations

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Mbembé, Achille & Janet Roitman. (1995). Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis. Public Culture. 7(2). 323–352. 262 indexed citations

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Roitman, Janet. (1990). The Politics of Informal Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Journal of Modern African Studies. 28(4). 671–696. 87 indexed citations

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