Joël Beinin

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Joël Beinin is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joël Beinin has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 25 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 15 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Joël Beinin's work include Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (39 papers), Middle East Politics and Society (17 papers) and Islamic Studies and History (9 papers). Joël Beinin is often cited by papers focused on Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (39 papers), Middle East Politics and Society (17 papers) and Islamic Studies and History (9 papers). Joël Beinin collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. Joël Beinin's co-authors include Zachary Lockman, Gershon Shafir, Frederick Cooper, William B. Quandt, Joe Stork, John C. Campbell, Calvin Goldscheider, Eric Davis, Rebecca L. Stein and Philip S. Khoury and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Foreign Affairs.

In The Last Decade

Joël Beinin

63 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation
    2008 513 citations Joël Beinin Shofar profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joël Beinin United States 19 997 540 167 119 117 74 1.4k
Merje Kuus Canada 21 727 0.7× 753 1.4× 83 0.5× 109 0.9× 122 1.0× 53 1.3k
Stephen Kotkin United States 17 787 0.8× 825 1.5× 74 0.4× 27 0.2× 99 0.8× 46 1.3k
Arnold R. Hirsch United States 17 1.2k 1.2× 167 0.3× 70 0.4× 31 0.3× 210 1.8× 42 1.5k
Gershon Shafir United States 16 1.5k 1.5× 505 0.9× 81 0.5× 27 0.2× 64 0.5× 40 1.7k
Joshua Inwood United States 20 772 0.8× 163 0.3× 95 0.6× 243 2.0× 162 1.4× 60 1.2k
Tom Nairn 12 723 0.7× 521 1.0× 175 1.0× 33 0.3× 32 0.3× 26 1.2k
Banu Gökarıksel United States 19 825 0.8× 408 0.8× 166 1.0× 257 2.2× 117 1.0× 35 1.2k
Jouni Häkli Finland 21 902 0.9× 349 0.6× 58 0.3× 185 1.6× 107 0.9× 65 1.3k
Gareth Stedman Jones United Kingdom 18 735 0.7× 342 0.6× 125 0.7× 25 0.2× 86 0.7× 54 1.4k
Philip Corrigan United Kingdom 13 697 0.7× 408 0.8× 209 1.3× 22 0.2× 38 0.3× 49 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Joël Beinin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joël Beinin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joël Beinin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joël Beinin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joël Beinin 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 Joël Beinin. Joël Beinin 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
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Beinin, Joël, Bassam Haddad, & Sherene Seikaly. (2021). A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Stanford University Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (2020). Workers and Thieves. Stanford University Press eBooks. 25 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (2013). Mixing, Separation, and Violence in Urban Spaces and the Rural Frontier in Palestine. 21(1). 14. 4 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (2009). Workers' Protest in Egypt: Neo-liberalism and Class Struggle in 21st Century. Social movement studies. 8(4). 449–454. 28 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (2008). Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation. Shofar. 27(1). 136. 513 indexed citations breakdown →
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Beinin, Joël & Rebecca L. Stein. (2006). The struggle for sovereignty : Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005. Stanford University Press eBooks. 20 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (2005). Rethinking Nasserism: Revolution and Historical Memory in Modern Egypt. 110(2). 591–593. 19 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël, et al.. (2004). The Last Jews in Baghdad. University of Texas Press eBooks. 13 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (1998). Palestine and Israel: Perils of a Neoliberal, Repressive 'Pax Americana.'. Social Justice A Journal of Crime Conflict & World Order. 25(4). 20. 12 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (1998). Fabricating Israeli History: The 'New Historians'. The Middle East Journal. 52(3). 448. 1 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (1998). Zachary Lockman, Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906–1948 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). Pp. 456.. International Journal Middle East Studies. 30(2). 305–306. 1 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (1994). The Holocaust and the Politics of Memory. Radical History Review. 1994(60). 217–223. 2 indexed citations
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Brynen, Rex, Robert O. Freedman, Michael Hudson, et al.. (1994). Dynamics of the Palestinian Uprising: An Assessment of Causes, Character, and Consequences. Comparative Politics. 26(4). 479–479. 2 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (1993). Money, Media and Policy Consensus: The Washington Institute for near East Policy. Middle East Report. 10–10. 3 indexed citations
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Lockman, Zachary & Joël Beinin. (1990). Intifada : the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation. 51 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (1989). Labor, Capital, and the State in Nasserist Egypt, 1952–1961. International Journal Middle East Studies. 21(1). 71–90. 14 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (1989). Henri Curiel and the Egyptian Communist Movement. Radical History Review. 1989(45). 157–163. 2 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (1987). The communist movement and nationalist political discourse in nasirist egypt. The Middle East Journal. 41(4). 568–584. 9 indexed citations
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Beinin, Joël. (1986). Class and Politics in Middle Eastern Societies. A Review Article. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 28(3). 552–557. 1 indexed citations

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