Joel Samoff

3.0k total citations
81 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Joel Samoff is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Education and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel Samoff has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 21 papers in Education and 9 papers in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Joel Samoff's work include Global Educational Policies and Reforms (17 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (9 papers) and Education Systems and Policy (7 papers). Joel Samoff is often cited by papers focused on Global Educational Policies and Reforms (17 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (9 papers) and Education Systems and Policy (7 papers). Joel Samoff collaborates with scholars based in United States and Zambia. Joel Samoff's co-authors include Andrew Coulson, Bidemi Carrol, Martín Carnoy, Göran Hydén, Tony Barnett, Nelly P. Stromquist, Samir Amin, David Jones, Jon Lewis and James Graham and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Political Science Review and World Development.

In The Last Decade

Joel Samoff

73 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers

Joel Samoff
Comparison fields: 5 of 94
  • Political Science and International Relations 736
  • Education 642
  • Sociology and Political Science 530
  • Safety Research 226
  • Development 206
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Fields of papers citing papers by Joel Samoff

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joel Samoff

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local
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FROM MANPOWER PLANNING TO THE KNOWLEDGE ERA: WORLD BANK POLICIES ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA
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"Education for All" in Africa but education systems that serve few well
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5
Analyses, agendas and priorities for education in Africa : a review of externally initiated, commissioned and supported studies of education in Africa, 1990-1994
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African education and development : Crisis, triumphalism, research, loss of vision
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7 69
8 3
9 1
10 8
11 92
12 17
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Popular Initiatives and Local Government in Tanzania
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14 14
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Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Power in Tanzania: The Institutional Context of Class Struggle
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Schooling and socialism: educational reform in Tanzania
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17 9
18 1
19 34
20 1

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