Johan Rasanayagam

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 755 citations indexed

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Johan Rasanayagam is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Johan Rasanayagam has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 755 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Johan Rasanayagam's work include Soviet and Russian History (9 papers), Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 papers) and Islamic Studies and History (4 papers). Johan Rasanayagam is often cited by papers focused on Soviet and Russian History (9 papers), Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 papers) and Islamic Studies and History (4 papers). Johan Rasanayagam collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Johan Rasanayagam's co-authors include Judith Beyer, Madeleine Reeves, Elias Kifon Bongmba, Naomi Haynes, Ebrahim Moosa and Matt Tomlinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Ethnos and International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.

In The Last Decade

Johan Rasanayagam

16 papers receiving 637 citations

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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.

Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language and Action

2011 526 citations Johan Rasanayagam Ethnos profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Johan Rasanayagam United Kingdom	8	476	273	248	56	53	17	755
Andrew Shryock United States	15	525 1.1×	278 1.0×	225 0.9×	79 1.4×	41 0.8×	41	908
Jane K. Cowan United Kingdom	14	548 1.2×	303 1.1×	269 1.1×	46 0.8×	68 1.3×	39	1.1k
Márcio Goldman Brazil	12	367 0.8×	133 0.5×	212 0.9×	36 0.6×	62 1.2×	41	695
Bjørn Thomassen Denmark	14	465 1.0×	186 0.7×	100 0.4×	40 0.7×	62 1.2×	57	763
Hastings Donnan United Kingdom	16	659 1.4×	476 1.7×	189 0.8×	56 1.0×	60 1.1×	68	1.0k
Kirin Narayan United States	13	573 1.2×	168 0.6×	314 1.3×	75 1.3×	66 1.2×	42	1.0k
Allen Feldman United States	14	743 1.6×	276 1.0×	237 1.0×	71 1.3×	56 1.1×	38	1.1k
Rita Laura Segato Brazil	16	674 1.4×	136 0.5×	179 0.7×	25 0.4×	57 1.1×	64	1.2k
Robert P. Weller United States	16	654 1.4×	264 1.0×	185 0.7×	86 1.5×	19 0.4×	55	917
Antoinette Burton United States	19	813 1.7×	239 0.9×	328 1.3×	39 0.7×	18 0.3×	102	1.3k

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17 of 17 papers shown

Tomlinson, Matt, et al.. (2022). Dialogues: anthropology and theology. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 28(1). 297–347. 4 indexed citations

Rasanayagam, Johan. (2018). Fragile conviction: changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan. Central Asian Survey. 37(3). 491–493. 2 indexed citations

Rasanayagam, Johan. (2017). Anthropology in conversation with an Islamic tradition: Emmanuel Levinas and the practice of critique. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 24(1). 90–106. 3 indexed citations

Rasanayagam, Johan. (2014). The politics of culture and the space for Islam: Soviet and post-Soviet imaginaries in Uzbekistan. Central Asian Survey. 33(1). 1–14. 9 indexed citations

Rasanayagam, Johan, Judith Beyer, & Madeleine Reeves. (2014). Introduction: performances, possibilities, and practices of the political in Central Asia. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 1–26. 3 indexed citations

Rasanayagam, Johan. (2011). Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language and Action. Ethnos. 76(4). 572–573. 526 indexed citations breakdown →

Rasanayagam, Johan. (2011). Informal economy, informal state: the case of Uzbekistan. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 31(11/12). 681–696. 53 indexed citations

Rasanayagam, Johan. (2010). Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: The Morality of Experience. Andalas University Repository (Andalas University). 51 indexed citations

Rasanayagam, Johan. (2010). Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 38 indexed citations

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Rasanayagam, Johan. (2010). Becoming Muslim in post-Soviet Uzbekistan: an anthropology of moral reasoning. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 45–48. 1 indexed citations

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Rasanayagam, Johan. (2009). Morality, self and power: the idea of the Mahalla in Uzbekistan. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 102–117. 6 indexed citations

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Rasanayagam, Johan. (2006). Post-Soviet Islam: An Anthropological Perspective. 25(3). 217–371.

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Rasanayagam, Johan. (2006). 'I am not a Wahhabi': state power and Muslim Orthodoxy in Uzbekistan. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 99–124. 2 indexed citations

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Rasanayagam, Johan. (2006). Introduction. Central Asian Survey. 25(3). 219–233. 7 indexed citations

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Rasanayagam, Johan. (2006). Healing with spirits and the formation of Muslim selfhood in post‐Soviet Uzbekistan. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 12(2). 377–393. 24 indexed citations

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Rasanayagam, Johan. (2003). Market, state and community in Uzbekistan: reworking the concept of the informal economy. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 5 indexed citations

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Rasanayagam, Johan. (2002). Spheres of communal participation: Placing the state within local modes of interaction in rural Uzbekistan. Central Asian Survey. 21(1). 55–70. 21 indexed citations

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