John K. Chance

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

John K. Chance is a scholar working on Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Demography and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, John K. Chance has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts, 18 papers in Demography and 9 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in John K. Chance's work include Latin American history and culture (40 papers), Historical Studies in Latin America (16 papers) and Archaeology and Natural History (5 papers). John K. Chance is often cited by papers focused on Latin American history and culture (40 papers), Historical Studies in Latin America (16 papers) and Archaeology and Natural History (5 papers). John K. Chance collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and United Kingdom. John K. Chance's co-authors include Nancy Farriss, William B. Taylor, Woodrow Borah, N. Ridley, Susan Kellogg, Peter Bakewell, James B. Greenberg, James Lockhart, Robert H. Jackson and Douglas Butterworth and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

John K. Chance

56 papers receiving 889 citations

Hit Papers

Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterpri... 1985 2026 1998 2012 1985 50 100 150 200
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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.

  1. Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival.
    1985 223 citations John K. Chance et al. Hispanic American Historical Review profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John K. Chance United States 18 540 471 316 294 260 65 1.3k
James Lockhart United States 24 882 1.6× 520 1.1× 285 0.9× 439 1.5× 206 0.8× 99 1.6k
Steve J. Stern United States 15 223 0.4× 295 0.6× 263 0.8× 190 0.6× 361 1.4× 49 970
Catherine Bell Canada 5 86 0.2× 352 0.7× 153 0.5× 37 0.1× 550 2.1× 23 1.4k
Anthony Pagden United States 19 210 0.4× 403 0.9× 522 1.7× 134 0.5× 542 2.1× 68 1.6k
Frank Salomon United States 15 325 0.6× 388 0.8× 136 0.4× 134 0.5× 95 0.4× 62 982
Magnüs Mörner Sweden 14 139 0.3× 272 0.6× 212 0.7× 225 0.8× 365 1.4× 85 985
Susan Migden Socolow United States 17 116 0.2× 206 0.4× 128 0.4× 285 1.0× 223 0.9× 57 773
M. J. Sallnow United Kingdom 10 118 0.2× 288 0.6× 111 0.4× 89 0.3× 399 1.5× 17 955
Susan Kellogg United States 12 175 0.3× 126 0.3× 105 0.3× 145 0.5× 178 0.7× 43 571
Joanne Rappaport United States 19 144 0.3× 472 1.0× 296 0.9× 205 0.7× 333 1.3× 74 1.2k

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All Works

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Chance, John K. & Barbara Stark. (2007). Estrategias empleadas en las provincias imperiales: perspectivas prehispánicas y coloniales en Mesoamérica. Revista Española de Antropología Americana. 37(2). 203–233. 5 indexed citations
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Chance, John K. & Robert H. Jackson. (2000). Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America.. Journal of American History. 87(2). 638–638. 18 indexed citations
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Chance, John K.. (1998). La hacienda de los Santiago en Tecali, Puebla: un cacicazgo nahua colonial, 1520-1750. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8 indexed citations
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Chance, John K., et al.. (1997). Shadows over Anahuac: An Ecological Interpretation of Crisis and Development in Central Mexico, 1730-1800.. The American Historical Review. 102(4). 1271–1271. 16 indexed citations
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Chance, John K., et al.. (1996). Chipping Away on Earth: Studies in Prehispanic and Colonial Mexico in Honor of Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 76(3). 556–556. 9 indexed citations
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Chance, John K., et al.. (1991). Conquest of the Sierra: Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Oaxaca. Western Historical Quarterly. 22(2). 216–216. 1 indexed citations
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Chance, John K., et al.. (1991). Anthropologies and Histories: Essays in Culture, History, and Political Economy.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 71(1). 188–188. 196 indexed citations
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Chance, John K.. (1991). Anthropologies and Histories: Essays in Culture, History, and Political Economy. Hispanic American Historical Review. 71(1). 188–189. 10 indexed citations
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Chance, John K., Ronald Spores, & Ross Hassig. (1985). Five Centuries of Law and Politics in Central Mexico. Ethnohistory. 32(2). 179–179. 10 indexed citations
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Chance, John K.. (1984). Justice by Insurance: The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides of the Half-Real. Hispanic American Historical Review. 64(3). 563–564. 13 indexed citations
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Chance, John K. & Woodrow Borah. (1984). Justice by Insurance: The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides of the Half-Real.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 64(3). 563–563. 66 indexed citations
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Lloyd, Peter, Douglas Butterworth, & John K. Chance. (1981). Latin American Urbanisation.. Man. 16(3). 484–484. 2 indexed citations
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Chance, John K., et al.. (1979). Race and Class in Colonial Oaxaca. The American Historical Review. 84(1). 287–287. 20 indexed citations
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Chance, John K. & William B. Taylor. (1979). Estate and Class: A Reply. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 21(3). 434–442. 21 indexed citations
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Chance, John K.. (1978). Indice del archivo del Juzgado de Villa Alta, Oaxaca : epoca colonial. 2 indexed citations
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Chance, John K. & William B. Taylor. (1977). Estate and Class in a Colonial City: Oaxaca in 1792. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 19(4). 454–487. 61 indexed citations
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Chance, John K.. (1974). Race and Class in a Colonial Mexican City: A Social History of Antequera, 1521-1800. 2 indexed citations

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