John Leavitt

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

John Leavitt is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Leavitt has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in John Leavitt's work include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (3 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 papers) and African Studies and Ethnography (2 papers). John Leavitt is often cited by papers focused on Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (3 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 papers) and African Studies and Ethnography (2 papers). John Leavitt collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. John Leavitt's co-authors include Frederick A. Struve, John J. Straumanis, Gloria Patrick, Joseph E. Manno, Pierre Smith, P. Steven Sangren, Michel Izard, Barbara R. Manno, Herbert I. Goldman and John M. Taylor and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Biological Psychiatry and Language.

In The Last Decade

John Leavitt

18 papers receiving 928 citations

Hit Papers

Evidentiality : The linguistic coding of epistemology. Ed... 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 200 400 600
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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. Evidentiality : The linguistic coding of epistemology. Edited by Wallace Chafe and Johanna Nichols. (Advances in discourse processes, 20.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1986. Pp. xi, 346.
    1991 731 citations John Leavitt Language profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Leavitt Canada 8 523 296 261 201 127 24 1.1k
Linda R. Waugh United States 16 328 0.6× 300 1.0× 153 0.6× 136 0.7× 141 1.1× 51 820
Wolfgang Mieder United States 15 320 0.6× 345 1.2× 232 0.9× 128 0.6× 148 1.2× 148 899
Anna Wierzbicka Australia 13 991 1.9× 581 2.0× 182 0.7× 189 0.9× 123 1.0× 41 1.7k
Jack Bilmes United States 18 520 1.0× 314 1.1× 279 1.1× 91 0.5× 75 0.6× 37 734
A. J. Wootton United Kingdom 13 704 1.3× 306 1.0× 288 1.1× 170 0.8× 46 0.4× 24 1.1k
George L. Dillon United States 10 359 0.7× 165 0.6× 368 1.4× 109 0.5× 59 0.5× 31 850
Susan Ehrlich Canada 17 654 1.3× 333 1.1× 378 1.4× 135 0.7× 82 0.6× 39 1.3k
Meir Sternberg Israel 16 170 0.3× 407 1.4× 596 2.3× 245 1.2× 194 1.5× 29 1.1k
Monika Fludernik Germany 18 302 0.6× 603 2.0× 1.2k 4.5× 290 1.4× 268 2.1× 81 1.8k
Robert K. Herbert United States 14 581 1.1× 207 0.7× 264 1.0× 77 0.4× 33 0.3× 32 848

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Leavitt

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Leavitt, John. (2021). Structure et émotion dans un rite kumaoni, Himalaya Central. Érudit (Université de Montréal). 4(1). 19–31. 1 indexed citations
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Leavitt, John. (2021). The Shapes of Modernity: On the Philosophical Roots of Anthropological Doctrines. Érudit (Université de Montréal). 11(1-2). 29–42.
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Leavitt, John. (2017). Baipurangi’s dreams. Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 7(2). 497–519. 1 indexed citations
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Leavitt, John. (2016). Authoritative Modes of Speech in a Central Himalayan Ritual. Oral tradition. 30(2). 2 indexed citations
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Leavitt, John. (2014). Words and worlds. Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 4(2). 193–220. 15 indexed citations
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Leavitt, John. (2011). Mytheme and Motif: Lévi-Strauss and Wagner. Érudit (Université de Montréal). 30(1). 95–116. 1 indexed citations
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Leavitt, John. (2006). Un tropo de tiempo. El crepúsculo se balancea en el Himalaya central. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Leavitt, John. (2005). Présentation. Anthropologie et Sociétés. 29(2). 7–7. 4 indexed citations
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Leavitt, John. (2005). Les structuralismes et les mythes. Anthropologie et Sociétés. 29(2). 45–67. 1 indexed citations
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Leavitt, John, et al.. (2003). Critique de la " raison " sensorielle. L'élaboration esthétique des sens dans une société himalayenne. Anthropologie et Sociétés. 14(2). 77–98. 8 indexed citations
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Struve, Frederick A., et al.. (2000). Inadequacies of Self-Report Data for Exclusion Criteria Detection in Marihuana Research. Journal of Addictive Diseases. 19(3). 71–87. 4 indexed citations
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Struve, Frederick A., John J. Straumanis, Gloria Patrick, et al.. (1999). Topographic quantitative EEG sequelae of chronic marihuana use: a replication using medically and psychiatrically screened normal subjects. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 56(3). 167–179. 54 indexed citations
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Patrick, Gloria, et al.. (1999). Reduced P50 auditory gating response in psychiatrically normal chronic marihuana users: a pilot study. Biological Psychiatry. 45(10). 1307–1312. 31 indexed citations
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Leavitt, John. (1993). Are Trance and Possession Disorders?. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review. 30(1). 51–57. 10 indexed citations
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Leavitt, John. (1992). Cultural Holism in the Anthropology of South Asia: The Challenge of Regional Traditions. Contributions to Indian Sociology. 26(1). 3–49. 4 indexed citations
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Leavitt, John. (1991). Evidentiality : The linguistic coding of epistemology. Edited by Wallace Chafe and Johanna Nichols. (Advances in discourse processes, 20.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1986. Pp. xi, 346.. Language. 67(1). 133–141. 731 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leavitt, John. (1988). A Mahabharata Story from the Kumaon Hills. HIMALAYA. 8(2). 4. 1 indexed citations
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Taylor, John M., et al.. (1984). Limitations of the brief form of the halstead category test. PubMed. 6(3). 341–344. 7 indexed citations
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Sangren, P. Steven, Michel Izard, Pierre Smith, & John Leavitt. (1983). Between Belief and Transgression: Structuralist Essays in Religion, History and Myth.. Man. 18(4). 799–799. 44 indexed citations

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