John Lonsdale

4.0k total citations
75 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

John Lonsdale is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, John Lonsdale has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Anthropology, 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in John Lonsdale's work include African history and culture studies (32 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (12 papers) and African history and culture analysis (10 papers). John Lonsdale is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (32 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (12 papers) and African history and culture analysis (10 papers). John Lonsdale collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and South Sudan. John Lonsdale's co-authors include Bruce J. Berman, Adrian Hastings, Marshall S. Clough, Colin Leys, Jean Suret-Canale, David Anderson, David Killingray, Crawford Young, Dane Kennedy and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and has published in prestigious journals such as The Economic Journal, Foreign Affairs and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

John Lonsdale

65 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers

John Lonsdale
Comparison fields: 5 of 78
  • Sociology and Political Science 862
  • Anthropology 669
  • Political Science and International Relations 451
  • History 176
  • Demography 113
Replace Ralph A. Austen with:
Ralph A. Austen United States
Allen Isaacman United States
Richard Rathbone United Kingdom
Claude Meillassoux France
Michel-Rolph Trouillot Dominican Republic
Jean-François Bayart France
Martin A. Klein Canada
Philip Abrams United Kingdom
Michael G. Schatzberg United States
Crawford Young United States
Ralph A. Austen United States View profile →
Citations per field, relative to John Lonsdale
John Lonsdale · 1×
Citations per year, relative to John Lonsdale
John Lonsdale · 1×

Countries citing papers authored by John Lonsdale

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of John Lonsdale's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by John Lonsdale with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites John Lonsdale more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by John Lonsdale

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by John Lonsdale. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by John Lonsdale. The network helps show where John Lonsdale may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Lonsdale

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Lonsdale. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Lonsdale 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 John Lonsdale. John Lonsdale 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
# Work Indexed citations
1 3
2
Moral Ethnicity and Political Tribalism
20
3
The Political Culture of Kenya
4
4 7
5 6
6 53
7
African Studies, Europe and Africa
10
8
Moral and political argument in Kenya
16
9
Etnicidad moral y tribalismo político
0
10 1
11
The labors of 'Muigwithania': Jomo Kenyatta as author, 1928-45
12
12 3
13 27
14 0
15 90
16 0
17 9
18 2
19 7
20 1

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Rankless by CCL
2026