Joseph Dumit

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Joseph Dumit is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Dumit has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 4 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Joseph Dumit's work include Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (4 papers), Pharmaceutical studies and practices (4 papers) and Race, Genetics, and Society (3 papers). Joseph Dumit is often cited by papers focused on Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (4 papers), Pharmaceutical studies and practices (4 papers) and Race, Genetics, and Society (3 papers). Joseph Dumit collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Italy. Joseph Dumit's co-authors include Gary Lee Downey, Regula Valérie Burri, Robbie Davis‐Floyd, Sarah Williams, Peter Keating, Allan Young, Ilana Löwy, Rayna Rapp, Patricia A. Kaufert and Paul Rabinow and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Dumit

30 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Picturing Personhood

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joseph Dumit United States	14	431	347	285	240	233	32	1.8k
Martyn Pickersgill United Kingdom	21	351 0.8×	205 0.6×	307 1.1×	270 1.1×	112 0.5×	69	1.4k
Laura Mamo United States	20	232 0.5×	523 1.5×	479 1.7×	433 1.8×	178 0.8×	40	2.3k
Jennifer R. Fishman United States	23	352 0.8×	454 1.3×	446 1.6×	469 2.0×	207 0.9×	38	2.5k
Georges Canguilhem France	15	182 0.4×	601 1.7×	278 1.0×	321 1.3×	146 0.6×	66	2.2k
Francisco Ortega Brazil	20	502 1.2×	279 0.8×	411 1.4×	359 1.5×	147 0.6×	107	1.6k
Grant Gillett New Zealand	21	360 0.8×	291 0.8×	352 1.2×	387 1.6×	197 0.8×	151	2.4k
Erik Parens United States	25	591 1.4×	156 0.4×	356 1.2×	262 1.1×	239 1.0×	78	2.2k
Stephanie Ross United States	16	159 0.4×	415 1.2×	131 0.5×	69 0.3×	80 0.3×	48	1.1k
Eugene B. Brody United States	24	298 0.7×	436 1.3×	838 2.9×	309 1.3×	299 1.3×	135	2.5k
Tiago Moreira United Kingdom	18	81 0.2×	238 0.7×	91 0.3×	394 1.6×	89 0.4×	68	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph Dumit

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Dumit, Joseph & Andreas Roepstorff. (2025). AI hallucinations are a feature of LLM design, not a bug. Nature. 639(8053). 38–38. 7 indexed citations

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Dumit, Joseph. (2023). Slow partying and supportive napping, how lichen will be known. American Anthropologist. 125(3). 690–693.

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Vesper, Cordula, et al.. (2022). Sharing Perspectives: Inviting Playful Curiosity Into Museum Spaces Through a Performative Score. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 825625–825625. 2 indexed citations

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Dumit, Joseph. (2021). Picturing Personhood. Princeton University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Dumit, Joseph, et al.. (2021). Shared Diminished Reality: A New VR Framework for the Study of Embodied Intersubjectivity. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 3 indexed citations

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Dumit, Joseph, et al.. (2021). [Re]moving Bodies – A Shared Diminished Reality Installation for Exploring Relational Movement. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 539596–539596. 2 indexed citations

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Hristova, Dayana, Joseph Dumit, Andreas Lieberoth, & Thomas Slunecko. (2019). Snapchat Streaks: How Adolescents Metagame Gamification in Social Media. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 9 indexed citations

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Dumit, Joseph. (2014). Plastic neuroscience: studying what the brain cares about. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 176–176. 5 indexed citations

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Dumit, Joseph. (2014). Writing the Implosion: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time. Cultural Anthropology. 29(2). 344–362. 54 indexed citations

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Davis‐Floyd, Robbie & Joseph Dumit. (2013). Cyborg Babies. 25 indexed citations

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Dumit, Joseph. (2012). Drugs for Life. 237 indexed citations

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Dumit, Joseph. (2012). Drugs for Life. 4 indexed citations

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Wassmer, Gernot, et al.. (2012). Comparison of three forms of teaching – a prospective randomized pilot trial for the enhancement of adherence. International Journal of Dental Hygiene. 10(4). 277–283. 2 indexed citations

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Dumit, Joseph. (2010). Inter-pill-ation and the instrumentalization of compliance. Anthropology and Medicine. 17(2). 245–247. 7 indexed citations

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Burri, Regula Valérie & Joseph Dumit. (2007). Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life. 68 indexed citations

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Dumit, Joseph. (2005). Illnesses you have to fight to get: Facts as forces in uncertain, emergent illnesses. Social Science & Medicine. 62(3). 577–590. 363 indexed citations

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Dumit, Joseph. (2004). Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 316 indexed citations

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Dumit, Joseph. (2002). Drugs for Life. Molecular Interventions. 2(3). 124–127. 55 indexed citations

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Downey, Gary Lee & Joseph Dumit. (1997). Cyborgs & citadels : anthropological interventions in emerging sciences and technologies. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 78 indexed citations

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Downey, Gary Lee, Joseph Dumit, & Sarah Williams. (1995). Cyborg Anthropology. Cultural Anthropology. 10(2). 264–269. 29 indexed citations

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