Kathi Weeks

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 990 citations indexed

About

Kathi Weeks is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathi Weeks has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 990 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 4 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Kathi Weeks's work include Political Economy and Marxism (3 papers), Emotional Labor in Professions (2 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 papers). Kathi Weeks is often cited by papers focused on Political Economy and Marxism (3 papers), Emotional Labor in Professions (2 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 papers). Kathi Weeks collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Czechia. Kathi Weeks's co-authors include Leah Bassel, Andrew Schaap, Vı́ctor López, Óscar González de Dios, Ramon Casellas and Ramesh Subramanian and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Feminist Studies and Feminist Theory.

In The Last Decade

Kathi Weeks

18 papers receiving 789 citations

Hit Papers

The Problem with Work 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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. The Problem with Work
    2011 481 citations Kathi Weeks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kathi Weeks United States 9 601 197 188 178 96 19 990
Beverley Mullings Canada 14 646 1.1× 108 0.5× 89 0.5× 115 0.6× 41 0.4× 29 923
Thomas B. Osborne United States 3 533 0.9× 131 0.7× 89 0.5× 317 1.8× 60 0.6× 5 998
Akwugo Emejulu United Kingdom 16 424 0.7× 166 0.8× 300 1.6× 185 1.0× 82 0.9× 50 900
Ulrich Bröckling Germany 12 601 1.0× 125 0.6× 96 0.5× 241 1.4× 44 0.5× 41 1.1k
Davina Cooper United Kingdom 20 706 1.2× 94 0.5× 378 2.0× 303 1.7× 72 0.8× 73 1.4k
Andrea Muehlebach Canada 11 544 0.9× 186 0.9× 44 0.2× 293 1.6× 55 0.6× 20 953
Sara C. Motta Australia 14 550 0.9× 66 0.3× 118 0.6× 273 1.5× 54 0.6× 44 961
Paul Bagguley United Kingdom 17 568 0.9× 108 0.5× 144 0.8× 190 1.1× 114 1.2× 42 896
Alex Dupuy United States 10 727 1.2× 134 0.7× 176 0.9× 397 2.2× 87 0.9× 30 1.3k
Raka Ray United States 14 535 0.9× 88 0.4× 204 1.1× 216 1.2× 55 0.6× 27 857

Countries citing papers authored by Kathi Weeks

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kathi Weeks

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kathi Weeks

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kathi Weeks. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kathi Weeks 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 Kathi Weeks. Kathi Weeks is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Weeks, Kathi. (2021). A discussion: Capitalist crisis and economic estrangement. Cultural Dynamics. 33(3). 253–256. 1 indexed citations
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Subramanian, Ramesh, et al.. (2021). Operationalizing partially disaggregated optical networks: An open standards-driven multi-vendor demonstration. M1B.2–M1B.2. 8 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi. (2021). Abolition of the family: the most infamous feminist proposal. Feminist Theory. 24(3). 433–453. 19 indexed citations
4.
Weeks, Kathi. (2021). Scaling-Up: A Marxist Feminist Archive. Feminist Studies. 47(3). 842–870. 2 indexed citations
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Schaap, Andrew, et al.. (2020). The politics of precarity. Contemporary Political Theory. 21(1). 142–173. 3 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi. (2020). The Problem with Work. 9 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi. (2020). Anti/Postwork Feminist Politics and A Case for Basic Income. tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 575–594. 9 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi. (2020). Polityka feministyczna anty/postpracy a obrona dochodu podstawowego.. Praktyka Teoretyczna. 37(3).
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Weeks, Kathi. (2017). Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work. Women's studies quarterly. 45(3-4). 37–58. 22 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi. (2016). Introduction: The Politics of the Public Toilet. South Atlantic Quarterly. 115(4). 744–747. 4 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi. (2015). The VanishingDialectic: Shulamith Firestone and the Future of the Feminist 1970s. South Atlantic Quarterly. 114(4). 735–754. 10 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi. (2014). The Problems with Work. New Labor Forum. 23(2). 10–12. 3 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi. (2013). The Critical Manifesto: Marx and Engels, Haraway, and Utopian Politics. Utopian Studies. 24(2). 216–231. 8 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi. (2011). The Problem with Work. 2 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi. (2011). The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 261 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi. (2011). The Problem with Work. 481 indexed citations breakdown →
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Weeks, Kathi. (2009). " Hours for What We Will": Work, Family, and the Movement for Shorter Hours. Feminist Studies. 35(1). 2 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi. (2007). Life Within and Against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics. 125 indexed citations
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Weeks, Kathi, et al.. (1999). Constituting Feminist Subjects. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 28(6). 749–749. 21 indexed citations

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