Kiran Asher

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 729 citations indexed

About

Kiran Asher is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Kiran Asher has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 729 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Anthropology and 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Kiran Asher's work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers) and Politics and Society in Latin America (4 papers). Kiran Asher is often cited by papers focused on Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers) and Politics and Society in Latin America (4 papers). Kiran Asher collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Indonesia. Kiran Asher's co-authors include Diana Ojeda, Houria Djoudi, Bruno Locatelli, Maria Brockhaus, Joel Wainwright, G. C. Varley, Priti Ramamurthy, Leila M. Harris, Brigitte Baptiste and Andrea J. Nightingale and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, AMBIO and Geoforum.

In The Last Decade

Kiran Asher

31 papers receiving 644 citations

Hit Papers

Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities ... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 50 100 150 200
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. Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies
    2016 230 citations Houria Djoudi, Bruno Locatelli et al. AMBIO profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kiran Asher United States 11 306 194 143 134 104 34 729
Rebecca Elmhirst United Kingdom 17 635 2.1× 249 1.3× 249 1.7× 289 2.2× 70 0.7× 41 1.2k
Barbara Thomas‐Slayter United States 11 305 1.0× 123 0.6× 193 1.3× 184 1.4× 40 0.4× 19 783
Grace Carswell United Kingdom 17 378 1.2× 186 1.0× 78 0.5× 140 1.0× 84 0.8× 36 908
Rodolphe De Koninck Canada 17 436 1.4× 196 1.0× 191 1.3× 182 1.4× 83 0.8× 93 830
Sharlene Mollett Canada 15 552 1.8× 217 1.1× 162 1.1× 259 1.9× 120 1.2× 27 1.1k
Bernard Debarbieux Switzerland 16 563 1.8× 129 0.7× 74 0.5× 125 0.9× 44 0.4× 104 981
Richard A. Schroeder United States 19 356 1.2× 180 0.9× 364 2.5× 239 1.8× 125 1.2× 30 1.0k
Diana Ojeda Colombia 19 502 1.6× 267 1.4× 207 1.4× 283 2.1× 122 1.2× 37 1.2k
Jeff Popke United States 11 414 1.4× 78 0.4× 134 0.9× 88 0.7× 31 0.3× 22 880
Parker Shipton United States 12 334 1.1× 122 0.6× 64 0.4× 198 1.5× 220 2.1× 27 875

Countries citing papers authored by Kiran Asher

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kiran Asher

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kiran Asher

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

All Works

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Asher, Kiran. (2020). Etnicidad de género o género étnico. Boletín de Antropología. 10(26). 9–26.
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Asher, Kiran & Priti Ramamurthy. (2020). Rethinking Decolonial and Postcolonial Knowledges beyond Regions to Imagine Transnational Solidarity. Hypatia. 35(3). 542–547. 20 indexed citations
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Asher, Kiran. (2020). The Brilliant, Monochromatic Red of Climate Leviathan. Rethinking Marxism. 32(4). 442–450. 1 indexed citations
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Asher, Kiran. (2020). Black and Green. 1 indexed citations
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Asher, Kiran. (2019). Reivindicar la cercanía entre los feminismos poscoloniales y decoloniales con base en Spivak y Rivera Cusicanqui. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(30). 3 indexed citations
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Asher, Kiran. (2017). Spivak and Rivera Cusicanqui on the Dilemmas of Representation in Postcolonial and Decolonial Feminisms. Feminist Studies. 43(3). 512–512. 20 indexed citations
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Djoudi, Houria, et al.. (2016). Beyond dichotomies: Gender and intersecting inequalities in climate change studies. AMBIO. 45(S3). 248–262. 230 indexed citations breakdown →
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Asher, Kiran. (2015). The Doers and the Done For: Interrogating the Subjects and Objects of Engaged Political Ecology. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 13(4). 489–496. 4 indexed citations
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Asher, Kiran. (2013). Latin American Decolonial Thought, or Making the Subaltern Speak. Geography Compass. 7(12). 832–842. 78 indexed citations
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Asher, Kiran. (2012). The footwork of critique. Dialogues in Human Geography. 2(1). 53–59. 2 indexed citations
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Hawkins, Roberta, Diana Ojeda, Kiran Asher, et al.. (2011). A Discussion. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 29(2). 237–253. 44 indexed citations
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Asher, Kiran. (2009). Black and Green. 2 indexed citations
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Asher, Kiran. (2007). Ser y Tener: Black Women's Activism, Development, and Ethnicity in the Pacific Lowlands of Colombia. Feminist Studies. 33(1). 6 indexed citations
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Asher, Kiran. (2004). Texts in Context: Afro-Colombian Women's Activism in the Pacific Lowlands of Colombia. Feminist Review. 78(1). 38–55. 14 indexed citations
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Asher, Kiran. (2002). TEXTOS EN CONTEXTO: ACTIVISMO DE LAS MUJERES AFROCOLOMBIANAS EN EL LITORAL PACÍFICO COLOMBIANO. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Redford, Kent H., et al.. (1995). What about the wild animals. 1 indexed citations
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Sutherst, R. W., et al.. (1987). Mechanized extraction of arthropods from cattle dung. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 77(2). 239–246. 6 indexed citations

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