Lance van Sittert

1.1k total citations
49 papers, 672 citations indexed

About

Lance van Sittert is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Lance van Sittert has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 672 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 20 papers in Anthropology and 10 papers in Law. Recurrent topics in Lance van Sittert's work include South African History and Culture (22 papers), African history and culture studies (17 papers) and Legal Issues in South Africa (10 papers). Lance van Sittert is often cited by papers focused on South African History and Culture (22 papers), African history and culture studies (17 papers) and Legal Issues in South Africa (10 papers). Lance van Sittert collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Denmark and United Kingdom. Lance van Sittert's co-authors include Stefano Ponte, Simon Roberts, Maria Hauck, Merle Sowman, John Measey, Sandra Swart, Jackie Sunde, Brett M. Bennett, R. Melville‐Smith and George M. Branch and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Environmental Management and Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Lance van Sittert

45 papers receiving 601 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lance van Sittert South Africa 17 186 174 170 132 67 49 672
C. F. S. Warren Australia 18 238 1.3× 542 3.1× 215 1.3× 122 0.9× 28 0.4× 52 1.1k
Iokiñe Rodríguez United Kingdom 13 106 0.6× 292 1.7× 448 2.6× 149 1.1× 22 0.3× 30 900
Tobias Haller Switzerland 16 127 0.7× 253 1.5× 385 2.3× 140 1.1× 11 0.2× 71 905
Enrique Leff Mexico 18 86 0.5× 210 1.2× 90 0.5× 320 2.4× 17 0.3× 71 855
Maria Hauck South Africa 18 413 2.2× 222 1.3× 439 2.6× 239 1.8× 48 0.7× 23 915
Colin Duncan Canada 5 108 0.6× 151 0.9× 247 1.5× 130 1.0× 15 0.2× 9 580
Alberto Acosta Colombia 14 336 1.8× 96 0.6× 229 1.3× 81 0.6× 22 0.3× 56 719
Greg Acciaioli Australia 12 95 0.5× 323 1.9× 150 0.9× 67 0.5× 20 0.3× 51 593
Steven Sanderson United States 12 158 0.8× 150 0.9× 425 2.5× 127 1.0× 9 0.1× 33 795
Daniel Robinson Australia 13 59 0.3× 117 0.7× 106 0.6× 116 0.9× 88 1.3× 46 605

Countries citing papers authored by Lance van Sittert

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lance van Sittert

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lance van Sittert

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bennett, Brett M. & Lance van Sittert. (2018). Historicising perceptions and the national management framework for invasive alien plants in South Africa. Journal of Environmental Management. 229. 174–181. 20 indexed citations
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Sittert, Lance van. (2016). Routinising genocide: the politics and practice of vermin extermination in the Cape Province c.1889–1994. Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 34(1). 111–128. 11 indexed citations
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Sittert, Lance van. (2015). Fighting Spells: The Politics of Hysteria and the Hysteria of Politics on Tristan da Cunha, 1937–1938. Journal of Social History. 49(1). 100–124. 1 indexed citations
4.
Sittert, Lance van. (2010). The intimate politics of the Cape Floral Kingdom. South African Journal of Science. 106(3/4). 1 indexed citations
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Sowman, Merle, Maria Hauck, Lance van Sittert, & Jackie Sunde. (2010). Marine Protected Area Management in South Africa: New Policies, Old Paradigms. Environmental Management. 47(4). 573–583. 43 indexed citations
6.
David, J. H. M. & Lance van Sittert. (2008). A reconstruction of the Cape (South African) fur seal harvest 1653-1899 and a comparison with the 20th-century harvest. South African Journal of Science. 104. 107–110. 11 indexed citations
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Sittert, Lance van. (2008). ‘The Ornithorhynchus of the Western World’: Environmental Determinism in Eric Anderson Walker's South African History, 1911–1936. South African Historical Journal. 60(1). 7–40. 1 indexed citations
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Ponte, Stefano, Simon Roberts, & Lance van Sittert. (2006). To BEE or not to BEE? South Africa's 'Black Economic Empowerment' (BEE), corporate governance and the state in the South. Econstor (Econstor). 1 indexed citations
9.
Sittert, Lance van. (2004). Writing and teaching the History of Land and the Environment in Africa in the twenty-first century : centenary of the UCT History Department. South African Historical Journal. 50(1). 223–228. 2 indexed citations
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Sittert, Lance van. (2004). THE NATURE OF POWER: CAPE ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, THE HISTORY OF IDEAS AND NEOLIBERAL HISTORIOGRAPHY The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock and the Environment, 1770–1950. By WILLIAM BEINART. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii+402. £65 (ISBN 0-19-926151-2). Social History and African Environments. Edited by WILLIAM BEINART and JOANN MCGREGOR. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Cape Town: David Philip, 2003. Pp. xii+275. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-951-8); £18.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-950-X). Environment, Power and Injustice: A South African History. By NANCY J. JACOBS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi+300. £45; $65 (ISBN 0-521-81191-0); £16.95; $24, paperback (ISBN 0-521-01070-5).. The Journal of African History. 45(2). 305–313. 2 indexed citations
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Sittert, Lance van, et al.. (2003). Historical reconstruction of guano production on the Namibian islands. South African Journal of Science. 3 indexed citations
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Sittert, Lance van & Sandra Swart. (2003). Canis Familiaris: A Dog History of South Africa. South African Historical Journal. 48(1). 138–173. 8 indexed citations
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Sittert, Lance van, et al.. (2003). Historical reconstruction of guano production on the Namibian islands 1843-1895 : news & views. South African Journal of Science. 99. 13–16. 4 indexed citations
14.
Sittert, Lance van. (2003). Making the Cape Floral Kingdom: The discovery and defence of indigenous flora at the Cape ca. 1890-1939. Landscape Research. 28(1). 113–129. 18 indexed citations
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Sittert, Lance van. (2003). Class and Canicide in Little Bess: The 1893 Port Elizabeth Rabies Epidemic. South African Historical Journal. 48(1). 207–234. 4 indexed citations
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Sittert, Lance van. (2002). “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”: comparing fisheries reforms in South Africa. Marine Policy. 26(4). 295–305. 33 indexed citations
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Sittert, Lance van. (2002). The bourgeois eye aloft: Table Mountain in the Anglo urban middle class imagination, c.1891-1952. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 28(1). 161–190. 10 indexed citations
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Sittert, Lance van. (1998). “Keeping the Enemy at Bay”: The Extermination of Wild Carnivora in the Cape Colony, 1889–1910. Environmental History. 3(3). 333–356. 28 indexed citations
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Ranger, Terence, Lance van Sittert, Preben Kaarsholm, et al.. (1996). Book reviews. Journal of Southern African Studies. 22(3). 491–505.
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Sittert, Lance van. (1994). South Africa's Sea-going Proletariat: The Trawler and Line Fishermen's Union, 1939–1945. International Journal of Maritime History. 6(2). 1–44. 6 indexed citations

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