Leon Moosavi

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 567 citations indexed

About

Leon Moosavi is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Leon Moosavi has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 567 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Education and 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Leon Moosavi's work include Critical Race Theory in Education (6 papers), Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 papers) and Populism, Right-Wing Movements (3 papers). Leon Moosavi is often cited by papers focused on Critical Race Theory in Education (6 papers), Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 papers) and Populism, Right-Wing Movements (3 papers). Leon Moosavi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Singapore and Ghana. Leon Moosavi's co-authors include Syed Farid Alatas and has published in prestigious journals such as Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies and The British Journal of Criminology.

In The Last Decade

Leon Moosavi

18 papers receiving 524 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.

The decolonial bandwagon and the dangers of intellectual decolonisation

2020 172 citations Leon Moosavi International Review of Sociology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leon Moosavi United Kingdom	11	394	159	126	48	42	22	567
Daniel Chernilo United Kingdom	14	493 1.3×	56 0.4×	248 2.0×	9 0.2×	37 0.9×	45	698
Barbara Arneil Canada	12	277 0.7×	52 0.3×	248 2.0×	11 0.2×	66 1.6×	29	564
John A. Arthur United States	14	398 1.0×	42 0.3×	103 0.8×	23 0.5×	20 0.5×	33	541
Jared Yates Sexton United States	12	565 1.4×	116 0.7×	77 0.6×	7 0.1×	65 1.5×	28	780
Barnor Hesse United Kingdom	11	517 1.3×	68 0.4×	162 1.3×	5 0.1×	69 1.6×	18	690
Neve Gordon Israel	13	472 1.2×	23 0.1×	230 1.8×	13 0.3×	36 0.9×	60	621
Liz Gill Australia	2	290 0.7×	112 0.7×	103 0.8×	3 0.1×	40 1.0×	2	560
Alan Patten United States	15	411 1.0×	77 0.5×	593 4.7×	5 0.1×	23 0.5×	35	968
W. Fitzhugh Brundage United States	10	391 1.0×	22 0.1×	87 0.7×	14 0.3×	55 1.3×	43	565
Sophie Gilliat‐Ray United Kingdom	14	422 1.1×	135 0.8×	124 1.0×	3 0.1×	26 0.6×	51	561

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Moosavi, Leon. (2025). The false promise of decolonial research: the complexities and limitations of decolonising methods and methodologies. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 28(6). 651–673.

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Moosavi, Leon. (2025). ‘Woked up the bum’ and other moral panics about academic decolonisation in the British news media. Comparative Education. 61(3). 390–406. 1 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2022). ‘But you’re white’: An autoethnography of whiteness and white privilege in East Asian universities. Research in Comparative and International Education. 17(1). 107–123. 13 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2022). Turning the Decolonial Gaze towards Ourselves: Decolonising the Curriculum and ‘Decolonial Reflexivity’ in Sociology and Social Theory. Sociology. 57(1). 137–156. 40 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2021). The myth of academic tolerance: the stigmatisation of East Asian students in Western higher education. Asian Ethnicity. 23(3). 484–503. 26 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2021). Do UK Universities Care about Hedgehogs More Than People of Colour?. Societies. 11(3). 74–74. 3 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2020). The decolonial bandwagon and the dangers of intellectual decolonisation. International Review of Sociology. 30(2). 332–354. 172 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moosavi, Leon. (2020). “Can East Asian Students Think?”: Orientalism, Critical Thinking, and the Decolonial Project. Education Sciences. 10(10). 286–286. 20 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2018). Muslims and Political Participation in Britain, written by Tim Peace. 7(1). 125–128.

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Moosavi, Leon. (2018). A Friendly Critique of ‘Asian Criminology’ and ‘Southern Criminology’. The British Journal of Criminology. 59(2). 257–275. 66 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2018). Decolonising Criminology: Syed Hussein Alatas on Crimes of the Powerful. Critical Criminology. 27(2). 229–242. 42 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2017). Book Review: Syed Hussein Alatas, The Problem of Corruption. Sociology. 51(1). 195–197. 1 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2014). Islamophobia in the Representations of Islam and Muslims by the British Government between 2001 and 2007. DergiPark (Istanbul University). 3(27). 333–368. 4 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2014). The Racialization of Muslim Converts in Britain and Their Experiences of Islamophobia. Critical Sociology. 41(1). 41–56. 102 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2014). Orientalism at home: Islamophobia in the representations of Islam and Muslims by the New Labour Government. Ethnicities. 15(5). 652–674. 23 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2014). White privilege in the lives of Muslim converts in Britain. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38(11). 1918–1933. 25 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2013). 2001-2007 Arasında Britanya Hükümetinin İslam’a ve Müslümanlara İlişkin Temsillerinde İslamofobi. İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi / İstanbul University Journal of Sociology. 3(27). 333–368. 1 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2013). Muslim Political Participation in Europe. Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations. 25(1). 124–125. 1 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2012). British Muslim Converts Performing 'Authentic Muslimness'. 1(1). 103–128. 23 indexed citations

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Moosavi, Leon. (2011). Book Review: The End of Multiculturalism?: Terrorism, Integration and Human Rights. Sociological Research Online. 16(1). 166–167. 4 indexed citations

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