Leslie Spier

762 total citations
11 papers, 101 citations indexed

About

Leslie Spier is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Leslie Spier has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 101 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Anthropology, 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Leslie Spier's work include Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (2 papers), Diversity and Impact of Dance (2 papers) and Lichen and fungal ecology (1 paper). Leslie Spier is often cited by papers focused on Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (2 papers), Diversity and Impact of Dance (2 papers) and Lichen and fungal ecology (1 paper). Leslie Spier collaborates with scholars based in United States. Leslie Spier's co-authors include David H. Price, Wayne Suttles, Melville J. Herskovits, Ernest Beaglehole, Edward Sapir, André Aptroot, Pieter van den Boom, Paul Diederich, Robert B. Baron and Emmanuël Sérusiaux and has published in prestigious journals such as Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Medical Entomology and Zoology and UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico).

In The Last Decade

Leslie Spier

7 papers receiving 54 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leslie Spier United States 4 47 41 11 10 10 11 101
Janet Rafferty United States 8 49 1.0× 68 1.7× 23 2.1× 5 0.5× 12 1.2× 25 143
Erna Günther United States 7 34 0.7× 36 0.9× 11 1.0× 21 2.1× 9 0.9× 21 132
Frank G. Speck United States 6 29 0.6× 22 0.5× 13 1.2× 10 1.0× 8 0.8× 19 79
Grafton Elliot Smith 5 38 0.8× 21 0.5× 14 1.3× 16 1.6× 8 0.8× 8 84
Grenville Goodwin United States 5 44 0.9× 21 0.5× 2 0.2× 6 0.6× 8 0.8× 6 85
Ruth L. Bunzel United States 4 43 0.9× 26 0.6× 2 0.2× 16 1.6× 10 1.0× 6 111
E. A. Hooton United States 7 16 0.3× 20 0.5× 19 1.7× 37 3.7× 7 0.7× 11 139
Helen Carr United States 5 22 0.5× 18 0.4× 3 0.3× 15 1.5× 2 0.2× 9 91
Rubén G. Mendoza United States 5 32 0.7× 38 0.9× 15 1.4× 4 0.4× 7 0.7× 11 73
Hermann Pálsson 7 20 0.4× 27 0.7× 18 1.6× 15 1.5× 2 0.2× 22 182

Countries citing papers authored by Leslie Spier

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leslie Spier

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leslie Spier

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

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
1.
Beaglehole, Ernest, Edward Sapir, & Leslie Spier. (2020). Notes on Hopi Economic Life. 4 indexed citations
2.
Spier, Leslie. (2017). Some Aspects of the Nature of Culture. UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico). 24(3). 8.
3.
Spier, Leslie. (2010). Archaeological Investigations in the Aleutian Islands. 17(2). 145–146. 1 indexed citations
4.
Spier, Leslie. (2009). Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations
5.
Price, David H. & Leslie Spier. (2001). "The Shameful Bisiness": Leslie Spier on the Censure of Franz Boas. ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania). 1 indexed citations
6.
Boom, Pieter van den, et al.. (1998). A lichenlogical excursion in May 1997 near Han-sur-Lesse and Saint-Hubert, with notes on rare or critical taxa of the flora of Belgium and Luxembourg. 1 indexed citations
7.
Baron, Robert B., et al.. (1994). "Primitive" Cultures, Disciplinary Boundaries and Acculturation Studies in the American Anthropologist, C. 1935: Melville Herskovits, Leslie Spier and 'the Schapera Affair'. ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania).
8.
Spier, Leslie. (1979). The prophet dance of the Northwest and its derivatives : the source of the ghost dance. AMS Press eBooks. 20 indexed citations
9.
Spier, Leslie. (1970). Yuman Tribes of the Gila River. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 69 indexed citations
10.
Spier, Leslie, Wayne Suttles, & Melville J. Herskovits. (1959). Comment on Aberle's Thesis of Deprivation. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 15(1). 84–88. 3 indexed citations
11.
Spier, Leslie. (1953). Some Observations on Mohave Clans. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 9(3). 324–342. 1 indexed citations

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