Lisa Rofel

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Lisa Rofel is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Lisa Rofel has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Cultural Studies and 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Lisa Rofel's work include Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (5 papers), Japanese History and Culture (5 papers) and Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 papers). Lisa Rofel is often cited by papers focused on Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (5 papers), Japanese History and Culture (5 papers) and Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 papers). Lisa Rofel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and Ireland. Lisa Rofel's co-authors include Lieba Faier, Chris Berry, Sylvia Yanagisako, Lisa Duggan, Dean Spade, Fred Moten, Gayle Salamon, Amy Villarejo, Miranda Joseph and Roderick A. Ferguson and has published in prestigious journals such as Annual Review of Anthropology, American Anthropologist and American Ethnologist.

In The Last Decade

Lisa Rofel

26 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Desiring China

2007 452 citations Lisa Rofel profile →
Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture

2007 363 citations Lisa Rofel Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lisa Rofel United States	13	988	494	364	280	200	30	1.5k
Caren Kaplan United States	16	1.1k 1.1×	325 0.7×	482 1.3×	290 1.0×	199 1.0×	34	1.9k
Lorraine O'Donnell United States	2	982 1.0×	210 0.4×	301 0.8×	240 0.9×	315 1.6×	3	1.7k
Roland Bleiker Australia	21	1.6k 1.6×	826 1.7×	346 1.0×	101 0.4×	95 0.5×	94	2.3k
Inderpal Grewal United States	17	1.4k 1.4×	386 0.8×	715 2.0×	276 1.0×	247 1.2×	34	2.2k
Ella Shohat United States	19	1.2k 1.2×	341 0.7×	296 0.8×	262 0.9×	284 1.4×	64	2.0k
Donna J. Guy United States	19	654 0.7×	245 0.5×	277 0.8×	233 0.8×	185 0.9×	73	1.3k
Anne Allison United States	16	793 0.8×	145 0.3×	293 0.8×	429 1.5×	113 0.6×	42	1.4k
Judith R. Walkowitz United States	17	1.3k 1.3×	274 0.6×	362 1.0×	141 0.5×	198 1.0×	40	2.1k
M. Jacqui Alexander South Africa	8	866 0.9×	164 0.3×	391 1.1×	318 1.1×	171 0.9×	16	1.3k
Laura Chrisman United Kingdom	14	997 1.0×	249 0.5×	211 0.6×	219 0.8×	311 1.6×	35	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Lisa Rofel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lisa Rofel

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lisa Rofel

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Amar, Paul, et al.. (2022). The Tropical Silk Road. Stanford University Press eBooks.

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Rofel, Lisa. (2021). Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank. Journal of Palestine Studies. 50(4). 107–109. 7 indexed citations

3.

Ramamurthy, Priti, et al.. (2021). Special Issue on Feminism and Capitalism. Feminist Studies. 47(3). 479–491. 1 indexed citations

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Rofel, Lisa. (2020). Desiring China.

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Balibar, Étienne, Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, et al.. (2019). Mutant Neoliberalism. Fordham University Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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Rofel, Lisa, et al.. (2018). After the Post–Cold War. 12 indexed citations

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Rofel, Lisa & Sylvia Yanagisako. (2018). Fabricating Transnational Capitalism. 2 indexed citations

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Rofel, Lisa & Sylvia Yanagisako. (2018). Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 7 indexed citations

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Rofel, Lisa. (2015). Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices. WANNING SUN. Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield2014. xvii + 301 pp. £44.95. ISBN 978-1-4422-3677-6. The China Quarterly. 223. 832–833. 1 indexed citations

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Rofel, Lisa. (2012). Queer positions, Queering Asian Studies. positions asia critique. 20(1). 183–193. 4 indexed citations

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Berry, Chris, et al.. (2010). New Chinese Documentary Film Movement, The: For the Public Record. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 14 indexed citations

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Rofel, Lisa, et al.. (2010). “I Am AIDS”: Living with HIV/AIDS in China. positions asia critique. 18(2). 511–536. 6 indexed citations

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Berry, Chris, et al.. (2010). The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement. Hong Kong University Press eBooks. 34 indexed citations

14.

Rofel, Lisa. (2010). The Traffic in Money Boys. positions asia critique. 18(2). 425–458. 23 indexed citations

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Rofel, Lisa, et al.. (2010). Beyond the Strai(gh)ts: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics. positions asia critique. 18(2). 281–289. 18 indexed citations

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Rofel, Lisa. (2007). Desiring China. 452 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rofel, Lisa. (2007). Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 363 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rofel, Lisa. (1999). Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay Identities in China. GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 5(4). 451–474. 62 indexed citations

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Hershatter, Gail, Emily Honig, & Lisa Rofel. (1996). Reflections on the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing and Huairou, 1995. Social Justice A Journal of Crime Conflict & World Order. 23. 368. 2 indexed citations

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Rofel, Lisa. (1994). Yearnings: televisual love and melodramatic politics in contemporary China. American Ethnologist. 21(4). 700–722. 45 indexed citations

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