Manali Desai

932 total citations
24 papers, 442 citations indexed

About

Manali Desai is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Manali Desai has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 442 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 4 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Manali Desai's work include Social and Economic Development in India (7 papers), South Asian Studies and Conflicts (6 papers) and Gender Politics and Representation (3 papers). Manali Desai is often cited by papers focused on Social and Economic Development in India (7 papers), South Asian Studies and Conflicts (6 papers) and Gender Politics and Representation (3 papers). Manali Desai collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Portugal. Manali Desai's co-authors include Cihan Tuğal, Charles Tilly, Joseph E. Luders, John K. Glenn, Jorge Cadena-Roa, Jack Α. Goldstone, Doug McAdam, Kim M. Williams, David Cunningham and Nella Van Dyke and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Journal of Sociology and Social Forces.

In The Last Decade

Manali Desai

19 papers receiving 375 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Manali Desai United Kingdom 12 301 263 40 33 29 24 442
Jérémie Cornut Canada 10 242 0.8× 282 1.1× 35 0.9× 14 0.4× 58 2.0× 29 468
Frederic Charles Schaffer United States 10 311 1.0× 327 1.2× 40 1.0× 22 0.7× 29 1.0× 18 499
Astrid Nordin United Kingdom 11 211 0.7× 219 0.8× 16 0.4× 28 0.8× 27 0.9× 24 367
H. E. Chehabi United States 12 304 1.0× 248 0.9× 81 2.0× 29 0.9× 12 0.4× 32 441
Priya Chacko Australia 10 216 0.7× 270 1.0× 17 0.4× 31 0.9× 8 0.3× 35 425
Erin K. Jenne Austria 13 481 1.6× 527 2.0× 21 0.5× 16 0.5× 16 0.6× 34 733
Sean Yom United States 11 321 1.1× 163 0.6× 16 0.4× 11 0.3× 15 0.5× 23 415
Rhodri Jeffreys‐Jones United Kingdom 11 196 0.7× 230 0.9× 27 0.7× 19 0.6× 7 0.2× 62 442
Willy Wo-Lap Lam Hong Kong 9 268 0.9× 304 1.2× 15 0.4× 18 0.5× 18 0.6× 29 421
Holger Albrecht United States 14 532 1.8× 388 1.5× 30 0.8× 21 0.6× 9 0.3× 27 633

Countries citing papers authored by Manali Desai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Manali Desai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Manali Desai

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

All Works

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Desai, Manali, et al.. (2025). Buying Safety: Neoliberalism, Gendered Violence, and the Everyday State in South Africa. Signs. 50(3). 655–676.
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Desai, Manali, et al.. (2023). A Review of the State of Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry and Propose Security Controls. 2023. 82–84. 2 indexed citations
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Desai, Manali. (2023). An Eventful Critique of Crisis Language in Historical Sociology. Social Science History. 47(1). 1–9. 1 indexed citations
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Desai, Manali. (2016). Gendered Violence and India’s Body Politic. New left review. 2(99). 67–83.
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Desai, Manali & Indrajit Roy. (2016). Development Discourse and Popular Articulations in Urban Gujarat. Critical Asian Studies. 48(1). 1–26. 13 indexed citations
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Desai, Manali. (2016). Gendered violence and India's body politic. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 4 indexed citations
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Desai, Manali. (2009). Colonial Legacies and Repertoires of “Ethnic” Violence: The Case of Western India, 1941–2002. Journal of Historical Sociology. 22(2). 147–179. 1 indexed citations
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Desai, Manali. (2007). 1006003.pdf. OAPEN (The OAPEN Foundation). 17 indexed citations
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Desai, Manali, et al.. (2007). The Passive Revolutionary Route to the Modern World: Italy and India in Comparative Perspective. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 49(4). 815–847. 21 indexed citations
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Desai, Manali. (2006). State Formation and Radical Democracy in India. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 12 indexed citations
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Desai, Manali. (2005). The Production of Hindu–Muslim Violence in India. American Anthropologist. 107(1). 142–143. 1 indexed citations
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Desai, Manali. (2005). Indirect British Rule, State Formation, and Welfarism in Kerala, India, 1860–1957. Social Science History. 29(3). 457–488. 19 indexed citations
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Desai, Manali. (2003). From Movement to Party to Government: A Comparison of Kerala and West Bengal, India. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 2 indexed citations
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Goldstone, Jack Α., Doug McAdam, Joseph E. Luders, et al.. (2003). States, Parties, and Social Movements. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 172 indexed citations
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Desai, Manali. (2002). The Relative Autonomy of Party Practices: A Counterfactual Analysis of Left Party Ascendancy in Kerala, India, 1934–1940. American Journal of Sociology. 108(3). 616–657. 18 indexed citations
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Desai, Manali & Connie L. McNeely. (2000). Public Rights, Public Rules: Constituting Citizens in the World Polity and National Policy. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 29(3). 545–545. 16 indexed citations

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