Marcus Rediker

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Marcus Rediker is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcus Rediker has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Anthropology, 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Marcus Rediker's work include Colonialism, slavery, and trade (31 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (7 papers) and Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 papers). Marcus Rediker is often cited by papers focused on Colonialism, slavery, and trade (31 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (7 papers) and Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 papers). Marcus Rediker collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Marcus Rediker's co-authors include Peter Linebaugh, Kenneth Maxwell, Paul A. Gilje, John Tyler, Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, John D. Brewer, John Styles, James R. Jacob and Margaret C. Jacob and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Foreign Affairs and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Marcus Rediker

44 papers receiving 833 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.

  1. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
    2001 545 citations Kenneth Maxwell, Peter Linebaugh et al. Foreign Affairs profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Marcus Rediker 601 553 198 195 186 51 1.3k
Miles Ogborn 492 0.8× 216 0.4× 175 0.9× 132 0.7× 107 0.6× 52 1.1k
Jeremy Black 515 0.9× 278 0.5× 435 2.2× 582 3.0× 315 1.7× 314 1.6k
Michael Craton 765 1.3× 922 1.7× 123 0.6× 123 0.6× 193 1.0× 62 1.6k
Peter G. Earle 233 0.4× 169 0.3× 255 1.3× 153 0.8× 353 1.9× 74 902
David Armitage 431 0.7× 239 0.4× 403 2.0× 484 2.5× 167 0.9× 64 1.1k
James Walvin 698 1.2× 376 0.7× 246 1.2× 150 0.8× 214 1.2× 88 1.4k
Arnold R. Hirsch 1.2k 2.0× 70 0.1× 123 0.6× 167 0.9× 237 1.3× 42 1.5k
Jürgen Osterhammel 837 1.4× 295 0.5× 305 1.5× 513 2.6× 175 0.9× 114 1.6k
David Cannadine 851 1.4× 284 0.5× 415 2.1× 331 1.7× 323 1.7× 73 1.7k
Mona Domosh 696 1.2× 100 0.2× 102 0.5× 123 0.6× 56 0.3× 70 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Marcus Rediker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marcus Rediker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcus Rediker

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rediker, Marcus. (2022). Escaping Slavery by Sea in Antebellum America: A Labor History. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 14. 1–18. 1 indexed citations
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Rediker, Marcus. (2017). The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist. 1 indexed citations
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Rediker, Marcus. (2015). Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade. Journal of Historical Geography. 50. 122–123. 5 indexed citations
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Rediker, Marcus. (2013). À bord du négrier. Seuil eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Linebaugh, Peter & Marcus Rediker. (2008). The Many-Headed Hydra.. Multitudes. n° 33(2). 63–69. 38 indexed citations
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Rediker, Marcus. (2008). The Slave Ship. 18 indexed citations
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Christopher, Emma, Cassandra Pybus, & Marcus Rediker. (2007). Many middle passages : forced migration and the making of the modern world. University of California Press eBooks. 57 indexed citations
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Rediker, Marcus, et al.. (2005). Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age. The Journal of Southern History. 71(4). 868–868. 75 indexed citations
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Linden, Marcel van der, Peter Linebaugh, & Marcus Rediker. (2003). Labour History as the History of Multitudes. Labour / Le Travail. 52. 235–235. 4 indexed citations
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Mancall, Peter C., Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker, & Alan H. Taylor. (2002). Atlantic Colonies. The New England Quarterly. 75(3). 477–477.
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Linebaugh, Peter, et al.. (2002). The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Journal of American History. 89(1). 202–202. 5 indexed citations
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Maxwell, Kenneth, Peter Linebaugh, & Marcus Rediker. (2001). The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Foreign Affairs. 80(3). 143–143. 545 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rediker, Marcus, et al.. (1989). Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750.. The Economic History Review. 42(1). 153–153. 1 indexed citations
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Rediker, Marcus. (1989). Reviews of Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750. International Journal of Maritime History. 1(2). 311–336. 6 indexed citations
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Taylor, Alan H. & Marcus Rediker. (1988). Floating Proletarians. Reviews in American History. 16(2). 192–192. 1 indexed citations
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Rediker, Marcus, et al.. (1984). Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada. Labour / Le Travail. 14. 230–230. 1 indexed citations
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Rediker, Marcus. (1982). Society and culture among Anglo-American deep sea sailors, 1700-1750. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 2 indexed citations
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Rediker, Marcus. (1982). "Good Hands, Stout Heart, and Fast Feet": The History and Culture of Working People in Early America. Labour / Le Travail. 10. 123–123. 6 indexed citations
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Rediker, Marcus, John D. Brewer, & John Styles. (1981). An Ungovernable People: The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The William and Mary Quarterly. 38(1). 132–132. 32 indexed citations

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