Marjorie Shostak

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 708 citations indexed

About

Marjorie Shostak is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Marjorie Shostak has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 708 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in General Health Professions, 1 paper in Political Science and International Relations and 1 paper in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Marjorie Shostak's work include Indigenous Studies and Ecology (2 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (1 paper) and Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (1 paper). Marjorie Shostak is often cited by papers focused on Indigenous Studies and Ecology (2 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (1 paper) and Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (1 paper). Marjorie Shostak collaborates with scholars based in . Marjorie Shostak's co-authors include Kay B. Warren and Melvin Konner and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Cultural Anthropology and Anthropological Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Marjorie Shostak

8 papers receiving 527 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.

Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman.

1983 401 citations Kay B. Warren, Marjorie Shostak Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marjorie Shostak	6	338	173	167	88	84	10	708
William Divale United States	16	334 1.0×	206 1.2×	147 0.9×	167 1.9×	111 1.3×	27	887
Robert Knox Dentan United States	10	628 1.9×	282 1.6×	138 0.8×	202 2.3×	37 0.4×	34	986
C. R. Hallpike Canada	13	269 0.8×	139 0.8×	135 0.8×	171 1.9×	20 0.2×	31	876
Paul Spencer United Kingdom	12	236 0.7×	62 0.4×	154 0.9×	43 0.5×	51 0.6×	57	702
Asen Balikci Canada	9	236 0.7×	126 0.7×	129 0.8×	63 0.7×	33 0.4×	33	571
David Parkin United Kingdom	18	402 1.2×	52 0.3×	341 2.0×	72 0.8×	47 0.6×	53	1.2k
William D. Wilder United Kingdom	9	428 1.3×	171 1.0×	70 0.4×	137 1.6×	129 1.5×	26	1.1k
Nancy M. Tanner United States	7	157 0.5×	116 0.7×	141 0.8×	145 1.6×	38 0.5×	12	535
Dennis Tedlock United States	15	200 0.6×	119 0.7×	265 1.6×	46 0.5×	18 0.2×	42	1.1k
Alice Schlegel United States	18	601 1.8×	367 2.1×	126 0.8×	278 3.2×	276 3.3×	39	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Marjorie Shostak

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marjorie Shostak

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Marjorie Shostak. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Marjorie Shostak. The network helps show where Marjorie Shostak may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marjorie Shostak

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

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

1.

Shostak, Marjorie. (2014). Nisa. 3 indexed citations

2.

Shostak, Marjorie. (2000). Nisa. Harvard University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations

3.

Shostak, Marjorie. (2000). Return to Nisa. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 7 indexed citations

4.

Shostak, Marjorie. (1992). Nisa Revisited. 2(1). 19–28. 1 indexed citations

5.

Shostak, Marjorie. (1987). What the Wind Won't Take Away: The Oral History of an African Foraging Woman.. 8(3). 1 indexed citations

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Konner, Melvin & Marjorie Shostak. (1987). Timing and Management of Birth among the !Kung: Biocultural Interaction in Reproductive Adaptation. Cultural Anthropology. 2(1). 11–28. 16 indexed citations

7.

Shostak, Marjorie, et al.. (1984). Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Anthropological Quarterly. 57(4). 156–156. 34 indexed citations

8.

Warren, Kay B. & Marjorie Shostak. (1983). Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 12(2). 230–230. 401 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shostak, Marjorie. (1981). Nisa. Harvard University Press eBooks. 236 indexed citations

10.

Shostak, Marjorie. (1976). Glass Beadwork of the !Kung of North-Western Botswana. Botswana notes and records. 8. 175–178.

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