Mark Hunter

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Mark Hunter is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Hunter has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in General Health Professions and 9 papers in Law. Recurrent topics in Mark Hunter's work include African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (9 papers), South African History and Culture (9 papers) and Legal Issues in South Africa (9 papers). Mark Hunter is often cited by papers focused on African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (9 papers), South African History and Culture (9 papers) and Legal Issues in South Africa (9 papers). Mark Hunter collaborates with scholars based in Canada, South Africa and United States. Mark Hunter's co-authors include Dorrit Posel, Stephanie Rudwick and Robert Morrell and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space and Health & Place.

In The Last Decade

Mark Hunter

33 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

The Materiality of Everyday Sex: Thinking beyond 'prostit... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 100 200 300 400
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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 Materiality of Everyday Sex: Thinking beyond 'prostitution'
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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mark Hunter Canada 16 926 766 406 339 254 36 1.6k
Suzanne Leclerc‐Madlala South Africa 16 603 0.7× 868 1.1× 592 1.5× 151 0.4× 239 0.9× 27 1.3k
Dominique Meekers United States 29 893 1.0× 1.4k 1.8× 683 1.7× 461 1.4× 477 1.9× 94 2.3k
Tamara Shefer South Africa 25 843 0.9× 898 1.2× 300 0.7× 652 1.9× 242 1.0× 93 1.8k
Kofi Awusabo‐Asare Ghana 24 449 0.5× 1.2k 1.6× 570 1.4× 218 0.6× 407 1.6× 60 1.8k
Sangeetha Madhavan United States 25 744 0.8× 511 0.7× 206 0.5× 428 1.3× 752 3.0× 77 1.8k
Kopano Ratele South Africa 21 747 0.8× 565 0.7× 73 0.2× 691 2.0× 123 0.5× 101 1.8k
I. O. Orubuloye Nigeria 19 468 0.5× 695 0.9× 254 0.6× 281 0.8× 279 1.1× 27 1.3k
Victor Agadjanian United States 29 1.1k 1.2× 807 1.1× 238 0.6× 655 1.9× 338 1.3× 119 2.4k
Eleanor Preston‐Whyte South Africa 19 305 0.3× 472 0.6× 248 0.6× 92 0.3× 206 0.8× 32 908
Nancy Luke United States 22 848 0.9× 988 1.3× 512 1.3× 406 1.2× 465 1.8× 47 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Hunter

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Hunter

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All Works

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Posel, Dorrit & Mark Hunter. (2022). Living alone in the age of freedom: The paradox of solo households in postapartheid South Africa. Population Space and Place. 28(8). 4 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark, et al.. (2021). Intersections of race, gender and the drug economy: Placing drugs in HIV discussions in Brazil. Health & Place. 73. 102734–102734. 2 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark & Robert Morrell. (2021). Corporal punishment and gender equality: regimes of care and rights in South African schools. Journal of Gender Studies. 30(3). 344–357. 7 indexed citations
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Posel, Dorrit, Mark Hunter, & Stephanie Rudwick. (2020). Revisiting the prevalence of English: language use outside the home in South Africa. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 43(8). 774–786. 16 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark. (2020). Heroin hustles: Drugs and the laboring poor in South Africa. Social Science & Medicine. 265. 113329–113329. 10 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark. (2020). The rise of Xanax in South African schools: Toward a framework for connecting drugs and education. International Journal of Drug Policy. 90. 103078–103078. 3 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark. (2016). Introduction: New Insights on Marriage and Africa. Africa Today. 62(3). 1 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark. (2015). The political economy of concurrent partners: toward a history of sex–love–gift connections in the time of AIDS. Review of African Political Economy. 42(145). 13 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark. (2015). The Race for Education: Class, White Tone, and Desegregated Schooling in South Africa. Journal of Historical Sociology. 29(3). 319–358. 9 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark. (2014). THE BOND OF EDUCATION: GENDER, THE VALUE OF CHILDREN, AND THE MAKING OF UMLAZI TOWNSHIP IN 1960s SOUTH AFRICA. The Journal of African History. 55(3). 467–490. 10 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark, et al.. (2012). Talking class, talking race: language, class, and race in the call center industry in South Africa. Social & Cultural Geography. 13(6). 551–566. 15 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark. (2010). Racial Desegregation and Schooling in South Africa: Contested Geographies of Class Formation. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 42(11). 2640–2657. 24 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark. (2010). Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 227 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark. (2009). Beyond the male-migrant: South Africa's long history of health geography and the contemporary AIDS pandemic. Health & Place. 16(1). 25–33. 34 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark. (2006). Book Review: Workers and Warriors: Masculinity and the Struggle for Nation in South Africa. Men and Masculinities. 9(1). 114–116.
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Hunter, Mark. (2005). Cultural politics and masculinities: Multiple‐partners in historical perspective in KwaZulu‐Natal. Culture Health & Sexuality. 7(3). 209–223. 228 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark. (2005). Cultural politics and masculinities: Multiple‐partners in historical perspective in KwaZulu‐Natal. Culture Health & Sexuality. 7(4). 389–403. 49 indexed citations
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Hunter, Mark. (2004). Masculinities and Multiple-Sexual-Partners in KwaZulu-Natal: The Making and Unmaking of Isoka. Transformation. 123–153. 14 indexed citations

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