Mary Karasch

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 415 citations indexed

About

Mary Karasch is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Mary Karasch has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 415 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Anthropology, 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Mary Karasch's work include History of Colonial Brazil (10 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 papers) and Urban Development and Societal Issues (3 papers). Mary Karasch is often cited by papers focused on History of Colonial Brazil (10 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 papers) and Urban Development and Societal Issues (3 papers). Mary Karasch collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Mary Karasch's co-authors include Jeffrey D. Needell, Peter Eisenberg, Kenneth F. Kiple, Ellen Messer, J. M. J. de Wet, S. Aaronson, Hansjörg Küster, Te-Tzu Chang, David Peterson and Giuseppe Mazza and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Hispanic American Historical Review and Slavery and Abolition.

In The Last Decade

Mary Karasch

10 papers receiving 321 citations

Hit Papers

A vida dos escravos no Ri... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 50 100 150
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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. A vida dos escravos no Rio de Janeiro (1808-1850)
    2000 174 citations Mary Karasch profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Mary Karasch 230 96 68 51 41 15 415
João José Reis 207 0.9× 128 1.3× 35 0.5× 43 0.8× 63 1.5× 43 326
Rebecca Earle 97 0.4× 89 0.9× 45 0.7× 5 0.1× 47 1.1× 52 373
Rosana Guber 96 0.4× 129 1.3× 8 0.1× 25 0.5× 82 2.0× 44 322
Robin M. Wright 102 0.4× 75 0.8× 43 0.6× 18 0.4× 29 0.7× 41 272
Catherine J. Allen 194 0.8× 83 0.9× 15 0.2× 5 0.1× 53 1.3× 17 483
Renée Hirschon 77 0.3× 188 2.0× 27 0.4× 13 0.3× 66 1.6× 15 308
Peter Mason 96 0.4× 51 0.5× 39 0.6× 5 0.1× 25 0.6× 39 243
Egon Schaden 81 0.4× 51 0.5× 35 0.5× 30 0.6× 56 1.4× 48 240
Alfredo López Austin 105 0.5× 50 0.5× 22 0.3× 3 0.1× 109 2.7× 95 541
R. D. K. Herman 54 0.2× 115 1.2× 9 0.1× 15 0.3× 31 0.8× 11 297

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mary Karasch

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Karasch, Mary. (2017). Mission Indians: demographic profile of the captaincy of Goiás, 1755-1835. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 15(1). 21–21. 1 indexed citations
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Karasch, Mary. (2016). Before Brasília: Frontier Life in Central Brazil. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 1 indexed citations
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Karasch, Mary. (2011). Construindo comunidades: as irmandades dos pretos e pardos. História Revista. 15(2). 3 indexed citations
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Karasch, Mary. (2008). Quality, Nation, and Color: Constructing Identities in Central Brazil, 1775-1835. EIAL - Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe. 19(1). 1 indexed citations
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Karasch, Mary. (2005). Rethinking the Conquest of Goiás, 1775-1819. The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History. 61(3). 463–492. 3 indexed citations
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Karasch, Mary. (2000). A vida dos escravos no Rio de Janeiro (1808-1850). 174 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kiple, Kenneth F., Kenneth F. Kiple, Clark Spencer Larsen, et al.. (2000). The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 68 indexed citations
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Karasch, Mary. (2000). Bartering Books: Doing Research in Central Brazil.
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Karasch, Mary. (1990). Retrato em branco e negro: Jornais, escravos e cidadãos em São Paulo no final do século XIX. Hispanic American Historical Review. 70(2). 365–366. 11 indexed citations
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Karasch, Mary & Lília Moritz Schwarcz. (1990). Retrato em branco e negro: Jornais, escravos e cidadaos em Sao Paulo no final do seculo XIX.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 70(2). 365–365.
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Engerman, Stanley L., Jenny Jochens, Mary Karasch, et al.. (1989). Book reviews. Slavery and Abolition. 10(3). 129–146. 1 indexed citations
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Eisenberg, Peter & Mary Karasch. (1988). Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 19(2). 375–375. 69 indexed citations
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Needell, Jeffrey D. & Mary Karasch. (1988). Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro 1808-1850.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 68(2). 397–397. 79 indexed citations
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Karasch, Mary. (1982). At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology. By Gary Urton. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981. Pp. 204. Charts. Index. Bibliography. $30.00.). The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History. 39(2). 259–260. 4 indexed citations

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