Mélanie Samson

606 total citations
23 papers, 284 citations indexed

About

Mélanie Samson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Law and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Mélanie Samson has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 284 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Law and 8 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Mélanie Samson's work include South African History and Culture (7 papers), Legal Issues in South Africa (7 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (5 papers). Mélanie Samson is often cited by papers focused on South African History and Culture (7 papers), Legal Issues in South Africa (7 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (5 papers). Mélanie Samson collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Canada and Switzerland. Mélanie Samson's co-authors include Jean‐Claude Ruel and Marc Kalina and has published in prestigious journals such as World Development, Canadian Journal of Forest Research and Environment and Planning D Society and Space.

In The Last Decade

Mélanie Samson

22 papers receiving 259 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mélanie Samson South Africa 9 104 99 83 82 28 23 284
Rajyashree N. Reddy Canada 6 183 1.8× 67 0.7× 115 1.4× 132 1.6× 26 0.9× 7 399
Christine Furedy Canada 10 58 0.6× 99 1.0× 46 0.6× 78 1.0× 11 0.4× 29 310
Dana Kornberg United States 5 164 1.6× 11 0.1× 117 1.4× 54 0.7× 5 0.2× 9 293
Crystal Tremblay Canada 8 24 0.2× 40 0.4× 107 1.3× 32 0.4× 15 0.5× 25 267
Rosalind Fredericks United States 7 173 1.7× 29 0.3× 80 1.0× 96 1.2× 19 0.7× 12 263
Susan Spronk Canada 10 243 2.3× 5 0.1× 163 2.0× 53 0.6× 25 0.9× 23 400
Ann Helwege United States 6 40 0.4× 53 0.5× 89 1.1× 7 0.1× 67 2.4× 16 258
Graeme MacRae New Zealand 11 40 0.4× 38 0.4× 144 1.7× 8 0.1× 8 0.3× 25 290
Edésio Fernándes United Kingdom 11 92 0.9× 7 0.1× 121 1.5× 430 5.2× 15 0.5× 40 598
Tolga İslam Türkiye 5 72 0.7× 6 0.1× 66 0.8× 199 2.4× 7 0.3× 7 265

Countries citing papers authored by Mélanie Samson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mélanie Samson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mélanie Samson

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

All Works

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Samson, Mélanie, et al.. (2019). Contested Understandings of Reclaimer Integration—Insights from a Failed Johannesburg Pilot Project. Urban Forum. 31(1). 21–39. 10 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie, et al.. (2018). Le dialogue du droit civil et des droits de la personne au Québec : l’exemple de la protection juridique des personnes aînées. Revue des droits de l’homme. 14. 1 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie. (2017). Not Just Recycling the Crisis. Historical Materialism. 25(1). 36–62. 12 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie. (2016). The social uses of the law at a Soweto garbage dump: Reclaiming the law and the state in the informal economy. Current Sociology. 65(2). 222–234. 14 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie. (2015). Accumulation by dispossession and the informal economy – Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dump. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 33(5). 813–830. 93 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie, et al.. (2013). La méthodologie juridique en quête d'identité. Revue interdisciplinaire d études juridiques. Volume 71(2). 1–42. 1 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie. (2010). Producing Privatization: Re‐articulating Race, Gender, Class and Space. Antipode. 42(2). 404–432. 20 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie. (2009). (Sub)imperial South Africa? Reframing the Debate1. Review of African Political Economy. 36(119). 16 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie. (2009). Interprétation large et libérale et interprétation contextuelle : convergence ou divergence ?. Les Cahiers de droit. 49(2). 297–318. 1 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie. (2009). 1 - Wasted Citizenship? Reclaimers and the Privatised Expansion of the Public Sphere. Africa Development. 34(3-4). 25 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie. (2008). Rescaling the State, Restructuring Social Relations. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 10(1). 19–39. 7 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie. (2007). When public works programmes create 'second economy' conditions : part two : policy and political choices. Africanus Journal of Development Studies. 37(2). 244–256. 5 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie. (2007). Privatizing Collective Public Goods: a Case Study of Street Cleaning in Johannesburg, South Africa. Studies in Political Economy. 79(1). 119–144. 7 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie, et al.. (2005). La liberté d’expression au travail et l’obligation de loyauté du salarié : plaidoyer pour un espace critique accru. Les Cahiers de droit. 46(4). 847–904. 1 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie. (1999). Undressing Redress: a feminist critique of the South African National Qualifications Framework. Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 20(3). 443–460. 4 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie, et al.. (1996). Modélisation géométrique d'une bille de bois. Annales des Sciences Forestières. 53(1). 21–30. 3 indexed citations
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Samson, Mélanie. (1995). Towards a 'Friday' Model of International Trade: A Feminist Deconstruction of Race and Gender Bias in the Robinson Crusoe Trade Allegory. Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique. 28(1). 143–143. 4 indexed citations

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