Michael Adas

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Michael Adas is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Adas has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Michael Adas's work include Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (10 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (8 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 papers). Michael Adas is often cited by papers focused on Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (10 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (8 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 papers). Michael Adas collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Michael Adas's co-authors include Nicholas Thomas, Anthony Reid, David Arnold, Michael Barkun, Daniel R. Headrick, Oliver B. Pollak, David Hall, Raymond F. Betts, William Koenig and Peter N. Stearns and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, The Journal of Peasant Studies and Pacific Affairs.

In The Last Decade

Michael Adas

44 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and I... 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance.
    1990 446 citations Anthony Reid, Michael Adas Pacific Affairs profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Adas Netherlands 17 895 547 470 195 157 49 1.8k
Anthony Pagden United States 19 542 0.6× 403 0.7× 522 1.1× 343 1.8× 118 0.8× 68 1.6k
Peter Linebaugh United States 17 872 1.0× 415 0.8× 353 0.8× 230 1.2× 161 1.0× 46 1.8k
Peter Loïzos United Kingdom 22 1.0k 1.2× 475 0.9× 282 0.6× 86 0.4× 157 1.0× 62 2.2k
Patrick Brantlinger United States 18 1.1k 1.3× 431 0.8× 317 0.7× 306 1.6× 305 1.9× 75 2.5k
Susan Buck‐Morss United States 19 1.3k 1.4× 321 0.6× 524 1.1× 275 1.4× 263 1.7× 56 2.8k
Jacques Le Goff France 24 610 0.7× 274 0.5× 333 0.7× 452 2.3× 135 0.9× 223 2.1k
Carlo Ginzburg Italy 23 723 0.8× 437 0.8× 342 0.7× 593 3.0× 159 1.0× 159 2.4k
Stephen Greenblatt United States 25 797 0.9× 687 1.3× 350 0.7× 707 3.6× 208 1.3× 91 3.3k
Peter Gran United States 11 1.1k 1.3× 945 1.7× 646 1.4× 139 0.7× 173 1.1× 30 2.7k
Adam Kuper United Kingdom 27 1.3k 1.4× 957 1.7× 381 0.8× 95 0.5× 179 1.1× 136 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Adas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Adas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Adas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Adas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Adas 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 Michael Adas. Michael Adas 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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Adas, Michael. (2010). Essays on Twentieth-Century History. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 14 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael. (2001). From Settler Colony to Global Hegemon: Integrating the Exceptionalist Narrative of the American Experience into World History. The American Historical Review. 106(5). 1692–1692. 25 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael. (2001). Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History. Dominican Scholar (Dominican University of California). 11 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael. (1998). Imperialism and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective. The International History Review. 20(2). 371–388. 24 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael. (1997). A Field Matures: Technology, Science, and Western Colonialism. Technology and Culture. 38(2). 478–487.
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Adas, Michael. (1997). The East in the West. By Jack Goody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 295 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).. The Journal of Asian Studies. 56(2). 451–452. 1 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael & Nicholas Thomas. (1996). Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government.. The American Historical Review. 101(2). 451–451. 464 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael & David Arnold. (1994). Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India.. The American Historical Review. 99(5). 1739–1739. 153 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael & William Koenig. (1992). The Burmese Polity: 1752-1819: Politics, Administration, and Social Organization in the Early Kon-Baung Period.. Pacific Affairs. 65(1). 126–126. 2 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael & David Gordon. (1991). Images of the West: Third World Perspectives.. The American Historical Review. 96(3). 835–835. 2 indexed citations
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Reid, Anthony & Michael Adas. (1990). Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance.. Pacific Affairs. 63(3). 379–379. 446 indexed citations breakdown →
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Headrick, Daniel R. & Michael Adas. (1990). Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Technology and Culture. 31(4). 862–862. 31 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael. (1990). Comparative History and the Colonial Encounter: the Great War and the Crisis of the British Empire. Itinerario. 14(2). 35–57. 1 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael. (1990). robert h. taylor. The State in Burma. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 1987. Pp. xvi, 395. The American Historical Review. 95(4). 1271–1272. 1 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael, et al.. (1988). Ratu adil : tokoh dan gerakan millenarian menentang kolonialisme Eropa. 1 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael, et al.. (1987). Burma: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide to International Doctoral Dissertation Research, 1898-1985.. Pacific Affairs. 60(2). 368–368. 1 indexed citations
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Adas, Michael & Oliver B. Pollak. (1980). Empires in Collision: Anglo-Burmese Relations in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. The American Historical Review. 85(5). 1251–1251. 12 indexed citations
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Barkun, Michael & Michael Adas. (1980). Prophets of Rebellion: Millenarian Protest Movements against the European Colonial Order. The American Historical Review. 85(4). 862–862. 103 indexed citations
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Hall, David & Michael Adas. (1974). The Burma Delta.. Pacific Affairs. 47(4). 569–569. 9 indexed citations

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