Michael Banton

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
153 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Michael Banton is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Banton has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 17 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 8 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Michael Banton's work include Social and Cultural Dynamics (6 papers), African history and culture studies (5 papers) and Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 papers). Michael Banton is often cited by papers focused on Social and Cultural Dynamics (6 papers), African history and culture studies (5 papers) and Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 papers). Michael Banton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Michael Banton's co-authors include Jocalyn Clark, Morrison G. Wong, Ashley Montagu, Winthrop D. Jordan, Jonathan Harwood, Daniel F. McCall, Christie Davies, Peter Marris, William Julius Wilson and Michael Lewis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Michael Banton

140 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion.

1966 350 citations Michael Banton et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Michael Banton	1.9k	701	332	204	201	153	3.1k
Anthony P. Cohen	2.0k 1.1×	627 0.9×	605 1.8×	324 1.6×	235 1.2×	48	3.8k
Michel de Certeau	1.9k 1.0×	574 0.8×	559 1.7×	166 0.8×	255 1.3×	75	4.4k
Louise Lamphere	1.3k 0.7×	297 0.4×	474 1.4×	181 0.9×	188 0.9×	66	2.8k
Michaël Gilsenan	2.3k 1.2×	720 1.0×	737 2.2×	229 1.1×	370 1.8×	36	4.5k
S. Ν. Eisenstadt	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.5×	352 1.1×	350 1.7×	198 1.0×	171	4.0k
Robert Young	2.0k 1.1×	815 1.2×	538 1.6×	236 1.2×	389 1.9×	105	4.2k
Lawrence Grossberg	2.4k 1.3×	584 0.8×	336 1.0×	184 0.9×	429 2.1×	142	4.8k
W. G. Runciman	2.1k 1.2×	777 1.1×	139 0.4×	136 0.7×	150 0.7×	93	3.6k
Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo	1.2k 0.7×	377 0.5×	612 1.8×	147 0.7×	149 0.7×	22	3.2k
Louis Dumont	1.8k 1.0×	956 1.4×	1.0k 3.1×	257 1.3×	150 0.7×	77	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Banton

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Michael Banton's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Michael Banton with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Michael Banton more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Banton

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Michael Banton. 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 Michael Banton. The network helps show where Michael Banton may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Banton

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Banton, Michael. (2018). West African City: A Study of Tribal Life in Freetown. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations

2.

Banton, Michael. (2016). Essentializing race. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 39(13). 2297–2302. 1 indexed citations

3.

Banton, Michael. (2015). What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity. Berghahn Books. 4 indexed citations

4.

Banton, Michael. (2013). Social Capital as a source of Majority Sentiment. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 2(2). 1 indexed citations

5.

Banton, Michael. (2013). The Naming of Social Categories. Theoria. 60(136). 1–14. 2 indexed citations

6.

Banton, Michael. (2005). Three current issues in ethnic and racial studies. British Journal of Sociology. 56(4). 621–633. 7 indexed citations

7.

Banton, Michael. (2005). Finding, and Correcting, My Mistakes. Sociology. 39(3). 463–479. 18 indexed citations

8.

Banton, Michael. (2002). The International Politics of Race. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 37 indexed citations

9.

Banton, Michael. (1999). National integration and ethnic violence in Western Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 25(1). 5–20. 6 indexed citations

10.

Banton, Michael. (1996). International Norms and Latin American States' Policies on Indigenous Peoples. Nations and Nationalism. 2(1). 89–103. 10 indexed citations

11.

Banton, Michael. (1994). Effective implementation of the UN Racial Convention. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 20(3). 475–487. 9 indexed citations

12.

Banton, Michael. (1994). Modelling ethnic and national relations. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 17(1). 1–19. 30 indexed citations

13.

Banton, Michael. (1992). THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF RACISM AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. International Sociology. 7(1). 69–84. 7 indexed citations

14.

Banton, Michael. (1983). Review article: The internal and external conditions of racial thought. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 6(2). 246–251. 1 indexed citations

15.

Banton, Michael. (1974). 1960: A Turning Point in the Study of Race Relations. Daedalus. 9 indexed citations

16.

Banton, Michael, et al.. (1971). Sociologie des relations raciales. Population. 26(6). 1186–1186. 5 indexed citations

17.

Banton, Michael. (1969). White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Sociology. 3(1). 127–127. 116 indexed citations

18.

Banton, Michael. (1966). Race as a Social Category. Race. 8(1). 1–16. 6 indexed citations

19.

Banton, Michael, et al.. (1960). White and Coloured.. The Journal of Negro Education. 29(4). 464–464. 18 indexed citations

20.

Banton, Michael. (1954). TRIBAL HEADMEN IN FREETOWN. Public Administration and Development. 6(3). 140–144. 2 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact