Michael O. West

745 total citations
30 papers, 274 citations indexed

About

Michael O. West is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael O. West has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 274 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Anthropology and 5 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Michael O. West's work include African history and culture studies (12 papers), African studies and sociopolitical issues (10 papers) and Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 papers). Michael O. West is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (12 papers), African studies and sociopolitical issues (10 papers) and Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 papers). Michael O. West collaborates with scholars based in United States and Philippines. Michael O. West's co-authors include William G. Martin, Carol Summers, Robin D. G. Kelley, Agustín Laó-Montes, Brent Hayes Edwards, Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Terence Ranger, Patrick J. Furlong, Gaurav Desai and Bill Freund and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The American Historical Review and The International Journal of African Historical Studies.

In The Last Decade

Michael O. West

25 papers receiving 184 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael O. West United States 10 197 114 43 39 31 30 274
Martin Kilson United States 10 171 0.9× 88 0.8× 58 1.3× 23 0.6× 29 0.9× 40 299
Rosemarijn Hoefte Netherlands 8 161 0.8× 101 0.9× 56 1.3× 8 0.2× 31 1.0× 26 314
Theodore Kornweibel United States 6 140 0.7× 75 0.7× 28 0.7× 30 0.8× 5 0.2× 27 238
Harald Fischer–Tiné Switzerland 10 222 1.1× 98 0.9× 101 2.3× 10 0.3× 14 0.5× 29 335
Souleymane Bachir Diagne United States 7 85 0.4× 64 0.6× 71 1.7× 30 0.8× 8 0.3× 52 201
Marie-Françoise Plissart 4 129 0.7× 96 0.8× 57 1.3× 6 0.2× 8 0.3× 9 284
Mark D. Szuchman United States 12 124 0.6× 84 0.7× 91 2.1× 17 0.4× 106 3.4× 41 341
Edmund Burke China 8 104 0.5× 47 0.4× 104 2.4× 17 0.4× 8 0.3× 21 223
İsa Blumi Sweden 11 220 1.1× 43 0.4× 141 3.3× 19 0.5× 18 0.6× 43 311
Christine Bolt United Kingdom 9 160 0.8× 86 0.8× 62 1.4× 9 0.2× 14 0.5× 29 286

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael O. West

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All Works

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West, Michael O.. (2015). Kwame Nkrumah and Ali Mazrui: An Analysis of the 1967 Transition Debate. The Journal of Pan-African Studies. 8(6). 122. 1 indexed citations
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West, Michael O.. (2014). China, Africa and the Bandung Idea, Then and Now. Agrarian South Journal of Political Economy A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES. 3(1). 111–123. 1 indexed citations
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West, Michael O. & William G. Martin. (2009). Contours of the black international: From Toussaint to Tupac. 1–44. 3 indexed citations
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West, Michael O.. (2008). Seeing Darkly: Guyana, Black Power, and Walter Rodney's Expulsion from Jamaica. Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 12(1). 93–104. 4 indexed citations
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West, Michael O.. (2005). Walter Rodney and Black Power: Jamaican Intelligence and US Diplomacy. Digital Scholarship - Texas Southern University (Texas Southern University). 1(2). 1. 5 indexed citations
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Furlong, Patrick J. & Michael O. West. (2003). The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965. African Studies Review. 46(2). 128–128. 4 indexed citations
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Ranger, Terence, Carol Summers, & Michael O. West. (2003). Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940. Africa. 73(4). 623–623. 10 indexed citations
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West, Michael O. & Gaurav Desai. (2002). Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 36(2). 368–368. 3 indexed citations
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West, Michael O.. (2002). The Seeds Are Sown: The Impact of Garveyism in Zimbabwe in the Interwar Years. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 35(2/3). 335–335. 2 indexed citations
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West, Michael O.. (2002). The Rise of an African Middle Class. Indiana University Press eBooks. 54 indexed citations
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Freund, Bill, William G. Martin, & Michael O. West. (2001). Out of One, Many Africas: Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 35(1). 199–199. 2 indexed citations
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Edwards, Brent Hayes, et al.. (2000). "Unfinished Migrations": Commentary and Response. African Studies Review. 43(1). 47–47. 27 indexed citations
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West, Michael O. & William G. Martin. (1997). A Future with a Past: Resurrecting the Study of Africa in the Post-Africanist Era. Africa Today. 44(3). 309–322. 11 indexed citations
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West, Michael O.. (1994). Nationalism, Race, and Gender: The Politics of Family Planning in Zimbabwe, 1957–1990. Social History of Medicine. 7(3). 447–471. 10 indexed citations
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West, Michael O.. (1994). Indians, India, and Race and Nationalism in British Central Africa. Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East. 14(2). 86–103. 1 indexed citations
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West, Michael O.. (1993). PAN-AFRICANISM, CAPITALISM AND RACIAL UPLIFT: THE RHETORIC OF AFRICAN BUSINESS FORMATION IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE. African Affairs. 92(367). 263–283. 3 indexed citations
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West, Michael O.. (1992). Ndabaningi Sithole, Garfield Todd and the Dadaya school strike of 1947. Journal of Southern African Studies. 18(2). 297–316. 5 indexed citations
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West, Michael O.. (1992). “Equal Rights for all Civilized Men”:. International Review of Social History. 37(3). 376–397. 9 indexed citations
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West, Michael O.. (1992). The Tuskegee Model of Development in Africa: Another Dimension of the African/African-American Connection. Diplomatic History. 16(3). 371–387. 10 indexed citations

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