Miriam Kahn

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 943 citations indexed

About

Miriam Kahn is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Demography and History. According to data from OpenAlex, Miriam Kahn has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 943 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 10 papers in Demography and 8 papers in History. Recurrent topics in Miriam Kahn's work include Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (9 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (9 papers) and Travel Writing and Literature (7 papers). Miriam Kahn is often cited by papers focused on Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (9 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (9 papers) and Travel Writing and Literature (7 papers). Miriam Kahn collaborates with scholars based in United States. Miriam Kahn's co-authors include Tom Griffiths, Jonathan Lamb, Ruth Finnegan, Karen F. Gracy, Sabine Wilke and Mary Bouquet and has published in prestigious journals such as American Anthropologist, Pacific Affairs and American Ethnologist.

In The Last Decade

Miriam Kahn

30 papers receiving 750 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel

2005 300 citations Miriam Kahn American Anthropologist profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Miriam Kahn United States	13	379	268	248	142	123	34	943
Regina Bendix Germany	18	396 1.0×	114 0.4×	163 0.7×	248 1.7×	71 0.6×	76	1.1k
Michael Rowlands United Kingdom	14	427 1.1×	138 0.5×	510 2.1×	303 2.1×	65 0.5×	36	1.4k
Janet Hoskins United States	16	388 1.0×	119 0.4×	356 1.4×	125 0.9×	67 0.5×	45	988
Jocelyn Linnekin United States	14	461 1.2×	239 0.9×	371 1.5×	112 0.8×	259 2.1×	28	1.3k
Eric Gable United States	14	369 1.0×	121 0.5×	359 1.4×	235 1.7×	45 0.4×	54	948
Catherine Palmer United Kingdom	11	581 1.5×	160 0.6×	69 0.3×	115 0.8×	125 1.0×	23	809
James Urry New Zealand	12	434 1.1×	178 0.7×	371 1.5×	54 0.4×	85 0.7×	51	1.1k
Steven Hoelscher United States	10	397 1.0×	217 0.8×	96 0.4×	114 0.8×	42 0.3×	20	850
Mary Bouquet Netherlands	12	336 0.9×	146 0.5×	176 0.7×	137 1.0×	51 0.4×	36	931
Maoz Azaryahu Israel	20	765 2.0×	342 1.3×	362 1.5×	179 1.3×	72 0.6×	38	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Miriam Kahn

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Kahn, Miriam. (2014). “Invest In Your Love”: Romantic desires, YouTube videos, and the online marketing of Tahiti. Tourist Studies. 14(2). 144–167. 4 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam. (2012). Disaster Response and Planning for Libraries, Third Edition..

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Kahn, Miriam. (2012). Disaster Response and Planning for Libraries 3rd ed.. 6 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam. (2011). Illusion and reality in Tahiti's tourist cocoons. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. 9(3). 201–216. 3 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam & Sabine Wilke. (2007). Narrating Colonial Encounters:. Journal of Pacific History. 42(3). 293–297. 1 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam. (2005). Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel:Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel. American Anthropologist. 107(4). 716–717. 1 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam. (2003). The Ones That Are Wanted: Communication and the Politics of Representation in a Photographic Exhibition.. American Ethnologist. 30(1). 178–179. 1 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam. (2003). Tahiti: the ripples of a myth on the shores of the imagination. History and Anthropology. 14(4). 307–326. 11 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam, et al.. (2001). Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900. Pacific Affairs. 74(3). 471–471. 21 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam, et al.. (2000). Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840. Pacific Affairs. 73(3). 484–484. 32 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam & Tom Griffiths. (1997). Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia.. Pacific Affairs. 70(4). 635–635. 163 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam, et al.. (1996). South Pacific Oral Traditions.. Pacific Affairs. 69(4). 611–611. 22 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam. (1995). Review of Tahitian Transformation: Gender and Capitalist Development in a Rural Society, by Victoria S Lockwood. ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa). 1 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam. (1994). Fires, earthquakes and floods: how to prepare your library and staff. Online. 18(3). 18–24. 2 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam. (1993). Mastering Disaster: Emergency Planning for Libraries.. Library journal. 118(21). 73–75. 4 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam, et al.. (1993). Androgynous Objects: String Bags and Gender in Central New Guinea.. Pacific Affairs. 66(3). 464–464. 75 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam, et al.. (1990). Melanesian Artefacts: Post-Modernist Reflections.. Man. 25(2). 357–357. 1 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam. (1988). “Men are taro” (they cannot be rice): Political aspects of food choices in Wamira, Papua New Guinea. Food and Foodways. 3(1-2). 41–57. 9 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam, et al.. (1988). The fresh and the canned: Food choices in the pacific. Food and Foodways. 3(1-2). 1–18. 14 indexed citations

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Kahn, Miriam. (1981). Always in hunger : food as metaphor for social identity in Wamira, Papua New Guinea. University Microfilms International eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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