Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

14.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
128 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy Scheper‐Hughes has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 30 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 18 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nancy Scheper‐Hughes's work include Organ Donation and Transplantation (26 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (13 papers) and Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (11 papers). Nancy Scheper‐Hughes is often cited by papers focused on Organ Donation and Transplantation (26 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (13 papers) and Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (11 papers). Nancy Scheper‐Hughes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Nancy Scheper‐Hughes's co-authors include Margaret Lock, Donna J. Guy, Sue E. Estroff, J. B. Loudon, Patricia Jeffery, Francis L. Delmonico, Loïc Wacquant, Anne M. Lovell, Elizabeth Roberts and Stuart J. Youngner and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

116 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes
Comparison fields: 5 of 169
  • Sociology and Political Science 3.0k
  • General Health Professions 1.4k
  • Clinical Psychology 1.2k
  • Anthropology 1.2k
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1.1k
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Countries citing papers authored by Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nancy Scheper‐Hughes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nancy Scheper‐Hughes 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 Nancy Scheper‐Hughes. Nancy Scheper‐Hughes 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
# Work Indexed citations
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No more angel babies on the Alto do Cruzeiro: A dispatch from Brazil's revolution child survival.
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The tyranny and the terror of the gift: Sacrificial violence and the gift of life
5
4 105
5 5
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Kidney Kin: Inside the Transatlantic Transplant Trade
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7 9
8 70
9 154
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Truth and Rumor on the Organ Trail.
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Undoing: Social Suffering and the Politics of Remorse in the New South Africa
29
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Brazil : Moving Targets.
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13 59
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Who's the Killer? Popular Justice and Human Rights in a South African Squatter Camp
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15 61
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The message in the bottle illness and the micropolitics of resistance
34
17 21
18 18
19 129
20 40

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