Neil Lazarus

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 878 citations indexed

About

Neil Lazarus is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil Lazarus has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 878 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Neil Lazarus's work include Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (20 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (7 papers) and African history and culture studies (6 papers). Neil Lazarus is often cited by papers focused on Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (20 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (7 papers) and African history and culture studies (6 papers). Neil Lazarus collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Neil Lazarus's co-authors include Benita Parry, Sharae Deckard, Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Stephen Shapiro, Graeme Macdonald, Nicholas Lawrence, Joe Cleary, Giovanni Arrighi, August H. Nimtz and Keya Ganguly and has published in prestigious journals such as The Modern Language Review, Comparative Literature and Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines.

In The Last Decade

Neil Lazarus

39 papers receiving 581 citations

Hit Papers

Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of ... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150
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. Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature
    2015 158 citations Sharae Deckard, Nicholas Lawrence et al. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Neil Lazarus United Kingdom 14 459 441 225 128 112 46 878
Simon Gikandi United States 18 377 0.8× 492 1.1× 281 1.2× 161 1.3× 73 0.7× 69 930
Abdul R. JanMohamed Saudi Arabia 10 308 0.7× 315 0.7× 167 0.7× 107 0.8× 50 0.4× 18 699
Gauri Viswanathan United States 12 479 1.0× 226 0.5× 253 1.1× 64 0.5× 236 2.1× 26 916
Pascale Casanova France 10 259 0.6× 359 0.8× 119 0.5× 86 0.7× 68 0.6× 23 745
V. S. Naipaul 17 339 0.7× 298 0.7× 157 0.7× 205 1.6× 104 0.9× 49 875
Tejaswini Niranjana India 13 342 0.7× 166 0.4× 217 1.0× 122 1.0× 146 1.3× 46 950
Ian Baucom United States 11 230 0.5× 224 0.5× 147 0.7× 82 0.6× 73 0.7× 30 567
Hazel V. Carby United States 9 538 1.2× 262 0.6× 63 0.3× 174 1.4× 75 0.7× 32 947
Randall McGowen United States 15 360 0.8× 382 0.9× 111 0.5× 78 0.6× 158 1.4× 33 995
William L. Andrews United States 16 327 0.7× 290 0.7× 81 0.4× 143 1.1× 92 0.8× 67 681

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Fields of papers citing papers by Neil Lazarus

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Neil Lazarus

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lazarus, Neil, et al.. (2019). The world-literary system and the Atlantic. Atlantic Studies. 16(1). 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Neil. (2018). Marxism, Postcolonial Theory and the Future of Critique : Critical Engagements with Benita Parry. 1 indexed citations
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Deckard, Sharae, Nicholas Lawrence, Neil Lazarus, et al.. (2015). Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 158 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lazarus, Neil. (2013). Epilogue: the pterodactyl of history?. Textual Practice. 27(3). 523–536. 4 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Neil. (2011). Cosmopolitanism and the Specificity of the Local in World Literature. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 46(1). 119–137. 26 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Neil, et al.. (2009). The pitch of the world: cricket and Chris Searle. Race & Class. 51(2). 44–58. 2 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Neil, et al.. (2007). Penser le postcolonial. Une introduction critique. Population. 62(3). 640–640. 8 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Neil. (2006). Postcolonial Studies after the Invasion of Iraq. New Formations. 10. 13 indexed citations
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Bartolovich, Crystal, Giovanni Arrighi, Neil Lazarus, et al.. (2002). Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 96 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Neil. (1999). Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 118 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Neil. (1999). The Prose of Insurgency: Sivanandan and Marxist theory. Race & Class. 41(1-2). 35–47.
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Lazarus, Neil, et al.. (1995). The Necessity of Universalism. differences. 7(1). 75–145. 7 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Neil. (1995). Is a Counterculture of Modernity a Theory of Modernity?. Diaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies. 4(3). 323–339. 3 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Neil. (1993). Disavowing decolonization: fanon, nationalism, and the problematic of representation in current theories of colonial discourse. Research in African Literatures. 24(4). 69–98. 31 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Neil. (1993). Postcolonialism and the Dilemma of Nationalism: Aijaz Ahmad’s Critique of Third-Worldism. Diaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies. 2(3). 373–400. 1 indexed citations
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Taylor, Richard A., et al.. (1992). The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. The Modern Language Review. 87(4). 961–961. 26 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Neil. (1991). Doubting the New World Order: Marxism, Realism, and the Claims of Postmodernist Social Theory. differences. 3(3). 94–138. 8 indexed citations
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Freedman, Carl & Neil Lazarus. (1988). The Mandarin Marxism of Theodor Adorno. Rethinking Marxism. 1(4). 85–111. 3 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Neil. (1986). The logic of equivocation in Thomas Mofolo's Chaka. English in Africa. 13(1). 41–60. 5 indexed citations

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