Nils Bubandt

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
59 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Nils Bubandt is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Nils Bubandt has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Anthropology and 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Nils Bubandt's work include Asian Studies and History (19 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (12 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 papers). Nils Bubandt is often cited by papers focused on Asian Studies and History (19 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (12 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 papers). Nils Bubandt collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Ukraine and United States. Nils Bubandt's co-authors include Anna Tsing, Elaine Gan, Heather Anne Swanson, Andrew S. Mathews, Donna Haraway, Noboru Ishikawa, Kenneth R. Olwig, Scott F. Gilbert, Rane Willerslev and Andreas Roepstorff and has published in prestigious journals such as Current Anthropology, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Cultural Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Nils Bubandt

48 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Anthropologists Are Talking – About the Anthropocene 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2019 50 100 150 200
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. Anthropologists Are Talking – About the Anthropocene
    2015 246 citations Donna Haraway, Noboru Ishikawa et al. Ethnos profile →
  2. Patchy Anthropocene: Landscape Structure, Multispecies History, and the Retooling of Anthropology
    2019 183 citations Anna Tsing, Andrew S. Mathews et al. Current Anthropology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nils Bubandt Denmark 19 642 504 347 312 203 59 1.6k
Zoe Todd Canada 10 544 0.8× 514 1.0× 236 0.7× 183 0.6× 208 1.0× 16 1.5k
Eduardo Kohn Canada 9 344 0.5× 756 1.5× 468 1.3× 162 0.5× 202 1.0× 31 1.6k
Mark Jackson United Kingdom 13 582 0.9× 441 0.9× 149 0.4× 197 0.6× 213 1.0× 36 1.9k
Catherine Nash United Kingdom 20 811 1.3× 642 1.3× 216 0.6× 165 0.5× 152 0.7× 49 1.7k
Sarah Wright Australia 25 926 1.4× 688 1.4× 232 0.7× 197 0.6× 216 1.1× 75 2.2k
Philippe Descola France 21 674 1.0× 438 0.9× 552 1.6× 137 0.4× 285 1.4× 111 2.1k
Marisol de la Cadena United States 17 793 1.2× 395 0.8× 824 2.4× 669 2.1× 313 1.5× 49 2.3k
Jason Dittmer United Kingdom 24 1.2k 1.9× 499 1.0× 204 0.6× 572 1.8× 166 0.8× 88 2.2k
Mario Blaser Canada 15 494 0.8× 363 0.7× 470 1.4× 337 1.1× 175 0.9× 26 1.5k
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Canada 7 724 1.1× 210 0.4× 203 0.6× 195 0.6× 177 0.9× 14 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Nils Bubandt

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nils Bubandt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nils Bubandt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nils Bubandt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nils Bubandt 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 Nils Bubandt. Nils Bubandt 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
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Bubandt, Nils. (2024). Birds after Geertz: The Rise and Fall of Songbirds in Indonesia. Indonesia. 117(1). 1–30.
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Bubandt, Nils, et al.. (2023). Philosophy on fieldwork case studies in anthropological analysis. 1 indexed citations
3.
Bubandt, Nils. (2023). Tidalectic Ethnography:Snorkeling the Coral Reefs of the Anthropocene.
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Bubandt, Nils, et al.. (2020). Swimming with Crocodiles:Nature is avenged by prehistoric animal.
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Tsing, Anna, Andrew S. Mathews, & Nils Bubandt. (2019). Patchy Anthropocene: Landscape Structure, Multispecies History, and the Retooling of Anthropology. Current Anthropology. 60(S20). S186–S197. 183 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bubandt, Nils. (2018). A Non-secular Anthropocene:Spirits, Specters and Other Nonhumans in a Time of Environmental Change. 5 indexed citations
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Tsing, Anna, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, & Nils Bubandt. (2017). Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. The Sciences. 236 indexed citations
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Tsing, Anna, et al.. (2017). Introduction: Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene. 26 indexed citations
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Bubandt, Nils. (2017). Demokrasi, Korupsi, dan Makhluk Halus dalam Politik Indonesia Kontemporer.
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Bubandt, Nils. (2017). Haunted Geologies: Spirits, Stones, and the Necropolitics of the Anthropocene. 6 indexed citations
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Bubandt, Nils & Roy Ellen. (2016). The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island. Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia. 31(2). 625–626. 13 indexed citations
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Haraway, Donna, Noboru Ishikawa, Scott F. Gilbert, et al.. (2015). Anthropologists Are Talking – About the Anthropocene. Ethnos. 81(3). 535–564. 246 indexed citations breakdown →
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Swanson, Heather Anne, Nils Bubandt, & Anna Tsing. (2015). Less Than One But More Than Many: Anthropocene as Science Fiction and Scholarship-in-the-Making. 6(1). 49 indexed citations
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Bubandt, Nils. (2015). Psychologising the Afterlife: Ghosts and Regimes of the Self in Indonesia and in Global Media. 3 indexed citations
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Bubandt, Nils. (2014). Conspiracy Theories, Apocalyptic Narratives and the Discursive Construction of ‘the Violence in Maluku’. Antropologi Indonesia. 0(63). 2 indexed citations
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Bubandt, Nils. (2014). An Embarrassment of Spirits: Spirits, Hauntology and Democracy in Indonesia.
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Bubandt, Nils. (2011). A Method Whose Time is Due: Mysticism, Economics, and Spiritual Kinship in a Global Sufi Movement.
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Bubandt, Nils. (2008). Rumors, Pamphlets, and the Politics of Paranoia in Indonesia. The Journal of Asian Studies. 67(3). 40 indexed citations
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Bubandt, Nils. (2005). Vernacular Security: The Politics of Feeling Safe in Global, National and Local Worlds. Security Dialogue. 36(3). 275–296. 128 indexed citations
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Bubandt, Nils. (1999). Profile of a Modern Utopia: Timber Plantations as Exemplary Centres of Indonesian Modernity. 1 indexed citations

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