Paul Maylam

1.0k total citations
32 papers, 437 citations indexed

About

Paul Maylam is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Maylam has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 437 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Anthropology and 7 papers in Law. Recurrent topics in Paul Maylam's work include South African History and Culture (14 papers), African history and culture studies (11 papers) and Legal Issues in South Africa (7 papers). Paul Maylam is often cited by papers focused on South African History and Culture (14 papers), African history and culture studies (11 papers) and Legal Issues in South Africa (7 papers). Paul Maylam collaborates with scholars based in South Africa and Thailand. Paul Maylam's co-authors include Tom Davenport, Leonard Thompson, Sean Redding, John Lonsdale, John Flint and Helen Simons and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, The International Journal of African Historical Studies and African Affairs.

In The Last Decade

Paul Maylam

27 papers receiving 330 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Maylam South Africa 11 295 105 100 83 59 32 437
Jonathan Hyslop South Africa 11 374 1.3× 82 0.8× 111 1.1× 24 0.3× 94 1.6× 63 515
Stanley Trapido United Kingdom 10 368 1.2× 118 1.1× 184 1.8× 35 0.4× 43 0.7× 32 518
Vivian Bickford‐Smith South Africa 10 265 0.9× 42 0.4× 93 0.9× 48 0.6× 56 0.9× 31 377
Archie Mafeje Egypt 11 326 1.1× 45 0.4× 215 2.1× 25 0.3× 93 1.6× 33 546
Clifton Crais United States 13 314 1.1× 66 0.6× 145 1.4× 13 0.2× 36 0.6× 39 441
Leonard Leslie Bessant 8 375 1.3× 34 0.3× 280 2.8× 23 0.3× 58 1.0× 11 520
Tom Davenport Russia 3 177 0.6× 51 0.5× 58 0.6× 14 0.2× 41 0.7× 9 294
Landeg White United Kingdom 16 337 1.1× 30 0.3× 292 2.9× 37 0.4× 57 1.0× 29 650
Kristin Mann United States 9 197 0.7× 31 0.3× 235 2.4× 25 0.3× 55 0.9× 31 454
Kimberly Lanegran United States 8 208 0.7× 79 0.8× 12 0.1× 48 0.6× 78 1.3× 14 312

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Maylam

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Maylam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Maylam

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Maylam, Paul. (2024). Writing the history of South African universities: Trends and themes. South African Journal of Higher Education. 38(4). 190–208. 1 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul. (2020). Student ‘Fallism’ in South Africa, 2015–16: Some Diverging Analyses. Journal of Southern African Studies. 46(6). 1237–1247. 3 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul. (2019). Promise and Despair: The First Struggle for a Non-Racial South Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 53(1). 184–186.
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Maylam, Paul. (2017). South Africa's Racial Past. 9 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul. (2016). ‘Oxford in the bush’: the founding (and diminishing) ethos of Rhodes University. African Historical Review. 48(1). 21–35. 1 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul. (2000). ‘Dead Horses, the Baby and the Bathwater’: ‘Post-Theory’ and the Historian's Practice. South African Historical Journal. 42(1). 121–135. 3 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul, et al.. (1996). The people's city : African life in twentieth-century Durban. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 44 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul. (1995). Explaining the apartheid city: 20 years of South African urban historiography. Journal of Southern African Studies. 21(1). 19–38. 70 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul. (1991). Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa. African Affairs. 90(360). 482–483. 13 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul. (1990). THE RISE AND DECLINE OF URBAN APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA. African Affairs. 89(354). 57–84. 56 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul. (1990). The local evolution of urban apartheid: influx control and segregation in Durban, c.1900 - 1951. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Institutional Repository on DSpace (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg). 1 indexed citations
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Thompson, Leonard & Paul Maylam. (1989). A History of the African People of South Africa: From the Early Iron Age to the 1970s. The American Historical Review. 94(4). 1149–1149. 31 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul & John Lonsdale. (1989). South Africa in Question. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 22(2). 304–304. 10 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul. (1988). Municipal Fraud: The Operation of Durban's Native Revenue Account, 1908-1953. 11(1). 69–92. 1 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul. (1983). The "Black Belt": African Squatters in Durban 1935-1950. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 17(3). 413–413. 7 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul. (1982). Shackled by the Contradictions: The Municipal Response to African Urbanization in Durban, 1920-1950. 14. 1–17. 12 indexed citations
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Maylam, Paul. (1977). The making of the Kimberley-Bulawayo railway: a study in the operations of the British South Africa company. 8. 13–33.

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