Peter Sahlins

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Peter Sahlins is a scholar working on History, History and Philosophy of Science and Museology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Sahlins has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in History, 11 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 7 papers in Museology. Recurrent topics in Peter Sahlins's work include European Political History Analysis (15 papers), Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (11 papers) and Historical Art and Culture Studies (7 papers). Peter Sahlins is often cited by papers focused on European Political History Analysis (15 papers), Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (11 papers) and Historical Art and Culture Studies (7 papers). Peter Sahlins collaborates with scholars based in United States. Peter Sahlins's co-authors include Charles Tilly, Michael Kwass, Oriol Pi‐Sunyer, Eugene D. Genovese, Bernard Lepetit, Montserrat Guibernau, William H. Sewell, Eugen Weber, Daniel Gordon and Carla Hesse and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The American Historical Review and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

In The Last Decade

Peter Sahlins

30 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990. 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 500 1000 1.5k
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. Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990.
    1991 1.6k citations Peter Sahlins, Charles Tilly The American Historical Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Sahlins United States 12 1.1k 887 456 273 216 33 2.0k
Perry Anderson United States 18 1.3k 1.2× 824 0.9× 335 0.7× 134 0.5× 238 1.1× 79 2.4k
David C. Hendrickson United States 29 1.4k 1.3× 1.7k 1.9× 293 0.6× 89 0.3× 271 1.3× 148 2.9k
Richard A. Lebrun Canada 5 745 0.7× 715 0.8× 241 0.5× 144 0.5× 111 0.5× 19 1.3k
Ira Katznelson United States 21 1.3k 1.3× 1.5k 1.7× 296 0.6× 116 0.4× 111 0.5× 97 2.7k
Robert Brenner United States 15 721 0.7× 425 0.5× 589 1.3× 162 0.6× 150 0.7× 32 1.6k
Lauren Benton United States 19 1.0k 1.0× 689 0.8× 557 1.2× 147 0.5× 227 1.1× 65 2.4k
A. G. Hopkins United Kingdom 22 778 0.7× 358 0.4× 358 0.8× 175 0.6× 163 0.8× 72 1.5k
Kenneth Pomeranz United States 16 854 0.8× 433 0.5× 918 2.0× 376 1.4× 127 0.6× 60 2.0k
George Steinmetz United States 23 1.6k 1.5× 846 1.0× 200 0.4× 118 0.4× 168 0.8× 97 2.5k
Jean-François Bayart France 19 1.4k 1.4× 637 0.7× 141 0.3× 137 0.5× 132 0.6× 80 2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Sahlins

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sahlins, Peter. (2023). Boundaries. 1 indexed citations
2.
Sahlins, Peter. (2017). 1668. 8 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter. (2015). The Beast Within. Representations. 129(1). 25–55. 1 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter. (2012). The Royal Menageries of Louis XIV and the Civilizing Process Revisited. French Historical Studies. 35(2). 237–267. 11 indexed citations
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Kwass, Michael & Peter Sahlins. (2005). Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After. American Journal of Legal History. 47(3). 326–326. 47 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter. (2004). Unnaturally French. Cornell University Press eBooks. 34 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter. (2000). De Bodin a Rousseau. Derecho y política de la ciudadanía en la Francia del Antiguo Régimen. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 37–61. 1 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter. (2000). La Nationalité Avant La Lettre: Les pratiques de naturalisation en France sous l'Ancien Régime. Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales. 55(5). 1081–1108. 10 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter, et al.. (1999). Et si on faisait payer les étrangers ? Louis XIV, les immigrés et quelques autres. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 7 indexed citations
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Gordon, Daniel, et al.. (1997). Rights and Citizens in the Old Regime. French Historical Studies. 20(2). 217–217. 5 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter, et al.. (1996). Frontières et identités nationales : la France et l'Espagne dans les Pyrénées depuis le XVIIe siècle. Belin eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter, et al.. (1996). Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 27(1). 134–134. 28 indexed citations
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Weber, Eugen & Peter Sahlins. (1996). Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France.. The American Historical Review. 101(1). 192–192. 1 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter. (1994). Fictions of a Catholic France: The Naturalization of Foreigners, 1685-1787. Representations. 47(1). 85–110. 8 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter. (1994). Fictions of a Catholic France: The Naturalization of Foreigners, 1685-1787. Representations. 47. 85–110. 16 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter & Charles Tilly. (1991). Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990.. The American Historical Review. 96(5). 1504–1504. 1615 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tilly, Charles & Peter Sahlins. (1991). Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees.. The American Historical Review. 96(3). 863–863. 2 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter, et al.. (1991). Geographic Perspectives in History. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 21(3). 502–502. 14 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter, et al.. (1991). Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 20(4). 545–545. 22 indexed citations
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Sahlins, Peter. (1990). Natural Frontiers Revisited: France's Boundaries since the Seventeenth Century. The American Historical Review. 95(5). 1423–1451. 32 indexed citations

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