Philippe Bourgois

13.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
122 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Philippe Bourgois is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Philippe Bourgois has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 51 papers in Epidemiology and 26 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Philippe Bourgois's work include HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (47 papers), Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (26 papers) and Homelessness and Social Issues (18 papers). Philippe Bourgois is often cited by papers focused on HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (47 papers), Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (26 papers) and Homelessness and Social Issues (18 papers). Philippe Bourgois collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Philippe Bourgois's co-authors include Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, James Quesada, Laurie Kain Hart, Daniel Ciccarone, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Merrill Singer, Samuel R. Friedman, Tim Rhodes, Andrew R. Moss and Fernando Montero and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Philippe Bourgois

117 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 2005 2011 2016 2018 250 500 750
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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. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio.
    1996 802 citations Philippe Bourgois et al. profile →
  2. The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users
    2005 727 citations Philippe Bourgois, Steffanie A. Strathdee et al. Social Science & Medicine profile →
  3. Structural Vulnerability and Health: Latino Migrant Laborers in the United States
    2011 541 citations Laurie Kain Hart, Philippe Bourgois et al. profile →
  4. Structural Vulnerability: Operationalizing the Concept to Address Health Disparities in Clinical Care
    2016 425 citations Philippe Bourgois, Seth M. Holmes et al. profile →
  5. Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear
    2018 293 citations Philippe Bourgois et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Philippe Bourgois United States 43 3.2k 3.1k 2.3k 1.8k 1.0k 122 7.6k
Hannah L. F. Cooper United States 43 3.1k 1.0× 1.6k 0.5× 1.9k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 1.9k 1.8× 208 5.5k
James A. Inciardi United States 53 5.0k 1.6× 3.3k 1.0× 2.4k 1.0× 2.6k 1.5× 1.3k 1.2× 233 9.3k
Jean Shoveller Canada 42 2.9k 0.9× 2.7k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 653 0.4× 1.7k 1.7× 189 6.0k
Scott Burris United States 32 1.5k 0.5× 939 0.3× 1.4k 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 909 0.9× 221 3.6k
Tim Rhodes United Kingdom 60 10.3k 3.2× 4.1k 1.3× 3.2k 1.4× 3.1k 1.8× 5.8k 5.5× 264 13.2k
Danielle C. Ompad United States 43 2.9k 0.9× 955 0.3× 1.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 157 6.0k
Lance M. Pollack United States 45 2.7k 0.8× 2.1k 0.7× 3.9k 1.7× 494 0.3× 3.7k 3.6× 146 8.3k
John de Wit Netherlands 47 2.8k 0.9× 2.3k 0.7× 2.1k 0.9× 1.1k 0.6× 3.4k 3.3× 297 8.2k
Margaret E. Ensminger United States 53 1.4k 0.5× 2.1k 0.7× 2.8k 1.2× 953 0.5× 379 0.4× 144 7.9k
Peter Aggleton United Kingdom 46 2.6k 0.8× 3.8k 1.2× 4.4k 1.9× 581 0.3× 4.2k 4.0× 320 9.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philippe Bourgois

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hochstatter, Karli R., et al.. (2025). Characterizing rapid changes in the prevalence and concentration of key compounds in Philadelphia’s street opioid retail supply, March 2024-March 2025. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 274. 112763–112763. 2 indexed citations
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Hart, Laurie Kain, Philippe Bourgois, Fernando Montero, & George Karandinos. (2025). Mothers, sons, sisters and grief in the gangster economy: US necrogovernance in Philadelphia’s low-income Puerto Rican diaspora. International Sociology. 40(3). 364–393.
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Takada, Sae, Philippe Bourgois, O. Kenrik Duru, et al.. (2024). Individual and community socioeconomic status and receipt of influenza vaccines among adult primary care patients in a large academic health system: 2017–2019. Heliyon. 10(23). e40476–e40476. 1 indexed citations
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Friedman, Joseph, Morgan Godvin, Annick Bórquez, et al.. (2023). Fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine-based counterfeit pills sold at tourist-oriented pharmacies in Mexico: An ethnographic and drug checking study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 249. 110819–110819. 26 indexed citations
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Friedman, Joseph, Philippe Bourgois, Shoshana V. Aronowitz, et al.. (2023). Rethinking urban-rural designations in public health surveillance of the overdose crisis and crafting an agenda for future monitoring. International Journal of Drug Policy. 118. 104072–104072. 1 indexed citations
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Takada, Sae, Philippe Bourgois, O. Kenrik Duru, et al.. (2023). A Qualitative Study of Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Social and Behavioral Risk Screening Among Primary Care Patients. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 38(14). 3171–3179. 5 indexed citations
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Montero, Fernando, Philippe Bourgois, & Joseph Friedman. (2022). Potency-Enhancing Synthetics in the Drug Overdose Epidemic: Xylazine (“Tranq”), Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, and the Displacement of Heroin in Philadelphia and Tijuana. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 204–222. 27 indexed citations
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Calderón-Villarreal, Alhelí, Joseph Friedman, Carlos Ruiz Martínez, et al.. (2022). Deported, homeless, and into the canal: Environmental structural violence in the binational Tijuana River. Social Science & Medicine. 305. 115044–115044. 23 indexed citations
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Simpson, Kelsey A., et al.. (2021). Prevalence and predictors of recent temporary psychiatric hold among a cohort of people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 227. 108916–108916. 1 indexed citations
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Friedman, Joseph, George Karandinos, Laurie Kain Hart, et al.. (2019). Structural vulnerability to narcotics-driven firearm violence: An ethnographic and epidemiological study of Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican inner-city. PLoS ONE. 14(11). e0225376–e0225376. 25 indexed citations
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Bourgois, Philippe, et al.. (2019). Righteous Dopefiend. 124 indexed citations
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Mars, Sarah G., et al.. (2015). Heroin-related overdose: The unexplored influences of markets, marketing and source-types in the United States. Social Science & Medicine. 140. 44–53. 59 indexed citations
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Bourgois, Philippe, et al.. (2012). Theorizing violence in the Americas: A thirty-year ethnographic retrospective. L Homme. 139–1682. 1 indexed citations
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Amiraux, Valérie, et al.. (2002). Les risques du métier. Engagements problématiques en sciences sociales. Cultures & conflits. 15–48. 7 indexed citations
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Bourgois, Philippe. (2002). Violence, respect et sexualité chez les revendeurs de crack portoricains d’East Harlem. Revue européenne de migrations internationales. 18(3). 55–76.
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Bourgois, Philippe. (2001). En quête de respect : le crack à New York. Seuil eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Bourgois, Philippe. (1997). OVERACHIEVEMENT IN THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY: THE LIFE STORY OF A PUERTO RICAN STICK-UP ARTIST IN EAST HARLEM. 25(1). 23–32. 9 indexed citations
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Bourgois, Philippe. (1995). The Political Economy of Resistance and Self‐Destruction in the Crack Economy. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 749(1). 97–118. 9 indexed citations
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Bourgois, Philippe. (1990). Confronting Anthropological Ethics: Ethnographic Lessons from Central America. Journal of Peace Research. 27(1). 43–54. 61 indexed citations
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Bourgois, Philippe. (1988). The Miskitu conflict : CIA incompetence matched by Sandinista reforms and indian pragmatism. Persée (Ministère de lEnseignement supérieur et de la Recherche). 1 indexed citations

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