Piers Vitebsky

697 total citations
27 papers, 366 citations indexed

About

Piers Vitebsky is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Piers Vitebsky has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 366 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in General Health Professions, 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Piers Vitebsky's work include Indigenous Studies and Ecology (13 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (6 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 papers). Piers Vitebsky is often cited by papers focused on Indigenous Studies and Ecology (13 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (6 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 papers). Piers Vitebsky collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Russia and South Sudan. Piers Vitebsky's co-authors include Gareth Rees, Gananath Obeyesekere, M. Williams, Fiona Danks, Florian Stammler, Rane Willerslev, Roza Laptander, Jean Comaroff and Joachim Otto Habeck and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Climatic Change and Scientific American.

In The Last Decade

Piers Vitebsky

25 papers receiving 315 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Piers Vitebsky United Kingdom	9	126	108	89	84	71	27	366
María Nieves Zedeño United States	14	108 0.9×	36 0.3×	391 4.4×	48 0.6×	81 1.1×	48	750
Jeffery J. Clark United States	13	43 0.3×	95 0.9×	398 4.5×	54 0.6×	57 0.8×	26	762
Mark R. Jenike United States	8	52 0.4×	56 0.5×	139 1.6×	28 0.3×	46 0.6×	9	458
Robert C. Hunt United States	12	26 0.2×	90 0.8×	125 1.4×	39 0.5×	30 0.4×	28	512
Omer C. Stewart United States	12	70 0.6×	82 0.8×	189 2.1×	65 0.8×	166 2.3×	42	656
Marie Roué France	8	75 0.6×	109 1.0×	19 0.2×	20 0.2×	46 0.6×	35	283
Patricia L. Crown United States	20	61 0.5×	51 0.5×	647 7.3×	81 1.0×	123 1.7×	45	1.2k
David L. Browman United States	17	38 0.3×	48 0.4×	395 4.4×	41 0.5×	126 1.8×	59	971
Richard H. Wilshusen United States	13	48 0.4×	38 0.4×	415 4.7×	64 0.8×	54 0.8×	24	792
Augusto Oyuela‐Caycedo United States	12	56 0.4×	45 0.4×	260 2.9×	20 0.2×	50 0.7×	33	683

Countries citing papers authored by Piers Vitebsky

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Piers Vitebsky

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Piers Vitebsky

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Vitebsky, Piers, et al.. (2022). Where Is the Nomadic Family? Rigid Laws and Flexible Tundra Life in North-East Siberia. Nomadic Peoples. 26(1). 4–32.

Laptander, Roza & Piers Vitebsky. (2021). The Covid‐19 app and the fire spirit: Receiving messages in Britain and Siberia. Anthropology Today. 37(6). 17–20. 2 indexed citations

Vitebsky, Piers, et al.. (2020). Velocity and Purpose among Reindeer Herders in the Verkhoyansk Mountains. Inner Asia. 22(1). 28–48. 3 indexed citations

Vitebsky, Piers. (2017). Living without the Dead. 15 indexed citations

Vitebsky, Piers, et al.. (2015). Siberia. Annual Review of Anthropology. 44(1). 439–455. 11 indexed citations

Willerslev, Rane, et al.. (2015). Defending the thesis on the ‘hunter's double bind’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 21(1). 28–31. 3 indexed citations

Vitebsky, Piers, et al.. (2015). Casting Timeshadows: Pleasure and Sadness of Moving among Nomadic Reindeer Herders in north-east Siberia. Mobilities. 10(4). 518–530. 6 indexed citations

Vitebsky, Piers, et al.. (2014). What is a reindeer? Indigenous perspectives from northeast Siberia. Polar Record. 51(4). 413–421. 15 indexed citations

Vitebsky, Piers. (2012). Wild Tungus and the Spirits of Places. Ab imperio. 2012(2). 429–448. 3 indexed citations

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Vitebsky, Piers. (2011). Dialogues with the Dead. Scientific American. 328(1). 38–38. 3 indexed citations

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Vitebsky, Piers. (2010). From Materfamilias to Dinner-Lady: The Administrative Destruction of the Reindeer Herder’s Family Life. The Anthropology of East Europe Review. 28(2). 38–50. 8 indexed citations

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Habeck, Joachim Otto, et al.. (2010). Ethnographic researches in the North and their contribution to global anthropology : an attempt at defining the present situation. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 65–66. 1 indexed citations

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Rees, Gareth, Florian Stammler, Fiona Danks, & Piers Vitebsky. (2007). Vulnerability of European reindeer husbandry to global change. Climatic Change. 87(1-2). 199–217. 71 indexed citations

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Rees, Gareth, M. Williams, & Piers Vitebsky. (2003). Mapping land cover change in a reindeer herding area of the Russian Arctic using Landsat TM and ETM+ imagery and indigenous knowledge. Remote Sensing of Environment. 85(4). 441–452. 73 indexed citations

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Obeyesekere, Gananath & Piers Vitebsky. (1995). Dialogues with the Dead: The Discussion of Mortality Among the Sora of Eastern India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 1(2). 458–458. 57 indexed citations

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Vitebsky, Piers. (1992). Herding in Perspective - The World of Pastoralism: Herding Systems in Comparative Perspective. J. Galaty and D. L. Johnson (editors). 1990. London, Guilford Press and Belhaven Press. 436 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-85293-176-0.. Polar Record. 28(164). 77–77. 1 indexed citations

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Vitebsky, Piers. (1990). Centralized decentralization : The ethnography of remote reindeer herders under perestroika. Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique. 31(2). 345–358. 2 indexed citations

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Vitebsky, Piers. (1990). Gas, environmentalism and native anxieties in the Soviet Arctic: the case of Yamal peninsula. Polar Record. 26(156). 19–26. 14 indexed citations

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Vitebsky, Piers. (1989). Reindeer herders of northern Yakutia: a report from the field. Polar Record. 25(154). 213–218. 3 indexed citations

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Vitebsky, Piers. (1985). The Death and Regeneration of a 'Divine King'. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. 10(1). 55–91. 2 indexed citations

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