Ralph A. Austen

4.5k total citations
108 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Ralph A. Austen is a scholar working on Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralph A. Austen has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Anthropology, 16 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Ralph A. Austen's work include African history and culture studies (51 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (29 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (28 papers). Ralph A. Austen is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (51 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (29 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (28 papers). Ralph A. Austen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Ethiopia. Ralph A. Austen's co-authors include Albert Bergesen, Michael Jackson, Claude Ake, Randall M. Packard, E. A. Brett, Paul E. Lovejoy, Robert I. Rotberg, Suzanne Miers, Jan Hogendorn and Richard Roberts and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Journal of Food Science and American Ethnologist.

In The Last Decade

Ralph A. Austen

93 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ralph A. Austen United States 22 813 775 414 191 159 108 1.9k
J. H. Iliffe United States 17 861 1.1× 827 1.1× 419 1.0× 218 1.1× 166 1.0× 46 2.1k
Peter Gran United States 11 1.1k 1.4× 945 1.2× 646 1.6× 165 0.9× 208 1.3× 30 2.7k
Jean-François Bayart France 19 1.4k 1.8× 568 0.7× 637 1.5× 141 0.7× 137 0.9× 80 2.1k
Crawford Young United States 23 1.3k 1.6× 466 0.6× 830 2.0× 138 0.7× 271 1.7× 76 2.1k
Bill Freund South Africa 24 981 1.2× 508 0.7× 328 0.8× 144 0.8× 54 0.3× 104 1.8k
Claude Meillassoux France 18 883 1.1× 656 0.8× 295 0.7× 166 0.9× 134 0.8× 78 1.8k
John Lonsdale United Kingdom 19 862 1.1× 669 0.9× 451 1.1× 74 0.4× 113 0.7× 75 1.6k
Martin A. Klein Canada 17 518 0.6× 859 1.1× 265 0.6× 90 0.5× 92 0.6× 106 1.5k
Walter Rodney Switzerland 14 1.1k 1.3× 602 0.8× 430 1.0× 185 1.0× 171 1.1× 36 2.4k
Allen Isaacman United States 20 776 1.0× 715 0.9× 269 0.6× 80 0.4× 63 0.4× 78 1.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ralph A. Austen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralph A. Austen

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All Works

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Austen, Ralph A. & Woodruff D. Smith. (2005). The Economic Value of British Colonial Empire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. History Compass. 4(1). 54–76. 1 indexed citations
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Austen, Ralph A.. (1995). Slavery and Slave Trade on the Atlantic Coast: The Duala of the Littoral. Paideuma. 41. 127–152. 6 indexed citations
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Austen, Ralph A. & John Thornton. (1994). Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. African Economic History. 168–168. 1 indexed citations
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Austen, Ralph A., et al.. (1987). JEH volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Front matter. The Journal of Economic History. 47(1). f1–f6. 1 indexed citations
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Austen, Ralph A. & Norman R. Bennett. (1986). Arab Versus European: Diplomacy and War in Nineteenth-Century East Central Africa. The American Historical Review. 91(5). 1249–1249. 2 indexed citations
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Phillips, Ann, et al.. (1984). JEH volume 44 issue 3 Cover and Front matter. The Journal of Economic History. 44(3). f1–f6. 1 indexed citations
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Austen, Ralph A.. (1983). The Herskovits Awards: A Profile and a Modest Assessment. African Studies Review. 26(3/4). 185–185. 1 indexed citations
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Austen, Ralph A., et al.. (1978). The Art of Survival in East Africa: The Kerebe and Long-Distance Trade, 1800-1895. The American Historical Review. 83(4). 1070–1070. 10 indexed citations
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Austen, Ralph A.. (1977). Duala versus Germans in Cameroon : dimensions of a political conflit. Revue française d histoire d outre-mer. 64(237). 477–497. 2 indexed citations
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Austen, Ralph A.. (1972). Central African Republic: a failure in de-colonization. African Affairs. 71(285). 457–458. 1 indexed citations
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Austen, Ralph A., et al.. (1972). The Pre-Colonial Sukuma. 14(2). 1 indexed citations
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Austen, Ralph A.. (1971). Economic History. African Studies Review. 14(3). 425–425.
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Austen, Ralph A.. (1970). The Abolition of the Overseas Slave Trade: A Distorted Theme in West African History. Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. 5(2). 257–274. 8 indexed citations
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Austen, Ralph A.. (1969). Modern imperialism : western overseas expansion and its aftermath 1776-1965. 1 indexed citations
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Austen, Ralph A.. (1964). Notes on the pre-history of TANU. Journal of Food Science. 77(9). 1–16. 2 indexed citations
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Anderson, Patricia J., et al.. (1963). News and Notes. African Studies Review. 6(2). 15–27. 1 indexed citations

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