Richard Chalfen

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Richard Chalfen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, History and Museology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Chalfen has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in History and 7 papers in Museology. Recurrent topics in Richard Chalfen's work include Photography and Visual Culture (9 papers), Participatory Visual Research Methods (8 papers) and Museums and Cultural Heritage (6 papers). Richard Chalfen is often cited by papers focused on Photography and Visual Culture (9 papers), Participatory Visual Research Methods (8 papers) and Museums and Cultural Heritage (6 papers). Richard Chalfen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Tunisia and Japan. Richard Chalfen's co-authors include Michael Rich, Elizabeth Edwards, Wendy Luttrell, Michael Rich, Stacy Taylor, Jay Haley, Laura J. Sherman, Jay Ruby, Clifford R. Barnett and John Grady and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Adolescent Health and Journal of Communication.

In The Last Decade

Richard Chalfen

39 papers receiving 935 citations

Hit Papers

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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. Snapshot Versions of Life
    2008 276 citations Richard Chalfen University of Wisconsin Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Chalfen United States 15 608 171 119 111 100 43 1.2k
Rebecca Coleman United Kingdom 17 432 0.7× 200 1.2× 105 0.9× 44 0.4× 39 0.4× 54 1.1k
Dawn Mannay United Kingdom 15 662 1.1× 74 0.4× 204 1.7× 17 0.2× 22 0.2× 63 1.1k
Helena Wulff Sweden 14 448 0.7× 78 0.5× 80 0.7× 11 0.1× 29 0.3× 40 905
Kimberly Powell United States 14 427 0.7× 25 0.1× 122 1.0× 17 0.2× 108 1.1× 37 827
Kim Toffoletti Australia 20 853 1.4× 885 5.2× 54 0.5× 32 0.3× 62 0.6× 57 1.4k
Anna Bagnoli United Kingdom 9 557 0.9× 42 0.2× 215 1.8× 12 0.1× 34 0.3× 12 989
Dariusz Galasiński United Kingdom 16 265 0.4× 111 0.6× 68 0.6× 7 0.1× 112 1.1× 53 927
Robin Morgan 8 322 0.5× 260 1.5× 60 0.5× 9 0.1× 23 0.2× 19 787
Kenneth N. Cissna United States 17 240 0.4× 49 0.3× 192 1.6× 13 0.1× 229 2.3× 41 1.1k
Karl Spracklen United Kingdom 22 930 1.5× 507 3.0× 26 0.2× 23 0.2× 44 0.4× 103 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Chalfen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Chalfen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Chalfen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Chalfen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Chalfen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Richard Chalfen. Richard Chalfen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Luttrell, Wendy & Richard Chalfen. (2010). Lifting up voices of participatory visual research. Visual Studies. 25(3). 197–200. 67 indexed citations
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Chalfen, Richard, Laura J. Sherman, & Michael Rich. (2010). VIA's visual voices: the awareness of a dedicated audience for voices in patient video narratives. Visual Studies. 25(3). 201–209. 11 indexed citations
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Chalfen, Richard. (2009). ‘It's only a picture’: sexting, ‘smutty’ snapshots and felony charges1. Visual Studies. 24(3). 258–268. 115 indexed citations
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Chalfen, Richard. (2008). Snapshot Versions of Life. University of Wisconsin Press eBooks. 276 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chalfen, Richard, et al.. (2007). Photographs as answers: A summer school in visual sociology in Bertinoro, Italy. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 22. 85–94. 1 indexed citations
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Rich, Michael, et al.. (2002). Visual Illness Narratives of Asthma: Explanatory Models and Health-related Behavior. American Journal of Health Behavior. 26(6). 442–453. 38 indexed citations
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Chalfen, Richard, et al.. (2001). Print club photography in Japan. 16(1). 55–73. 7 indexed citations
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Rich, Michael, Stacy Taylor, & Richard Chalfen. (2000). Illness as a Social Construct: Understanding What Asthma Means to the Patient to Better Treat the Disease. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement. 26(5). 244–253. 25 indexed citations
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Barnett, Clifford R., et al.. (1999). John Adair, 1913-1997: Work across the Anthropological Spectrum. Journal of Anthropological Research. 55(3). 429–445.
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Chalfen, Richard. (1998). Family photograph appreciation: Dynamics of medium, interpretation and memory. 31. 161–178. 13 indexed citations
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Rich, Michael, et al.. (1998). Video intervention/prevention assessment (VIA): An innovative methodology for understanding the adolescent illness experience. Journal of Adolescent Health. 22(2). 128–128. 5 indexed citations
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Chalfen, Richard. (1988). Home Video Versions of Life - Anything New?. 4(1). 1–5. 3 indexed citations
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Chalfen, Richard. (1984). The Sociovidistic Wisdom of Abby and Ann: Toward an Etiquette of Home Mode Photography. Journal of American Culture. 7(1-2). 22–31. 8 indexed citations
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Chalfen, Richard. (1983). Exploiting the Vernacular: Studies of Snapshot Photography (Review Essay). ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania). 9(3). 70–84. 1 indexed citations
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Chalfen, Richard. (1981). A Sociovidistic Approach to Children's Filmmaking: The Philadelphia Project. 7(1). 3–32. 29 indexed citations
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Chalfen, Richard. (1980). Tourist Photography. Afterimage. 8(1-2). 26–29. 4 indexed citations
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Ruby, Jay & Richard Chalfen. (1973). The Teaching of Visual Anthropology at Temple.. 5 indexed citations
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Chalfen, Richard & Jay Haley. (1971). Reaction to socio-documentary film research in a mental health clinic.. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 41(1). 91–100. 9 indexed citations

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