Rob Nixon

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Rob Nixon is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and History. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Nixon has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 4 papers in History. Recurrent topics in Rob Nixon's work include South African History and Culture (3 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 papers) and African history and culture studies (2 papers). Rob Nixon is often cited by papers focused on South African History and Culture (3 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 papers) and African history and culture studies (2 papers). Rob Nixon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Ireland. Rob Nixon's co-authors include Franco Moretti, Susan D. Fischer, Anne McClintock, Dávid Forgács, David N. Miller, Steven Mailloux, V. S. Naipaul, Kate Manzo, Joan Dayan and Francesca Orsini and has published in prestigious journals such as Critical Inquiry, SubStance and Social Text.

In The Last Decade

Rob Nixon

35 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

2011 2.3k citations Rob Nixon Harvard University Press eBooks profile →
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

2011 573 citations Rob Nixon Harvard University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rob Nixon United States	13	1.5k	820	716	521	342	37	3.2k
Kathryn Yusoff United Kingdom	23	931 0.6×	416 0.5×	1.0k 1.4×	297 0.6×	375 1.1×	44	2.4k
Carolyn Merchant United States	17	1.3k 0.9×	338 0.4×	455 0.6×	205 0.4×	159 0.5×	52	3.2k
Val Plumwood Australia	19	989 0.7×	318 0.4×	696 1.0×	169 0.3×	216 0.6×	42	2.7k
Timothy Morton United States	15	670 0.4×	871 1.1×	721 1.0×	124 0.2×	456 1.3×	58	2.5k
Catherine Porter United Kingdom	21	917 0.6×	220 0.3×	296 0.4×	253 0.5×	156 0.5×	77	2.9k
Elizabeth A. Povinelli United States	26	2.0k 1.3×	290 0.4×	739 1.0×	979 1.9×	561 1.6×	74	4.4k
Denis Cosgrove United Kingdom	29	1.3k 0.9×	164 0.2×	1.5k 2.0×	332 0.6×	277 0.8×	71	4.1k
Deborah Bird Rose Australia	23	749 0.5×	234 0.3×	988 1.4×	184 0.4×	239 0.7×	77	2.8k
Marc Augé France	18	1.1k 0.7×	176 0.2×	332 0.5×	263 0.5×	262 0.8×	124	2.6k
William McCormack United States	6	1.5k 1.0×	224 0.3×	291 0.4×	364 0.7×	207 0.6×	10	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Rob Nixon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rob Nixon

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rob Nixon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rob Nixon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rob Nixon 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 Rob Nixon. Rob Nixon is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Nixon, Rob. (2022). Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood. 1 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (2012). Neoliberalism, Genre, and “The Tragedy of the Commons”. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 127(3). 593–599. 15 indexed citations

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Pratt, Mary Louise, Stephanie LeMenager, Rob Nixon, et al.. (2012). Reviews. Interventions. 14(2). 298–326. 1 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (2011). Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press eBooks. 2250 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nixon, Rob. (2011). Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press eBooks. 573 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nixon, Rob. (2010). Unimagined Communities: Developmental Refugees, Megadams and Monumental Modernity. New Formations. 69(69). 62–80. 41 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (2004). The White-Trash Bin of History. The New York times book review. 8. 4 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (1993). The devil in the black box: Ethnic nationalism, cultural imperialism and the outlawing of TV under apartheid. SAS-Space (University of London). 1 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (1993). Of Balkans and Bantustans. Transition. 4–4. 2 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (1992). London Calling. 25 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (1992). Apartheid on the Run: The South African Sports Boycott. Transition. 68–68. 18 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (1991). Preparations for travel: the Naipaul brothers' Conradian atavism. Research in African Literatures. 22(2). 177–190. 5 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob & V. S. Naipaul. (1991). V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin. Transition. 100–100. 4 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (1991). Cry White Season: Apartheid, Liberalism, and the American Screen. South Atlantic Quarterly. 90(3). 499–529. 1 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (1991). Mandela, Messianism, and the Media. Transition. 42–42. 16 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (1988). London Calling: V. S. Naipaul and the License of Exile. South Atlantic Quarterly. 87(1). 1–37. 1 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (1987). Caribbean and African Appropriations of "The Tempest". Critical Inquiry. 13(3). 557–578. 48 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob. (1986). Out of Africa. Grand Street. 5(4). 216–216. 2 indexed citations

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McClintock, Anne & Rob Nixon. (1986). No Names Apart: The Separation of Word and History in Derrida's "Le Dernier Mot du Racisme". Critical Inquiry. 13(1). 140–154. 25 indexed citations

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Nixon, Rob, et al.. (1982). Picaros, Madmen, Naifs, and Clowns: The Unreliable First-Person Narrator. SubStance. 11(3). 88–88. 10 indexed citations

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