Robert McC. Netting

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Robert McC. Netting is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert McC. Netting has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 5 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Robert McC. Netting's work include Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (6 papers), African history and culture analysis (5 papers) and Agriculture and Rural Development Research (4 papers). Robert McC. Netting is often cited by papers focused on Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (6 papers), African history and culture analysis (5 papers) and Agriculture and Rural Development Research (4 papers). Robert McC. Netting collaborates with scholars based in United States and Honduras. Robert McC. Netting's co-authors include Eric J. Arnould, Richard Wilk, Vernon R. Dorjahn, Morris Stone, Glenn Davis Stone, Joan Vincent, Daniela Weinberg, Nancie L. González, Paul Richards and Randall H. McGuire and has published in prestigious journals such as Population and Development Review, Annual Review of Anthropology and Geographical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Robert McC. Netting

34 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Smallholders, Householders 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Smallholders, Householders
    1993 498 citations Robert McC. Netting Stanford University 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
Robert McC. Netting United States 20 473 422 357 324 304 34 2.1k
Harold Brookfield Australia 30 723 1.5× 917 2.2× 906 2.5× 327 1.0× 252 0.8× 115 3.5k
Paul Sillitoe United Kingdom 26 294 0.6× 468 1.1× 347 1.0× 577 1.8× 250 0.8× 107 2.4k
Augustine Crispin India 3 315 0.7× 231 0.5× 228 0.6× 116 0.4× 148 0.5× 6 1.2k
David Brokensha United States 15 275 0.6× 452 1.1× 174 0.5× 323 1.0× 49 0.2× 72 1.6k
Judith Carney United States 25 635 1.3× 455 1.1× 292 0.8× 470 1.5× 42 0.1× 66 2.1k
Richard Grove United Kingdom 18 119 0.3× 414 1.0× 458 1.3× 305 0.9× 133 0.4× 35 1.6k
Carl O. Sauer United States 16 86 0.2× 336 0.8× 322 0.9× 259 0.8× 200 0.7× 52 1.9k
C. Ashley United Kingdom 17 151 0.3× 452 1.1× 110 0.3× 321 1.0× 151 0.5× 45 1.3k
Warren Dean United States 21 188 0.4× 654 1.5× 331 0.9× 251 0.8× 27 0.1× 53 2.3k
James J. Parsons United States 22 129 0.3× 161 0.4× 323 0.9× 142 0.4× 111 0.4× 102 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert McC. Netting

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert McC. Netting

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert McC. Netting

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Netting, Robert McC. & Morris Stone. (1996). Agro-diversity on a farming frontier: Kofyar smallholders on the Benue plains of central Nigeria. Africa. 66(1). 52–70. 21 indexed citations
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Stone, Morris, Glenn Davis Stone, & Robert McC. Netting. (1995). the sexual division of labor in Kofyar agriculture. American Ethnologist. 22(1). 165–186. 24 indexed citations
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Richards, Paul & Robert McC. Netting. (1995). Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive Sustainable Agriculture. Geographical Journal. 161(2). 224–224. 11 indexed citations
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Vincent, Joan & Robert McC. Netting. (1994). Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture.. Man. 29(3). 774–774. 69 indexed citations
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Netting, Robert McC.. (1993). Smallholders, Householders. Stanford University Press eBooks. 498 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bentley, Jeffery W. & Robert McC. Netting. (1993). Making Ends Meet with Scattered Fields. American Anthropologist. 95(4). 1003–1005. 3 indexed citations
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Stone, Glenn Davis, Robert McC. Netting, & Morris Stone. (1990). Seasonally, Labor Scheduling, and Agricultural Intensification in the Nigerian Savanna. American Anthropologist. 92(1). 7–23. 72 indexed citations
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Netting, Robert McC.. (1987). Indigenous Agricultural Revolution: Ecology and Food Production in West Africa. Paul Richards.. American Anthropologist. 89(1). 240–241. 1 indexed citations
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Kreager, Philip, et al.. (1987). Households: Comparative and Historical Studies of the Domestic Group.. Man. 22(4). 776–776. 7 indexed citations
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González, Nancie L., Robert McC. Netting, Richard Wilk, & Eric J. Arnould. (1985). Households: Comparative and Historical Studies of the Domestic Group. Ethnohistory. 32(4). 390–390. 45 indexed citations
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Netting, Robert McC., et al.. (1983). Balancing on an Alp: Ecological Change and Continuity in a Swiss Mountain Community.. The Economic History Review. 36(4). 649–649. 48 indexed citations
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Netting, Robert McC.. (1979). Household Dynamics in a Nineteenth Century Swiss Village. Journal of Family History. 4(1). 39–58. 14 indexed citations
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Hagaman, Roberta M., et al.. (1978). The genetic and demographic impact of in-migrants in a largely endogamous community. Annals of Human Biology. 5(6). 505–515. 10 indexed citations
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Netting, Robert McC.. (1974). Kofyar Armed Conflict: Social Causes and Consequences. Journal of Anthropological Research. 30(3). 139–163. 9 indexed citations
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Netting, Robert McC.. (1974). Agrarian Ecology. Annual Review of Anthropology. 3(1). 21–56. 46 indexed citations
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Netting, Robert McC.. (1973). Fighting, Forest, and the Fly: Some Demographic Regulators among the Kofyar. Journal of Anthropological Research. 29(3). 164–179. 10 indexed citations
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Netting, Robert McC.. (1971). The ecological approach in cultural study. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 21 indexed citations
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Dorjahn, Vernon R. & Robert McC. Netting. (1969). Hill Farmers of Nigeria: Cultural Ecology of the Kofyar of the Jos Plateau. Man. 4(4). 672–672. 119 indexed citations
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Netting, Robert McC.. (1965). Household Organization and Intensive Agriculture: The Kofyar Case. Africa. 35(4). 422–429. 31 indexed citations
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Netting, Robert McC., et al.. (1961). Documentary History of the Fox Project, 1948-1959: A Program in Action Anthropology. Ethnohistory. 8(1). 108–108. 7 indexed citations

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