Roy Willis

59 total papers · 1.3k total citations
28 papers, 641 citations indexed

About

Roy Willis is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Animal Science and Zoology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roy Willis has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 641 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Anthropology and 1 paper in Animal Science and Zoology. Recurrent topics in Roy Willis’s work include Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 papers) and Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (1 paper). Roy Willis is often cited by papers focused on Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 papers) and Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (1 paper). Roy Willis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Roy Willis's co-authors include Claude Lévi‐Strauss, C. R. Hallpike, T. O. Beidelman, James W. Fernández, Signe Howell, James L. Brain, R. G. Abrahams, Steven H. Lonsdale, Edith Turner and Luc de Heusch and has published in prestigious journals such as British Journal of Sociology, Current Anthropology and The International Journal of African Historical Studies.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roy Willis

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

Roy Willis

22 papers receiving 438 citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Roy Willis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Roy Willis. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Roy Willis. The network helps show where Roy Willis may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Roy Willis

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