Roy Willis

1.3k citations
31 papers · 663 indexed · h-index 10
Topics
Agriculture and Rural Development Research (2 papers)Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 papers)Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 papers)
Partner nations
United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Roy Willis

26 papers receiving 454 citations

Peers

Roy Willis
Comparison fields: 5 of 100
  • Sociology and Political Science 238
  • Anthropology 218
  • Political Science and International Relations 82
  • Social Psychology 73
  • Geography, Planning and Development 52
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Countries citing papers authored by Roy Willis

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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.

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.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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2 1
3 32
4 2
5 14
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The 'peace puzzle' in Ufipa
3
9
Societies at peace: Anthropological perspectives
47
10 6
11 5
12
Anthropology and Myth: Lectures 1951-1982
137
13 5
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Isuumbi: A Fipa Boardgame
2
15 6
16 20
17 0
18 6
19 118
20 8

About Roy Willis

Roy Willis is a scholar working on Anthropology, General Social Sciences and Geography, Planning and Development, having authored 31 papers that have together received 663 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Agriculture and Rural Development Research (2 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Archeology (27 citations), Anthropology (218 citations) and Geography, Planning and Development (52 citations). Roy Willis has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Claude Lévi‐Strauss, C. R. Hallpike, T. O. Beidelman, James W. Fernández, Signe Howell, James L. Brain, R. G. Abrahams, Luc de Heusch, Lee Haring and Steven H. Lonsdale. Their work appears in journals such as British Journal of Sociology, Current Anthropology and The International Journal of African Historical Studies.

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