Sally Falk Moore

7.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
70 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Sally Falk Moore is a scholar working on Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sally Falk Moore has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Anthropology, 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Sally Falk Moore's work include Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 papers), African history and culture studies (6 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (6 papers). Sally Falk Moore is often cited by papers focused on Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 papers), African history and culture studies (6 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (6 papers). Sally Falk Moore collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Iran. Sally Falk Moore's co-authors include Claude Lévi‐Strauss, Rodney Needham, James Inverarity, Meyer Fortes, E. Adamson Hoebel, Lawrence Rosen, Lucy Mair, Francis Snyder, Elizabeth Mertz and Joan Vincent and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Sally Falk Moore

64 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Elementary Structures of Kinship. 1970 2026 1988 2007 1970 1973 1986 1985 1970 250 500 750 1000
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. The Elementary Structures of Kinship.
    1970 1.0k citations Sally Falk Moore et al. American Sociological Review profile →
  2. Law and Social Change: The Semi-Autonomous Social Field as an Appropriate Subject of Study
    1973 530 citations Sally Falk Moore Law & Society Review profile →
  3. Social Facts and Fabrications: "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880–1980
    1986 237 citations Sally Falk Moore profile →
  4. Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach.
    1985 225 citations Sally Falk Moore et al. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews profile →
  5. Kinship and the Social Order: The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan.
    1970 173 citations Sally Falk Moore et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sally Falk Moore United States 25 1.7k 889 853 602 381 70 3.7k
Robert L. Tignor United States 19 1.9k 1.1× 962 1.1× 866 1.0× 214 0.4× 229 0.6× 99 3.3k
Jennifer Seymour Whitaker 38 3.1k 1.8× 1.5k 1.6× 1.1k 1.3× 433 0.7× 250 0.7× 265 5.7k
Max Gluckman United Kingdom 24 1.4k 0.8× 498 0.6× 760 0.9× 323 0.5× 145 0.4× 66 3.0k
Laura Nader United States 24 1.2k 0.7× 657 0.7× 409 0.5× 492 0.8× 85 0.2× 96 2.7k
Lucy Mair United Kingdom 32 1.3k 0.8× 522 0.6× 883 1.0× 140 0.2× 170 0.4× 180 3.0k
Boaventura de Sousa Santos Portugal 43 3.5k 2.1× 2.1k 2.4× 733 0.9× 867 1.4× 119 0.3× 241 7.6k
P. H. Gulliver Canada 24 858 0.5× 376 0.4× 466 0.5× 202 0.3× 165 0.4× 57 2.1k
Mahmood Mamdani United States 34 4.8k 2.8× 2.3k 2.6× 1.6k 1.9× 477 0.8× 474 1.2× 115 7.7k
Peter Geschiere Netherlands 30 2.6k 1.5× 735 0.8× 1.6k 1.9× 73 0.1× 150 0.4× 135 3.9k
Jane I. Guyer United States 29 1.5k 0.9× 553 0.6× 996 1.2× 56 0.1× 281 0.7× 107 3.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sally Falk Moore

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Gluckman, Max & Sally Falk Moore. (2017). Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society. 20 indexed citations
2.
Moore, Sally Falk. (2014). Legal Pluralism as Omnium Gatherum. FIU Law Review. 10(1). 10 indexed citations
3.
Moore, Sally Falk. (2005). Law and anthropology : a reader. Blackwell eBooks. 34 indexed citations
4.
Sears, D. W. G., L. A. Roe, & Sally Falk Moore. (2005). Stability of Water and Gully Formation on Mars. LPI. 1496. 4 indexed citations
5.
Moore, Sally Falk. (2005). From Tribes and Traditions to Composites and Conjunctures. Social Analysis. 49(3). 6 indexed citations
6.
Moore, Sally Falk. (2001). The International Production of Authoritative Knowledge. Ethnography. 2(2). 161–189. 28 indexed citations
7.
Moore, Sally Falk & Mindie Lazarus‐Black. (1996). Legitimate Acts and Illegal Encounters: Law and Society in Antigua and Barbuda. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 26(4). 746–746. 1 indexed citations
8.
Moore, Sally Falk. (1992). Treating Law as Knowledge: Telling Colonial Officers What to Say to Africans about Running “Their Own” Native Courts. Law & Society Review. 26(1). 11–46. 48 indexed citations
9.
Moore, Sally Falk. (1990). Inca law and government. U.M.I. (University Microfilms International) Dissertation Information Service eBooks. 1 indexed citations
10.
Moore, Sally Falk & Paul Stoller. (1990). The Taste of Ethnographic Things. African Studies Review. 33(3). 130–130. 36 indexed citations
11.
Moore, Sally Falk. (1989). The Production of Cultural Pluralism as a Process. Public Culture. 1(2). 26–48. 20 indexed citations
12.
Mertz, Elizabeth & Sally Falk Moore. (1988). Social Facts and Fabrications: "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 17(1). 71–71. 68 indexed citations
13.
Moore, Sally Falk, Margaret Hay, & Marcia Wright. (1983). African Women and the Law: Historical Perspectives. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 16(2). 306–306. 31 indexed citations
14.
Mair, Lucy & Sally Falk Moore. (1979). Law as Process. RAIN. 13–13. 89 indexed citations
15.
Moore, Sally Falk. (1974). Civil cases and social contexts: Kilimanjaro 1974 and its judicial past. 7(2). 189–207. 1 indexed citations
16.
Moore, Sally Falk. (1970). Politics, Procedures, and Norms in Changing Chagga Law. Africa. 40(4). 321–344. 17 indexed citations
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Moore, Sally Falk. (1964). Descent and Symbolic Filiation. American Anthropologist. 66(6). 1308–1320. 24 indexed citations
18.
Murra, John V. & Sally Falk Moore. (1959). Power and Property in Inca Peru.. American Sociological Review. 24(5). 727–727. 1 indexed citations
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Moore, Sally Falk, et al.. (1955). A History of the Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 50(271). 988–988. 8 indexed citations
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Moore, Sally Falk, et al.. (1955). A History of the Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 42(3). 574–574. 10 indexed citations

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