Sara Ahmed

40.9k citations
78 papers · 16.6k indexed · 13 hit papers · h-index 39
Topics
Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (6 papers)Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies (5 papers)Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 papers)
Journals
SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaEthnic and Racial StudiesTheory Culture & Society

In The Last Decade

Sara Ahmed

74 papers receiving 13.9k citations

Hit Papers

The Cultural Politics of Emotion20002026200820172014201320002012200610002.0k3.0k

Peers

Sara Ahmed
Comparison fields: 5 of 155
  • Sociology and Political Science 9.2k
  • Gender Studies 4.0k
  • Education 2.2k
  • Social Psychology 2.1k
  • Political Science and International Relations 1.9k
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Countries citing papers authored by Sara Ahmed

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Ahmed

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Ahmed

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Ahmed. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Ahmed 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 Sara Ahmed. Sara Ahmed 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
#WorkIndexed citations
1 0
2 5
3 4
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Esperanza, inquietud y promesa de felicidad
3
5 58
6 52
7 0
8 23
9
A Willfulness Archive
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10 49
11
On Being Includedbreakdown →
1173
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Feminist Killjoys (and Other Willful Subjects)
62
13
The Happiness Turn
19
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Queer Phenomenology Orientations, Objects, Othersbreakdown →
1063
15 132
16
Review of Shannon Sullivan's 'Living across and through skins: transactional bodies, pragmatism and feminism'.
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17 25
18
Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (Transformations)
12
19 103
20 1

About Sara Ahmed

Sara Ahmed is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Cultural Studies and Public Administration, having authored 78 papers that have together received 16.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (6 papers), Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies (5 papers) and Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Gender Studies (4.0k citations), Cultural Studies (1.8k citations) and Sociology and Political Science (9.2k citations). Sara Ahmed has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Elaine Swan, Sigrid Schmitz, Jackie Stacey, Anne‐Marie Fortier, Marlène Buchy, Thomas Docherty, Warren Buckland and Scott Wilson. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Theory Culture & Society.

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