Sheldon Pollock

4.0k total citations
50 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Sheldon Pollock is a scholar working on Philosophy, Religious studies and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sheldon Pollock has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Philosophy, 19 papers in Religious studies and 13 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Sheldon Pollock's work include Indian and Buddhist Studies (18 papers), Indian History and Philosophy (16 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 papers). Sheldon Pollock is often cited by papers focused on Indian and Buddhist Studies (18 papers), Indian History and Philosophy (16 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 papers). Sheldon Pollock collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. Sheldon Pollock's co-authors include John Oliver Perry, Homi Κ. Bhabha, Carol A. Breckenridge, Benjamin A. Elman, Jane Tylus, David Damrosch, Robert P. Goldman, Richard W. Lariviere and Michaël Meyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Public Culture, Critical Inquiry and Comparative Studies in Society and History.

In The Last Decade

Sheldon Pollock

45 papers receiving 958 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sheldon Pollock United States 16 518 465 402 367 279 50 1.3k
Gauri Viswanathan United States 12 479 0.9× 253 0.5× 236 0.6× 68 0.2× 147 0.5× 26 916
Simon Goldhill United Kingdom 21 363 0.7× 988 2.1× 83 0.2× 131 0.4× 343 1.2× 100 1.5k
Sarah B. Pomeroy United States 18 305 0.6× 475 1.0× 96 0.2× 179 0.5× 137 0.5× 54 1.1k
Barbara H. Rosenwein United States 16 363 0.7× 117 0.3× 238 0.6× 68 0.2× 66 0.2× 56 1.3k
David Kopf United States 13 353 0.7× 253 0.5× 262 0.7× 70 0.2× 206 0.7× 47 825
Emily Apter United States 13 408 0.8× 179 0.4× 119 0.3× 42 0.1× 121 0.4× 73 1.2k
Robert Alter United Kingdom 13 441 0.9× 70 0.2× 72 0.2× 502 1.4× 186 0.7× 63 1.0k
Édouard Glissant France 13 378 0.7× 350 0.8× 72 0.2× 498 1.4× 75 0.3× 70 1.1k
Ludo Rocher United States 14 322 0.6× 253 0.5× 262 0.7× 125 0.3× 143 0.5× 90 756
Wolé Soyinka United States 20 419 0.8× 360 0.8× 111 0.3× 75 0.2× 53 0.2× 103 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Sheldon Pollock

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sheldon Pollock

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sheldon Pollock

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pollock, Sheldon & Benjamin A. Elman. (2018). What China and India once were : the pasts that may shape the global future. Columbia University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon, et al.. (2018). L’espace du sens. Approches de la philologie indienne / The Space of Meaning. Approaches to Indian Philology. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository.
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Pollock, Sheldon. (2016). A Rasa Reader. Columbia University Press eBooks. 33 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon. (2016). A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics. 29 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon. (2015). Liberating Philology. 1(1). 16–16. 1 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon. (2014). Philology in three dimensions. postmedieval a journal of medieval cultural studies. 5(4). 398–413. 11 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon, et al.. (2009). "Bouquet of rasa" ; & "River of rasa". 1 indexed citations
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Tylus, Jane, et al.. (2009). The early Modern period. 7 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon. (2008). t owards a Political Philology: d d k osambi and s anskrit. 3 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon. (2007). 1. PRETEXTURES OF TIME. History and Theory. 46(3). 366–383. 17 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon. (2004). Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia: Introduction. Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East. 24(2). 19–21. 8 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon. (2004). The Transformation of Culture-Power In Indo-Europe, 1000-1300. Medieval Encounters. 10(1-3). 247–278. 3 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon. (2002). Introduction: Working Papers on Sanskrit Knowledge-Systems on the Eve of Colonialism. Journal of Indian Philosophy. 30(5). 431–439. 9 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon, et al.. (2000). Cosmopolitanisms. Public Culture. 12(3). 577–589. 129 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon. (1998). The Cosmopolitan Vernacular. The Journal of Asian Studies. 57(1). 6–37. 98 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon. (1995). Literary History, Indian History, World History. Social Scientist. 23(10/12). 112–112. 13 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon, et al.. (1995). Genres littéraires en Inde. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 115(4). 685–685. 4 indexed citations
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Goldman, Robert P. & Sheldon Pollock. (1991). The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume III. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon. (1985). The Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory in Indian Intellectual History. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 105(3). 499–499. 58 indexed citations
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Pollock, Sheldon. (1984). The Divine King in the Indian Epic. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 104(3). 505–505. 16 indexed citations

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