Sophie Chao

1.3k total citations
40 papers, 479 citations indexed

About

Sophie Chao is a scholar working on Anthropology, Geography, Planning and Development and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sophie Chao has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 479 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Anthropology, 14 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sophie Chao's work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (18 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (14 papers) and Oil Palm Production and Sustainability (10 papers). Sophie Chao is often cited by papers focused on Anthropological Studies and Insights (18 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (14 papers) and Oil Palm Production and Sustainability (10 papers). Sophie Chao collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Sophie Chao's co-authors include Dion Enari, Marcus Colchester, José Luis Jaramillo Villanueva, Danielle Celermajer, Catherine Waddams Price, Euclides Gonçalves, Fernanda Rocha Rojas Ayala, Wendy Wolford, Anita Lundberg and Tania Murray Li and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, American Anthropologist and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

In The Last Decade

Sophie Chao

32 papers receiving 438 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sophie Chao Australia 13 149 127 116 115 113 40 479
Ursula Münster Germany 5 263 1.8× 68 0.5× 54 0.5× 69 0.6× 135 1.2× 9 472
Karl Jacoby United States 8 126 0.8× 67 0.5× 159 1.4× 76 0.7× 143 1.3× 17 483
Mark David Spence United States 8 119 0.8× 83 0.7× 113 1.0× 62 0.5× 150 1.3× 9 455
Heather Anne Swanson Denmark 11 250 1.7× 73 0.6× 46 0.4× 49 0.4× 143 1.3× 24 542
Alex A. Moulton United States 8 155 1.0× 49 0.4× 64 0.6× 15 0.1× 181 1.6× 15 428
Danielle Celermajer Australia 11 190 1.3× 28 0.2× 123 1.1× 52 0.5× 302 2.7× 49 683
Andrea Gaynor Australia 11 124 0.8× 34 0.3× 71 0.6× 87 0.8× 84 0.7× 60 436
Steven E. Silvern United States 5 94 0.6× 33 0.3× 86 0.7× 29 0.3× 151 1.3× 8 444
Stephanie Rutherford Canada 5 137 0.9× 29 0.2× 85 0.7× 48 0.4× 148 1.3× 12 371
Virginia Nazarea United States 7 76 0.5× 49 0.4× 135 1.2× 82 0.7× 90 0.8× 15 600

Countries citing papers authored by Sophie Chao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sophie Chao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sophie Chao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sophie Chao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sophie Chao 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 Sophie Chao. Sophie Chao 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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Chao, Sophie. (2025). Land of Famished Beings.
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Chao, Sophie & Kregg Hetherington. (2024). Storying Monocrop Infrastructure: A Conversation on Governance, Scale, and Failure. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(1–2).
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Chao, Sophie. (2024). Hunger as more‐than‐human communicative modality on the West Papuan oil palm frontier. American Anthropologist. 126(4). 679–681. 1 indexed citations
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Lundberg, Anita, et al.. (2023). Decolonizing the Tropics: Part One. eTropic electronic journal of studies in the tropics. 22(1). 1–28. 4 indexed citations
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Price, Catherine Waddams & Sophie Chao. (2023). Multispecies, More-Than-Human, Nonhuman, Other-Than-Human. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(2). 177–193. 17 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie. (2023). To write or not to write?. American Ethnologist. 51(1). 63–71. 1 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie & Danielle Celermajer. (2023). Introduction. Cultural Politics an International Journal. 19(1). 1–17. 18 indexed citations
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Lundberg, Anita, et al.. (2023). Decoloniality and Tropicality: Part Two. eTropic electronic journal of studies in the tropics. 22(2). 1–32. 7 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie. (2023). Spent Earth. 6(2). 179–188.
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Chao, Sophie. (2022). In the Shadow of the Palms. 6 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie. (2022). In the Shadow of the Palms. 3 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie. (2022). Multispecies mourning: grieving as resistance on the West Papuan plantation frontier. Cultural Studies. 37(4). 553–579. 7 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie & Dion Enari. (2021). Decolonising Climate Change: A Call for Beyond-Human Imaginaries and Knowledge Generation. eTropic electronic journal of studies in the tropics. 20(2). 32–54. 48 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie. (2021). Gastrocolonialism: the intersections of race, food, and development in West Papua. The International Journal of Human Rights. 26(5). 811–832. 12 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie. (2021). Can There Be Justice Here?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 20(1). 11–48. 5 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie. (2021). Eating and Being Eaten: The Meanings of Hunger among Marind. Medical Anthropology. 40(7). 682–697. 13 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie. (2021). Children of the palms: growing plants and growing people in a Papuan Plantationocene. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 27(2). 245–264. 20 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie. (2020). A tree of many lives. Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 10(2). 514–529. 9 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie. (2019). Wrathful Ancestors, Corporate Sorcerers: Rituals gone Rogue in Merauke, West Papua. Oceania. 89(3). 266–283. 9 indexed citations
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Chao, Sophie. (2019). In the shadow of the palms: plant-human relations among Marind-Anim, West Papua. Figshare. 3 indexed citations

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