Stephen Kotkin

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Stephen Kotkin is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Kotkin has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Stephen Kotkin's work include Soviet and Russian History (12 papers), Eastern European Communism and Reforms (7 papers) and Russia and Soviet political economy (6 papers). Stephen Kotkin is often cited by papers focused on Soviet and Russian History (12 papers), Eastern European Communism and Reforms (7 papers) and Russia and Soviet political economy (6 papers). Stephen Kotkin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Mexico. Stephen Kotkin's co-authors include William Richardson, Gábor T. Rittersporn, Michael McFaul, Robert Legvold, Mark R. Beissinger, Jan T. Gross, András Sajó, David Wolff, Bruce A. Elleman and Donald Filtzer and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Foreign Affairs and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Kotkin

39 papers receiving 785 citations

Hit Papers

Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 100 200 300 400
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. Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization
    1995 429 citations Stephen Kotkin 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
Stephen Kotkin United States 17 825 787 129 99 80 46 1.3k
Joël Beinin United States 19 540 0.7× 997 1.3× 105 0.8× 117 1.2× 35 0.4× 74 1.4k
Mark Bassin United Kingdom 18 579 0.7× 566 0.7× 60 0.5× 25 0.3× 30 0.4× 61 1.1k
Michael Kenny United Kingdom 14 485 0.6× 474 0.6× 132 1.0× 27 0.3× 45 0.6× 89 936
Alex Jeffrey United Kingdom 18 333 0.4× 598 0.8× 58 0.4× 111 1.1× 29 0.4× 50 969
Liam O’Dowd United Kingdom 14 622 0.8× 557 0.7× 36 0.3× 82 0.8× 88 1.1× 42 921
Charles Tilly United States 11 361 0.4× 680 0.9× 43 0.3× 40 0.4× 59 0.7× 37 947
Mary Fulbrook United Kingdom 14 417 0.5× 551 0.7× 172 1.3× 19 0.2× 66 0.8× 58 894
Robbie Shilliam United Kingdom 15 316 0.4× 590 0.7× 91 0.7× 21 0.2× 30 0.4× 46 829
Gale Stokes United States 13 647 0.8× 731 0.9× 129 1.0× 16 0.2× 82 1.0× 49 1.2k
Manu Goswami United States 8 265 0.3× 389 0.5× 83 0.6× 43 0.4× 84 1.1× 17 661

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Kotkin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Kotkin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Kotkin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kotkin, Stephen. (2017). When Stalin Faced Hitler. Foreign Affairs. 1 indexed citations
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Kotkin, Stephen. (2016). Russia's Perpetual Geopolitics. Foreign Affairs. 95(3). 1. 11 indexed citations
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Kotkin, Stephen. (2015). Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928. Penguin eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Kotkin, Stephen. (2015). The resistible rise of Vladimir Putin. Foreign Affairs. 94(2). 140–153. 5 indexed citations
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Elleman, Bruce A. & Stephen Kotkin. (2015). Return of the Chinese Changchun Railway to China by the USSR. 191–214. 1 indexed citations
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Beissinger, Mark R. & Stephen Kotkin. (2014). Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 54 indexed citations
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Elleman, Bruce A., Stephen Kotkin, & Clive Schofield. (2014). Beijing's Power and China's Borders. 4 indexed citations
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Evtuhov, Catherine & Stephen Kotkin. (2003). The cultural gradient : the transmission of ideas in Europe, 1789-1991. Rowman & Littlefield eBooks. 12 indexed citations
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Kotkin, Stephen & András Sajó. (2002). Political Corruption in Transition: A Skeptic's Handbook. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 36 indexed citations
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Bulag, Uradyn E., Stephen Kotkin, & Bruce A. Elleman. (2001). Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan. Pacific Affairs. 74(4). 585–585. 10 indexed citations
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Kotkin, Stephen. (2000). World War Two and Labor: A Lost Cause?. International Labor and Working-Class History. 58. 181–191. 4 indexed citations
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Wheeler, Robert E., Helmut Gruber, Louise A. Tilly, et al.. (1998). ILW volume 54 Cover and Front matter. International Labor and Working-Class History. 54. f1–f7. 1 indexed citations
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Kotkin, Stephen. (1998). 1991 and the Russian Revolution: Sources, Conceptual Categories, Analytical Frameworks. The Journal of Modern History. 70(2). 384–425. 27 indexed citations
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Kotkin, Stephen. (1997). Robert Kerner and the Northeast Asia Seminar. Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (Hokkaido University). 15. 93–113. 3 indexed citations
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Kotkin, Stephen, et al.. (1996). Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East.. Pacific Affairs. 69(2). 251–251. 38 indexed citations
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Kotkin, Stephen. (1996). Introduction: A Future for Labor under Communism?. International Labor and Working-Class History. 50. 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Rittersporn, Gábor T. & Stephen Kotkin. (1996). Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization.. The American Historical Review. 101(5). 1586–1586. 96 indexed citations
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Kotkin, Stephen. (1992). Terror, Rehabilitation, and Historical Memory: An Interview with Dmitrii Iurasov. The Russian Review. 51(2). 238–238. 2 indexed citations
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Kotkin, Stephen. (1991). “One hand clapping”: Russian workers and 1917. Labor History. 32(4). 604–620. 10 indexed citations

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