Susan Kus

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 695 citations indexed

About

Susan Kus is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Susan Kus has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 695 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Anthropology, 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Susan Kus's work include Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 papers). Susan Kus is often cited by papers focused on Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 papers). Susan Kus collaborates with scholars based in United States and Madagascar. Susan Kus's co-authors include Christopher S. Peebles and has published in prestigious journals such as American Anthropologist, American Antiquity and Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

In The Last Decade

Susan Kus

13 papers receiving 488 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Some Archaeological Correlates of Ranked Societies

1977 334 citations Christopher S. Peebles, Susan Kus American Antiquity profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Susan Kus United States	6	391	295	258	113	82	13	695
Elsa M. Redmond United States	17	550 1.4×	312 1.1×	179 0.7×	152 1.3×	60 0.7×	37	891
William T. Sanders United States	13	587 1.5×	293 1.0×	161 0.6×	127 1.1×	50 0.6×	39	920
P. Bion Griffin United States	8	308 0.8×	187 0.6×	339 1.3×	90 0.8×	103 1.3×	20	712
Terence N. D’Altroy United States	16	701 1.8×	410 1.4×	226 0.9×	196 1.7×	66 0.8×	28	1.1k
Frank Salomon United States	15	296 0.8×	388 1.3×	116 0.4×	97 0.9×	134 1.6×	62	982
Charles S. Spencer United States	18	702 1.8×	361 1.2×	222 0.9×	174 1.5×	89 1.1×	46	1.1k
Jerry D. Moore United States	16	523 1.3×	369 1.3×	171 0.7×	127 1.1×	29 0.4×	47	979
Augusto Oyuela‐Caycedo United States	12	367 0.9×	260 0.9×	128 0.5×	95 0.8×	32 0.4×	33	683
Christian E. Peterson United States	12	449 1.1×	206 0.7×	217 0.8×	102 0.9×	44 0.5×	18	743
Edward Schortman United States	17	663 1.7×	427 1.4×	172 0.7×	159 1.4×	49 0.6×	36	937

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Susan Kus

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All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Kus, Susan. (2013). Death and the Cultural Entanglements of the Experienced, the Learned, the Expressed, the Contested, and the Imagined. Oxford University Press eBooks. 58–75. 2 indexed citations

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Kus, Susan. (2011). 2  Matters of Belief: Middle‐Range Theory, Religion, and the “State”. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association. 21(1). 11–22. 3 indexed citations

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Kus, Susan. (2010). The matter with emotions. Archaeological Dialogues. 17(2). 167–172. 5 indexed citations

4.

Kus, Susan, et al.. (2010). Longing, Lust and Persuasion: Powerful and Powerfully Sensuous Women in Imerina. OpenEdition (OpenEdition). 45. 51–66. 2 indexed citations

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Kus, Susan, et al.. (2001). “To Dare to Wear the Cloak of Another Before Their Very Eyes”: State Co‐optation and Local Re‐appropriation in Mortuary Rituals of Central Madagascar. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association. 10(1). 114–131. 1 indexed citations

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Kus, Susan, et al.. (2001). Matters of Life and Death: Mortuary Rituals as Part of a Larger Whole among the Betsileo of Madagascar. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association. 10(1). 56–68. 2 indexed citations

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Kus, Susan, et al.. (2000). House to Palace, Village to State: Scaling up Architecture and Ideology. American Anthropologist. 102(1). 98–113. 38 indexed citations

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Kus, Susan, et al.. (1998). Between Earth and Sky There Are Only a Few Large Boulders: Sovereignty and Monumentality in Central Madagascar. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 17(1). 53–79. 16 indexed citations

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Kus, Susan. (1997). Archaeologist as anthropologist: Much ado about something after all?. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 4(3-4). 199–213. 16 indexed citations

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Kus, Susan. (1989). Ambohimanga: State formation and the symbolic organization of space. 43–54. 1 indexed citations

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Kus, Susan. (1987). The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms. Patrick Vinton Kirch. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1984. xii + 314 pp., figures, tables, glossary, references, index. $44.50 (cloth).. American Antiquity. 52(2). 434–435. 274 indexed citations

12.

Kus, Susan. (1979). Archaeology And Ideology: The Symbolic Organization Of Space.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 1 indexed citations

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Peebles, Christopher S. & Susan Kus. (1977). Some Archaeological Correlates of Ranked Societies. American Antiquity. 42(3). 421–448. 334 indexed citations breakdown →

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