Tim Ingold

29.3k total citations · 13 hit papers
247 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

Tim Ingold is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Ingold has authored 247 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 29 papers in General Health Professions and 25 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Tim Ingold's work include Indigenous Studies and Ecology (27 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (25 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (14 papers). Tim Ingold is often cited by papers focused on Indigenous Studies and Ecology (27 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (25 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (14 papers). Tim Ingold collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Tim Ingold's co-authors include Kathleen R. Gibson, Bruno Latour, Alan Barnard, Anatoly M. Khazanov, Philip Burnham, Todd Sanders, Bernd Baldus, Valerie A. Haines, Ernest S. Burch and Bonnie J. McCay and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tim Ingold

221 papers receiving 10.4k citations

Hit Papers

The temporality of the landscape 1981 2026 1996 2011 1993 1981 2007 2013 1994 500 1000 1.5k
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. The temporality of the landscape
    1993 1.5k citations Tim Ingold profile →
  2. The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society.
    1981 970 citations Tim Ingold et al. profile →
  3. Materials against materiality
    2007 639 citations Tim Ingold profile →
  4. Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture
    2013 564 citations Tim Ingold profile →
  5. Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution.
    1994 519 citations Tim Ingold et al. profile →
  6. Toward an Ecology of Materials
    2010 381 citations Tim Ingold profile →
  7. Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought
    2006 363 citations Tim Ingold profile →
  8. That’s enough about ethnography!
    2014 291 citations Tim Ingold profile →
  9. The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill
    2021 288 citations Tim Ingold profile →
  10. Footprints through the weather‐world: walking, breathing, knowing
    2010 272 citations Tim Ingold profile →
  11. The textility of making
    2009 265 citations Tim Ingold profile →
  12. Anthropology and/as Education
    2017 224 citations Tim Ingold profile →
  13. On human correspondence
    2016 135 citations Tim Ingold profile →

Peers

Tim Ingold
Marshall Sahlins United States
Marilyn Strathern United Kingdom
Arjun Appadurai United States
Eric Alden Smith United States
Ian Hodder United States
Victor Turner United States
Claude Lévi‐Strauss France
Daniel Miller United Kingdom
Kim Hill United States
Bruce G. Trigger Canada
Marshall Sahlins United States
Tim Ingold
Citations per year, relative to Tim Ingold Tim Ingold (= 1×) peers Marshall Sahlins

Countries citing papers authored by Tim Ingold

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim Ingold

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim Ingold

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tim Ingold. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tim Ingold 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 Tim Ingold. Tim Ingold 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
1.
Ingold, Tim, et al.. (2025). Contingent Agencies: Inquiring Into the Emergence of Atmospheres. 1 indexed citations
2.
Ingold, Tim. (2024). Landscape, atmosphere and the sky. Riviste UNIMI (Università degli studi di Milano).
3.
Ingold, Tim. (2024). How to imagine a sustainable world. Acta Borealia. 41(1). 7–15. 2 indexed citations
4.
Ingold, Tim, et al.. (2024). Conversations with Tim Ingold. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam).
5.
Ingold, Tim, David Riches, & James Woodburn. (2024). Hunters and Gatherers (Vol II).
6.
Ingold, Tim. (2024). On the poverty of academic imagination: a response to Bentley & O'Brien. Antiquity. 98(401). 1417–1419.
7.
Ingold, Tim. (2023). Anthropology is good. American Ethnologist. 51(1). 37–39. 3 indexed citations
8.
Ingold, Tim. (2019). Antropologia para o futuro.
9.
Ingold, Tim, et al.. (2018). From Experience to Language. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 23. 82–90. 2 indexed citations
10.
Ingold, Tim. (2016). The Materials of Life. Multitudes. 51–58.
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Ingold, Tim. (2016). Conociendo desde dentro: reconfigurando las relaciones entre la antropología y la etnografía. Americanae (AECID Library). 2(2). 11. 5 indexed citations
12.
Ingold, Tim. (2015). SOÑANDO CON DRAGONES: SOBRE LA IMAGINACIÓN DE LA VIDA REAL. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations
13.
Ingold, Tim. (2013). Los Materiales contra la materialidad. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 17 indexed citations
14.
Ingold, Tim, et al.. (2013). Biosocial Becomings. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 177 indexed citations
15.
Ingold, Tim, et al.. (2012). Diálogos Vagueiros: Vida, Movimento e Antropologia. Ponto Urbe. 1 indexed citations
16.
Ingold, Tim. (2008). Pare, Olhe, Escute! Visão, Audição e Movimento Humano. Ponto Urbe. 11 indexed citations
17.
Ingold, Tim. (2008). "Pare, olhe, escute!" – um prefácio. Ponto Urbe. 1 indexed citations
18.
Ingold, Tim. (2007). Introduction. Anthropology after Darwin. Social Anthropology. 12(2). 177–179. 1 indexed citations
19.
Gunn, Wendy, et al.. (2005). Fieldnotes and sketchbooks : challenging the boundaries between descriptions and processes of describing. Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University). 15 indexed citations
20.
Ingold, Tim. (1974). Entrepreneur and Protagonist: Two Faces of a Political Career. Journal of Peace Research. 11(3). 179–188. 1 indexed citations

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