Tom Boellstorff

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Tom Boellstorff is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Boellstorff has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 24 papers in Anthropology and 12 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Tom Boellstorff's work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (16 papers), Asian Studies and History (12 papers) and Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (9 papers). Tom Boellstorff is often cited by papers focused on Anthropological Studies and Insights (16 papers), Asian Studies and History (12 papers) and Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (9 papers). Tom Boellstorff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Russia. Tom Boellstorff's co-authors include Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, TL Taylor, Johan Lindquist, Tomaž Mastnak, Julia Elyachar, George E. Marcus, Heather F. McClintock, Frances K. Barg and Hillary R. Bogner and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Annual Review of Anthropology and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

Tom Boellstorff

79 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds

2012 328 citations Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi et al. Princeton University Press eBooks profile →

Peers

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Francesca Moore Australia

James V. Spickard United States

Charles L. Briggs United States

Couze Venn United Kingdom

Faye Ginsburg United States

Ewa M. Thompson United States

Dorothy Holland United States

Michael Silverstein United States

Michael McKeon Ireland

Robert Hurley Canada

Francesca Moore Australia

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Countries citing papers authored by Tom Boellstorff

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Boellstorff

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Tom Boellstorff. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Tom Boellstorff. The network helps show where Tom Boellstorff may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Boellstorff

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tom Boellstorff. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tom Boellstorff 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 Tom Boellstorff. Tom Boellstorff is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Boellstorff, Tom, et al.. (2024). Intellivision. The MIT Press eBooks.

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Boellstorff, Tom. (2023). Toward anthropologies of the metaverse. American Ethnologist. 51(1). 47–56. 5 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom. (2019). The Ability of Place. Current Anthropology. 61(S21). S109–S122. 14 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom & Heather A. Horst. (2019). Introduction: media, culture, and change across the Pacific. Media Culture & Society. 42(1). 3–6. 1 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom, et al.. (2016). Compulsive Creativity: Virtual Worlds, Disability, and Digital Capital. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12 indexed citations

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McClintock, Heather F., et al.. (2015). Health care experiences and perceptions among people with and without disabilities. Disability and health journal. 9(1). 74–82. 58 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom. (2015). Coming of age in second life an anthropologist explores the virtually human. 66 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom, et al.. (2015). Humanités réticulaires. Nouvelles technologies, altérités et pratiques ethnographiques en contextes globalisés. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 1 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom. (2014). A New Archipelago Concept for the Era Reformasi?. Antropologi Indonesia. 0(63). 1 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom, et al.. (2014). Decolonizing Transgender. TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly. 1(3). 419–439. 48 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom, et al.. (2013). Disability and Virtual Worlds: New Frontiers of Appropriation. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. 3. 1 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom. (2012). Anthropologies and Americas. American Anthropologist. 114(2). 181–183. 2 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, & TL Taylor. (2012). Ethnography and Virtual Worlds. Princeton University Press eBooks. 328 indexed citations breakdown →

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Boellstorff, Tom. (2010). Three Tips for Making Peer Review Work for You. American Anthropologist. 112(1). 1–4.

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Boellstorff, Tom. (2008). Crafty Knowledges. PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 31(1). 96–101. 1 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom. (2007). A Coincidence of Desires. 3 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom. (2006). Gay and Lesbian Indonesians and the Idea of the Nation. Social Analysis. 50(1). 5 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom. (2005). Diagnosing difference: Anthropology's heteronormativity. American Ethnologist. 32(1). 37–38. 5 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom. (2004). Gay Language and Indonesia: Registering Belonging. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 14(2). 248–268. 34 indexed citations

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Boellstorff, Tom. (2003). The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.. American Anthropologist. 105(2). 422–423. 60 indexed citations

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