V. S. Naipaul
- Sociology and Political Science top 5%
- Literature and Literary Theory top 1%
- Cultural Studies top 0.5%
- Anthropology top 5%
- Political Science and International Relations top 5%
- Co-authors
- Peter NazarethDonald S. ZagoriaPeter MarshallEleanor ZelliotEdgar C. KnowltonRob NixonRichard HowardTzvetan Todorov
- Topics
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics (9 papers)Islamic Studies and History (3 papers)Education and Islamic Studies (3 papers)
In The Last Decade
V. S. Naipaul
40 papers receiving 510 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 75
- Sociology and Political Science 339
- Literature and Literary Theory 298
- Cultural Studies 205
- Anthropology 157
- Political Science and International Relations 104
Countries citing papers authored by V. S. Naipaul
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Fields of papers citing papers by V. S. Naipaul
This network shows the impact of papers produced by V. S. Naipaul. 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 V. S. Naipaul. The network helps show where V. S. Naipaul may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of V. S. Naipaul
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of V. S. Naipaul. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of V. S. Naipaul 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 V. S. Naipaul. V. S. Naipaul is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
All Works
| # | Work | Indexed citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SEX AND POLITICS IN V. S. NAIPAUL | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | |
| 3 | Literary Occasions: Essays | 16 |
| 4 | The Writer and the World: Essays | 7 |
| 5 | The Middle Passage : The Caribbean Revisited | 10 |
| 6 | The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions | 1 |
| 7 | A way in the world : a sequence | 4 |
| 8 | 4 | |
| 9 | An der Biegung des großen Flusses : Roman | 1 |
| 10 | 4 | |
| 11 | 23 | |
| 12 | 2 | |
| 13 | The enigma of arrival : a novel in five sections | 17 |
| 14 | A house for Mr Biswas : V. S. Naipaul /notes by Rosemary Pitt | 1 |
| 15 | East Indians in the Caribbean : colonialism and the struggle for identity : papers presented to a Symposium on East Indians in the Caribbean, The University of the West Indies, June, 1975 | 3 |
| 16 | 33 | |
| 17 | 1 | |
| 18 | The overcrowded barracoon, and other articles | 29 |
| 19 | The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History | 6 |
| 20 | The middle passage : impressions of five societies, British, French, and Dutch in the West Indies and South America | 24 |
About V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Literature and Literary Theory and Museology, having authored 49 papers that have together received 875 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Caribbean history, culture, and politics (9 papers), Islamic Studies and History (3 papers) and Education and Islamic Studies (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Literature and Literary Theory (298 citations), Cultural Studies (205 citations) and Anthropology (157 citations). Frequent co-authors include Peter Nazareth, Donald S. Zagoria, Peter Marshall, Eleanor Zelliot, Edgar C. Knowlton, Rob Nixon, Richard Howard, Tzvetan Todorov, Robert Hemenway and Anthony Burgess. Their work appears in journals such as Foreign Affairs, The American Historical Review and Pacific Affairs.
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