Whitney Davis

2.9k total citations
75 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Whitney Davis is a scholar working on Archeology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Whitney Davis has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Archeology, 23 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts and 19 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Whitney Davis's work include Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (18 papers), Visual Culture and Art Theory (9 papers) and Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (9 papers). Whitney Davis is often cited by papers focused on Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (18 papers), Visual Culture and Art Theory (9 papers) and Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (9 papers). Whitney Davis collaborates with scholars based in United States and Ireland. Whitney Davis's co-authors include John Halverson, John Clegg, Joan M. Vastokas, J. D. Lewis‐Williams, Paul G. Bahn, William Noble, Gordon W. Hewes, William H. Calvin, Leo Black and Paul Graves and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Current Anthropology and American Antiquity.

In The Last Decade

Whitney Davis

61 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Whitney Davis United States 18 589 480 470 221 218 75 1.5k
Alexander Marshack United States 18 456 0.8× 174 0.4× 334 0.7× 245 1.1× 207 0.9× 44 1.1k
André Leroi‐Gourhan France 19 793 1.3× 240 0.5× 610 1.3× 420 1.9× 96 0.4× 80 1.6k
John Halverson United States 10 338 0.6× 308 0.6× 193 0.4× 62 0.3× 113 0.5× 28 751
Martin Hall United Kingdom 17 484 0.8× 304 0.6× 304 0.6× 171 0.8× 50 0.2× 66 1.4k
Valentine Roux France 21 616 1.0× 254 0.5× 833 1.8× 638 2.9× 42 0.2× 58 1.7k
Carl Knappett Canada 20 563 1.0× 200 0.4× 716 1.5× 575 2.6× 63 0.3× 52 1.8k
Alison Wylie Canada 24 953 1.6× 444 0.9× 713 1.5× 314 1.4× 54 0.2× 73 2.1k
Richard Borshay Lee Canada 6 375 0.6× 112 0.2× 230 0.5× 88 0.4× 183 0.8× 8 1.1k
Robert Chapman United Kingdom 15 365 0.6× 95 0.2× 360 0.8× 272 1.2× 42 0.2× 34 1.4k
Lambros Malafouris United Kingdom 20 347 0.6× 162 0.3× 272 0.6× 168 0.8× 265 1.2× 45 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Whitney Davis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Whitney Davis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Whitney Davis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Whitney Davis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Whitney Davis 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 Whitney Davis. Whitney Davis 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
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Davis, Whitney. (2022). A General Theory of Visual Culture. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
2.
Davis, Whitney. (2022). Sculpture in Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 80(2). 239–243.
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Davis, Whitney. (2018). “Reading-In”. Representations. 144(1). 1–33. 2 indexed citations
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Assmann, Jan, Christoph Hoffmann, Christoph M. Hoffmann, et al.. (2016). Einwegbilder.
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Davis, Whitney. (2013). Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History. 3 indexed citations
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Davis, Whitney. (2012). HomoVision: A Reading of Freud's "Fetishism".
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Davis, Whitney. (2010). Queer Beauty. Columbia University Press eBooks. 17 indexed citations
8.
Landes, Joan B., et al.. (2008). Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 19 indexed citations
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Davis, Whitney. (1994). Winckelmann Divided:. Journal of Homosexuality. 27(1-2). 141–160. 4 indexed citations
10.
Bianchi, Robert Steven & Whitney Davis. (1992). The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 112(2). 328–328. 12 indexed citations
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Davis, Whitney. (1992). The deconstruction of intentionality in archaeology. Antiquity. 66(251). 334–347. 10 indexed citations
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Davidson, Iain, William Noble, David Armstrong, et al.. (1989). The Archaeology of Perception: Traces of Depiction and Language [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 30(2). 125–155. 200 indexed citations
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Davis, Whitney. (1988). PLEASURE AND ITS CONTENTS. Art History. 11(3). 445–456.
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Davis, Whitney. (1986). More on the Origins and Originality of Image Making: Reply to Delluc and Delluc. Current Anthropology. 27(5). 515–516. 2 indexed citations
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Rice, Prudence M., William Y. Adams, Joseph W. Ball, et al.. (1981). Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production: A Trial Model [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 22(3). 219–240. 148 indexed citations
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Adams, Richard N., Donald T. Campbell, Ronald Cohen, et al.. (1981). Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 22(6). 603–624. 16 indexed citations
17.
Davis, Whitney. (1979). Plato on Egyptian Art. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 65. 121–121. 2 indexed citations
18.
Barkow, Jerome H., Kenneth L. Beals, Martin Daly, et al.. (1978). Social Norms, the Self, and Sociobiology: Building on the Ideas of A. I. Hallowell [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 19(1). 99–118. 22 indexed citations
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Davis, Whitney. (1977). The Ascension-Myth in the Pyramid Texts. Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 36(3). 161–179.
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Davis, Whitney. (1976). The Origins of Register Composition in Predynastic Egyptian Art. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 96(3). 404–404. 5 indexed citations

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