William Roseberry

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

William Roseberry is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, William Roseberry has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Strategy and Management and 3 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in William Roseberry's work include Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (7 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 papers) and Cuban History and Society (3 papers). William Roseberry is often cited by papers focused on Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (7 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 papers) and Cuban History and Society (3 papers). William Roseberry collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Mexico. William Roseberry's co-authors include Fernando Coronil, Catherine Legrand, Carmen Diana Deere, Steve J. Stern, Frederick Cooper, Allen Isaacman, Florencia E. Mallón, Theodore E. Downing, Mario Samper and Jay O'Brien and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The American Historical Review and Annual Review of Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

William Roseberry

41 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 100 200 300 400 500
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 Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela
    1998 512 citations William Roseberry, Fernando Coronil The American Historical Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Roseberry United States 18 632 387 337 182 166 46 1.5k
Harry G. West United Kingdom 16 857 1.4× 480 1.2× 365 1.1× 141 0.8× 67 0.4× 41 1.8k
Ian Roxborough United States 18 716 1.1× 501 1.3× 253 0.8× 100 0.5× 102 0.6× 85 1.6k
Stephen Gudeman United States 20 494 0.8× 246 0.6× 327 1.0× 129 0.7× 91 0.5× 70 1.3k
June Nash United States 23 1.1k 1.7× 644 1.7× 472 1.4× 124 0.7× 207 1.2× 80 2.2k
Gillian Hart United States 26 1.5k 2.4× 819 2.1× 336 1.0× 473 2.6× 190 1.1× 59 2.8k
Ian Cook United Kingdom 14 647 1.0× 174 0.4× 123 0.4× 107 0.6× 161 1.0× 30 1.6k
Chris Hann Germany 25 1.3k 2.1× 922 2.4× 480 1.4× 212 1.2× 62 0.4× 180 2.5k
Теодор Шанин United Kingdom 19 557 0.9× 299 0.8× 104 0.3× 533 2.9× 95 0.6× 64 1.3k
Don Mitchell United States 20 1.1k 1.8× 283 0.7× 108 0.3× 134 0.7× 44 0.3× 46 2.2k
John Overton New Zealand 18 721 1.1× 180 0.5× 78 0.2× 94 0.5× 153 0.9× 91 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Roseberry

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Roseberry

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Roseberry, William. (1998). Neoliberalism. Transnationalization, and Rural Poverty: A Case Study of Michoacan, Mexico. American Ethnologist. 25(1). 53–54. 4 indexed citations
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Roseberry, William & Fernando Coronil. (1998). The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela. The American Historical Review. 103(5). 1733–1733. 512 indexed citations breakdown →
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Roseberry, William. (1997). Review Essay:On Historical Consciousness. Current Anthropology. 38(5). 926–931. 2 indexed citations
4.
Roseberry, William. (1997). Marx and Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology. 26(1). 25–46. 33 indexed citations
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Roseberry, William. (1996). The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States. American Anthropologist. 98(4). 762–775. 173 indexed citations
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Roseberry, William, et al.. (1996). Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America. Geographical Review. 86(3). 465–465. 51 indexed citations
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Roseberry, William. (1996). The Unbearable Lightness of Anthropology. Radical History Review. 1996(65). 5–25. 22 indexed citations
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Cooper, Frederick, et al.. (1995). Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 25(4). 760–760. 60 indexed citations
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Seligmann, Linda J., Frederick Cooper, Florencia E. Mallón, et al.. (1995). Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America. Ethnohistory. 42(3). 520–520. 21 indexed citations
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Henige, David, Jay O'Brien, & William Roseberry. (1993). Golden Ages, Dark Ages: Imagining the Past in Anthropology and History. Ethnohistory. 40(2). 313–313.
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Roseberry, William. (1992). Multiculturalism and the challenge of anthropology. Bilkent University Institutional Repository (Bilkent University). 59. 17 indexed citations
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Roseberry, William. (1991). To The Last Drop. 25(2). 26–39. 1 indexed citations
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Roseberry, William, et al.. (1989). Tristees tropes: post-modern anthropologists encounter the other and discover themselves. Economy and Society. 18(2). 245–264. 39 indexed citations
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Street, Brian, Rosamond Faith, James C. Scott, et al.. (1989). Book reviews. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 16(4). 606–647. 1 indexed citations
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Roseberry, William. (1988). Domestic Modes, Domesticated Models. Journal of Historical Sociology. 1(4). 423–430. 6 indexed citations
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Roseberry, William. (1988). Political Economy. Annual Review of Anthropology. 17(1). 161–185. 2 indexed citations
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Downing, Theodore E. & William Roseberry. (1985). Coffee and Capitalism in the Venezuelan Andes. Ethnohistory. 32(4). 386–386. 26 indexed citations
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Legrand, Catherine & William Roseberry. (1985). Coffee and Capitalism in the Venezuelan Andes.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 65(2). 375–375. 61 indexed citations
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Roseberry, William. (1982). Balinese Cockfights and the Seduction of Anthropology. 49. 54 indexed citations
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Roseberry, William. (1978). Peasants in primitive accumulation: Western Europe and Venezuela compared. Dialectical Anthropology. 3(3). 243–260. 3 indexed citations

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