African Economic History

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The 759 papers published in African Economic History in the last decades have received a total of 12.2k indexed citations. Papers published in African Economic History usually cover Anthropology (394 papers), Sociology and Political Science (125 papers) and Political Science and International Relations (84 papers) specifically the topics of African history and culture studies (313 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (119 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (117 papers). The most active scholars publishing in African Economic History are Robert H. Bates, Douglas Rimmer, Paul E. Lovejoy, Jay Spaulding, Michael Watts, Toyin Falọla, Igor Kopytoff, Michael Lipton, Joseph C. Miller and Colin Leys.

In The Last Decade

African Economic History

514 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Peers

African Economic History
Comparison fields: 5 of 165
  • Sociology and Political Science 5.1k
  • Anthropology 4.2k
  • Political Science and International Relations 2.3k
  • Economics and Econometrics 1.5k
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 900
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Countries where authors publish in African Economic History

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in African Economic History. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in African Economic History with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites African Economic History more than expected).

Fields of papers published in African Economic History

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This network shows the impact of papers published in African Economic History. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in African Economic History.

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