African Arts

2.2k papers and 9.4k indexed citations i.

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The 2.2k papers published in African Arts in the last decades have received a total of 9.4k indexed citations. Papers published in African Arts usually cover Anthropology (876 papers), Sociology and Political Science (292 papers) and Urban Studies (264 papers) specifically the topics of African history and culture studies (683 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (219 papers) and Cultural Industries and Urban Development (202 papers). The most active scholars publishing in African Arts are Daniel J. Crowley, Robert Thompson, Allen F. Roberts, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, John Povey, Herbert M. Cole, Sally Price, Philip L. Ravenhill, Doran H. Ross and James W. Fernández.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in African Arts

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in African Arts. 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 Arts.

Countries where authors publish in African Arts

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in African Arts. 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 Arts with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites African Arts more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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