Chinua Achebe

105 total papers · 3.7k total citations
44 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Chinua Achebe is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chinua Achebe has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Chinua Achebe’s work include Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (7 papers), African history and culture studies (5 papers) and South African History and Culture (4 papers). Chinua Achebe is often cited by papers focused on Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (7 papers), African history and culture studies (5 papers) and South African History and Culture (4 papers). Chinua Achebe collaborates with scholars based in United States. Chinua Achebe's co-authors include Cecil Abrahams, M. F. Thorpe, John Povey, Bernth Lindfors, Arthur Lerner, Christopher A. Conte, Alí A. Mazrui, Gail M. Gerhart, Gerald Moore and Tanure Ojaide and has published in prestigious journals such as Foreign Affairs, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines and World Literature Today.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chinua Achebe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chinua Achebe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chinua Achebe 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 Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Chinua Achebe

36 papers receiving 776 citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Chinua Achebe

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Chinua Achebe

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