Cornel West

83 papers and 1.4k indexed citations
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About

Cornel West is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Cornel West has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 5 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Cornel West’s work include Race, History, and American Society (14 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 papers) and Political theory and Gramsci (4 papers). Cornel West is often cited by papers focused on Race, History, and American Society (14 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 papers) and Political theory and Gramsci (4 papers). Cornel West collaborates with scholars based in United States and South Africa. Cornel West's co-authors include bell hooks, Robert Gooding‐Williams, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, William C. McIntosh, R. B. Hargraves, Eddie S. Glaude, Anders Stephanson, Richard Wright, V. P. Franklin and Martín Luther King and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Geological Society of America Bulletin and The Philosophical Review.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cornel West

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

Cornel West

68 papers receiving 860 citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Cornel West

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Cornel West. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Cornel West. The network helps show where Cornel West may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Cornel West

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