Elizabeth Colson

60 papers and 5.8k indexed citations
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About

Elizabeth Colson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elizabeth Colson has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 9 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Elizabeth Colson’s work include African history and culture analysis (5 papers), Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (4 papers). Elizabeth Colson is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture analysis (5 papers), Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (4 papers). Elizabeth Colson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Elizabeth Colson's co-authors include Clifford Geertz, Thayer Scudder, Charles Fisher, Max Gluckman, Stuart A. Marks, John O’Neill, Ruth Landes, Lucy Mair, Armand Mattelart and Theodore A. Stern and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elizabeth Colson

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

Fields of papers citing papers by Elizabeth Colson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Elizabeth Colson

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