African Economic History

12.2k citations
759 papers · · active since 1950

Impact in

    • African history and culture studies
    • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
    • Colonialism, slavery, and trade
    • Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Archeology top 5%

Papers in

    • African history and culture studies 313
    • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories 119
    • Colonialism, slavery, and trade 117
    • African Studies and Geopolitics 19

African Economic History

514 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Peers

African Economic History
Comparison fields: 5 of 165
  • Anthropology 4.2k
  • Archeology 276
  • Development 750
  • Sociology and Political Science 5.1k
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 900
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Countries where authors publish in African Economic History

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Fields of papers published in African Economic History

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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.

About African Economic History

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), General Social Sciences (12 papers), Political Science and International Relations (84 papers), Archeology (3 papers) and Sociology and Political Science (125 papers) specifically the topics of African history and culture studies (313 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (119 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (117 papers), Agriculture and Rural Development Research (54 papers), African history and culture analysis (46 papers), South African History and Culture (38 papers), African studies and sociopolitical issues (33 papers) and African Studies and Geopolitics (19 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.

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