African Economic History

739 papers and 10.7k indexed citations i.

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The 739 papers published in African Economic History in the last decades have received a total of 10.7k indexed citations. Papers published in African Economic History usually cover Anthropology (386 papers), Sociology and Political Science (123 papers) and Political Science and International Relations (83 papers) specifically the topics of African history and culture studies (307 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (115 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (113 papers). The most active scholars publishing in African Economic History are Robert H. Bates, Paul E. Lovejoy, Douglas Rimmer, Michael Watts, Jay Spaulding, Toyin Falọla, Michael Lipton, Igor Kopytoff, Colin Leys and Joseph C. Miller.

In The Last Decade

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.

Countries where authors publish in African Economic History

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