Postcolonial Studies 7.1k citations
686 papers · indexed · active since 1998
Impact in Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies Indigenous Cultures and History Migration, Refugees, and Integration Migration and Exile Studies Papers in i Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies 155 Indigenous Cultures and History 35 Anthropological Studies and Insights 22 Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies 235 show more fields Overview Impact Peers Geography Research Space Peers Postcolonial Studies
Comparison fields: 5 of 134 Anthropology 1.5k Sociology and Political Science 2.7k Literature and Literary Theory 951 Cultural Studies 422 Gender Studies 373 Religious studies 306 Philosophy 558 Health 285 Visual Arts and Performing Arts 330 Demography 316 Geography, Planning and Development 183 Political Science and International Relations 896 Urban Studies 166 Linguistics and Language 120 Museology 102 Music 109 History 337 Communication 151 Law 208 Archeology 150 Development 42 Education 415 Business and International Management 13 Social Psychology 227 History and Philosophy of Science 92 General Arts and Humanities 14 Marketing 69 Safety Research 89 General Psychology 13 General Social Sciences 25 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 71 Classics 37 Language and Linguistics 90 General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 46 Waste Management and Disposal 35 Architecture 25 General Health Professions 100 Economics and Econometrics 105 Public Administration 24 Information Systems and Management 34 Global and Planetary Change 72 Conservation 17 Human-Computer Interaction 24 Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 39 General Energy 4 Nature and Landscape Conservation 27 Food Science 49 Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management 3 Clinical Psychology 54 Computer Science Applications 13 Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 40 Information Systems 57 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 67 Building and Construction 27 Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 8 Finance 20 Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 4 Theoretical Computer Science 3 General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 14 Archeology 2 Genetics 38 Library and Information Sciences 4 Nutrition and Dietetics 16 Management of Technology and Innovation 10 Media Technology 10 Ecology 25 Strategy and Management 20 Transportation 7 Soil Science 15 Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology 3 Computer Networks and Communications 19 Human Factors and Ergonomics 3 Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 4 General Decision Sciences 2 Speech and Hearing 3 Transplantation 2 Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 5 Water Science and Technology 10 Occupational Therapy 4 Infectious Diseases 9 Cognitive Neuroscience 10 Management Science and Operations Research 8 Equine 1 Signal Processing 4 Issues, ethics and legal aspects 1 Psychiatry and Mental health 8 Management Information Systems 5 Plant Science 17 Health Informatics 1 Environmental Engineering 5 Accounting 5 Astronomy and Astrophysics 8 Developmental and Educational Psychology 6 Pollution 4 Geology 2 Gastroenterology 2 Reproductive Medicine 3 Research and Theory 1 Forestry 1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 6 Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 3 Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 4 Atmospheric Science 3 Complementary and alternative medicine 2 Automotive Engineering 2 Modeling and Simulation 1 Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 2 Aerospace Engineering 5 Mechanical Engineering 7 Agronomy and Crop Science 2 Control and Systems Engineering 4 Emergency Medical Services 1 Artificial Intelligence 5 Neurology 2 Civil and Structural Engineering 3 Epidemiology 4 Emergency Medicine 1 Small Animals 1 Health Information Management 1 Obstetrics and Gynecology 1 Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 1 Insect Science 1 Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 1 Statistics and Probability 1 Hematology 1 Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 1 Electrical and Electronic Engineering 4 Surgery 3 Applied Mathematics 1 Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 1 Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 1 Biomedical Engineering 2 Physiology 1 Molecular Biology 1
Anthropology 1.5k Sociology and Political Science 2.7k Literature and Literary Theory 951 Cultural Studies 422 Gender Studies 373 Interventions United States
Journal of Historical Sociology United States
Journal of Genocide Research United States
Race & Class United States
CR The New Centennial Review United States
Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory United States
Journal of Material Culture United Kingdom
History and Anthropology United Kingdom
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About Postcolonial Studies The 686 papers published in Postcolonial Studies in the last decades have received a total of 7.1k indexed citations . Papers published in Postcolonial Studies usually cover Anthropology (243 papers), Literature and Literary Theory (275 papers), Religious studies (129 papers), Sociology and Political Science (240 papers) and Philosophy (76 papers) specifically the topics of Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (235 papers), Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies (155 papers), Cultural Studies and Colonialism (118 papers), Australian History and Society (44 papers), Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies (44 papers), Indigenous Cultures and History (35 papers), South Asian Studies and Diaspora (31 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (22 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Postcolonial Studies are Gurminder K. Bhambra , Walter D. Mignolo , Deborah Bird Rose , Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , Fredric Jameson , Audra Simpson , Helen Ruth Verran , Warwick Anderson , Dipesh Chakrabarty and Simon During .
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