Western Folklore

1.9k papers and 14.4k indexed citations
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The 1.9k papers published in Western Folklore in the last decades have received a total of 14.4k indexed citations. Papers published in Western Folklore usually cover Literature and Literary Theory (524 papers), Anthropology (227 papers) and Sociology and Political Science (217 papers) specifically the topics of Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (434 papers), Archaeology and Natural History (113 papers) and Music History and Culture (101 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Western Folklore are Victor Turner, Elliott Oring, Malcolm Collier, John Collier, Richard Bauman, Alan Dundes, Jan Harold Brunvand, Leonard Norman Primiano, Regina Bendix and Simon J. Bronner.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in Western Folklore

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Western Folklore. 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 Western Folklore.

Countries where authors publish in Western Folklore

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

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