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Researcher · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · Brazil

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Cultural Studies, on topics such as Anthropological Studies and Insights, Indigenous Studies in Latin America and French Urban and Social Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-4902-0574 OpenAlex
World rank
#156,662
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#525
of 253,246
Works
126
Citations
10k
Citations per work
83.2
h-index
33
i10-index 47Top 1.7% in Sociology and Political Science
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

What does Eduardo Viveiros de Castro research?

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's work is mostly in Social Sciences (44%), Health Professions (7%), Arts and Humanities (5%).

Social Sciences: 61 works · 48.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 55 works · 43.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 21 works · 17.0% of their workAnthropology: 19 works · 14.9% of their workCultural Studies: 10 works · 8.0% of their workUrban Studies: 5 works · 4.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 6 works · 4.7% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 6 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 56 works · 44.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 9 works · 6.9% of their workHealth Professions: 9 works · 6.9% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 9 works · 6.9% of their workTHEIR WORKEduardo Viveirosde Castro126works
Health Sciences7%Social Sciences49%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences5543.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities64.7%
  2. Everything else5644.5%
    1. Health Professions96.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology15% of their works
  3. 3Cultural Studies8% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions7% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory5% of their works
  6. 6Urban Studies4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Colonialism, Social Justice, Community Engagement, Governmentality, Neoliberalism, Amazonia and Environmental Participation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization393 topics
  2. Colonialism292 topics
  3. Social Justice242 topics
  4. Community Engagement222 topics
  5. Governmentality171 topic
  6. Neoliberalism171 topic
  7. Amazonia162 topics
  8. Environmental Participation121 topic
  9. Ethnic Identity121 topic
  10. Indigenous Knowledge121 topic
  11. Territorial Governance121 topic
  12. Health101 topic
  13. Indigenous Populations101 topic
  14. Social Dynamics101 topic
  15. Urban Ethnography101 topic
  16. Africa81 topic
  17. Governance81 topic
  18. Affect71 topic
  19. Geography71 topic
  20. Historical Ecology61 topic
  21. pre-Columbian61 topic

Where does Eduardo Viveiros de Castro work?

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Eduardo Viveiros de Castro have?

OpenAlex counts 126 works and 10,487 citations for Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, an h-index of 33, ranking #156,662 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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