Subfield · Cultural Studies
Most cited papers in Cultural Studies
What are the most cited papers in Cultural Studies?
The most cited paper in Cultural Studies is "Finding Structure in Time" (Jeffrey L. Elman, 1990), with 11,110 citations. Next come "Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter" (7,005) and "Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants" (5,779).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 1,062 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finding Structure in Time Jeffrey L. Elman · Cognitive Science | Mar 1990 | 11,110 |
| 2 | Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter Karen M. Barad · Signs | Mar 2003 | 7,005 |
| 3 | Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants Jenny R. Saffran, Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport · Science | 13 Dec 1996 | 5,779 |
| 4 | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? MARC DAVID HAUSER, Noam Chomsky, W. Tecumseh Fitch · Science | 21 Nov 2002 | 5,242 |
| 5 | A theory of migration Everett S. Lee · Demography | Mar 1966 | 4,481 |
| 6 | WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.] Asifa Majid, Stephen C. Levinson · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) | 2010 | 4,095 |
| 7 | Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysis Jerry A. Fodor, Zenon W. Pylyshyn · Cognition | Mar 1988 | 4,072 |
| 8 | The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure Brian R. Larkin · Annual Review of Anthropology | 28 Aug 2013 | 3,993 |
| 9 | Acquisition of cognitive skill. John R. Anderson · Psychological Review | Jul 1982 | 3,600 |
| 10 | Natural language processing with Python Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 2009 | 3,444 |
| 11 | Notes on the theory of the actor-network: Ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity John Easton Law · Systemic Practice and Action Research | Aug 1992 | 3,226 |
| 12 | Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books Jean-Baptiste Michel, Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden et al. · Science | 16 Dec 2010 | 3,145 |
| 13 | Epistemology of the Closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick | 1990 | 3,084 |
| 14 | Autoethnography: An Overview Carolyn Ellis, Tony E. Adams, Arthur P. Bochner · Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) | 24 Nov 2010 | 3,060 |
| 15 | On Face-Work Erving Goffman · Psychiatry | Aug 1955 | 2,865 |
| 16 | Beyond “identity” Rogers Brubaker, Frederick Cooper · Theory and Society | Feb 2000 | 2,845 |
| 17 | Rules and Representations. Terry L. Smith, Noam Chomsky · The Philosophical Review | 1982 | 2,821 |
| 18 | Three models for the description of language Noam Chomsky · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | Sep 1956 | 2,819 |
| 19 | The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science Nicholas D. Evans, Stephen C. Levinson · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Oct 2009 | 2,671 |
| 20 | Three Factors in Language Design Noam Chomsky · Linguistic Inquiry | 2005 | 2,659 |
| 21 | Ethnicity without groups Rogers Brubaker · European Journal of Sociology | Aug 2002 | 2,625 |
| 22 | The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission Joseph Henrich, Francisco J. Gil-White · Evolution and Human Behavior | May 2001 | 2,549 |
| 23 | Natural language and natural selection Steven A. Pinker, Paul Bloom · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Dec 1990 | 2,478 |
| 24 | Sequencing in Conversational Openings 1 Emanuel A. Schegloff · American Anthropologist | Dec 1968 | 2,449 |
| 25 | Toward a Decolonial Feminism María Lugones · Hypatia | 2010 | 2,395 |
| 26 | Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom Walter D. Mignolo · Theory Culture & Society | Dec 2009 | 2,336 |
| 27 | Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code Patricia K. Kuhl · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 20 Oct 2004 | 2,319 |
| 28 | Being alive essays on movement, knowledge and description Timothy Ingold | 2011 | 2,309 |
| 29 | Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson · Max Planck Digital Library | 1978 | 2,216 |
| 30 | A phenomenology of whiteness Sara Ahmed · Feminist Theory | Aug 2007 | 2,095 |
| 31 | Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense Christine Bichsel · Journal of Historical Geography | 5 Mar 2012 | 2,024 |
| 32 | Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge Arthur S. Reber · The MIT Press eBooks | 25 Apr 2003 | 2,022 |
| 33 | Procedures for Identifying Infants as Disorganized/Disoriented During the Ainsworth Strange Situation Mary Main, Judith Solomon | 2 Sep 2026 | 2,002 |
| 34 | Implicit learning of artificial grammars Arthur S. Reber · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior | Dec 1967 | 1,992 |
| 35 | Affective atmospheres Ben Anderson · Emotion, space and society | 20 Sep 2009 | 1,963 |
| 36 | Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache. Richard J. Parmentier · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | Jun 1997 | 1,922 |
| 37 | Intensities of feeling: towards a spatial politics of affect Nigel J. Thrift · Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography | Mar 2004 | 1,917 |
| 38 | Producing high-dimensional semantic spaces from lexical co-occurrence Kevin Lund, Curt Burgess · Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers | Jun 1996 | 1,864 |
| 39 | A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades Sushil Bikhchandani, David A. Hirshleifer, Ivo Welch · Journal of Political Economy | Oct 1992 | 1,820 |
| 40 | The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings Lila R. Gleitman · Language Acquisition | 1990 | 1,790 |
| 41 | Structure mapping in analogy and similarity. Dedre Gentner, Arthur B. Markman · American Psychologist | 1997 | 1,720 |
| 42 | Natural pedagogy Gergely Csibra, György Gergely · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 14 Mar 2009 | 1,626 |
| 43 | Contextual correlates of semantic similarity George Armitage Miller, Walter G. Charles · Language and Cognitive Processes | 1991 | 1,612 |
| 44 | NOTES ON A SCHEMA FOR STORIES David E. Rumelhart · Elsevier eBooks | 1975 | 1,604 |
| 45 | Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis Esther Herrmann, Josep Call, María Victoria Hernández‐Lloreda et al. · Science | 7 Sep 2007 | 1,602 |
| 46 | Value co-creation in service logic: A critical analysis Christian Grönroos · Marketing Theory | Sep 2011 | 1,582 |
| 47 | Regular morphology and the lexicon Joan Bybee · Language and Cognitive Processes | Oct 1995 | 1,542 |
| 48 | The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus Bruce D. McCandliss, Laurent Cohen, Stanislas Dehaene · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Jul 2003 | 1,531 |
| 49 | Now out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 Timur Kuran · World Politics | Oct 1991 | 1,472 |
| 50 | The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture RUTH FULTON BENEDICT, Arnold van Gennep · RAIN | Feb 1978 | 1,439 |
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