Most cited papers in Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
What are the most cited papers in Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction?
The most cited paper in Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction is "Time, Narrative and History" (SUSAN COTTS WATKINS, 2020), with 1,177 citations. Next come "Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction" (1,078) and "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century" (470).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 40 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Time, Narrative and History SUSAN COTTS WATKINS · Palgrave studies in contemporary women's writing | 2020 | 1,177 |
| 2 | Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction Gillian Beer · Lincoln (University of Nebraska) | 1983 | 1,078 |
| 3 | A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century Donna Haraway | 23 Nov 2007 | 470 |
| 4 | Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination Darren Jorgensen · Utopian Studies | Oct 2015 | 346 |
| 5 | Unravelling Foucault’s ‘different spaces’ Peter W. Johnson · History of the Human Sciences | 25 Oct 2006 | 306 |
| 6 | Captivating technology: race, carceral technoscience, and liberatory imagination in everyday life Christine Hauskeller, Clara Hick · Ethnic and Racial Studies | 25 Feb 2020 | 258 |
| 7 | Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures Laurel Smith‐Doerr · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | 27 Apr 2020 | 232 |
| 8 | Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Smaran Dayal · The Black Scholar | 3 Jul 2022 | 212 |
| 9 | SF: Science Fiction, Speculative Fabulation, String Figures, So Far Donna Haraway · Scholars' Bank (University of Oregon) | 2013 | 199 |
| 10 | Reflections on Cardiovascular Diseases T. Strasser · Interdisciplinary Science Reviews | Sep 1978 | 192 |
| 11 | "Transcending Without Transcendence": Utopianism and an Ethos of Hope Ben Anderson · Antipode | 4 Aug 2006 | 190 |
| 12 | Facing the planetary: Entangled humanism and the politics of swarming Andrew Biro · Contemporary Political Theory | 8 Mar 2018 | 164 |
| 13 | The decomposition of sociology Irving Louis Horowitz · Academic Questions | Jun 1992 | 158 |
| 14 | Cyborg Babies: From Techno‐Sex to Techno‐Tots Susan Markens · American Ethnologist | May 1999 | 149 |
| 15 | Families, kinship and genetics Martin B Richards · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 14 Mar 1996 | 145 |
| 16 | Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies Elizabeth A. McAlister · Anthropological Quarterly | Mar 2012 | 131 |
| 17 | Disability and Narrative Michael Bérubé · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America | Mar 2005 | 130 |
| 18 | Walter Benjamin’s Dionysian Adventures on Google Earth Paul T. Kingsbury, John Paul Jones · Geoforum | 25 Dec 2008 | 130 |
| 19 | Space Stories Dvora Yanow · Journal of Management Inquiry | Sep 1998 | 127 |
| 20 | Gravity fixes: Habituating to the human on Mars and Island Three David Valentine · Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory | Dec 2017 | 125 |
| 21 | In Other Worlds—SF and the Human Imagination Daniel Lukes · Utopian Studies | Apr 2012 | 122 |
| 22 | The origins of dystopia: Wells, Huxley and Orwell Grégory Claeys · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 5 Aug 2010 | 118 |
| 23 | The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology Mark Fisher · Dancecult | 2013 | 114 |
| 24 | The Creation of Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Magazine Science Fiction Garth S. Jowett, Paul A. Carter · Journal of American History | Dec 1978 | 111 |
| 25 | “After the End Times”: Postcrisis African Science Fiction Matthew Omelsky · The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry | 12 Feb 2014 | 111 |
| 26 | Flight of the Robobees Robert J. Wood, Radhika Nagpal, Gu-Yeon Wei · Scientific American | 19 Feb 2013 | 108 |
| 27 | FEMININE PIETY AND PERSONAL POTENCY: THE ‘EMANCIPATION’ OF MRS JANE RATCLIFFE Peter Lake · The Seventeenth Century | Jul 1987 | 106 |
| 28 | “MyMaleSkin”: (self-)narratives of transmasculinities in fanfiction Jonathan A. Rose · European Journal of English Studies | 2 Jan 2020 | 105 |
| 29 | The Twilight of Vampires: Byronic Heroes and the Evolution of Vampire Fiction in The Vampire Diaries and Twilight M. Carmen Gómez Galisteo · Verbeia. | 28 Apr 2017 | 101 |
| 30 | „Love conquers all“? Homosexualität und Formwandler in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine und Star Trek: Discovery Uta Scheer | 25 Jul 2018 | 100 |
| 31 | The New Narrative: Applying narratology to the shaping of futures outputs Paul Graham Raven, Shirin Elahi · Futures | 15 Oct 2015 | 100 |
| 32 | Auf Utopias Spuren Alexander Amberger, Thomas Möbius | 14 Nov 2016 | 99 |
| 33 | After the End of the World: Entangled Nuclear Colonialisms, Matters of Force, and the Material Force of Justice Karen M. Barad · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) | 28 Nov 2020 | 98 |
| 34 | The Logic of Digital Utopianism Sascha Dickel, Jan-Felix Schrape · NanoEthics | Feb 2017 | 95 |
| 35 | Environmental education, narrative complexity and postmodern science/fiction Noel Gough · International Journal of Science Education | Sep 1993 | 94 |
| 36 | The six scenario archetypes framework: A systematic investigation of science fiction films set in the future Alessandro Fergnani, Zhaoli Song · Futures | 9 Oct 2020 | 93 |
| 37 | The Idea of “Technology” and Postmodern Pessimism Léo Marx | 1994 | 93 |
| 38 | Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War Agatha Beins · Feminist Encounters A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics | 8 Sep 2020 | 92 |
| 39 | Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan, Patrick Parrinder · South Atlantic Review | 2002 | 92 |
| 40 | Sex and death in protozoa (the History of an obsession) Dieter Ammermann · Trends in Genetics | 1989 | 91 |
| 41 | The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader Aaron Quanbeck · Historical Journal Of Film Radio and Television | 29 May 2009 | 89 |
| 42 | Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction Jack Fennell · Utopian Studies | Jul 2011 | 88 |
| 43 | Star Trek and History: Race-ing toward a White Future. Daniel J. Leab, Daniel Bernardi · Journal of American History | Dec 1999 | 84 |
| 44 | "People of the Apokalis": Spatial Disability and the Bhopal Disaster Jina Kim · Disability Studies Quarterly | 4 Jun 2014 | 83 |
| 45 | The Mattering of Black Lives: Octavia Butler’s Hyperempathy and the Promise of the New Materialisms Diana Leong · Catalyst Feminism Theory Technoscience | 30 Sep 2016 | 81 |
| 46 | Art, Energy and Technology: the Solarpunk Movement Juan David Reina-Rozo · International Journal of Engineering Social Justice and Peace | 5 Mar 2021 | 79 |
| 47 | Not a Moral Issue (1983) Catherine A. MacKinnon | 20 Sep 2024 | 76 |
| 48 | The Science Fiction Handbook Eugene O’Brien · Utopian Studies | 2010 | 75 |
| 49 | Introduction: African Science Fiction Moradewun Adejunmobi · The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry | Sep 2016 | 74 |
| 50 | News from Somewhere: Enhanced Sociability and the Composite Definition of Utopia and Dystopia Grégory Claeys · History | Apr 2013 | 74 |
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