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D-Index
57
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117750
World Ranking
1693
National Ranking
810

Arjun Appadurai publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arjun Appadurai sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 201 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Arjun Appadurai D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arjun Appadurai sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Arjun Appadurai is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research spans several subfields of study, including Communication, Museology, Cultural Studies, Literature and Literary Theory, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Museums and Cultural Heritage
  • Japanese History and Culture
  • Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
  • Political Economy and Marxism
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development

The recent papers authored by Arjun Appadurai are:

  • "The COVID exception," 2020, Social Anthropology
  • "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination," 2021, Public Culture
  • "The Haptic and the Phatic in the Era of Globalization," 2022, Glocalism Journal of Culture Politics and Innovation
  • "How to kill a democracy," 2021, Social Anthropology
  • "Globalization and the Rush to History," 2020, Global Perspectives

They have collaborated frequently with other scholars, including:

  • Erica Robles-Anderson
  • Vyjayanthi V. Rao
  • Sérgio Costa
  • Tilmann Heil
  • Fernando Baldraia

Their work has appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • Public Culture
  • Social Research
  • Social Anthropology
  • Anthropology Today
  • Manchester University Press eBooks

Among their book publications, there is a title published by CLACSO eBooks:

  • Convivialidad-Desigualdad: explorando los nexos entre lo que nos une y lo que nos separa (2022)

Arjun Appadurai was awarded the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

    Arjun Appadurai

  • Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy

    Arjun Appadurai

  • The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective

    Arjun Appadurai

  • Commodities and the politics of value

    Arjun Appadurai

  • The social life of things: Introduction: commodities and the politics of value

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  • Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination

    Arjun Appadurai

  • Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics

    Arjun Appadurai

  • Fear of Small Numbers

    Arjun Appadurai

  • Fear of small numbers : an essay on the geography of anger

    Arjun Appadurai

  • The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition

    Arjun Appadurai

  • The Social Life of Things

    Arjun Appadurai

  • The Production of Locality

    Arjun Appadurai

  • Putting Hierarchy in Its Place

    Arjun Appadurai

  • gastro-politics in Hindu South Asia

    Arjun Appadurai

  • How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India

    Arjun Appadurai

  • Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization

    Arjun Appadurai

  • is homo hierarchicus

    Arjun Appadurai

  • The past as a scarce resource

    Arjun Appadurai

  • Cities and Citizenship

    James Holston;Arjun Appadurai

  • Theory in Anthropology: Center and Periphery

    Arjun Appadurai

  • The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective.

    J. P. Parry;Arjun Appadurai

Frequent Co-Authors

Veena Das
Veena Das Johns Hopkins University
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University
Talal Asad
Talal Asad City University of New York
Nigel Thrift
Nigel Thrift University of Bristol
Nina Glick Schiller
Nina Glick Schiller Max Planck Society
John L. Comaroff
John L. Comaroff Harvard University
Paul Farmer
Paul Farmer Harvard University
Aihwa Ong
Aihwa Ong University of California, Berkeley
Ash Amin
Ash Amin University of Cambridge
Marc Edelman
Marc Edelman City University of New York

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