Arjun Appadurai publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Arjun Appadurai between 1974 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Arjun Appadurai published across 52 years, from 1974 to 2025, averaging 4.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 18 publications in 1981. 6 of the 221 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10 15

1974 2025

221 publications in total across all disciplines

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Arjun Appadurai: publications per year, 1974 to 2025
Year	Publications
1974	1
1975	0
1976	2
1977	1
1978	0
1979	0
1980	1
1981	18
1982	1
1983	0
1984	2
1985	1
1986	6
1987	0
1988	6
1989	0
1990	2
1991	1
1992	1
1993	4
1994	1
1995	2
1996	3
1997	3
1998	2
1999	9
2000	4
2001	2
2002	10
2003	8
2004	1
2005	0
2006	12
2007	5
2008	12
2009	2
2010	12
2011	6
2012	4
2013	5
2014	4
2015	11
2016	6
2017	3
2018	2
2019	7
2020	9
2021	9
2022	10
2023	4
2024	3
2025	3
Total	221

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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.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400

44–53 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.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
44–53	28
54–63	61
64–73	161
74–83	225
84–93	301
94–103	390
104–113	406
114–123	474
124–133	453
134–143	434
144–153	407
154–163	411
164–173	391
174–183	313
184–193	319
194–203	304	201
204–213	285
214–223	246
224–233	213
234–243	170
244–253	167
254–263	162
264–273	138
274–283	138
284–293	113
294–303	106
304–313	95
314–323	101
324–333	81
334–343	69
344–353	56
354–363	36
364–373	42
374–383	41
384–393	44
394–403	27
404–413	30
414–423	20
424–433	29
434–443	29
444–453	25
454–463	19
464–473	21
474–483	11
484–493	17
494–503	7
504–513	6
514–523	12
524–533	10
534–543	7
544–553	6
554–563	12
564–569	8
570+	100

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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.

No. of scientists

100 200 300

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.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
30	177
31	210
32	222
33	188
34	181
35	243
36	261
37	272
38	278
39	300
40	297
41	308
42	313
43	300
44	269
45	260
46	228
47	251
48	203
49	186
50	187
51	166
52	138
53	141
54	131
55	137
56	109
57	129	57
58	95
59	105
60	106
61	86
62	94
63	77
64	79
65	59
66	68
67	51
68	49
69	40
70	43
71	40
72	50
73	46
74	43
75	45
76	45
77	30
78	25
79	31
80	29
81	18
82	21
83	26
84	15
85	15
86	19
87	19
88	12
89	7
90	19
91	20
92	13
93	9
94	13
95	8
96	7
97	6
98	6
99	6
100+	97

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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

42531
Citations
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy

Arjun Appadurai

21663
Citations
The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective

Arjun Appadurai

7215
Citations
Commodities and the politics of value

Arjun Appadurai

7214
Citations
The social life of things: Introduction: commodities and the politics of value

Unknown

3432
Citations
Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination

Arjun Appadurai

2917
Citations
Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics

Arjun Appadurai

2913
Citations
Fear of Small Numbers

Arjun Appadurai

2796
Citations
Fear of small numbers : an essay on the geography of anger

Arjun Appadurai

2772
Citations
The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition

Arjun Appadurai

2359
Citations
The Social Life of Things

Arjun Appadurai

1855
Citations
The Production of Locality

Arjun Appadurai

1811
Citations
Putting Hierarchy in Its Place

Arjun Appadurai

1555
Citations
gastro-politics in Hindu South Asia

Arjun Appadurai

1485
Citations
How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India

Arjun Appadurai

1360
Citations
Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization

Arjun Appadurai

1159
Citations
is homo hierarchicus

Arjun Appadurai

895
Citations
The past as a scarce resource

Arjun Appadurai

870
Citations
Cities and Citizenship

James Holston;Arjun Appadurai

735
Citations
Theory in Anthropology: Center and Periphery

Arjun Appadurai

703
Citations
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective.

J. P. Parry;Arjun Appadurai

303
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Veena Das Johns Hopkins University

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University

Talal Asad City University of New York

Nigel Thrift University of Bristol

Nina Glick Schiller Max Planck Society

John L. Comaroff Harvard University

Paul Farmer Harvard University

Aihwa Ong University of California, Berkeley

Ash Amin University of Cambridge

Marc Edelman City University of New York

External Links

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