2026 Arjun Appadurai: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	57	1693	1520	810	717	201	117750

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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117750

World Ranking

1693

National Ranking

810

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

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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

Ash Amin University of Cambridge

Aihwa Ong University of California, Berkeley

Paul Farmer Harvard University

John L. Comaroff Harvard University

Nina Glick Schiller Max Planck Society

Nigel Thrift University of Bristol

External Links

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