2026 George M. Foster: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	36	6451	3117	125	6499

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

6451

3117

125

6499

Overview

George M. Foster was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their academic contributions are recorded primarily through published research and collaborations with colleagues in their field.

Their recent publication includes a paper titled State of Latino Entrepreneurship 2024, published in 2025 in the SSRN Electronic Journal.

State of Latino Entrepreneurship 2024, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research included Marlene Orozco and Rosalía Chávez Zárate.

Marlene Orozco
Rosalía Chávez Zárate

The SSRN Electronic Journal was identified as a recurring venue for their work.

SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

Peasant Society and the Image of Limited Good

George McClelland Foster

1068
Citations
The Anatomy of Envy: A Study in Symbolic Behavior

George M. Foster

611
Citations
Disease Etiologies in Non-Western Medical Systems

George M. Foster

549
Citations
Traditional Cultures: and the Impact of Technological Change

George McClelland Foster

301
Citations
Tzintzuntzan: Mexican Peasants in a Changing World

George McClelland Foster

281
Citations
The Dyadic Contract: A Model for the Social Structure of a Mexican Peasant Village1

George M. Foster

255
Citations
Relationships between Spanish and Spanish-American Folk Medicine

George M. Foster

249
Citations
The dyadic contract in Tzintzuntzan, II : patron-client relationship

George M. Foster

177
Citations
Culture and Conquest: America's Spanish Heritage.

Arthur L. Campa;George M. Foster

162
Citations
Medical anthropology and international health planning.

George M. Foster

135
Citations
Interpersonal Relations in Peasant Society

George M. Foster

119
Citations
Hippocrates' Latin American Legacy: Humoral Medicine in the New World

George McClelland Foster

116
Citations
Traditional societies and technological change

George McClelland Foster

107
Citations
Cofradía and Compadrazgo in Spain and Spanish America

George M. Foster

106
Citations
South seas cruise: a case study of a short-lived society.

George M. Foster

103
Citations
On the Origin of Humoral Medicine in Latin America

George M. Foster

99
Citations
What Is Folk Culture

George M. Foster

98
Citations
Life expectancy of utilitarian pottery in Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan, Mexico

George MacCielland Foster

95
Citations
Empire's Children: The People of Tzintzuntzan

George McClelland Foster

81
Citations
Relationships Between Theoretical and Applied Anthropology: A Public Health Program Analysis

George Foster

77
Citations
Peasant society : a reader

Jack M. Potter;May N. Diaz;George McClelland Foster

72
Citations

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