2026 Jan Vansina: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	43	4322	2067	292	10665

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D-Index

World Ranking

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Publications

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Social Sciences and Humanities

4322

2067

292

10665

Research.com Recognitions

1980 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Best Publications

Oral tradition as history

Jan M. Vansina

1207
Citations
Literacy in traditional societies

Jack Goody

1005
Citations
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination

Unknown

677
Citations
Oral Tradition as History

Unknown

534
Citations
Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa

Jan M. Vansina

487
Citations
Oral Tradition as History

Unknown

412
Citations
Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at Revision [and Comments and Replies]

Edwin N. Wilmsen;James R. Denbow;M. G. Bicchieri;Lewis R. Binford

381
Citations
New Linguistic Evidence and ‘The Bantu Expansion’

Jan Vansina

369
Citations
Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology

Jan Vansina;H. M. Wright;Selma Leydesdorff;Elizabeth Tonkin

300
Citations
Kingdoms of the savanna

Jan Vansina

270
Citations
Philosophy and an African Culture

Unknown

254
Citations
Revelation and divination in Ndembu ritual

Victor Witter Turner

226
Citations
Western Bantu Expansion

Jan Vansina

211
Citations
The Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology

Katherine Luomala;Jan Vansina;H. M. Wright

177
Citations
Oral Tradition. A Study in Historical Methodology.

Unknown

165
Citations
Religious Movements in Central Africa: A Theoretical Study

Willy De Craemer;Jan Vansina;Renée C. Fox

153
Citations
How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa before 1600

Jan Vansina

114
Citations
Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville

Unknown

110
Citations
Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa.

Christopher Ehret;Jan Vansina

84
Citations
Oral Tradition as History

Paul R. Sullivan;Jan Vansina

38
Citations