Jan Vansina

Jan Vansina 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 Jan Vansina sits on this spectrum.

Jan Vansina 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 Jan Vansina sits on this spectrum.

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