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Walter D. Mignolo

Walter D. Mignolo

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
60
Citations
50643
World Ranking
1393
National Ranking
655

Walter D. Mignolo 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 Walter D. Mignolo sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 624 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Walter D. Mignolo 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 Walter D. Mignolo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Walter D. Mignolo is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the social sciences, with a specific focus on anthropology, sociology and political science, literature and literary theory, linguistics and language, as well as political science and international relations.

Their research addresses several intertwined topics, including postcolonial and cultural literary studies, Latin American cultural politics, multilingual education and policy, Caribbean and African literature and culture, colonialism, slavery and trade, migration, identity and health, and globalization and cultural identity.

Recent scholarly papers by Walter D. Mignolo include:

  • Coloniality and globalization: a decolonial take, 2020, Globalizations
  • On decoloniality: second thoughts, 2020, Postcolonial Studies
  • The Logic of the In-Visible: Decolonial Reflections on the Change of Epoch, 2020, Theory Culture & Society
  • A Geopolítica do Conhecimento e a Diferença Colonial, 2020, Repositório Científico Lusófona (Grupo Lusófona)
  • Coloniality and the State: Race, Nation and Dependency, 2023, Theory Culture & Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Walter D. Mignolo have included:

  • Catherine Walsh
  • Jean Casimir
  • Fábio Santino Bussmann
  • Isabella Brussolo Veiga
  • Romain Bigé

Publication venues in which Walter D. Mignolo has regularly appeared include:

  • Theory Culture & Society
  • Globalizations
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Repositório Científico Lusófona (Grupo Lusófona)
  • Revista X

In addition to articles, Walter D. Mignolo has published books, including a title released by the University of North Carolina Press:

  • The Haitians, 2020

Best Publications

  • Local Histories/Global Designs

    Walter D. Mignolo

  • Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    Walter D. Mignolo

  • The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options

    Walter D. Mignolo

  • The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization

    Walter Mignolo

  • Delinking : The rhetoric of modernity, the logic of coloniality and the grammar of de-coloniality

    Walter D. Mignolo

  • Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom:

    Walter D. Mignolo

  • The idea of Latin America

    Walter D. Mignolo

  • The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference

    Walter D. Mignolo

  • On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

    Walter D. Mignolo;Catherine E. Walsh

  • The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism

    Walter D. Mignolo

  • El pensamiento des-colonial, desprendimiento y apertura: un manifiesto

    Walter D. Mignolo

  • INTRODUCTION: Coloniality of power and de-colonial thinking

    Walter D. Mignolo

  • Globalization and the decolonial option

    Walter D. Mignolo;Arturo Escobar

  • Colonialidade: O Lado Mais Escuro da Modernidade

    Walter D. Mignolo;Marco Oliveira

  • Theorizing from the Borders Shifting to Geo- and Body-Politics of Knowledge

    Walter D. Mignolo;Madina V. Tlostanova

  • Geopolitics of sensing and knowing: On (de)coloniality, border thinking,and epistemic disobedience

    Walter Mignolo

  • Cartas, crónicas y relaciones del descubrimiento y la conquista

    Walter D. Mignolo

  • Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas

    Madina V. Tlostanova;Walter D. Mignolo

  • Epistemic disobedience and the decolonial option: a manifesto

    Walter D. Mignolo

  • The art of transition

    Francine Masiello;Walter D. Mignolo;Irene Silverblatt;Sonia Saldívar-Hull

  • The darker side of the Renaissance

    Walter D. Mignolo

Frequent Co-Authors

Arturo Escobar
Arturo Escobar University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mimi Sheller
Mimi Sheller Drexel University
Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy National Institutes of Health

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