ACLS 2026 Finalists

Portfolio analysis of 29 works 29 Books
Portfolio narrative

The Story So Far

Executive Summary

The ACLS 2026 Finalists encompasses 29 works that have collectively generated significant scholarly and public impact. Anchored predominantly in History, Politics, and Political science, this collection has amassed a highly concentrated thematic footprint.

Commitment to open knowledge sharing is a defining characteristic of this dataset. An impressive 100% of the portfolio is available via Open Access, ensuring global accessibility.

The impact of these works is geographically and institutionally diverse. Noteworthy engagement extends beyond standard academia, with measurable uptake in the Facility and Nonprofit sectors. Supported by foundational backing from Arcadia, this portfolio demonstrates both rapid public uptake and sustained relevance as a methodological anchor for future synthesis.

Narrative note: this summary is AI-assisted and generated from structured metadata/signals.
Key metrics
165
Total Citations
🏆 6 in Top 1%
8
Online Mentions
100%
Open Access
29 of 29 works
15
Citing Countries
29
With awards
Open science report card

Open Science Indicators Crossref / EuropePMC / OpenAIRE / PRISM

PRISM provides book-level peer-review context signals; missing PRISM data does not imply missing peer review.
3%
Open Peer Review
59%
PRISM Context
3%
PRISM Peer Reviews
93%
OpenAIRE Reach
Open instances: 90%
Citation & attention landscape

Citation Timeline

Annual citation counts across the portfolio.

Citing Sectors ROR

Citation Context scite

Work Types OpenAlex

Top Venues OpenAlex

Community engagement & public discourse

Online Mentions by Platform

Breakdown across platforms for the entire portfolio.
0
Wikipedia
0
Reddit
1
Bluesky
0
StackExchange
0
Expert Annotations
7
News Media
Teaching, practice & library

Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption

25
Library Holdings
12
Syllabi / OCW
23
Edu Video Lectures
0
OER / Open Texts
1
Formal Reviews
110
Chapter Cites
Thematic & impact profile

Dominant Concepts OpenAlex

Weighted by AI confidence score.
History Politics Political science Sociology Geography Psychology Art Visual arts Literature Genocide Empire Gender studies Genealogy Biology Law Ideology Aesthetics Philosophy Colonialism Context (archaeology)

Inferred Portfolio Roles

Cumulative heuristic classification across all works.
Scholarly uptake 13.6 Sustainability & policy relevance 10.5 Commercial linkage 0.9 Pedagogical anchor 0.6

Top Citing Countries OpenAlex

Based on author affiliations of citing works.
United States (131) United Kingdom (29) China (17) Netherlands (17) Canada (16) Germany (14) Australia (7) Bangladesh (7) Hong Kong (6) Nigeria (6) India (5) Mexico (5) Indonesia (4) Spain (3) New Zealand (3)

Top Citing Institutions ROR / OpenAlex

Canonical names based on author affiliations.
University of California, Riverside (23) University of Washington (10) Virginia Tech (5) Erasmus University Rotterdam (5) The University of Melbourne (5) Johns Hopkins University (5) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (4) Wageningen University & Research (4) University College London (4) New York University (4) University of Virginia (4) McGill University (4) University of London (4) Indiana University (3) Leiden University (3)

Top Funders Europe PMC

Number of distinct works supported.
The London School of Economics and Political Science (1)
Contributors

Core Authors Portfolio

Authors with more than one work in this dataset.
No authors have multiple works in this dataset.
OA provenance

Open Access Provenance

Primary source used to classify OA per work.
16
Publisher-claimed
13
DOAB
Included works

All Works 29 total

29 shown
YearTypeTitleDOIAwardsCitationsMentions
2023 Book Ecological States 10.1515/9781501769023 🏆 Award 40 1
2024 Book States-in-Waiting 10.1017/9781009305815 🏆 Award 23 1
2023 Book A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety 10.1525/luminos.162 🏆 Award 18 0
2024 Book Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm 10.1525/luminos.209 🏆 Award 17 0
2022 Book Upland Geopolitics 10.1515/9780295750507 🏆 Award 17 0
2023 Book Decolonial Ecologies 10.11647/obp.0339 🏆 Award 11 1
2021 Book Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire 10.5744/9781683401988 🏆 Award 9 0
2024 Book The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’ 10.11647/obp.0396 🏆 Award 8 0
2024 Book Foreign in Two Homelands 10.1017/9781009486682 🏆 Award 8 0
2024 Book Kernels of Resistance 10.1515/9780295753317 🏆 Award 5 0
2024 Book Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation 10.1525/luminos.183 🏆 Award 4 0
2024 Book Border of Water and Ice 10.1515/9781501777394 🏆 Award 2 0
2021 Book Knowing about Genocide 10.1525/9780520380196 🏆 Award 2 0
2024 Book Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal 10.1525/luminos.193 🏆 Award 1 0
2024 Book Abortion Pills 10.3998/mpub.14469549 🏆 Award 0 0
2022 Book At the Edges of Sleep 10.1525/9780520384521 🏆 Award 0 0
2019 Book Image, Knife, and Gluepot 10.11647/obp.0145 🏆 Award 0 0
2024 Book Poet-Monks 10.1515/9781501773853 🏆 Award 0 0
2022 Book Sex Sounds 10.7551/mitpress/12089.001.0001 🏆 Award 0 0
2021 Book Twining 10.3998/mpub.12255695 🏆 Award 0 0
2019 Book Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers 10.21627/2019bq 🏆 Award 0 0
2024 Book Deaf mobility studies: Exploring international networks, tourism, and migration 9781954622296 🏆 Award 0 0
2024 Book Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935 10.21627/2024hd 🏆 Award 0 0
2024 Book Mortevivum 10.7551/mitpress/15191.001.0001 🏆 Award 0 0
2024 Book Owning My Masters (Mastered) 10.3998/mpub.12584348 🏆 Award 0 0
2023 Book Democracy and Empire 10.1017/9781009383981 🏆 Award 0 0
2022 Book Economic Diversification in Nigeria 10.5040/9781350237674 🏆 Award 0 3
2024 Book Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox 10.31389/lsepress.rpg 🏆 Award 0 2
2020 Book A Sense of Brutality 10.3998/mpub.11923978 🏆 Award 0 0