The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’
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The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’ (2024), published by Open Book Publishers, has been cited 8 times. Beyond that, it has been downloaded 3,393 times.
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The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’ by Marianne Sommer was published by Open Book Publishers in 2024. Conceptually, the work connects to Kinship, Family tree, Race (biology), Humanity and Ideology. The book was recognised: ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Anthropology.
OpenAlex records 8 citations. Citations peaked in 2026 with 6 citing works. Notable citing venues include Evolutionary Biology/Evolutionary biology, History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences and NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften Technik und Medizin. The citing works include 5 book chapters and 3 journal articles. They come from 6 countries, led by Germany, the United States and Austria.
It has been downloaded 3,393 times via Google Books and OAPEN. Open Library reports a combined count of 2 reading logs and catalog editions.
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Access Availability
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0396
- OA status: Hybrid
- OA source: OAPEN
- OA basis: OAPEN record found for this title
- OA evidence chain: OAPEN → Publisher-claimed → ACLS/Arcadia rule → OpenAlex/Crossref
- OA verification: Claimed OA, not in DOAB
- Landing page: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0396/chapters/10.11647/obp.0396.12
- OAPEN Library: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92566
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- 🏆 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Anthropology
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Who is citing this work? OpenAlex
Analysis of 8 citing works. 100.0% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →
- Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology (1)
- SRM Institute of Science and Technology (1)
- University of Graz (1)
- University of Lucerne (1)
- Washington University in St. Louis (1)
- University of Wrocław (1)
- Leibniz Institute of European History (1)
- Rajalakshmi Engineering College (1)
- Technische Universität Dresden (1)
- Virginia Tech (1)
- Alan R. Templeton (1)
- Malin S. Wilckens (1)
- Victoria Shmidt (1)
- Matthew R. Goodrum (1)
- Stephan Strunz (1)
- S. H. Annie Silviya (1)
- Marianne Sommer (1)
- Michał Stefański (1)
- S. Chandrakala (1)
- B. Sriman (1)
- K. Jagadeesh (1)
- M. Dhivya (1)
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- Status: No explicit PRISM review record returned
- Interpretation: neutral signal — this does not mean the book had no peer review; only that PRISM returned no explicit title-level review metadata.
- Publisher context: Open Book Publishers
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Library Classification Subjects:
Environmental policy Conservation of natural resources Race Research Human evolution
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- Marianne Sommer First Corresponding ORCID
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Citations OpenAlex
| Year | Title | Venue | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Retaining Models of Human Evolution After Repeated Falsifications—Why? | Natural Sciences | 10.1002/ntls.70072 |
| 2026 | Intervention photographs? On the photographs of German anthropologist Hermann Klaatsch | Prace Kulturoznawcze | 10.19195/0860-6668.29.4.5 |
| 2026 | The Methodological and Theoretical Framework of Early Paleoanthropology | Evolutionary Biology/Evolutionary biology | 10.1007/978-3-032-13925-2_4 |
| 2026 | Images of Phylogeny and Visualizations of Evolution: Scales, Trees, Networks, and Maps | Evolutionary Biology/Evolutionary biology | 10.1007/978-3-032-13925-2_8 |
| 2026 | The Dissemination and Alteration of Blumenbach’s Racial Classification in Nineteenth-Century Polygenetic US-Ethnology and French Anthropology | History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences | 10.1007/978-3-032-15950-2_4 |
| 2026 | Blumenbach’s Conceptualization of Human Perfection and Its Evolution Through the History of Colonial Power | History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences | 10.1007/978-3-032-15950-2_3 |
| 2025 | 169A Mathematical Approach Polygonal Models and Their Applications in Image Processing | Unknown | 10.1515/9783112221082-016 |
| 2025 | Anthropology from the Margins: The Craniological Network of Carl Gustav Carus | NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften Technik und Medizin | 10.1007/s00048-025-00423-7 |
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