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The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’

Social Sciences
Open Access · Hybrid
Author(s): Marianne Sommer
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Publication year: 2024
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Short impact summary

The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’ (2024), published by Open Book Publishers. 3048 downloads — actief gebruik. 8 citation(s) — early signal.

Full narrative

The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’ was published by Open Book Publishers in 2024. Conceptually, the work connects to Kinship, Family tree, Race (biology), Humanity and Ideology.

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 Prace Kulturoznawcze. Inferred role: Scholarly uptake.

3048 recorded downloads via open-access infrastructure.

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8
Total Citations
⭐ Top 10% Cited
2025–2026
36 pooled chapter citations across 4 chapters.
3,048
Downloads (OAPEN)
2024 (Jan–Dec)
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🎓 Academic & Scientific
Scholarly uptake Emerging
Strong (≥0.80) Moderate (0.50–0.79) Emerging (<0.50)

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Reader reception Books

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    • 🏆 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Anthropology

Citation context scite

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Who is citing this work? OpenAlex

Analysis of 8 citing works. 125.0% come from the Top 10 institutions. Median citing paper cited 0 times itself.

book-chapter (5)article (3) Evolutionary Biology/Evolutionary biologyHistory, philosophy and theory of the life sciencesNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften Technik und Medizin
Germany (2) United States of America (2) Austria (1) Switzerland (1) India (1)
Institutional sectors
Education (6) Facility (1)
  • Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology (1)
  • SRM Institute of Science and Technology (1)
  • University of Lucerne (1)
  • Chennai Mathematical Institute (1)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (1)
  • Rama University (1)
  • Leibniz Institute of European History (1)
  • Graz University of Technology (1)
  • SRM Dental College (1)
  • Technische Universität Dresden (1)
  • Virginia Tech (1)
  • Malin S. Wilckens (1)
  • Victoria Shmidt (1)
  • Matthew R. Goodrum (1)
  • Stephan Strunz (1)
  • Alan R. Templeton (1)
  • Marianne Sommer (1)
  • S. Chandrakala (1)
  • B. Sriman (1)
  • S. H. Annie Silviya (1)
  • K. Jagadeesh (1)
  • M. Dhivya (1)
  • Michał Stefański (1)

Contributors & affiliations OpenAlex

1 author · 0 institutions

Authors

    Chapter Contributors Network

    3 distinct authors contributed to chapters within this volume.
    Philippa Levine Patience A. Schell Michael Rembis
  • Marianne Sommer First Corresponding ORCID

Concepts & topics OpenAlex

22 specific concepts identified.
Kinship Family tree Race (biology) Humanity Ideology Eugenics Genealogy Categorization Sociology Anthropology Politics Biological anthropology Epistemology Social science History Biology Gender studies Philosophy Political science Genetics Theology Law

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Citations OpenAlex

8 citing works (most recent first)
YearTitleVenueDOI
2026 Intervention photographs? On the photographs of German anthropologist Hermann Klaatsch Prace Kulturoznawcze 10.19195/0860-6668.29.4.5
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
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
2026 Retaining Models of Human Evolution After Repeated Falsifications—Why? Natural Sciences 10.1002/ntls.70072