ACLS 2026 Finalists

Portfolio analysis of 29 works 29 Books
Portfolio narrative

The Story So Far

This selection contains 29 works with 355 recorded scholarly citations. Recorded downloads total 47,188, reported for 20 of these works. Available citing-work metadata identifies 50 countries.

There are 40 recorded Wikipedia article–work matches, including 40 book references verified against an article revision. References and bibliography entries document use of a work; these counts do not measure readership.

Current metadata classifies 29 of these works as open access. Missing usage data and zero recorded mentions on a channel do not establish an absence of engagement.

Narrative note: this summary is AI-assisted and generated from structured metadata/signals.
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No single metric stands in for impact here. Citations, downloads, mentions, teaching and open-access rights are shown side by side, each tagged with the source it came from — read together, not ranked against each other.

Key metrics
355
Total Citations
🏆 6 in Top 1%
47,188
Downloads
20 of 29 works · OAPEN/DataCite
46
Online Mentions
100%
Open Access
29 of 29 works
29
With awards
On the shelf

Digital Bookshelf Portfolio

The same collection, ranked by whichever evidence you pick — no one ranking is "the" ranking. Articles and data included, not just books — cover art where it resolves.
A small nod to Bookmetrix's original digital bookshelf.
Open science report card

Open Science Indicators OpenAIRE / PRISM

PRISM provides book-level peer-review context signals; missing PRISM data does not imply missing peer review — few OA book publishers have formal open peer review tracked at all.
79%
PRISM Context
93%
OpenAIRE Reach
3%
Open Peer Review
3%
PRISM Peer Reviews
OpenAIRE open instances: 90% of works.
Inferred portfolio roles
What the evidence above doesn't capture — cumulative heuristic classification of how this portfolio is actually used, across all works.
Scholarly uptake 13.9 Sustainability & policy relevance 10.5 Pedagogical anchor 4.8 Commercial linkage 0.9
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.
40
Wikipedia
0
Reddit
1
Bluesky
0
StackExchange
0
Expert Annotations
5
News Media
Teaching, practice & library

Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption

33
Library Holdings
2
Syllabi / OCW
23
Edu Video Lectures
0
OER / Open Texts
1
Formal Reviews
17
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)

Reach, mapped OpenAlex

Citing-work affiliations trace back to 50 countries — circle size shows citation count from that country.
Full breakdown, including countries not shown on the map, in the list below.

Top Citing Countries OpenAlex

Based on author affiliations of citing works — size shows how often each one appears.
United States (143) United Kingdom (32) Netherlands (18) China (17) Canada (16) Germany (14) Bangladesh (8) Australia (7) Hong Kong (6) Nigeria (6) Mexico (5) India (5) Indonesia (4) New Zealand (3) Switzerland (3)

Top Citing Institutions ROR / OpenAlex

Canonical names based on author affiliations — size shows how often each one appears.
University of California, Riverside (23) Pennsylvania State University (12) University of Washington (11) University College London (6) Johns Hopkins University (5) McGill University (5) The University of Melbourne (5) New York University (5) Erasmus University Rotterdam (5) Virginia Tech (5) The Ohio State University (4) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (4) University of Cambridge (4) Wageningen University & Research (4) University of London (4)

Top Funders Europe PMC

Number of distinct works supported — size shows how often each one appears.
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.
13
DOAB
11
OAPEN
3
Publisher-claimed
2
ACLS/Arcadia rule
Included works

All Works 29 total

29 shown
YearTypeTitleDOIAwardsCitationsMentions
2023 Book Democracy and Empire 10.1017/9781009383981 ↗ 🏆 Award 51 0
2023 Book Ecological States 10.1515/9781501769023 ↗ 🏆 Award 40 14
2024 Book Mortevivum 10.7551/mitpress/15191.001.0001 ↗ 🏆 Award 29 0
2024 Book Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox 10.31389/lsepress.rpg ↗ 🏆 Award 29 1
2024 Book States-in-Waiting 10.1017/9781009305815 ↗ 🏆 Award 24 6
2022 Book Economic Diversification in Nigeria 10.5040/9781350237674 ↗ 🏆 Award 21 0
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
2021 Book Twining 10.3998/mpub.12255695 ↗ 🏆 Award 15 3
2023 Book Decolonial Ecologies 10.11647/obp.0339 ↗ 🏆 Award 11 0
2022 Book At the Edges of Sleep 10.1525/9780520384521 ↗ 🏆 Award 11 0
2021 Book Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire 10.5744/9781683401988 ↗ 🏆 Award 10 0
2019 Book Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers 10.21627/2019bq ↗ 🏆 Award 10 2
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
2019 Book Image, Knife, and Gluepot 10.11647/obp.0145 ↗ 🏆 Award 7 2
2024 Book Kernels of Resistance 10.1515/9780295753317 ↗ 🏆 Award 6 3
2024 Book Owning My Masters (Mastered) 10.3998/mpub.12584348 ↗ 🏆 Award 6 0
2024 Book Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation 10.1525/luminos.183 ↗ 🏆 Award 4 2
2022 Book Sex Sounds 10.7551/mitpress/12089.001.0001 ↗ 🏆 Award 3 3
2020 Book A Sense of Brutality 10.3998/mpub.11923978 ↗ 🏆 Award 3 0
2024 Book Border of Water and Ice 10.1515/9781501777394 ↗ 🏆 Award 2 0
2021 Book Knowing about Genocide 10.1525/9780520380196 ↗ 🏆 Award 2 2
2024 Book Poet-Monks 10.1515/9781501773853 ↗ 🏆 Award 2 0
2024 Book Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal 10.1525/luminos.193 ↗ 🏆 Award 1 1
2024 Book Abortion Pills 10.3998/mpub.14469549 ↗ 🏆 Award 0 7
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