ACLS 2026 Finalists Institutional Portfolio

Portfolio analysis of 29 works 29 Books
Portfolio narrative

The Story So Far

Executive Summary

The ACLS 2026 Finalists Institutional Portfolio 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 96% 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 The London School of Economics and Political Science, this portfolio demonstrates both rapid public uptake and sustained relevance as a methodological anchor for future synthesis.

Key metrics
303
Total Citations
🏆 6 in Top 1%
1
Online Mentions
97%
Open Access
28 of 29 works
15
Citing Countries
29
With awards
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
20
News Media
Teaching, practice & library

Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption

25
Library Holdings
8
Syllabi / OCW
28
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 of America (119) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (25) China (15) Netherlands (15) Germany (14) Canada (14) Australia (7) Bangladesh (7) Hong Kong (6) Mexico (5) India (4) Indonesia (4) Nigeria (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 (9) Virginia Tech (5) Erasmus University Rotterdam (5) The University of Melbourne (5) New York University (5) Johns Hopkins University (5) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (4) The Ohio State University (4) University of Virginia (4) McGill University (4) University of London (4) Indiana University (3) University of Hong Kong (3) Wageningen University & Research (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.
Included works

All Works 29 total

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YearTypeTitleDOIAwardsCitationsMentions
2023 Book Ecological States 10.1515/9781501769023 🏆 Award 38 0
2023 Book Democracy and Empire 10.1017/9781009383981 🏆 Award 34 0
2024 Book Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox 10.31389/lsepress.rpg 🏆 Award 23 1
2024 Book States-in-Waiting 10.1017/9781009305815 🏆 Award 20 0
2022 Book Economic Diversification in Nigeria 10.5040/9781350237674 🏆 Award 19 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 Mortevivum 10.7551/mitpress/15191.001.0001 🏆 Award 18 0
2022 Book Upland Geopolitics 10.1515/9780295750507 🏆 Award 17 0
2024 Book Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm 10.1525/luminos.209 🏆 Award 16 0
2021 Book Twining 10.3998/mpub.12255695 🏆 Award 14 0
2023 Book Decolonial Ecologies 10.11647/obp.0339 🏆 Award 10 0
2022 Book At the Edges of Sleep 10.1525/9780520384521 🏆 Award 10 0
2019 Book Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers 10.21627/2019bq 🏆 Award 10 0
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 7 0
2019 Book Image, Knife, and Gluepot 10.11647/obp.0145 🏆 Award 6 0
2024 Book Owning My Masters (Mastered) 10.3998/mpub.12584348 🏆 Award 6 0
2024 Book Kernels of Resistance 10.1515/9780295753317 🏆 Award 4 0
2024 Book Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation 10.1525/luminos.183 🏆 Award 4 0
2022 Book Sex Sounds 10.7551/mitpress/12089.001.0001 🏆 Award 3 0
2020 Book A Sense of Brutality 10.3998/mpub.11923978 🏆 Award 3 0
2021 Book Knowing about Genocide 10.1525/9780520380196 🏆 Award 2 0
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 0
2024 Book Border of Water and Ice 10.1515/9781501777394 🏆 Award 1 0
2024 Book Abortion Pills 10.3998/mpub.14469549 🏆 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