Colin Thor West

Colin Thor West

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

H-index: 16

North America-United States

About Colin Thor West

Colin Thor West, With an exceptional h-index of 16 and a recent h-index of 11 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializes in the field of Anthropology, Human Ecology, Livelihoods.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Overcoming the Boundaries of History: Extracting Land Use and Land Cover Features from Archival Maps of Northern Burkina Faso Using GIS Software (vol 74, pg 743, 2022)

Sharing, social norms, and social distance: Experimental evidence from Russia and Western Alaska

Measuring the environmental context of child growth in Burkina Faso

Protocols for Conducting Drone Fieldwork in Togo, West Africa

Les Promenades D’Études au Burkina Faso: Recherche Méthodologique

Participatory mapping with herders in a climate adaptation research project

Testing Farmers' perceptions of climate variability: a case study from the Sulphur springs valley, Arizona

Walking the line: conducting transect walks in Burkina Faso

Colin Thor West Information

University

Position

Associate Professor - Anthropology

Citations(all)

1096

Citations(since 2020)

398

Cited By

804

hIndex(all)

16

hIndex(since 2020)

11

i10Index(all)

21

i10Index(since 2020)

13

Email

University Profile Page

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Colin Thor West Skills & Research Interests

Anthropology

Human Ecology

Livelihoods

Top articles of Colin Thor West

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Overcoming the Boundaries of History: Extracting Land Use and Land Cover Features from Archival Maps of Northern Burkina Faso Using GIS Software (vol 74, pg 743, 2022)

The Professional Geographer

Alfredo J Rojas

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Colin Thor West

Philip McDaniel

Julia Longo

...

2022/3/15

Sharing, social norms, and social distance: Experimental evidence from Russia and Western Alaska

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

E Lance Howe

James J Murphy

Drew Gerkey

Olga B Stoddard

Colin Thor West

2023/9/1

Measuring the environmental context of child growth in Burkina Faso

Population and Environment

Alfredo J Rojas Jr

Clark L Gray

Colin Thor West

2023/6

Protocols for Conducting Drone Fieldwork in Togo, West Africa

Annals of Anthropological Practice

Colin Thor West

Rajah Saparapa

Koff Nomedji

Devon Maloney

Aaron Moody

2022/11

Les Promenades D’Études au Burkina Faso: Recherche Méthodologique

Practicing Anthropology

Alfredo Rojas

Koffi Nomedji

Colin Thor West

2021/1/1

Participatory mapping with herders in a climate adaptation research project

Practicing anthropology

Elisabeth Kago Ilboudo Nébié

Colin Thor West

Todd Andrew Crane

2021/1/1

Testing Farmers' perceptions of climate variability: a case study from the Sulphur springs valley, Arizona

Colin Thor West

Marcela Vásquez-León

2021/7/28

Walking the line: conducting transect walks in Burkina Faso

Practicing anthropology

Alfredo Rojas

Koffi Nomedji

Colin Thor West

2021/1/1

Bottom-up perspectives on the re-greening of the Sahel: An evaluation of the spatial relationship between soil and water conservation (SWC) and tree-cover in Burkina Faso

Land

Colin Thor West

Sarah Benecky

Cassandra Karlsson

Bella Reiss

Aaron J Moody

2020/6/26

Participatory mapping with high-resolution satellite imagery: a mixed method assessment of land degradation and rehabilitation in northern Burkina Faso

Journal of ecological anthropology

Colin Thor West

Aaron J Moody

Elisabeth Kago Ilboudo Nébié

2020

'Where's the map?': integrating ethnography with maps to understand the complementarity between pastoral mobility and border formation

Journal of political ecology

Elisabeth Kago Ilboudo-Nébié

Colin Thor West

Todd Andrew Crane

2020

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Co-Authors

H-index: 31
Donald R. Nelson

Donald R. Nelson

University of Georgia

H-index: 29
Carla Roncoli

Carla Roncoli

Emory & Henry College

H-index: 13
Drew Gerkey

Drew Gerkey

Oregon State University

H-index: 10
Matthew W Cooper

Matthew W Cooper

Harvard University

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