Bill Brown

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 447 citations indexed

About

Bill Brown is a scholar working on History, Sociology and Political Science and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Bill Brown has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 447 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in History, 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in Law. Recurrent topics in Bill Brown's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 papers), Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems (2 papers) and Sports, Gender, and Society (2 papers). Bill Brown is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 papers), Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems (2 papers) and Sports, Gender, and Society (2 papers). Bill Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States and Belgium. Bill Brown's co-authors include Erich W. Schienke, Fred Moten, Alice Crawford, Bruno Cornelis, Michael J. Newchurch, Ingrid Daubechies, David B. Dunson and H.A.M. Luiijf and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Public Culture and Critical Inquiry.

In The Last Decade

Bill Brown

17 papers receiving 327 citations

Hit Papers

Thing Theory 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Thing Theory
    2001 331 citations Bill Brown Critical Inquiry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bill Brown United States 8 124 83 77 67 55 21 447
Sabine von Dirke United States 4 199 1.6× 55 0.7× 57 0.7× 26 0.4× 39 0.7× 7 442
Margaret Iversen United Kingdom 8 92 0.7× 83 1.0× 47 0.6× 33 0.5× 67 1.2× 28 355
bill brown United States 10 98 0.8× 211 2.5× 56 0.7× 33 0.5× 74 1.3× 22 469
Giuliana Bruno United States 10 186 1.5× 109 1.3× 31 0.4× 82 1.2× 135 2.5× 23 627
Hal Foster United Kingdom 8 136 1.1× 84 1.0× 38 0.5× 32 0.5× 184 3.3× 16 530
Kerwin Lee Klein United States 9 249 2.0× 55 0.7× 132 1.7× 27 0.4× 31 0.6× 18 568
Tracy C. Davis United States 12 236 1.9× 99 1.2× 33 0.4× 28 0.4× 83 1.5× 80 585
Ansgar Nünning Germany 9 202 1.6× 151 1.8× 63 0.8× 17 0.3× 30 0.5× 48 574
Stephen Bann United Kingdom 15 135 1.1× 88 1.1× 96 1.2× 47 0.7× 126 2.3× 88 624
Alison Landsberg United States 8 303 2.4× 86 1.0× 58 0.8× 32 0.5× 53 1.0× 14 678

Countries citing papers authored by Bill Brown

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bill Brown

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bill Brown

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bill Brown. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bill Brown based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bill Brown. Bill Brown is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Crawford, Alice, et al.. (2023). Methodology, Deployment, and Performance of Pico Balloons in Antarctica. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 40(10). 1277–1290. 3 indexed citations
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Newchurch, Michael J., et al.. (2023). Insights on Polar Day Antarctica Radio Propagation Using Amateur Radio Beacons on Circumnavigating Balloons. Atmosphere. 14(7). 1118–1118. 3 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill. (2015). Isla Vista Mass Murder, May 23, 2014, Investigative Summary. 8 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill. (2015). Koori health in Koori hands.
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Dunson, David B., et al.. (2014). Digital cradle removal in X-ray images of art paintings. 4299–4303. 8 indexed citations
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Moten, Fred, et al.. (2013). Theaster Gates: My Labor Is My Protest. 3 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill. (2013). Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing. Common Knowledge. 19(3). 554–556. 16 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill, et al.. (2006). Cyber security : a new model for protecting the network. 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill. (2005). Reification, Reanimation, and the American Uncanny. Critical Inquiry. 32(2). 175–207. 34 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill. (2004). First Snow. Appalachian heritage. 32(4). 108–108.
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Schienke, Erich W. & Bill Brown. (2002). Streets into Stages: an interview with Surveillance Camera Players’ Bill Brown.. Surveillance & Society. 1(3). 356–374. 7 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill. (2001). Thing Theory. Critical Inquiry. 28(1). 1–22. 331 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brown, Bill. (2000). Handle. Appalachian heritage. 28(3). 68–69. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill. (1997). Global Bodies/Postnationalities: Charles Johnson's Consumer Culture. Representations. 58(1). 24–48. 7 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill. (1995). American Childhood and Stephen Crane's Toys. American Literary History. 7(3). 443–476. 2 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill. (1992). Writing, Race, and Erasure: Michael Fried and the Scene of Reading. Critical Inquiry. 18(2). 387–402. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill. (1991). The Meaning of Baseball in 1992 (With Notes on The Post-American). Public Culture. 4(1). 43–69. 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill. (1990). Waging Baseball, Playing War: Games of American Imperialism. Cultural Critique. 51–51. 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Bill, et al.. (1979). The Practice of Racial Dispersal in Birmingham, 1969–1975. Journal of Social Policy. 8(3). 289–309. 8 indexed citations

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