Bill Scales

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Bill Scales is a scholar working on Education, Political Science and International Relations and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bill Scales has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Education, 1 paper in Political Science and International Relations and 1 paper in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Bill Scales's work include Education Systems and Policy (2 papers), Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (1 paper) and Higher Education Learning Practices (1 paper). Bill Scales is often cited by papers focused on Education Systems and Policy (2 papers), Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (1 paper) and Higher Education Learning Practices (1 paper). Bill Scales collaborates with scholars based in Japan. Bill Scales's co-authors include Denise Bradley, Peter Noonan, Helen Nugent, Dorothy Scott, Philip M. Cummins and Roger Wilkins and has published in prestigious journals such as Economic Analysis and Policy and Australian Journal of Public Administration.

In The Last Decade

Bill Scales

6 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Review of Australian Higher Education: final report

2008 1.1k citations Denise Bradley, Peter Noonan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bill Scales Japan	5	908	215	206	89	74	6	1.3k
Denise Bradley Australia	4	926 1.0×	213 1.0×	181 0.9×	77 0.9×	37 0.5×	9	1.2k
Helen Nugent	3	892 1.0×	205 1.0×	183 0.9×	68 0.8×	36 0.5×	4	1.2k
Peter Noonan Australia	5	942 1.0×	210 1.0×	205 1.0×	73 0.8×	38 0.5×	24	1.3k
Alison Taylor Canada	17	597 0.7×	129 0.6×	518 2.5×	115 1.3×	84 1.1×	83	1.2k
Patricie Mertova Australia	12	690 0.8×	109 0.5×	254 1.2×	79 0.9×	104 1.4×	32	1.2k
Craig McInnis Australia	19	1.1k 1.3×	289 1.3×	123 0.6×	94 1.1×	45 0.6×	43	1.5k
Jal Mehta United States	15	590 0.6×	115 0.5×	283 1.4×	31 0.3×	63 0.9×	34	972
Antonio Bolívar Botía Spain	27	1.8k 2.0×	93 0.4×	251 1.2×	59 0.7×	28 0.4×	220	2.2k
Benjamin Levin Canada	15	839 0.9×	233 1.1×	252 1.2×	52 0.6×	26 0.4×	83	1.1k
John H. Schuh United States	20	946 1.0×	198 0.9×	171 0.8×	87 1.0×	58 0.8×	106	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Bill Scales

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bill Scales

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Bill Scales. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Bill Scales. The network helps show where Bill Scales may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bill Scales

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bill Scales. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bill Scales 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 Scales. Bill Scales is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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6 of 6 papers shown

1.

Scales, Bill, Dorothy Scott, & Philip M. Cummins. (2012). Report of the protecting Victoria's vulnerable children inquiry. 56 indexed citations

2.

Noonan, Peter, Helen Nugent, Bill Scales, & Denise Bradley. (2008). Review of Australian higher education: discussion paper. 94 indexed citations

3.

Bradley, Denise, Peter Noonan, Helen Nugent, & Bill Scales. (2008). Review of Australian Higher Education: final report. 1069 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Scales, Bill, et al.. (2001). Rethinking Caretaker Conventions for Australian Governments. Australian Journal of Public Administration. 60(3). 11–26. 5 indexed citations

5.

Scales, Bill. (1996). National Competition Policy. Australian Journal of Public Administration. 55(2). 68–73. 41 indexed citations

6.

Scales, Bill. (1995). Competition Policy, Industry Policy and Deregulation of the Australian Economy. Economic Analysis and Policy. 25(1). 41–51. 2 indexed citations

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