Bruce Fetter

950 total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 546 citations indexed

About

Bruce Fetter is a scholar working on Anthropology, Economics and Econometrics and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce Fetter has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 546 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Anthropology, 8 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 6 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Bruce Fetter's work include African history and culture studies (19 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 papers). Bruce Fetter is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (19 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 papers). Bruce Fetter collaborates with scholars based in United States and Poland. Bruce Fetter's co-authors include Jan Vansina, Marvin P. Miracle, Édouard Bustin, Michael G. Schatzberg, John Chapin, Michael P. Todaro, Elena L. Berger, Basil Davidson, Robert W. Strayer and Karen Tranberg Hansen and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Population and Development Review and Milbank Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Bruce Fetter

45 papers receiving 379 citations

Hit Papers

Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political T... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 50 100 150 200 250
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. Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa
    1992 262 citations Bruce Fetter et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bruce Fetter United States 12 242 220 54 53 39 52 546
Edward I. Steinhart United States 13 211 0.9× 199 0.9× 31 0.6× 84 1.6× 29 0.7× 35 527
Ronald N. Satz United States 9 241 1.0× 226 1.0× 38 0.7× 116 2.2× 66 1.7× 22 649
O. Nigel Bolland United States 11 149 0.6× 181 0.8× 34 0.6× 58 1.1× 20 0.5× 25 475
Alain Testart France 12 312 1.3× 178 0.8× 31 0.6× 43 0.8× 16 0.4× 78 722
Leslie Bank South Africa 16 120 0.5× 375 1.7× 61 1.1× 63 1.2× 32 0.8× 74 698
Charles van Onselen South Africa 16 393 1.6× 614 2.8× 48 0.9× 67 1.3× 42 1.1× 33 882
Barbara J. Price United States 13 526 2.2× 165 0.8× 63 1.2× 110 2.1× 73 1.9× 24 1.3k
Vernon R. Dorjahn United States 9 138 0.6× 178 0.8× 41 0.8× 69 1.3× 19 0.5× 24 508
Karen Ordahl Kupperman United States 15 263 1.1× 195 0.9× 91 1.7× 120 2.3× 119 3.1× 59 805
I. Schapera United Kingdom 18 355 1.5× 412 1.9× 44 0.8× 86 1.6× 44 1.1× 63 899

Countries citing papers authored by Bruce Fetter

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bruce Fetter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce Fetter

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fetter, Bruce. (2006). Origins and elaboration of the national health accounts, 1926-2006.. PubMed. 28(1). 53–67. 10 indexed citations
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Chapin, John & Bruce Fetter. (2002). Performance‐Based Contracting in Wisconsin Public Health: Transforming State‐Local Relations. Milbank Quarterly. 80(1). 97–124. 17 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce, et al.. (1996). Scars from a Childhood Disease: Measles in the Concentration Camps during the Boer War. Social Science History. 20(4). 593–611. 4 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce, et al.. (1996). Scars from a Childhood Disease: Measles in the Concentration Camps during the Boer War. Social Science History. 20(4). 593–593. 2 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce. (1993). Health Care in Twentieth Century Africa: Statistics, Theories, and Practices. Africa Today. 40(3). 9–23. 2 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce. (1992). The mines of Southern and Central Africa : an ecological framework. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 1 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce & G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville. (1991). The New Atlas of African History. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 24(3). 672–672. 1 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce, et al.. (1991). A Working Class in the Making: Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Enterprise, and the African Mineworker, 1907-1951.. The American Historical Review. 96(3). 927–927. 30 indexed citations
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Todaro, Michael P. & Bruce Fetter. (1990). Demography from Scanty Evidence: Central Africa in the Colonial Era.. Population and Development Review. 16(4). 790–790. 15 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce & Karen Tranberg Hansen. (1990). Distant Companions: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 23(2). 381–381. 12 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce. (1989). Colonial Microenvironments and the Mortality of Educated Young Men in Northern Malawi, 1897-1927. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 23(3). 399–399. 1 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce. (1988). A Spurious Correlation of r=.70: or Historiodémographe, modere tes transports!. History in Africa. 15. 253–260. 1 indexed citations
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Parpart, Jane L. & Bruce Fetter. (1985). Colonial Rule and Regional Imbalance in Central Africa. African Economic History. 239–239. 7 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce. (1984). The Missing Migrants: African Seeds in the Demographer's Field. History in Africa. 11. 99–111. 1 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce & Martin Chanock. (1978). Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa 1900-45: The Unconsummated Union. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 11(2). 357–357. 2 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce & Édouard Bustin. (1976). Lunda under Belgian Rule: The Politics of Ethnicity. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 9(2). 332–332. 1 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce, et al.. (1975). Evolution and Revolution in Africa. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 8(3). 479–479. 2 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce. (1973). L'union minière du Haut-Katanga, 1920-1940: a naissance d'une sous-culture totalitaire. 1–40. 4 indexed citations
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Miracle, Marvin P. & Bruce Fetter. (1970). Backward-Sloping Labor-Supply Functions and African Economic Behavior. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 18(2). 240–251. 23 indexed citations
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Fetter, Bruce. (1968). Elisabethville : secondary center for the dispersion of Kalela. 1 indexed citations

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