Charles Thorpe

541 total citations
29 papers, 279 citations indexed

About

Charles Thorpe is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, History and Philosophy of Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles Thorpe has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 279 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Charles Thorpe's work include Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (4 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 papers) and Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (3 papers). Charles Thorpe is often cited by papers focused on Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (4 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 papers) and Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (3 papers). Charles Thorpe collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Charles Thorpe's co-authors include Jane Gregory, Steven Shapin, Susie Scott, Ian Welsh, G. B. Sowerby, Sheila Jasanoff and Michael D. Gordin and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Social Forces and British Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Charles Thorpe

22 papers receiving 232 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Charles Thorpe United States 9 137 38 37 24 18 29 279
Adrian Walsh Australia 10 206 1.5× 54 1.4× 15 0.4× 17 0.7× 13 0.7× 35 390
Lisa Garforth United Kingdom 9 78 0.6× 35 0.9× 26 0.7× 5 0.2× 11 0.6× 19 224
Peter Glasner United Kingdom 13 111 0.8× 15 0.4× 13 0.4× 11 0.5× 52 2.9× 40 485
Vivian Weil United States 8 52 0.4× 27 0.7× 37 1.0× 5 0.2× 33 1.8× 27 248
Stephen C. Zehr United States 8 333 2.4× 22 0.6× 81 2.2× 33 1.4× 8 0.4× 12 469
Simone Rödder Germany 12 303 2.2× 21 0.6× 77 2.1× 5 0.2× 6 0.3× 37 482
Alexandra Plows United Kingdom 10 155 1.1× 55 1.4× 48 1.3× 2 0.1× 37 2.1× 19 338
A. Cornelius Benjamin 4 100 0.7× 18 0.5× 20 0.5× 14 0.6× 17 0.9× 8 258
Henryk Skolimowski United States 7 72 0.5× 17 0.4× 16 0.4× 12 0.5× 11 0.6× 34 250
André Jacob Canada 11 216 1.6× 42 1.1× 12 0.3× 9 0.4× 48 2.7× 86 461

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Fields of papers citing papers by Charles Thorpe

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charles Thorpe

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Thorpe, Charles. (2025). The Disorganization of America: Post-Fordism, Irrational Capitalism, and the Decline of Universalism. Critical Sociology. 51(4-5). 971–999.
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Thorpe, Charles. (2020). The Carnival King of Capital. 17(1). 87–108. 2 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles. (2018). God, Guns, Gold and Glory: American Character and Its Discontents. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 47(2). 199–200. 1 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles. (2015). An “entangled” history of technoscience. Metascience. 25(2). 267–273.
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Thorpe, Charles, et al.. (2013). Life politics, nature and the state: Giddens' sociological theory and The Politics of Climate Change. British Journal of Sociology. 64(1). 99–122. 5 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles. (2011). Death of a Salesman: Petit-Bourgeois Dread in Philip K. Dick’s Mainstream Fiction. Science Fiction Studies. 38(3). 412–412. 1 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles. (2010). Participation as Post-Fordist Politics: Demos, New Labour, and Science Policy. Minerva. 48(4). 389–411. 35 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles & Jane Gregory. (2010). Producing the Post-Fordist Public: The Political Economy of Public Engagement with Science. Science as Culture. 19(3). 273–301. 78 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles. (2009). Capitalism, Audit, and the Demise of the Humanistic Academy. Open Collections. 4 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles. (2009). COMMUNITY AND THE MARKET IN MICHAEL POLANYI'S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Modern Intellectual History. 6(1). 59–89. 6 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles, et al.. (2009). British Marine Conchology; Being a Descriptive Catalogue, Arranged According to the Lamarckian System, of the Salt Water Shells of Great Britain. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 3 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles & Ian Welsh. (2008). Beyond primitivism: Towards a twenty-first century anarchist theory and praxis for science and technology. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 16(1). 48. 1 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles. (2006). Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 22 indexed citations
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Scott, Susie & Charles Thorpe. (2006). The Sociological Imagination of R. D. Laing. Sociological Theory. 24(4). 331–352. 3 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles. (2004). Against Time: Scheduling, Momentum, and Moral Order at Wartime Los Alamos. Journal of Historical Sociology. 17(1). 31–55. 6 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles. (2003). Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama. By Stephen Hilgartner. Stanford University Press, 2000. 214 pp. $18.95. Social Forces. 81(4). 1504–1506. 1 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles. (2002). Disciplining Experts. Social Studies of Science. 32(4). 525–562. 14 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles. (2001). Science against modernism: the relevance of the social theory of Michael Polanyi. British Journal of Sociology. 52(1). 19–35. 19 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Charles. (1999). Atomic Spaces and American Culture. Social Studies of Science. 29(4). 617–627. 1 indexed citations

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