Colin Burke

974 total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 555 citations indexed

About

Colin Burke is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Burke has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 555 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Colin Burke's work include Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (7 papers), History of Computing Technologies (4 papers) and Digital and Traditional Archives Management (3 papers). Colin Burke is often cited by papers focused on Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (7 papers), History of Computing Technologies (4 papers) and Digital and Traditional Archives Management (3 papers). Colin Burke collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and United Kingdom. Colin Burke's co-authors include Lawrence F. Katz, Claudia Goldin, James W. Cortada, Sam Bass Warner, John Robinson, Nathan Reingold, Carl F. Kaestle, Maris A. Vinovskis, Cinnamon S. Bloss and Walter P. Metzger and has published in prestigious journals such as SLEEP, The American Historical Review and Journal of Medical Internet Research.

In The Last Decade

Colin Burke

36 papers receiving 449 citations

Hit Papers

The Race between Education and Technology 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 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. The Race between Education and Technology
    2009 285 citations Colin Burke, Claudia Goldin et al. Journal of American History profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Colin Burke United States 10 202 165 113 82 41 43 555
Asaf Zussman Israel 13 446 2.2× 281 1.7× 115 1.0× 73 0.9× 33 0.8× 25 843
Michela Braga Italy 8 113 0.6× 169 1.0× 220 1.9× 65 0.8× 27 0.7× 23 494
Maria Yudkevich Russia 17 128 0.6× 72 0.4× 212 1.9× 294 3.6× 60 1.5× 70 765
Taner Kızılhan Türkiye 3 213 1.1× 46 0.3× 74 0.7× 77 0.9× 19 0.5× 5 485
Hans Vossensteyn Netherlands 12 67 0.3× 89 0.5× 324 2.9× 260 3.2× 31 0.8× 52 611
David Andrew Singer United States 13 220 1.1× 202 1.2× 22 0.2× 104 1.3× 19 0.5× 30 674
Marco Paccagnella Italy 12 84 0.4× 296 1.8× 240 2.1× 30 0.4× 18 0.4× 21 673
John K. Folger United States 11 111 0.5× 65 0.4× 260 2.3× 62 0.8× 52 1.3× 46 597
Thomas Breda France 13 169 0.8× 120 0.7× 145 1.3× 41 0.5× 28 0.7× 40 611
Michael Klausner United States 13 124 0.6× 228 1.4× 111 1.0× 25 0.3× 12 0.3× 44 798

Countries citing papers authored by Colin Burke

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Burke

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Burke

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Burke, Colin, et al.. (2023). Attitudes Toward School-Based Surveillance of Adolescents’ Social Media Activity: Convergent Parallel Mixed Methods Survey. JMIR Formative Research. 8. e46746–e46746. 1 indexed citations
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Rus, Holly, et al.. (2023). 0960 Use of an Innerspring Mattress Improves Deep Sleep and WASO. SLEEP. 46(Supplement_1). A423–A424. 1 indexed citations
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Burke, Colin & Cinnamon S. Bloss. (2020). Social Media Surveillance in Schools: Rethinking Public Health Interventions in the Digital Age. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(11). e22612–e22612. 8 indexed citations
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Burke, Colin. (2020). American Collegiate Populations. New York University Press eBooks.
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Burke, Colin. (2010). Review ofThe Secret Sentry: The Untold Story of the National Security Agencyby Matthew M. Aid. Cryptologia. 34(2). 190–193. 1 indexed citations
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Burke, Colin. (2009). Review ofAmerican Cryptology during the Cold War, 1945–1989by Thomas R. Johnson. Cryptologia. 33(2). 197–200. 1 indexed citations
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Burke, Colin, Claudia Goldin, & Lawrence F. Katz. (2009). The Race between Education and Technology. Journal of American History. 96(1). 246–246. 285 indexed citations breakdown →
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Burke, Colin. (2008). From the Archives: The Last Bombe Run, 1955. Cryptologia. 32(3). 277–278. 1 indexed citations
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Burke, Colin. (2007). From the Archives: Codebreaking (or not) in Shanghai. Cryptologia. 31(1). 84–86.
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Burke, Colin. (2007). History of information science. 41(1). 3–53. 21 indexed citations
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Burke, Colin, et al.. (2000). The US Bombes, NCR, Joseph Desch, and 600 WAVES: the first reunion of the US Naval Computing Machine Laboratory. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 22(3). 27–41. 1 indexed citations
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Burke, Colin. (1999). Automating American cryptanalysis 1930–45: Marvelous machines, a bit too late. Intelligence & National Security. 14(1). 18–39. 1 indexed citations
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Burke, Colin. (1998). An introduction to an historic computer document: the 1946 Pendergass report—cryptanalysis and the digital computer. 361–371.
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Burke, Colin. (1998). A GRACIOUS BUT TRAGIC SPECIAL ULTRA MESSAGE. Cryptologia. 22(1). 29–32. 1 indexed citations
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Robinson, John & Colin Burke. (1996). Tradition, Culture and Ethos: The Impact of the Further and Higher Education Act (1992) on Sixth Form Colleges and Their Futures. Evaluation & Research in Education. 10(1). 3–22. 8 indexed citations
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Burke, Colin. (1996). A rough road to the information highway. Project intrex: A view from the CLR archives. Information Processing & Management. 32(1). 19–32. 7 indexed citations
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Reingold, Nathan & Colin Burke. (1995). Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex. Technology and Culture. 36(4). 1051–1051. 7 indexed citations
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Burke, Colin, et al.. (1994). Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex.. The Journal of Military History. 58(4). 757–757. 32 indexed citations
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Burke, Colin. (1991). A practical view of Memex: the career of the rapid selector. ACM Conference on Hypertext. 145–164. 4 indexed citations
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