David Blackbourn

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

David Blackbourn is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, History and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Blackbourn has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 18 papers in History and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in David Blackbourn's work include European Political History Analysis (17 papers), European history and politics (14 papers) and Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (4 papers). David Blackbourn is often cited by papers focused on European Political History Analysis (17 papers), European history and politics (14 papers) and Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (4 papers). David Blackbourn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and South Korea. David Blackbourn's co-authors include Geoff Eley, Stanley Hoffmann, Marilyn Shevin Coetzee, Richard J. Evans, Jonathan Sperber, Lynn Abrams, Arden Bucholz, Allan Mitchell, Udo Rennert and V. G. Kiernan and has published in prestigious journals such as Foreign Affairs, The American Historical Review and The Economic History Review.

In The Last Decade

David Blackbourn

40 papers receiving 718 citations

Hit Papers

The Peculiarities of German History 1984 2026 1998 2012 1984 50 100 150 200
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 Peculiarities of German History
    1984 218 citations David Blackbourn, Geoff Eley profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Blackbourn United Kingdom 15 526 458 291 102 66 48 1.1k
Stuart E. Prall United States 11 432 0.8× 578 1.3× 246 0.8× 117 1.1× 35 0.5× 27 1.2k
Stephen Kotkin United States 17 825 1.6× 787 1.7× 129 0.4× 80 0.8× 27 0.4× 46 1.3k
Dane Kennedy United States 16 186 0.4× 503 1.1× 149 0.5× 74 0.7× 61 0.9× 45 938
Mark Bassin United Kingdom 18 579 1.1× 566 1.2× 60 0.2× 30 0.3× 130 2.0× 61 1.1k
Benjamin G. Kohl United States 17 451 0.9× 334 0.7× 155 0.5× 91 0.9× 13 0.2× 62 1.0k
Richard White United States 14 167 0.3× 330 0.7× 106 0.4× 45 0.4× 80 1.2× 42 885
David Armitage United States 17 484 0.9× 431 0.9× 403 1.4× 167 1.6× 28 0.4× 64 1.1k
Christine Bichsel Switzerland 9 309 0.6× 471 1.0× 117 0.4× 35 0.3× 65 1.0× 21 1.0k
Alan Lester United Kingdom 15 132 0.3× 625 1.4× 227 0.8× 81 0.8× 77 1.2× 54 931
David Fernbach Germany 14 180 0.3× 399 0.9× 44 0.2× 50 0.5× 49 0.7× 29 753

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Blackbourn

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Blackbourn, David. (2016). Landschaften der deutschen Geschichte. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Kiernan, V. G. & David Blackbourn. (2016). The Duel in European History. Zed Books. 2 indexed citations
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Blackbourn, David. (2009). Podmaňování přírody : voda, krajina a vytváření moderního Německa.. 1 indexed citations
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Blackbourn, David & Udo Rennert. (2008). Die Eroberung der Natur : eine Geschichte der deutschen Landschaft. 5 indexed citations
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Blackbourn, David, et al.. (2007). Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place: German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 4 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Stanley & David Blackbourn. (2006). The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany. Foreign Affairs. 85(5). 168–168. 102 indexed citations
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Blackbourn, David. (2002). History of Germany 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 33 indexed citations
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Blackbourn, David, et al.. (2000). The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918. German Studies Review. 23(3). 599–599. 5 indexed citations
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Blackbourn, David. (1993). Marpingen : apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany. Oxford University Press eBooks. 29 indexed citations
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Blackbourn, David. (1991). The Catholic Church in Europe since the French Revolution.A Review Article. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 33(4). 778–790. 14 indexed citations
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Bucholz, Arden & David Blackbourn. (1989). Populists and Patricians: Essays in Modern German History. German Studies Review. 12(1). 188–188. 18 indexed citations
12.
Blackbourn, David & Ian Higgins. (1989). The Second World War in Literature: Eight Essays. The Modern Language Review. 84(4). 908–908. 1 indexed citations
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Blackbourn, David & Richard J. Evans. (1989). The German Underworld: Deviants and Outcasts in German History.. The Economic History Review. 42(3). 427–427. 25 indexed citations
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Blackbourn, David & Geoff Eley. (1987). The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Labour / Le Travail. 19. 257–257. 3 indexed citations
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Blackbourn, David. (1987). Politics as Theatre: Metaphors of the Stage in German History, 1848–1933. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 37. 149–149.
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Blackbourn, David. (1985). Economic crisis and the petite bourgeoisie in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Social History. 10(1). 95–104. 1 indexed citations
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Coetzee, Marilyn Shevin, David Blackbourn, & Geoff Eley. (1985). The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany. German Studies Review. 8(3). 548–548. 141 indexed citations
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Blackbourn, David. (1984). La petite bourgeoisie et l'Etat dans l'Allemagne imperiale, 1871-1914. Le Mouvement social. 3–3. 1 indexed citations
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Blackbourn, David & Geoff Eley. (1984). The Peculiarities of German History. 218 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sperber, Jonathan & David Blackbourn. (1982). Class, Religion and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany: The Centre Party in Wurttemberg before 1914. New German Critique. 206–206. 10 indexed citations

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