David Punter

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 691 citations indexed

About

David Punter is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Cultural Studies and History. According to data from OpenAlex, David Punter has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 691 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 19 papers in Cultural Studies and 5 papers in History. Recurrent topics in David Punter's work include Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (19 papers), Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (15 papers) and Moravian Church and William Blake (9 papers). David Punter is often cited by papers focused on Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (19 papers), Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (15 papers) and Moravian Church and William Blake (9 papers). David Punter collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. David Punter's co-authors include Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Anne D. Wallace, Kathryn Hume, John Guillory, Michael Gamer, Jeffrey N. Cox, Misha Kavka, Steven Bruhm, Jerrold E. Hogle and Éric Savoy and has published in prestigious journals such as The Modern Language Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies and New Literary History.

In The Last Decade

David Punter

51 papers receiving 430 citations

Hit Papers

The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions fr... 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 25 50 75 100
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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 Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day
    1982 100 citations David Punter et al. Studies in Romanticism 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 Punter United Kingdom 15 399 208 203 72 56 72 691
Stephen Best 6 353 0.9× 110 0.5× 190 0.9× 64 0.9× 67 1.2× 9 645
Elisabeth Bronfen Switzerland 9 246 0.6× 128 0.6× 203 1.0× 91 1.3× 74 1.3× 54 731
Sharon Marcus United States 12 501 1.3× 133 0.6× 301 1.5× 161 2.2× 91 1.6× 38 1.0k
Catherine Maxwell United Kingdom 14 353 0.9× 65 0.3× 180 0.9× 156 2.2× 65 1.2× 57 693
Mark Seltzer United States 8 196 0.5× 71 0.3× 130 0.6× 67 0.9× 57 1.0× 29 445
Joan Copjec United States 10 143 0.4× 96 0.5× 222 1.1× 49 0.7× 100 1.8× 25 630
Barbara Christian United States 10 241 0.6× 152 0.7× 387 1.9× 60 0.8× 58 1.0× 34 762
Anne K. Mellor United States 14 460 1.2× 74 0.4× 154 0.8× 206 2.9× 106 1.9× 62 849
Candice M. Jenkins United States 6 139 0.3× 169 0.8× 319 1.6× 36 0.5× 81 1.4× 9 677
Leslie A. Fiedler France 12 396 1.0× 137 0.7× 212 1.0× 121 1.7× 72 1.3× 47 849

Countries citing papers authored by David Punter

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Punter

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Punter

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Punter. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Punter 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 David Punter. David Punter 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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Punter, David. (2019). Postcolonial Imaginings. Edinburgh University Press eBooks.
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Punter, David, et al.. (2017). Oceanic Studies and the Gothic Deep. Gothic Studies. 19(2). 16–29. 2 indexed citations
3.
Hughes, William, David Punter, & Andrew Smith. (2012). The encyclopedia of the Gothic. Wiley-Blackwell eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (2012). A new companion to the gothic. Explore Bristol Research. 8 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (2011). 21st Century Gothic.
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Punter, David. (2010). Interiors: Interiority/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse. 1 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (2008). Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties. 12 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (2007). Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America. 1 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (2007). Post/modern Dracula. 1 indexed citations
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Hogle, Jerrold E., E. J. Clery, Terry Hale, et al.. (2002). The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 98 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (2000). ‘A foot is what fits the shoe’: Disability, the Gothic and Prosthesis. Gothic Studies. 2(1). 39–49. 1 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (1999). Spectral Readings: Towards a Gothic Geography. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 12 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (1996). The gothic tradition. Longman eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (1996). The modern gothic. Longman eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Punter, David, et al.. (1995). Nomadic Voices: Conrad and the Subject of Narrative. The Yearbook of English Studies. 25. 315–315. 6 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (1989). The romantic unconscious: A study in narcissism and patriarchy. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations
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Punter, David, et al.. (1987). Unnam'd Forms: Blake and Textuality. Studies in Romanticism. 26(4). 612–612. 19 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (1986). Introduction to contemporary cultural studies. Longman eBooks. 84 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (1984). Angela Carter: Supersessions of the Masculine. Critique Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 25(4). 209–222. 3 indexed citations
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Punter, David. (1982). Blake, Hegel and Dialectic. 3 indexed citations

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