David Stark

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

David Stark is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, David Stark has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Anthropology and 6 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in David Stark's work include Cuban History and Society (12 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (10 papers) and Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 papers). David Stark is often cited by papers focused on Cuban History and Society (12 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (10 papers) and Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 papers). David Stark collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Ireland. David Stark's co-authors include Ganesh M. Kishore, Gerard F. Barry, Jack Preiss, Roger N. Beachy, Gernot Grabher, Aiguo Gao, Yonnie Wu, Jihong Liang, Dilip M. Shah and Caius M. Rommens and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Biotechnology and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

David Stark

29 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Regulation of the Amount of Starch in Plant Tissues by AD... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 100 200 300 400
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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. Regulation of the Amount of Starch in Plant Tissues by ADP Glucose Pyrophosphorylase
    1992 450 citations David Stark 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
David Stark United States 11 598 547 319 249 207 35 1.5k
Alex Hughes United Kingdom 23 321 0.5× 140 0.3× 79 0.2× 159 0.6× 220 1.1× 56 1.6k
J. Pen Netherlands 15 690 1.2× 828 1.5× 414 1.3× 48 0.2× 54 0.3× 41 1.3k
Ping Xu China 16 230 0.4× 835 1.5× 112 0.4× 144 0.6× 239 1.2× 57 1.4k
Philippe Régnier France 35 99 0.2× 2.6k 4.8× 38 0.1× 71 0.3× 120 0.6× 91 3.2k
Peter W.B. Phillips Canada 23 908 1.5× 567 1.0× 88 0.3× 114 0.5× 70 0.3× 118 1.6k
Susan Jackson Canada 15 68 0.1× 304 0.6× 71 0.2× 23 0.1× 81 0.4× 38 1.5k
Valerie A. Kelly United States 19 211 0.4× 198 0.4× 25 0.1× 26 0.1× 139 0.7× 56 1.9k
Silvia Massa Italy 20 142 0.2× 318 0.6× 265 0.8× 17 0.1× 126 0.6× 50 1.2k
Henry I. Miller United States 15 322 0.5× 482 0.9× 72 0.2× 15 0.1× 56 0.3× 136 979
Jane Wheelock United Kingdom 26 54 0.1× 277 0.5× 79 0.2× 73 0.3× 518 2.5× 105 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by David Stark

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Stark

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Stark

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stark, David. (2021). Servant Song Sermons: Second Isaiah as Preacher and Homiletical Guide. 46(1). 64–74.
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Stark, David. (2017). Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640. Hispanic American Historical Review. 97(3). 540–542. 4 indexed citations
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Stark, David. (2014). Ties that Bind: Baptismal Sponsorship of Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico. Slavery and Abolition. 36(1). 84–110. 2 indexed citations
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Stark, David. (2010). Making the Most of Their Time: Seasonality of Slave Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico. Colonial Latin American Review. 19(2). 323–349.
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Stark, David. (2009). A New Look at the African Slave Trade in Puerto Rico Through the Use of Parish Registers: 1660–1815. Slavery and Abolition. 30(4). 491–520. 9 indexed citations
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Stark, David. (2007). Rescued from their Invisibility: The Afro-Puerto Ricans of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century San Mateo de Cangrejos, Puerto Rico. The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History. 63(4). 551–586. 3 indexed citations
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Stark, David. (2007). . The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History. 64(1). 127–128.
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Stark, David. (2006). Parish Registers as a Window to the Past: Reconstructing the Demographic Behavior of the Enslaved Population in Eighteenth-Century Arecibo, Puerot Rico. 15(1). 1–30. 2 indexed citations
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Stark, David. (2005). Aprovechándose de las oportunidades: buscando el momento oportuno para contraer matrimonio entre la poblaciónesclava de Puerto Rico a travésdel Siglo XVIII. 33(1). 177–203.
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Beunza, Daniel & David Stark. (2004). La organización de la respuesta: innovación y recuperación en las salas de operaciones financieras del Bajo Manhattan. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas. 89–89. 2 indexed citations
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Stark, David. (2002). Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe. Journal of Economic Sociology. 3(1). 143–157. 2 indexed citations
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Gao, Aiguo, Yonnie Wu, David Stark, et al.. (2000). Fungal pathogen protection in potato by expression of a plant defensin peptide. Nature Biotechnology. 18(12). 1307–1310. 359 indexed citations
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Stark, David, et al.. (2000). Posztszocialista portfóliók. Hálózati stratégiák az állam árnyékában II. rész [Post-socialist portfolios. Network strategies in the shadow of the state Part 2]. 430–445. 2 indexed citations
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Stark, David & László Bruszt. (1998). Enabling constraints: fontes institucionais de Coerência nas políticas públicas no pós-socialismo. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais. 13(36). 10 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Barajas, Eleazar, et al.. (1997). Purification and Characterization of Recombinant Tomato Fruit (Lycopersicon esculentumMill.) Fructokinase Expressed inEscherichia coli. Protein Expression and Purification. 11(1). 41–46. 10 indexed citations
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Stark, David & Gernot Grabher. (1996). A szervezett sokféleség evolúcióelmélet, hálózatelemzés és a posztszocialista átalakulás [Organizing diversity: evolutionary theory, network analisys, and postsocialist transformation]. 745–769. 5 indexed citations
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Stark, David. (1996). Discovering the Invisible Puerto Rican Slave Family: Demographic Evidence From the Eighteenth Century. Journal of Family History. 21(4). 395–418. 11 indexed citations
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Fromm, Michael, et al.. (1993). Improved agronomic and quality traits in transgenic crops: recent advances. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 339(1288). 233–237. 5 indexed citations
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Stark, David, et al.. (1989). Entrepreneurs on the Road to Post-communism. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 18(5). 671–671. 2 indexed citations

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