David Thelen

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 886 citations indexed

About

David Thelen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, David Thelen has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 886 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 16 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 15 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in David Thelen's work include American History and Culture (15 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (13 papers) and Race, History, and American Society (13 papers). David Thelen is often cited by papers focused on American History and Culture (15 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (13 papers) and Race, History, and American Society (13 papers). David Thelen collaborates with scholars based in United States and Latvia. David Thelen's co-authors include Roy Rosenzweig, Richard G. White, Robert M. Crunden, John D. Buenker, Arthur S. Link, Richard Jensen, James Gilbert, Paul L. Murphy, Barry Schwartz and Frederick E. Hoxie and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The American Historical Review and Journal of American History.

In The Last Decade

David Thelen

47 papers receiving 570 citations

Hit Papers

Memory and American History 1989 2026 2001 2013 1989 40 80 120
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. Memory and American History
    1989 145 citations David Thelen 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
David Thelen United States 14 429 218 153 105 91 56 886
T. J. Jackson Lears United States 12 598 1.4× 225 1.0× 177 1.2× 174 1.7× 67 0.7× 17 1.4k
Michael Frisch United States 14 491 1.1× 119 0.5× 244 1.6× 47 0.4× 86 0.9× 49 944
Ann Douglas United States 14 490 1.1× 177 0.8× 274 1.8× 85 0.8× 51 0.6× 24 1.3k
Ellen Carol DuBois United States 17 589 1.4× 268 1.2× 322 2.1× 146 1.4× 40 0.4× 60 1.1k
Alan Trachtenberg United States 15 476 1.1× 116 0.5× 367 2.4× 142 1.4× 116 1.3× 59 1.4k
Paul Buhle United States 13 661 1.5× 187 0.9× 296 1.9× 27 0.3× 81 0.9× 100 1.1k
John Patrick Diggins United States 17 513 1.2× 283 1.3× 117 0.8× 53 0.5× 37 0.4× 87 988
William L. O’Neill United States 13 470 1.1× 220 1.0× 136 0.9× 39 0.4× 29 0.3× 78 963
William R. Garrett United States 10 564 1.3× 254 1.2× 69 0.5× 27 0.3× 36 0.4× 26 1.0k
Bertram Wyatt‐Brown United States 16 678 1.6× 416 1.9× 211 1.4× 227 2.2× 54 0.6× 90 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Thelen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Thelen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Thelen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Thelen 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 Thelen. David Thelen 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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Thelen, David. (2003). Learning from the Past: Individual Experience and Re–Enactment. Indiana Magazine of History. 2 indexed citations
2.
Thelen, David. (2000). How Natural are National and Transnational Citizenship? A Historical Perspective. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. 7(2). 5. 4 indexed citations
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Thelen, David, et al.. (2000). "1699: When Virginia Was the Wild West.". The William and Mary Quarterly. 57(3). 697–697. 1 indexed citations
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Thelen, David. (2000). But Is It History?. The Public Historian. 22(1). 39–44. 3 indexed citations
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Thelen, David. (1999). Individual Creativity and the Filters of Language and Culture: Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by Translation. Journal of American History. 85(4). 1289–1289. 1 indexed citations
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Schwartz, Barry, Roy Rosenzweig, & David Thelen. (1999). The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 28(6). 709–709. 10 indexed citations
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Thelen, David, et al.. (1999). Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative during the Iran-Contra Debate. The American Historical Review. 104(2). 606–606. 9 indexed citations
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Thelen, David. (1999). Rethinking History and the Nation-State: Mexico and the United States. Journal of American History. 86(2). 438–438. 12 indexed citations
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White, Richard G., Roy Rosenzweig, & David Thelen. (1999). The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life.. Journal of American History. 86(2). 872–872. 128 indexed citations
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Schulman, Bruce J. & David Thelen. (1997). Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative during the Iran-Contra Debate.. Journal of American History. 84(3). 1157–1157. 1 indexed citations
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Thelen, David. (1997). The Journal of American History and Its Readers. Journal of American History. 83(4). 1273–1273. 1 indexed citations
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Thelen, David & Frederick E. Hoxie. (1994). Discovering America: Essays on the Search for an Identity. University of Illinois Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Thelen, David. (1994). The Movie Maker as Historian: Conversations with Ken Burns. Journal of American History. 81(3). 1031–1031. 7 indexed citations
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Murphy, Paul L. & David Thelen. (1990). The Constitution and American Life. American Journal of Legal History. 34(1). 95–95. 12 indexed citations
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Gilbert, James & David Thelen. (1986). Paths of Resistance: Tradition and Dignity in Industrializing Missouri. The American Historical Review. 91(5). 1275–1275. 14 indexed citations
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Thelen, David & George H. Gallup. (1976). The Public Against the Historians: The Gallup Poll, 1935-1971.. Reviews in American History. 4(4). 614–614. 1 indexed citations
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Thelen, David, et al.. (1975). Muckraking: Past, Present, and Future. The American Historical Review. 80(3). 731–731. 11 indexed citations
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Thelen, David, et al.. (1975). Leaders of Reform: Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916. Journal of American History. 62(1). 169–169. 1 indexed citations
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Link, Arthur S. & David Thelen. (1972). The New Citizenship: Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885-1900. Journal of American History. 59(3). 739–739. 21 indexed citations
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Thelen, David. (1969). Social Tensions and the Origins of Progressivism. Journal of American History. 56(2). 323–323. 27 indexed citations

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