David William Foster

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

David William Foster is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy and History. According to data from OpenAlex, David William Foster has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 6 papers in Philosophy and 5 papers in History. Recurrent topics in David William Foster's work include Spanish Literature and Culture Studies (12 papers), Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism (10 papers) and Early Modern Spanish Literature (4 papers). David William Foster is often cited by papers focused on Spanish Literature and Culture Studies (12 papers), Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism (10 papers) and Early Modern Spanish Literature (4 papers). David William Foster collaborates with scholars based in United States. David William Foster's co-authors include Julia Kristeva, Léon S. Roudiez, Alice Jardine, Jonathan Culler, Robert Scholes, Karl C. Diller, Doris Sommer, Stephen M. Hart, William Riggan and Philip J. Ward and has published in prestigious journals such as Modern Language Journal, Journal of American Folklore and IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching.

In The Last Decade

David William Foster

25 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Desire in Language: A Sem... 1981 2026 1996 2011 1981 1984 400 800 1.2k
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. Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
    1981 1.2k citations David William Foster, Julia Kristeva et al. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature profile →
  2. On Deconstruction. Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
    1984 446 citations David William Foster, Jonathan Culler Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 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 William Foster United States 8 624 557 252 214 197 49 1.9k
Alice Jardine 6 526 0.8× 472 0.8× 209 0.8× 190 0.9× 168 0.9× 10 1.6k
Richard Macksey 9 759 1.2× 661 1.2× 252 1.0× 348 1.6× 94 0.5× 33 2.1k
Edward Proffitt 2 500 0.8× 467 0.8× 217 0.9× 140 0.7× 247 1.3× 5 1.6k
Stephen Heath South Korea 9 779 1.2× 610 1.1× 303 1.2× 154 0.7× 116 0.6× 35 2.3k
Roland A. Champagne United States 13 442 0.7× 568 1.0× 271 1.1× 118 0.6× 103 0.5× 61 1.7k
Hans Robert Jauß Canada 13 466 0.7× 383 0.7× 226 0.9× 168 0.8× 139 0.7× 56 1.4k
Mieke Bal Netherlands 21 650 1.0× 546 1.0× 219 0.9× 115 0.5× 162 0.8× 134 2.1k
Jane Tompkins 12 599 1.0× 406 0.7× 181 0.7× 56 0.3× 198 1.0× 35 1.5k
Sherry Simon Canada 15 364 0.6× 789 1.4× 321 1.3× 492 2.3× 156 0.8× 78 2.0k
Roger Chartier France 29 666 1.1× 979 1.8× 222 0.9× 107 0.5× 270 1.4× 299 2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David William Foster

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Foster, David William. (2005). Apuntes sobre el cine queer en América Latina. 26(1). 233–242. 1 indexed citations
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Foster, David William, et al.. (2003). Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector. Chasqui. 32(1). 125–125. 1 indexed citations
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Foster, David William. (1999). Evita, Juan José Sebreli y género. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 23(3). 529.
4.
Foster, David William. (1999). Spanish Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes. Greenwood eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Foster, David William, et al.. (1997). From romanticism to modernismo in Latin America. Garland Pub. eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Foster, David William & Doris Sommer. (1985). One Master for Another: Populism as Patriarchal Rhetoric in Dominican Novels. Hispania. 68(1). 76–76. 15 indexed citations
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Foster, David William & Jonathan Culler. (1984). On Deconstruction. Theory and Criticism after Structuralism. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 38(1/2). 90–90. 446 indexed citations breakdown →
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Foster, David William & Robert Scholes. (1984). Semiotics and Interpretation. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 38(1/2). 104–104. 92 indexed citations
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Foster, David William. (1983). BIBLIOGRAFIA LITERARIA HISPANOAMERICANA 1980-1981. Revista Iberoamericana. 49(122). 235–242. 1 indexed citations
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Foster, David William. (1981). The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature ed. by Philip Ward (review). Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 35(1). 84–85.
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Foster, David William, et al.. (1981). Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 35(4). 314–314. 1220 indexed citations breakdown →
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Foster, David William & Philip J. Ward. (1981). The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 35(1). 84–84. 2 indexed citations
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Foster, David William. (1980). Ambigüedad verbal y dramatica en El señor Galindez de Eduardo Pavlovsky. Latin American theatre review. 13(3). 103–110.
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Foster, David William, et al.. (1980). Studies in the Contemporary Spanish-American Short Story. World Literature Today. 54(4). 605–605.
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Johnson, Harvey L. & David William Foster. (1978). Bibliografía Literaria Hispanoamericana 1976. Revista Iberoamericana. 44(102-103). 221–229. 2 indexed citations
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Foster, David William. (1975). Currents in the contemporary Argentine novel : Arlt, Mallea, Sabato, and Cortázar. MOspace Institutional Repository (University of Missouri).
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Foster, David William, et al.. (1973). Terciopelo, la cazadora negra. Books Abroad. 47(1). 114–114. 1 indexed citations
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Foster, David William. (1971). The early Spanish ballad. 1 indexed citations
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Foster, David William, et al.. (1971). Manual of Hispanic Bibliography. Books Abroad. 45(2). 291–291.
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Foster, David William, et al.. (1968). Forms of the Novel in the Work of Camilo José Cela. Books Abroad. 42(3). 439–439.

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