Derek de Solla Price

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Derek de Solla Price is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek de Solla Price has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 4 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Derek de Solla Price's work include Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (6 papers), Mechanics and Biomechanics Studies (6 papers) and scientometrics and bibliometrics research (4 papers). Derek de Solla Price is often cited by papers focused on Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (6 papers), Mechanics and Biomechanics Studies (6 papers) and scientometrics and bibliometrics research (4 papers). Derek de Solla Price collaborates with scholars based in United States and Indonesia. Derek de Solla Price's co-authors include John G. Burke, Paul Allison, Michael J. Moravcsik, Belver C. Griffith, John Stewart, Donald R. Hill, Jay Weinstein, A. G. Drachmann and John Peter Oleson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Derek de Solla Price

32 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

A general theory of bibliometric and other cumulative adv... 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 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. A general theory of bibliometric and other cumulative advantage processes
    1976 1.3k citations Derek de Solla Price Journal of the American Society for Information Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Derek de Solla Price United States 13 624 511 302 251 247 34 2.0k
Donald deB. Beaver United States 10 1.2k 1.9× 192 0.4× 265 0.9× 268 1.1× 381 1.5× 24 2.4k
B. C. Brookes United Kingdom 19 478 0.8× 213 0.4× 183 0.6× 540 2.2× 212 0.9× 66 2.7k
Belver C. Griffith United States 20 1.1k 1.7× 316 0.6× 192 0.6× 706 2.8× 391 1.6× 55 4.0k
Daryl E. Chubin United States 25 929 1.5× 90 0.2× 189 0.6× 203 0.8× 363 1.5× 82 2.8k
Staša Milojević United States 20 882 1.4× 442 0.9× 195 0.6× 382 1.5× 279 1.1× 52 2.2k
Roberta Sinatra Italy 27 1.1k 1.7× 729 1.4× 396 1.3× 289 1.2× 532 2.2× 49 3.7k
Marc Luwel Belgium 21 379 0.6× 146 0.3× 321 1.1× 172 0.7× 131 0.5× 35 1.5k
Bart Thijs Belgium 28 1.3k 2.1× 208 0.4× 372 1.2× 447 1.8× 181 0.7× 84 2.5k
Flaminio Squazzoni Italy 28 581 0.9× 244 0.5× 302 1.0× 214 0.9× 578 2.3× 105 2.4k
Jack Goodwin Australia 4 591 0.9× 103 0.2× 74 0.2× 289 1.2× 129 0.5× 11 1.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Derek de Solla Price

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Price, Derek de Solla. (1984). A History of Calculating Machines. IEEE Micro. 4(1). 22–52. 24 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla. (1981). R & D and Productivity. Science. 211(4487). 1116–1116. 2 indexed citations
3.
Price, Derek de Solla. (1981). The analysis of square matrices of scientometric transactions. Scientometrics. 3(1). 55–63. 60 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla. (1980). Comments on “U. S. science in an international perspective”. Scientometrics. 2(5-6). 423–428. 5 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla. (1980). PHILOSOPHICAL MECHANISM AND MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY. 5(1). 75–85. 11 indexed citations
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Burke, John G., et al.. (1978). Science, Technology and Society: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective. The American Historical Review. 83(2). 402–402. 125 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Jay, et al.. (1978). Science, Technology and Society: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective.. Social Forces. 57(2). 729–729. 6 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla. (1978). Cumulative advantage urn games explained: A reply to kantor. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 29(4). 204–206. 9 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla. (1978). Ups and Downs in the Pulse of Science and Technology. Sociological Inquiry. 48(3-4). 162–171. 17 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla, et al.. (1977). Science, technology, and society: a cross-disciplinary perspective. [15 papers]. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla. (1976). A general theory of bibliometric and other cumulative advantage processes. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 27(5). 292–306. 1282 indexed citations breakdown →
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Allison, Paul, Derek de Solla Price, Belver C. Griffith, Michael J. Moravcsik, & John Stewart. (1976). Lotka's Law: A Problem in Its Interpretation and Application. Social Studies of Science. 6(2). 269–276. 52 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla, et al.. (1976). Gears from the Greeks. The Antikythera Mechanism: A Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B. C.. The Classical World. 70(3). 202–202. 34 indexed citations
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Drachmann, A. G. & Derek de Solla Price. (1976). Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism-A Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B.C.. Technology and Culture. 17(1). 112–112. 4 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla. (1976). An Extrinsic Value Theory for Basic and “Applied” Research. Policy Studies Journal. 5(2). 160–168. 4 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla, et al.. (1975). Studies in scientometrics II. The relation between source author and cited author populations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla, et al.. (1975). Studies in Scientometrics I Transience and Continuance in Scientific Authorship. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 65 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla & Donald R. Hill. (1975). The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari. Technology and Culture. 16(1). 81–81. 6 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla. (1975). SOCIETY'S NEEDS IN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION*. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 261(1). 126–136. 6 indexed citations
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Price, Derek de Solla. (1974). Gears from the Greeks. 4 indexed citations

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