Donald A. Ritchie

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Donald A. Ritchie is a scholar working on History, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald A. Ritchie has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in History, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Donald A. Ritchie's work include Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis (10 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 papers) and American History and Culture (3 papers). Donald A. Ritchie is often cited by papers focused on Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis (10 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 papers) and American History and Culture (3 papers). Donald A. Ritchie collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Donald A. Ritchie's co-authors include Peter Strike, A. Mark Osborn, Kenneth D. Bruce, Joseph M. Bessette, John E. Williams, Stuart L. Stanton, Linda Cardozo, George Juergens, Donald T. Critchlow and Jon L. Hobman and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, FEMS Microbiology Reviews and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

In The Last Decade

Donald A. Ritchie

42 papers receiving 865 citations

Hit Papers

The Oxford Handbook of Oral History 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 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 Oxford Handbook of Oral History
    2012 107 citations Donald A. Ritchie Oxford University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Donald A. Ritchie United Kingdom 14 213 208 164 126 121 57 1.0k
Kathryn Robinson Australia 15 468 2.2× 21 0.1× 231 1.4× 13 0.1× 32 0.3× 57 905
Wendy Harcourt Netherlands 17 495 2.3× 20 0.1× 172 1.0× 24 0.2× 15 0.1× 77 1.1k
Christopher Kent United Kingdom 13 161 0.8× 11 0.1× 71 0.4× 26 0.2× 105 0.9× 38 530
Garth Myers United States 19 468 2.2× 23 0.1× 370 2.3× 22 0.2× 33 0.3× 71 1.5k
James Walter Australia 12 246 1.2× 3 0.0× 198 1.2× 40 0.3× 16 0.1× 67 859
John M. Owen United States 20 613 2.9× 8 0.0× 719 4.4× 75 0.6× 44 0.4× 92 1.8k
Andrew Williams United Kingdom 18 469 2.2× 11 0.1× 141 0.9× 10 0.1× 4 0.0× 32 1.2k
Jill Lindsey Harrison United States 18 542 2.5× 62 0.3× 92 0.6× 23 0.2× 2 0.0× 33 1.0k
Fengshi Wu China 18 353 1.7× 10 0.0× 263 1.6× 61 0.5× 58 893
Matt McDonald Australia 23 1.4k 6.6× 22 0.1× 574 3.5× 13 0.1× 43 0.4× 63 1.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ritchie, Donald A.. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Oral History. Oxford University Press eBooks. 107 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ritchie, Donald A.. (2009). Press Gallery. Harvard University Press eBooks.
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Ritchie, Donald A.. (2009). Oral History in a Wounded Country: Interactive Interviewing in South Africa. The Oral History Review. 36(1). 143–145. 16 indexed citations
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Ritchie, Donald A.. (2007). Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 6 indexed citations
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Ritchie, Donald A.. (2005). Reporting from Washington. 9 indexed citations
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Earl, Julie, Roger Pickup, Donald A. Ritchie, & Clive Edwards. (2005). Development of Temporal Temperature Gradient Electrophoresis for Characterising Methanogen Diversity. Microbial Ecology. 50(3). 327–336. 8 indexed citations
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Ritchie, Donald A.. (2003). Doing oral history : a practical guide. Oxford University Press eBooks. 128 indexed citations
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Hart, Mark C., Geoffrey N. Elliott, A. Mark Osborn, Donald A. Ritchie, & Peter Strike. (1998). Diversity amongst Bacillus merA genes amplified from mercury resistant isolates and directly from mercury polluted soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 27(1). 73–84. 19 indexed citations
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Lloyd, David, Katie L. Thomas, Anthony J. Hayes, et al.. (1998). Micro-ecology of peat: minimally invasive analysis using confocal laser scanning microscopy, membrane inlet mass spectrometry and PCR amplification of methanogen-specific gene sequences. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 25(2). 179–188. 18 indexed citations
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Osborn, A. Mark, Kenneth D. Bruce, Peter Strike, & Donald A. Ritchie. (1997). Distribution, diversity and evolution of the bacterial mercury resistance (mer) operon. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 19(4). 239–262. 260 indexed citations
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Ritchie, Donald A.. (1997). Review: Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1968-1973, by William M. Hammond. The Public Historian. 19(2). 83–86. 1 indexed citations
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Ritchie, Donald A.. (1995). Oral history's third wave: New directions in public presentation in the United States. 14. 2 indexed citations
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Ritchie, Donald A. & Joseph M. Bessette. (1995). The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government.. Journal of American History. 82(2). 857–857. 115 indexed citations
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Ritchie, Donald A., et al.. (1994). The Critical Press and the New Deal: The Press versus Presidential Power, 1933-1938.. Journal of American History. 81(2). 777–777. 2 indexed citations
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Patrick, John J., Richard M. Pious, & Donald A. Ritchie. (1993). The Oxford Guide to the United States Government. Oxford University Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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BLANCHARD, ROBERT O. & Donald A. Ritchie. (1992). Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents.. The American Historical Review. 97(4). 1273–1273. 1 indexed citations
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Ritchie, Donald A.. (1991). Press Gallery. Harvard University Press eBooks. 14 indexed citations
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Ritchie, Donald A., et al.. (1991). Interviews as Historical Evidence: A Discussion of New Standards of Documentation and Access. The History Teacher. 24(2). 223–223. 6 indexed citations
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Ritchie, Donald A.. (1981). Walter Lippmann and the American Century. The Oral History Review. 9(1). 131–133. 9 indexed citations
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Ritchie, Donald A.. (1980). Reforming the Regulatory Process: Why James Landis Changed His Mind. The Business History Review. 54(3). 283–302. 3 indexed citations

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