Edward Higgs

1.1k total citations
29 papers, 509 citations indexed

About

Edward Higgs is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Statistics and Probability and History. According to data from OpenAlex, Edward Higgs has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 509 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 8 papers in Statistics and Probability and 7 papers in History. Recurrent topics in Edward Higgs's work include Historical Economic and Social Studies (9 papers), Census and Population Estimation (8 papers) and Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 papers). Edward Higgs is often cited by papers focused on Historical Economic and Social Studies (9 papers), Census and Population Estimation (8 papers) and Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 papers). Edward Higgs collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Sri Lanka. Edward Higgs's co-authors include Dudley Baines, Amanda Wilkinson and Joseph Melling and has published in prestigious journals such as The Economic History Review, History of Science and Social History of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Edward Higgs

27 papers receiving 394 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Edward Higgs United Kingdom	14	227	214	152	55	53	29	509
Richard Bach Jensen United States	9	289 1.3×	40 0.2×	48 0.3×	141 2.6×	25 0.5×	24	458
Penelope J. Corfield United Kingdom	11	139 0.6×	215 1.0×	201 1.3×	72 1.3×	14 0.3×	53	504
Martin Pugh United Kingdom	15	335 1.5×	111 0.5×	155 1.0×	221 4.0×	65 1.2×	47	608
Charles Wetherell United States	10	169 0.7×	100 0.5×	54 0.4×	84 1.5×	23 0.4×	29	363
Alexander Keyssar United States	8	203 0.9×	108 0.5×	20 0.1×	219 4.0×	44 0.8×	18	453
Lawrence H. Fuchs United States	11	279 1.2×	26 0.1×	28 0.2×	95 1.7×	35 0.7×	30	496
David H. Flaherty Canada	11	238 1.0×	53 0.2×	33 0.2×	113 2.1×	6 0.1×	44	426
Gordon Κ. Lewis Puerto Rico	9	201 0.9×	64 0.3×	17 0.1×	43 0.8×	9 0.2×	33	405
Geoffrey Alderman United Kingdom	11	173 0.8×	28 0.1×	18 0.1×	128 2.3×	29 0.5×	46	381
Arthur S. Link United States	15	269 1.2×	69 0.3×	104 0.7×	350 6.4×	13 0.2×	80	728

Countries citing papers authored by Edward Higgs

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Fields of papers citing papers by Edward Higgs

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Edward Higgs

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Higgs, Edward. (2017). UK birth registration and its present discontents. PubMed. 5. 35–37. 5 indexed citations

Higgs, Edward. (2016). Domestic Servants and Households in Rochdale. Open Access at Essex (University of Essex). 2 indexed citations

Higgs, Edward & Amanda Wilkinson. (2016). Women, Occupations and Work in the Victorian Censuses Revisited. History Workshop Journal. 81(1). 17–38. 14 indexed citations

Higgs, Edward. (2011). Identifying the English: A History of Personal Identification 1500 to the Present. Open Access at Essex (University of Essex). 22 indexed citations

Higgs, Edward. (2010). William Petty and the ambitions of political arithmetic – By Ted McCormick. The Economic History Review. 63(4). 1169–1170.

Higgs, Edward. (2009). Change and continuity in the techniques and technologies of identification over the second Christian millennium. 2(3). 345–354. 1 indexed citations

Higgs, Edward. (2004). Life, Death and Statistics: Civil Registration, Censuses and the Work of the General Register Office, 1836–1952. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 35 indexed citations

Higgs, Edward. (2003). The Information State in England. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks. 24 indexed citations

Higgs, Edward. (2002). The Annual Report of the Registrar General, 1839–1920: A Textual History. PubMed. 67. 55–76. 4 indexed citations

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Higgs, Edward. (1998). History and electronic artefacts. Clarendon Press eBooks. 21 indexed citations

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Higgs, Edward & Joseph Melling. (1997). Chasing the Ambulance. The Emerging Crisis in the Preservation of Modern Health Records. Social History of Medicine. 10(1). 127–136. 3 indexed citations

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Higgs, Edward. (1996). A cuckoo in the nest? The origins of civil registration and state medical statistics in England and Wales. Continuity and Change. 11(1). 115–134. 10 indexed citations

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Higgs, Edward. (1996). The Statistical Big Bang of 1911: Ideology, Technological Innovation and theProduction of Medical Statistics. Social History of Medicine. 9(3). 409–426. 11 indexed citations

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Higgs, Edward. (1995). Occupational Censuses and the Agricultural Workforce in Victorian England and Wales. The Economic History Review. 48(4). 700–700. 14 indexed citations

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Baines, Dudley & Edward Higgs. (1990). Making Sense of the Census: The Manuscript Returns for England and Wales, 1801-1901.. The Economic History Review. 43(4). 745–745. 25 indexed citations

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Higgs, Edward. (1990). Household and work in the nineteenth‐century censuses of England and Wales. Journal of the Society of Archivists. 11(3). 73–77. 3 indexed citations

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Higgs, Edward. (1985). ‘Particular instance papers’: The historical and archival dimensions. Social History. 10(1). 89–94. 1 indexed citations

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Higgs, Edward. (1985). Counting Heads and Jobs: Science as an Occupation in the Victorian Census. History of Science. 23(4). 335–349. 2 indexed citations

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Higgs, Edward. (1984). Research into the History of Alcohol Use and Control in England and Wales: The Available Sources in the Public Record Office. British Journal of Addiction. 79(1). 41–47. 1 indexed citations

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Higgs, Edward. (1983). Leisure and the State: The History of Popular Culture as Reflected in the Public Records. History Workshop Journal. 15(1). 141–150. 5 indexed citations

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