Fred Davis

906 total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 667 citations indexed

About

Fred Davis is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Museology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Fred Davis has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 667 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Museology and 3 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Fred Davis's work include Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 papers), Crafts, Textile, and Design (2 papers) and Social and Cultural Dynamics (2 papers). Fred Davis is often cited by papers focused on Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 papers), Crafts, Textile, and Design (2 papers) and Social and Cultural Dynamics (2 papers). Fred Davis collaborates with scholars based in United States. Fred Davis's co-authors include Virginia Olesen, Robert Leonard, Irving Louis Horowitz, Jerome E. Carlin, David E. Smith, Frederick M. Wirt, Stanford M. Lyman, M. Alexander, Howard S. Becker and Ronald M. Pavalko and has published in prestigious journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Fred Davis

19 papers receiving 536 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Deviance Disavowal: The Management of Strained Interaction by the Visibly Handicapped

1961 283 citations Fred Davis Social Problems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fred Davis United States	13	295	128	74	64	62	23	667
Jill Niebrugge-Brantley United States	5	439 1.5×	96 0.8×	51 0.7×	47 0.7×	60 1.0×	8	768
Ronald Frankenberg United Kingdom	18	376 1.3×	178 1.4×	55 0.7×	33 0.5×	69 1.1×	47	875
Rachel Lara Cohen United Kingdom	9	304 1.0×	146 1.1×	38 0.5×	67 1.0×	48 0.8×	22	524
Bill Bytheway United Kingdom	16	291 1.0×	161 1.3×	57 0.8×	8 0.1×	67 1.1×	41	680
Carol L. Langer United States	10	280 0.9×	160 1.3×	101 1.4×	16 0.3×	158 2.5×	21	681
Gerald Handel United States	10	392 1.3×	109 0.9×	142 1.9×	17 0.3×	210 3.4×	25	779
Rodman B. Webb United States	9	181 0.6×	60 0.5×	67 0.9×	27 0.4×	96 1.5×	23	865
Marci D. Cottingham United States	17	418 1.4×	165 1.3×	115 1.6×	81 1.3×	69 1.1×	37	776
Maxine Birch	5	409 1.4×	124 1.0×	53 0.7×	21 0.3×	118 1.9×	5	693
Judy Aulette United States	7	388 1.3×	154 1.2×	93 1.3×	18 0.3×	50 0.8×	19	835

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fred Davis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fred Davis

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Davis, Fred. (1991). Herbert Blumer and the Study of Fashion: A Reminiscence and A Critique. Symbolic Interaction. 14(1). 1–21. 17 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred. (1989). Of maids' uniforms and blue jeans: The drama of status ambivalences in clothing and fashion. Qualitative Sociology. 12(4). 337–355. 23 indexed citations

3.

Davis, Fred. (1986). Social organization of medical work. Social Science & Medicine. 22(12). 1370–1371. 97 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred. (1984). DECADE LABELING: THE PLAY OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND NARRATIVE PLOT*. Symbolic Interaction. 7(1). 15–24. 19 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred. (1982). ON THE ‘SYMBOLIC’ IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION*. Symbolic Interaction. 5(1). 111–126. 19 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred. (1974). Stories and Sociology. 3(3). 310–316. 17 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred. (1973). The Martian and the Convert. 2(3). 333–343. 28 indexed citations

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Becker, Howard S., Irving Louis Horowitz, Stanford M. Lyman, et al.. (1971). Culture and civility in San Francisco. 21 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred. (1970). San Franasco s. Mystique. Trans-action. 7(6). 75–80. 1 indexed citations

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Leonard, Robert & Fred Davis. (1967). The Nursing Profession: Five Sociological Essays.. Administrative Science Quarterly. 11(4). 703–703. 8 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred, et al.. (1967). The Nursing Profusion. Nursing Research. 16(1). 84???85–84???85. 2 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred, et al.. (1967). The Nursing Profession.. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 8(1). 77–77. 3 indexed citations

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Pavalko, Ronald M. & Fred Davis. (1967). The Nursing Profession: Five Sociological Essays.. American Sociological Review. 32(1). 152–152. 1 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred, et al.. (1966). The career outlook of professionally educated women. Nursing Research. 15(2). 182–182.

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Davis, Fred, et al.. (1966). The Nursing Profession: Five Sociological Essays. AJN American Journal of Nursing. 66(10). 2273–2273. 51 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred & Virginia Olesen. (1965). The Career Outlook of Professionally Educated Women. Psychiatry. 28(4). 334–345. 15 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred, et al.. (1965). Clinic Nursing: Explorations in Role Innovation.. American Sociological Review. 30(2). 298–298. 2 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred & Virginia Olesen. (1964). BACCALUREATE STUDENTS?? IMAGES OF NURSING. Nursing Research. 13(1). 8???15–8???15. 30 indexed citations

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Davis, Fred. (1961). Deviance Disavowal: The Management of Strained Interaction by the Visibly Handicapped. Social Problems. 9(2). 120–132. 283 indexed citations breakdown →

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Davis, Fred. (1959). Modern Sociological Theory in Continuity and Change. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 129(3). 306–307. 2 indexed citations

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