Fred Turner

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Fred Turner is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Civil and Structural Engineering and Visual Arts and Performing Arts. According to data from OpenAlex, Fred Turner has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 6 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Recurrent topics in Fred Turner's work include Seismic Performance and Analysis (10 papers), Digital Games and Media (5 papers) and Art, Technology, and Culture (5 papers). Fred Turner is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Performance and Analysis (10 papers), Digital Games and Media (5 papers) and Art, Technology, and Culture (5 papers). Fred Turner collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Canada. Fred Turner's co-authors include Rajesh P. Dhakal, James T. Hamilton, Sarah L. Cohen, Megan Finn, Daniel Kreiss, Sigmund A. Freeman, Craig D. Comartin, C. Philip Larson, Justin D. Marshall and Jason Ingham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Fred Turner

38 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fred Turner United States	16	709	406	289	170	155	42	1.8k
Sami Paavola Finland	22	282 0.4×	259 0.6×	121 0.4×	321 1.9×	86 0.6×	62	2.8k
William J. Mitchell United States	26	520 0.7×	186 0.5×	16 0.1×	42 0.2×	45 0.3×	109	3.1k
Nicholas Negroponte United States	14	633 0.9×	455 1.1×	8 0.0×	125 0.7×	18 0.1×	35	2.3k
David Murakami Wood Canada	20	916 1.3×	85 0.2×	40 0.1×	28 0.2×	14 0.1×	61	1.6k
Alex Roland United States	11	290 0.4×	75 0.2×	6 0.0×	69 0.4×	108 0.7×	63	1.2k
Ronald R. Kline United States	14	225 0.3×	57 0.1×	6 0.0×	98 0.6×	216 1.4×	56	1.2k
Howard Falk United States	8	403 0.6×	129 0.3×	6 0.0×	43 0.3×	41 0.3×	63	1.3k
Peter Kroes Netherlands	19	192 0.3×	17 0.0×	34 0.1×	51 0.3×	122 0.8×	47	1.1k
Kees Boersma Netherlands	17	499 0.7×	201 0.5×	49 0.2×	34 0.2×	7 0.0×	71	1.2k
Marshall W. Fishwick United States	13	430 0.6×	37 0.1×	21 0.1×	24 0.1×	10 0.1×	80	1.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fred Turner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fred Turner

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Turner, Fred, et al.. (2021). Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America. 6 indexed citations

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Turner, Fred, et al.. (2020). “It’s an Ongoing Bromance”: Counterculture and Cyberculture in Silicon Valley—An Interview with Fred Turner. Journal of Management Inquiry. 30(2). 235–242. 8 indexed citations

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Turner, Fred, et al.. (2019). The Selling of Virtual Reality: Novelty and Continuity in the Cultural Integration of Technology. Communication Culture and Critique. 12(4). 535–552. 12 indexed citations

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Turner, Fred. (2018). Millenarian Tinkering: The Puritan Roots of the Maker Movement. Technology and Culture. 59(4S). S160–S182. 19 indexed citations

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Turner, Fred. (2018). The arts at Facebook: An aesthetic infrastructure for surveillance capitalism. Poetics. 67. 53–62. 18 indexed citations

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Turner, Fred, et al.. (2015). URM bearing wall building seismic risk mitigation on the west coast of the United States. Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. 48(1). 31–40. 8 indexed citations

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Holmes, William T., Nicolas Luco, & Fred Turner. (2014). Application of the Recommendations of the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission to the Design, Construction, and Evaluation of Buildings and Seismic Risk Mitigation Policies in the United States. Earthquake Spectra. 30(1). 427–450. 3 indexed citations

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Turner, Fred. (2014). The Corporation and the Counterculture. The Velvet Light Trap. 73. 66–78. 4 indexed citations

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Marshall, Justin D., et al.. (2013). Post‐Earthquake Building Safety Inspection: Lessons from the Canterbury, New Zealand, Earthquakes. Earthquake Spectra. 29(3). 1091–1107. 24 indexed citations

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Turner, Fred. (2013). Strategies between US earthquakes to help dispel the mysteries of building performance. Engineering Failure Analysis. 31. 311–319. 1 indexed citations

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Turner, Fred, Kenneth J. Elwood, Michael Griffith, Jason Ingham, & Justin D. Marshall. (2012). Performance of Retrofitted Unreinforced Masonry Buildings during the Christchurch Earthquake Sequence. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 1092–1103. 3 indexed citations

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Kreiss, Daniel, Megan Finn, & Fred Turner. (2010). The limits of peer production: Some reminders from Max Weber for the network society. New Media & Society. 13(2). 243–259. 93 indexed citations

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Turner, Fred. (2010). Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 39(3). 289–291. 24 indexed citations

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Tobin, Lesley, et al.. (2006). A Retrospective on the 1906 Earthquake's Impact on Bay Area and California Public Policy. Earthquake Spectra. 22(2S). 237–259. 6 indexed citations

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Turner, Fred. (2005). Actor‐Networking the News. Social Epistemology. 19(4). 321–324. 40 indexed citations

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Zenilman, Jonathan M., Charlotte A. Gaydos, William C. Miller, et al.. (2003). Web Top 10. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 79(2). 97–97.

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Comartin, Craig D., et al.. (2000). Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Concrete Buildings: A Practical Overview of the ATC 40 Document. Earthquake Spectra. 16(1). 241–261. 100 indexed citations

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Turner, Fred. (1997). 8. Discussion of “Redefining Terms in the Field of Seismic Safety and Risk Mitigation” by Franz Sauter F.. Earthquake Spectra. 13(1). 151–151. 1 indexed citations

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Turner, Fred, et al.. (1997). Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory.. Journal of American History. 84(2). 735–735. 15 indexed citations

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Tobin, Lesley, et al.. (1992). 2. California at Risk: Where Do We Go from Here?. Earthquake Spectra. 8(1). 17–34. 1 indexed citations

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