Gordon W. Hewes

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Gordon W. Hewes is a scholar working on Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gordon W. Hewes has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Anthropology, 9 papers in Cultural Studies and 7 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Gordon W. Hewes's work include Language and cultural evolution (6 papers), Hearing Impairment and Communication (6 papers) and Archaeology and Natural History (4 papers). Gordon W. Hewes is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (6 papers), Hearing Impairment and Communication (6 papers) and Archaeology and Natural History (4 papers). Gordon W. Hewes collaborates with scholars based in United States. Gordon W. Hewes's co-authors include Roger W. Wescott, S. L. Washburn, J. William Pfeiffer, G. McBride, Fernando Nottebohm, Horst D. Steklis, Richard Andrew, Grover S. Krantz, Rod Gardner and Louis Carini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gordon W. Hewes

37 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Primate Communication and the Gestural Origin of Language [and Comments and Reply]

1973 455 citations Gordon W. Hewes et al. Current Anthropology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gordon W. Hewes United States	17	620	619	482	458	305	41	1.7k
S. L. Washburn United States	21	1.1k 1.7×	411 0.7×	447 0.9×	264 0.6×	245 0.8×	61	2.6k
Roger W. Wescott United States	12	306 0.5×	309 0.5×	365 0.8×	241 0.5×	174 0.6×	30	1.0k
Adriaan Kortlandt Netherlands	13	694 1.1×	372 0.6×	204 0.4×	183 0.4×	153 0.5×	26	1.2k
Sue Taylor Parker United States	14	1.4k 2.2×	1.0k 1.7×	343 0.7×	456 1.0×	473 1.6×	31	2.2k
Kathleen R. Gibson United States	16	1.4k 2.2×	1.0k 1.7×	540 1.1×	739 1.6×	547 1.8×	42	3.2k
Ben G. Blount United States	22	437 0.7×	629 1.0×	403 0.8×	299 0.7×	165 0.5×	49	2.1k
Sue Savage‐Rumbaugh United States	23	1.1k 1.8×	1.4k 2.3×	356 0.7×	513 1.1×	429 1.4×	48	2.4k
Alison Jolly United Kingdom	21	1.4k 2.3×	591 1.0×	263 0.5×	162 0.4×	247 0.8×	51	2.7k
Grover S. Krantz United States	8	258 0.4×	258 0.4×	176 0.4×	172 0.4×	135 0.4×	19	615
Derek Bickerton United States	19	265 0.4×	803 1.3×	715 1.5×	1.0k 2.3×	251 0.8×	87	2.9k

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Hewes, Gordon W.. (1995). The Daily Life Component in Civilization Analysis. ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University). 33(33). 5. 1 indexed citations

Hewes, Gordon W.. (1992). Primate Communication and the Gestural Origin of Language. Current Anthropology. 33(S1). 65–84. 319 indexed citations

Davidson, Iain, William Noble, David Armstrong, et al.. (1989). The Archaeology of Perception: Traces of Depiction and Language [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 30(2). 125–155. 200 indexed citations

Parker, Sue Taylor, Jüri Allïk, David Armstrong, et al.. (1985). A Social-Technological Model for the Evolution of Language [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 26(5). 617–639. 35 indexed citations

Hewes, Gordon W.. (1978). Inquiries into the Origin of Language: The fate of a question. By James H(enry) Stam. Historiographia Linguistica. 5(1-2). 174–189. 1 indexed citations

Hewes, Gordon W., et al.. (1977). Language: Its Origin and Relation to Thought.. RAIN. 11–11. 2 indexed citations

Hewes, Gordon W., et al.. (1974). On the Possible Significance of Silence for the Origin of Speech. Current Anthropology. 15(3). 324–326. 5 indexed citations

Count, Earl W., et al.. (1974). On the Phylogenesis of the Speech Function. Current Anthropology. 15(1). 81–90. 4 indexed citations

Hewes, Gordon W.. (1973). An Explicit Formulation of the Relationship Between Tool-Using, Tool-Making, and the Emergence of Language.. Visible Language. 35 indexed citations

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Hewes, Gordon W.. (1973). Indian Fisheries Productivity in Pre-Contact Times In the Pacific Salmon Area. 7(2). 133–155. 40 indexed citations

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Hewes, Gordon W.. (1971). Language origins : a bibliography. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 17 indexed citations

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Hewes, Gordon W.. (1966). GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Atlas Narodov Mira. S. I. BRUK and V. S. APENCHENKO, eds. American Anthropologist. 68(2). 532–535. 3 indexed citations

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Hewes, Gordon W.. (1962). GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Anthropology Made Simple. John Lewis. American Anthropologist. 64(2). 388–389. 1 indexed citations

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Hewes, Gordon W.. (1961). Food Transport and the Origin of Hominid Bipedalism¹. American Anthropologist. 63(4). 687–710. 99 indexed citations

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Kroeber, A. L., Scott Barrett, E. W. Gifford, & Gordon W. Hewes. (1960). Fishing among the Indians of northwestern California. University of California Press eBooks. 48 indexed citations

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Hewes, Gordon W.. (1957). The Anthropology of Posture. Scientific American. 196(2). 122–132. 40 indexed citations

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Hewes, Gordon W., et al.. (1955). Archeological Investigations in the Oahe Dam Area, South Dakota, 1950-51. Ethnohistory. 2(3). 282–282. 33 indexed citations

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Hewes, Gordon W., et al.. (1952). Indian Life and Customs at Mission San Luis Rey. The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History. 9(1). 87–92. 8 indexed citations

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Hewes, Gordon W.. (1952). Californian Flicker-Quill Headbands in the Light of an Ancient Colorado Cave Specimen. American Antiquity. 18(2). 147–147. 3 indexed citations

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Hewes, Gordon W.. (1952). The Fisheries of Northwestern North America. Economic Geography. 28(1). 66–66. 2 indexed citations

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