Gowan Dawson

1.1k total citations
26 papers, 276 citations indexed

About

Gowan Dawson is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gowan Dawson has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 276 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 5 papers in Anthropology and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Gowan Dawson's work include History of Science and Natural History (11 papers), History of Science and Medicine (5 papers) and Evolution and Science Education (5 papers). Gowan Dawson is often cited by papers focused on History of Science and Natural History (11 papers), History of Science and Medicine (5 papers) and Evolution and Science Education (5 papers). Gowan Dawson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Gowan Dawson's co-authors include Jonathan R. Topham, Sally Shuttleworth, Richard Noakes, Gary W. Cantor, Graeme Gooday, Bernard Lightman, Chris Lintott, Andrew King, Laurel Brake and Linda K. Hughes and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Historical Geography and Isis.

In The Last Decade

Gowan Dawson

21 papers receiving 181 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gowan Dawson United Kingdom 9 109 71 70 57 42 26 276
Ruth Barton New Zealand 9 141 1.3× 37 0.5× 20 0.3× 78 1.4× 33 0.8× 35 290
P. G. Maxwell‐Stuart United Kingdom 5 29 0.3× 98 1.4× 67 1.0× 38 0.7× 36 0.9× 17 233
Jeffrey Merrick United States 8 78 0.7× 152 2.1× 29 0.4× 105 1.8× 54 1.3× 49 304
Pamela H. Smith United States 13 219 2.0× 113 1.6× 33 0.5× 47 0.8× 133 3.2× 43 483
Adriana Craciun United States 9 74 0.7× 53 0.7× 47 0.7× 65 1.1× 17 0.4× 23 250
Thomas William Heyck United States 9 46 0.4× 70 1.0× 28 0.4× 87 1.5× 32 0.8× 30 262
Carlos Μ. N. Eire United States 9 75 0.7× 118 1.7× 27 0.4× 99 1.7× 53 1.3× 27 355
Anke te Heesen Germany 9 57 0.5× 46 0.6× 19 0.3× 35 0.6× 34 0.8× 35 186
Elaine Freedgood United States 7 19 0.2× 55 0.8× 165 2.4× 83 1.5× 28 0.7× 24 304
Jennifer Uglow 7 30 0.3× 37 0.5× 69 1.0× 38 0.7× 19 0.5× 10 238

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gowan Dawson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dawson, Gowan, Bernard Lightman, Sally Shuttleworth, & Jonathan R. Topham. (2019). Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain. 8 indexed citations
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Cantor, Geoffrey, et al.. (2017). Culture And Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media. 13 indexed citations
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Dawson, Gowan, Chris Lintott, & Sally Shuttleworth. (2015). Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries. Journal of Victorian Culture. 20(2). 246–254. 9 indexed citations
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Dawson, Gowan. (2015). Show Me the Bone. 13 indexed citations
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Dawson, Gowan. (2013). The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense. Journal of Victorian Culture. 18(3). 409–412. 3 indexed citations
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Dawson, Gowan. (2011). Literary Megatheriums and Loose Baggy Monsters: Paleontology and the Victorian Novel. Victorian Studies. 53(2). 203–230. 4 indexed citations
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Dawson, Gowan & Bernard Lightman. (2011). VICTORIAN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE. 3 indexed citations
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Dawson, Gowan. (2010). ‘By a Comparison of Incidents and Dialogue’: Richard Owen, Comparative Anatomy and Victorian Serial Fiction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 0(11). 5 indexed citations
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Brake, Laurel, Marysa Demoor, Margaret Beetham, et al.. (2008). Dictionary of nineteenth-century journalism in Great-Britain and Ireland. Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (University of Greenwich). 30 indexed citations
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Dawson, Gowan. (2006). Literature and Science under the Microscope. Journal of Victorian Culture. 11(2). 301–315. 6 indexed citations
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Dawson, Gowan. (2005). Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot. The Byron Journal. 33(1). 67. 1 indexed citations
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Dawson, Gowan. (2005). Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean and the Discourse of Science in Macmillan's Magazine : "A Creature of the Nineteenth Century". English Literature in Transition 1880-1920. 48(1). 38–54. 4 indexed citations
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Cantor, Gary W., Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, et al.. (2004). Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature. Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester). 67 indexed citations
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Dawson, Gowan & Sally Shuttleworth. (2003). Introduction: Science and Victorian Poetry. Victorian poetry. 41(1). 1–10. 2 indexed citations
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Dawson, Gowan. (2002). Stranger than Fiction: Spiritualism, Intertextuality, and William Makepeace Thackeray's Editorship of theCornhill Magazine,1860–62. Journal of Victorian Culture. 7(2). 220–238. 2 indexed citations

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