Harold E. Driver

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 637 citations indexed

About

Harold E. Driver is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Anthropology and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Harold E. Driver has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 637 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in General Health Professions, 5 papers in Anthropology and 5 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Harold E. Driver's work include Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 papers), Archaeology and Natural History (3 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 papers). Harold E. Driver is often cited by papers focused on Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 papers), Archaeology and Natural History (3 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 papers). Harold E. Driver collaborates with scholars based in United States. Harold E. Driver's co-authors include William C. Massey, Karl Schuessler, Joseph G. Jorgensen, David F. Aberle, Alan Lomax, Keith F. Otterbein, Robert C. Suggs, Bernice A. Kaplan, Peter Carstens and James Watson and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, The American Historical Review and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

Harold E. Driver

27 papers receiving 415 citations

Hit Papers

Comparative Studies of North American Indians 1957 2026 1980 2003 1957 50 100 150
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Comparative Studies of North American Indians
    1957 193 citations Harold E. Driver et al. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Harold E. Driver United States 11 195 146 126 81 58 34 637
William C. Sturtevant United States 12 292 1.5× 180 1.2× 138 1.1× 119 1.5× 91 1.6× 49 979
Edward Norbeck United States 16 179 0.9× 133 0.9× 208 1.7× 50 0.6× 41 0.7× 52 714
Aram A. Yengoyan United States 9 205 1.1× 85 0.6× 181 1.4× 58 0.7× 64 1.1× 42 630
M. G. Bicchieri United States 5 283 1.5× 151 1.0× 111 0.9× 71 0.9× 30 0.5× 8 510
Philip Drucker United States 12 194 1.0× 285 2.0× 104 0.8× 138 1.7× 36 0.6× 23 751
John C. Ewers United States 13 248 1.3× 134 0.9× 91 0.7× 70 0.9× 17 0.3× 57 648
James Woodburn United Kingdom 11 264 1.4× 169 1.2× 230 1.8× 88 1.1× 122 2.1× 18 841
Elman R. Service United States 12 293 1.5× 262 1.8× 305 2.4× 46 0.6× 44 0.8× 29 975
Peter M. Gardner United States 13 205 1.1× 104 0.7× 211 1.7× 66 0.8× 73 1.3× 30 707
Marvin Harris United States 13 275 1.4× 250 1.7× 204 1.6× 75 0.9× 63 1.1× 20 1.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Driver, Harold E.. (1975). Culture Groups and Language Groups in Native North America. 3 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E., et al.. (1975). Classification and Development of North American Indian Cultures: A Statistical Analysis of the Driver-Massey Sample. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 65(3). 1–1. 13 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E., Joseph G. Jorgensen, & David F. Aberle. (1974). Comparative studies by Harold E. Driver and essays in his honor. 15 indexed citations
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Kroeber, A. L., et al.. (1974). Basic report on California Indian land holdings . Selected writings of Kroeber on land use and political organization of California Indians . Mexican land claims in California. Medical Entomology and Zoology.
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Driver, Harold E., et al.. (1973). American Indian Almanac. The American Historical Review. 78(3). 723–723. 8 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E.. (1972). Reply to Opler on Apachean Subsistence, Residence, and Girls' Puberty Rites. American Anthropologist. 74(5). 1147–1151. 2 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E., et al.. (1972). Statistical Classification of North American Indian Ethnic Units. Ethnology. 11(3). 311–311. 9 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E.. (1971). Brown and Driver on Girls' Puberty Rites Again. American Anthropologist. 73(5). 1261–1262. 1 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E., et al.. (1970). Indians of North America. Man. 5(3). 544–544. 35 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E.. (1970). Innovations in Cross-Cultural Method from Ethnomusicology: A Review. 5(2). 117–124. 1 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E., et al.. (1970). Folk Song Style and Culture: A Staff Report on Cantometrics. Ethnomusicology. 14(1). 57–57. 9 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E.. (1969). Girls' Puberty Rites and Matrilocal Residence. American Anthropologist. 71(5). 905–908. 9 indexed citations
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Hickerson, Harold, Victor Barnouw, William Caudill, et al.. (1967). Some Implications of the Theory of the Particularity, or "Atomism," of Northern Algonkians [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 8(4). 313–343. 10 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E.. (1966). Red Man's Religion: Beliefs and Practices of the Indians North of Mexico by Ruth M. Underbill. Indiana Magazine of History. 1 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E.. (1966). Geographical-Historical Versus Psycho-Functional Explanations of Kin Avoidances. Current Anthropology. 7(2). 131–182. 34 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E.. (1964). Aboriginal California: Three Studies in Culture History. Ethnohistory. 11(1). 72–72.
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Driver, Harold E.. (1960). ETHNOLOGY: Fishing among the Indians of Northwestern California. A. L. Kroeber and S. A. Barrett. American Anthropologist. 62(6). 1078–1079. 1 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E. & Karl Schuessler. (1957). Factor Analysis of Ethnographic Data. American Anthropologist. 59(4). 655–663. 19 indexed citations
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Schuessler, Karl & Harold E. Driver. (1956). A Factor Analysis of Sixteen Primitive Societies. American Sociological Review. 21(4). 493–493. 6 indexed citations
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Driver, Harold E.. (1953). Indian tribes of North America. 25 indexed citations

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