Ian Inkster

998 citations
60 papers · 366 indexed · h-index 10

Impact in

    • History of Science and Natural History
    • History of Science and Medicine
    • Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
  • History top 2%
    • Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

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Ian Inkster

48 papers receiving 275 citations

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Ian Inkster
Comparison fields: 5 of 81
  • History and Philosophy of Science 127
  • History 60
  • Anthropology 47
  • General Psychology 5
  • Economics and Econometrics 99
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The 14 scholars most cited alongside Ian Inkster, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20240
2
‘China’s Middle Class and Taiwan
20121
3 20101
4 20102
5 20102
6
Potentially global: 'useful and reliable knowledge' and material progress in Europe circa, 1474-1914
20061
7
Engineers as Patentees and the Cultures of Invention 1830-1914 and beyond. The Evidence from the Patent Data
20041
8 200311
9 20028
10
Motivation and achievement: technological change and creative response in comparative industrial history
19981
11 19932
12
Catching up and hanging on: the formation of science in modern Japan
19903
13
Intellectual dependency and the sources of invention: Britain and the Australian technological system in the 19th century
19901
14 19901
15 19883
16
Technology as the cause of the industrial revolution: some comments
19832
17
Science, technology and the late development effect : transfer mechanisms in Japan's industrialisation, circa 1850-1912
19812
18
Japan as a development model
19802
19 19794
20
A phase in middle class culture: phrenology in Sheffield, 1824-1850
19771

About Ian Inkster

Ian Inkster is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, General Psychology, Anthropology, Economics and Econometrics and Cultural Studies, having authored 60 papers that have together received 366 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Historical Economic and Social Studies (7 papers), History of Science and Natural History (6 papers), Historical Education Studies Worldwide (4 papers), Economic Growth and Productivity (4 papers), Japanese History and Culture (3 papers), Australian History and Society (3 papers), History of Science and Medicine (3 papers) and Chinese history and philosophy (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in History and Philosophy of Science (127 citations), History (60 citations), Anthropology (47 citations), General Psychology (5 citations) and Economics and Econometrics (99 citations). Ian Inkster has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Jack Morrell, Asa Briggs, Judith Rowbotham, Thomas J. Knight, Lissa Roberts, アジア経済研究所, Kenneth Pomeranz, Ross Mouer, Barry Wilkinson and Alan Rix. Their work appears in journals such as Annals of Science, Social Studies of Science, The Economic History Review, The American Historical Review and The British Journal for the History of Science.

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