James A. Secord

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

James A. Secord is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Anthropology and History. According to data from OpenAlex, James A. Secord has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 4 papers in Anthropology and 4 papers in History. Recurrent topics in James A. Secord's work include History of Science and Natural History (15 papers), History of Science and Medicine (8 papers) and Evolution and Science Education (4 papers). James A. Secord is often cited by papers focused on History of Science and Natural History (15 papers), History of Science and Medicine (8 papers) and Evolution and Science Education (4 papers). James A. Secord collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Canada. James A. Secord's co-authors include Philip F. Rehbock, Robert Chambers, Gerald L. Geison, Christopher Stray, Leslie Howsam, Stephen Colclough, Simon Eliot, William St Clair, Charles Darwin and Michael Twyman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

James A. Secord

28 papers receiving 851 citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Knowledge in Transit
    2004 371 citations James A. Secord Isis profile →

Peers

James A. Secord
Jan Goliński United States
Charles Coulston Gillispie United States
Bernard Lightman Canada
Robin Lane Fox United Kingdom
Staffan Müller‐Wille Germany
Kapil Raj France
Adrian Desmond United Kingdom
John Henry United Kingdom
Harold J. Cook United States
Jack Morrell United Kingdom
Jan Goliński United States
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James A. Secord

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Secord, James A.. (2025). A tradition from the ancestors. The British Journal for the History of Science. 58(1). 1–17.
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Secord, James A.. (2024). Violence and the public narratives of history of science. Journal of the British Academy. 12. 0–0. 1 indexed citations
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Secord, James A.. (2021). Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young. The British Journal for the History of Science. 54(1). 41–59. 2 indexed citations
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Secord, James A. & Charles Darwin. (2009). Evolutionary Writings: Including the Autobiographies. 2 indexed citations
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Stray, Christopher, et al.. (2007). What the Victorians Learned. Journal of Victorian Culture. 12(2). 2 indexed citations
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Secord, James A.. (2007). HOW SCIENTIFIC CONVERSATION BECAME SHOP TALK. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 17. 129–156. 35 indexed citations
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Howsam, Leslie, et al.. (2007). What the Victorians Learned: Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Schoolbooks. Journal of Victorian Culture. 12(2). 262–285. 6 indexed citations
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Secord, James A.. (2004). Knowledge in Transit. Isis. 95(4). 654–672. 371 indexed citations breakdown →
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Secord, James A., et al.. (2003). The boy's playbook of science. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 4 indexed citations
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Secord, James A.. (2003). Response. Journal of Victorian Culture. 8(1). 142–150. 1 indexed citations
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Secord, James A.. (2000). Victorian Sensation. 193 indexed citations
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Chambers, Robert & James A. Secord. (1994). Vestiges of the natural history of creation, and other evolutionary writings. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 32 indexed citations
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Secord, James A.. (1991). The discovery of a vocation: Darwin's early geology. The British Journal for the History of Science. 24(2). 133–157. 33 indexed citations
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Secord, James A.. (1990). Controversy in Victorian Geology. Princeton University Press eBooks. 10 indexed citations
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Secord, James A.. (1990). The curious case of Acarus crossii. Nature. 345(6275). 471–472.
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Secord, James A.. (1990). Science in Context. Robert S. Cohen , Yehuda Elkana , Simon Schaffer , Gad Freudenthal. Isis. 81(2). 289–290. 1 indexed citations
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Rehbock, Philip F. & James A. Secord. (1989). Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute. The American Historical Review. 94(5). 1379–1379. 59 indexed citations
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Geison, Gerald L. & James A. Secord. (1988). Pasteur and the Process of Discovery: The Case of Optical Isomerism. Isis. 79(1). 6–36. 15 indexed citations
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Secord, James A.. (1986). The Geological Survey of Great Britain as a Research School, 1839–1855. History of Science. 24(3). 223–275. 43 indexed citations
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Secord, James A.. (1985). John W. Salter: the rise and fall of a Victorian palaeontological career. Archives of Natural History. 1985(1). 61–75;. 7 indexed citations

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