Janet Abbate

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 793 citations indexed

About

Janet Abbate is a scholar working on Computer Science Applications, History and Philosophy of Science and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Janet Abbate has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 793 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Computer Science Applications, 7 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Janet Abbate's work include History of Computing Technologies (10 papers), Cybernetics and Technology in Society (4 papers) and Digital Games and Media (2 papers). Janet Abbate is often cited by papers focused on History of Computing Technologies (10 papers), Cybernetics and Technology in Society (4 papers) and Digital Games and Media (2 papers). Janet Abbate collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Janet Abbate's co-authors include Brian Kahin, Mark A. Shields, Verena Rieser, Leopoldina Fortunati, Soraia Raupp Musse, Valérie Schäfer, Shobhana Narasimhan and Autumn Edwards and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the IEEE and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Janet Abbate

20 papers receiving 596 citations

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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.

Inventing the Internet

1999 503 citations Janet Abbate Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Janet Abbate United States	10	283	196	131	131	112	25	793
James W. Cortada United States	16	277 1.0×	288 1.5×	80 0.6×	62 0.5×	176 1.6×	144	989
Martin Campbell‐Kelly United Kingdom	17	209 0.7×	405 2.1×	61 0.5×	47 0.4×	210 1.9×	94	1.2k
Jonathan Liebenau United Kingdom	17	235 0.8×	33 0.2×	50 0.4×	53 0.4×	204 1.8×	66	1.1k
Patrice Flichy France	15	382 1.3×	47 0.2×	42 0.3×	103 0.8×	75 0.7×	68	807
Brian Kahin United States	13	161 0.6×	56 0.3×	92 0.7×	92 0.7×	181 1.6×	64	660
David M. Berry United Kingdom	10	265 0.9×	100 0.5×	43 0.3×	174 1.3×	15 0.1×	22	784
Nicholas G. Carr United States	8	273 1.0×	79 0.4×	60 0.5×	110 0.8×	535 4.8×	16	1.7k
Julie E. Cohen United States	21	659 2.3×	62 0.3×	185 1.4×	120 0.9×	114 1.0×	61	1.5k
Stuart Macdonald United Kingdom	16	359 1.3×	42 0.2×	154 1.2×	74 0.6×	239 2.1×	127	1.1k
Eric S. Raymond United States	11	187 0.7×	615 3.1×	30 0.2×	289 2.2×	121 1.1×	22	1.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Fortunati, Leopoldina, Autumn Edwards, & Janet Abbate. (2025). Introduction: (re)writing gender in Internet histories. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 9(1-2). 1–10.

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Abbate, Janet, et al.. (2023). ‘I wrote my first piece of code at seven’: women share highs and lows in computer science for Ada Lovelace Day. Nature. 622(7982). 238–241. 1 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (2022). Abstractions and Embodiments. Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (2020). Joy Lisi Rankin. A People’s History of Computing in the United States.. The American Historical Review. 125(4). 1465–1466.

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Abbate, Janet. (2018). Code Switch: Alternative Visions of Computer Expertise as Empowerment from the 1960s to the 2010s. Technology and Culture. 59(4S). S134–S159. 4 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (2017). What and where is the Internet? (Re)defining Internet histories. 1(1-2). 8–14. 22 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (2017). How not to network a nation: The uneasy history of the soviet internet. New Media & Society. 19(5). 795–797. 14 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (2012). Recoding Gender. The MIT Press eBooks. 82 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (2012). L'histoire de l'Internet au prisme des STS. Le Temps des médias. n° 18(1). 170–180. 9 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (2009). Privatizing the Internet: Competing Visions and Chaotic Events, 1987-1995. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 3 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (2003). Women and gender in the history of computing. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 25(4). 4–8. 15 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (2003). The Triumph of Ethernet: Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN Standard (review). Technology and Culture. 44(3). 635–637. 1 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (1999). Inventing the Internet. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 503 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abbate, Janet. (1999). New Technology for a New Nation: Building an Internet Culture in Estonia. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 1 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (1999). The electrical century: inventing the Web. Proceedings of the IEEE. 87(11). 1999–2002. 5 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (1999). Getting small: a short history of the personal computer. Proceedings of the IEEE. 87(9). 1695–1698. 9 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet & Mark A. Shields. (1996). Work and Technology in Higher Education: The Social Construction of Academic Computing. Technology and Culture. 37(3). 653–653. 3 indexed citations

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Kahin, Brian & Janet Abbate. (1995). Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure. MIT Press eBooks. 55 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (1994). From ARPANET to Internet: A history of ARPA -sponsored computer networks, 1966--1988. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 19 indexed citations

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Abbate, Janet. (1993). "People and Computers" at the Computer Museum. Technology and Culture. 34(3). 665–665. 1 indexed citations

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