Jon Agar

1.6k total citations
45 papers, 857 citations indexed

About

Jon Agar is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Political Science and International Relations and Computer Science Applications. According to data from OpenAlex, Jon Agar has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 857 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 7 papers in Computer Science Applications. Recurrent topics in Jon Agar's work include History of Computing Technologies (7 papers), History of Science and Natural History (5 papers) and Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (4 papers). Jon Agar is often cited by papers focused on History of Computing Technologies (7 papers), History of Science and Natural History (5 papers) and Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (4 papers). Jon Agar collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, India and South Sudan. Jon Agar's co-authors include Chung‐Yuan Mou, Crosbie Smith, James C. Turner, Brian Bàlmer, J. B. Hearnshaw, Steve Woolgar, Sally Green, Penélope Harvey, María Nedeva and Marie Claire Brisbois and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Journal of Physical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Jon Agar

34 papers receiving 743 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jon Agar United Kingdom 13 147 130 107 87 80 45 857
H. L. Armstrong Canada 18 97 0.7× 35 0.3× 91 0.9× 172 2.0× 25 0.3× 104 1.5k
Martin J. Klein United States 5 74 0.5× 133 1.0× 91 0.9× 64 0.7× 36 0.5× 6 1.0k
Thomas Heinze Germany 16 130 0.9× 36 0.3× 35 0.3× 85 1.0× 169 2.1× 64 1.1k
Lillian Hoddeson United States 17 35 0.2× 183 1.4× 33 0.3× 50 0.6× 4 0.1× 53 719
Bruce Sinclair United Kingdom 21 48 0.3× 45 0.3× 46 0.4× 39 0.4× 15 0.2× 89 1.5k
Roger Highfield United Kingdom 13 90 0.6× 26 0.2× 53 0.5× 35 0.4× 16 0.2× 38 914
Ed Finn United States 13 172 1.2× 10 0.1× 52 0.5× 55 0.6× 13 0.2× 57 742
Constantinos P. Constantinou Cyprus 25 122 0.8× 20 0.2× 20 0.2× 41 0.5× 8 0.1× 83 1.8k
Laurence Anthony Japan 22 53 0.4× 65 0.5× 10 0.1× 159 1.8× 32 0.4× 76 1.8k
Elizabeth Gibney Denmark 21 90 0.6× 11 0.1× 25 0.2× 177 2.0× 19 0.2× 243 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Jon Agar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jon Agar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jon Agar

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brisbois, Marie Claire, et al.. (2024). Give UK science the overhaul it urgently needs. Nature. 631(8020). 271–274. 1 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon. (2020). What is science for? The Lighthill report on artificial intelligence reinterpreted. The British Journal for the History of Science. 53(3). 289–310. 14 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon. (2018). Science without frontiers: cosmopolitanism and national interests in the world of learning, 1870-1940. Annals of Science. 76(1). 103–105. 4 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon. (2017). 2016 Wilkins–Bernal–Medawar lecture The curious history of curiosity-driven research. Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. 71(4). 409–429. 9 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon. (2016). Europe's Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature. Annals of Science. 74(2). 173–174. 78 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon. (2012). Science in the 20th Century and Beyond. 12 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon. (2011). Thatcher, Scientist. Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. 65(3). 215–232. 5 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon. (2009). On the origin of technology. Nature. 461(7262). 349–349.
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Agar, Jon. (2008). What happened in the sixties?. The British Journal for the History of Science. 41(4). 567–600. 41 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon. (2006). Secret giants. Nature. 442(7104). 746–746.
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Agar, Jon. (2005). Review Article: Medium Meets Message: Can Media History and History of Technology Communicate?. Journal of Contemporary History. 40(4). 793–803. 1 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon. (2005). Recovered history. Nature. 434(7037). 1070–1071. 1 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon. (2005). Armed only with knowledge. Nature. 433(7024). 359–360. 2 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon. (2004). Technology and British Cartoonists in the Twentieth Century. Transactions of the Newcomen Society. 74(2). 181–196. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Crosbie, et al.. (1998). Making space for science : territorial themes in the shaping of knowledge. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 37 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon. (1994). Making a meal of the big dish: the construction of the Jodrell Bank Mark 1 radio telescope as a stable edifice, 1946–57. The British Journal for the History of Science. 27(1). 3–21. 2 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon, et al.. (1989). Single-ion heat of transport in electrolyte solutions: a hydrodynamic theory. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 93(5). 2079–2082. 134 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon, et al.. (1966). An electrical analogue for meniscus gas electrodes. Electrochimica Acta. 11(6). 603–621. 6 indexed citations
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Agar, Jon & James C. Turner. (1960). A NEW APPARATUS FOR MEASURING THE SORET EFFECT. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 64(8). 1000–1003. 13 indexed citations

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