Keith Michael Baker

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 919 citations indexed

About

Keith Michael Baker is a scholar working on History, History and Philosophy of Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith Michael Baker has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 919 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in History, 12 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Keith Michael Baker's work include European Political History Analysis (16 papers), Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (11 papers) and Political Theory and Influence (6 papers). Keith Michael Baker is often cited by papers focused on European Political History Analysis (16 papers), Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (11 papers) and Political Theory and Influence (6 papers). Keith Michael Baker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Keith Michael Baker's co-authors include Raymond Birn, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet, Christine H. Rossell, Bronisław Baczko, François Furet, Mona Ozouf, Lionel Gossman, Isser Woloch, Daniel Roche and Arthur Goldhammer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The American Historical Review and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

In The Last Decade

Keith Michael Baker

39 papers receiving 683 citations

Hit Papers

The old regime and the French Revolution 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 50 100 150 200
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. The old regime and the French Revolution
    1987 216 citations Keith Michael Baker University of Chicago Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Keith Michael Baker United States 13 369 305 236 149 132 43 919
François Furet France 16 388 1.1× 445 1.5× 369 1.6× 211 1.4× 85 0.6× 108 1.1k
Dennis E. Showalter United States 12 424 1.1× 364 1.2× 182 0.8× 46 0.3× 95 0.7× 101 896
Wolfgang J. Mommsen Germany 19 480 1.3× 810 2.7× 167 0.7× 47 0.3× 94 0.7× 117 1.3k
C. John Sommerville United States 11 173 0.5× 282 0.9× 258 1.1× 64 0.4× 68 0.5× 46 883
Christophe Charle France 13 193 0.5× 349 1.1× 191 0.8× 169 1.1× 20 0.2× 130 781
Ellen Schrecker United States 14 361 1.0× 414 1.4× 119 0.5× 57 0.4× 41 0.3× 49 878
G. R. Elton United States 16 204 0.6× 259 0.8× 427 1.8× 23 0.2× 208 1.6× 113 927
Nannerl O. Keohane United States 10 217 0.6× 178 0.6× 93 0.4× 38 0.3× 40 0.3× 37 538
Adrian Johns United States 13 126 0.3× 216 0.7× 198 0.8× 180 1.2× 73 0.6× 39 986
Konrad H. Jarausch United States 15 428 1.2× 389 1.3× 223 0.9× 41 0.3× 58 0.4× 112 823

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Fields of papers citing papers by Keith Michael Baker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keith Michael Baker

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Baker, Keith Michael. (2015). Fathers of football: great Britons who took the game to the world.
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Baker, Keith Michael. (2006). El concepto de cultura política en la reciente historiografía sobre la Revolución Francesa. Ayer. 89–110. 3 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael. (2005). Why engineering heritage matters. 3(1). 1–10. 1 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael. (2004). Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind: Tenth Epoch. Daedalus. 133(3). 65–82. 13 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael. (2001). Transformations of Classical Republicanism in Eighteenth‐Century France. The Journal of Modern History. 73(1). 32–53. 51 indexed citations
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Rossell, Christine H. & Keith Michael Baker. (1996). Bilingual Education in Massachusetts: The Emperor Has No Clothes. Book Summary. Pioneer Paper No. 10.. 5 indexed citations
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Furet, François, Mona Ozouf, & Keith Michael Baker. (1993). Le siècle de l'avènement républicain. Gallimard eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael. (1993). Au tribunal de l'opinion : essais sur l'imaginaire politique au XVIIIe siècle. Payot eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael. (1990). Inventing the French Revolution. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 173 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael, et al.. (1989). Condorcet, raison et politique. Revue Française de Sociologie. 30(3/4). 661–661. 9 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael. (1989). Sieyès and the Creation of the French Revolutionary Discourse. 2 indexed citations
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Censer, Jack R., Keith Michael Baker, Carol Blum, et al.. (1989). Revitalizing the Intellectual History of the French Revolution. Journal of the History of Ideas. 50(4). 652–652. 1 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael. (1987). The Political culture of the old regime. Pergamon Press eBooks. 29 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael. (1987). The old regime and the French Revolution. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 216 indexed citations breakdown →
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Baker, Keith Michael. (1987). Politique et opinion publique sous L'Ancien Régime. Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales. 42(1). 41–71. 10 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael. (1978). French Political Thought at the Accession of Louis XVI. The Journal of Modern History. 50(2). 279–303. 7 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael. (1978). State, Society, and Subsistence in Eighteenth-Century France. The Journal of Modern History. 50(4). 701–711. 1 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael. (1964). The early history of the term ‘social science’. Annals of Science. 20(3). 211–226. 24 indexed citations
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Baker, Keith Michael. (1962). An unpublished essay of Condorcet on technical methods of classification. Annals of Science. 18(2). 99–123. 10 indexed citations

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