Ken Alder

1.1k total citations
19 papers, 438 citations indexed

About

Ken Alder is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, History and Visual Arts and Performing Arts. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Alder has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 438 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 2 papers in History and 2 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Recurrent topics in Ken Alder's work include Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 papers), Rhetoric and Communication Studies (1 paper) and Military History and Strategy (1 paper). Ken Alder is often cited by papers focused on Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 papers), Rhetoric and Communication Studies (1 paper) and Military History and Strategy (1 paper). Ken Alder collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ken Alder's co-authors include Paul Edwards, Owen Connelly, Charles Coulston Gillispie and Sam Scott and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The American Historical Review and American Journal of Physics.

In The Last Decade

Ken Alder

18 papers receiving 320 citations

Peers

Ken Alder
Bruce Hevly United States
Shane Barnes Ukraine
Graeme Gooday United Kingdom
Olga Amsterdamska Netherlands
Eric Schatzberg United States
Paul Israël United States
Geoffrey Winthrop‐Young Canada
Steven Lubar United States
Ernst Breisach United States
Henry Lowood United States
Bruce Hevly United States
Ken Alder
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Countries citing papers authored by Ken Alder

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ken Alder

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken Alder

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ken Alder. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ken Alder based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ken Alder. Ken Alder is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Alder, Ken. (2013). The History of Science as Oxymoron: From Scientific Exceptionalism to Episcience. Isis. 104(1). 88–101. 15 indexed citations
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Alder, Ken. (2010). Engineering the Revolution. 11 indexed citations
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Alder, Ken. (2007). Introduction. Isis. 98(1). 80–83. 11 indexed citations
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Alder, Ken. (2007). America’s Two Gadgets. Isis. 98(1). 124–137. 7 indexed citations
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Alder, Ken. (2004). History’s Greatest Forger: Science, Fiction, and Fraud along the Seine. Critical Inquiry. 30(4). 702–716. 2 indexed citations
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Alder, Ken. (2003). The measure of the world. 3 indexed citations
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Alder, Ken, et al.. (2003). The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World. American Journal of Physics. 71(11). 1214–1216. 19 indexed citations
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Alder, Ken. (2002). A Social History of Untruth: Lie Detection and Trust in Twentieth-Century America. Representations. 80(1). 1–33. 23 indexed citations
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Alder, Ken. (2002). The measure of all things : the seven-year odyssey that transformed the world. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 13 indexed citations
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Alder, Ken. (2000). French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment. Technology and Culture. 41(3). 588–589.
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Alder, Ken. (1998). Making Things the Same. Social Studies of Science. 28(4). 499–545. 47 indexed citations
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Scott, Sam & Ken Alder. (1998). Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815. The Journal of Military History. 62(1). 206–206. 18 indexed citations
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Connelly, Owen & Ken Alder. (1998). Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815. The American Historical Review. 103(5). 1606–1606. 58 indexed citations
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Gillispie, Charles Coulston & Ken Alder. (1998). Engineering the Revolution. Technology and Culture. 39(4). 733–733. 15 indexed citations
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Gillispie, Charles Coulston & Ken Alder. (1998). Engineering the Revolution. Technology and Culture. 39(4). 733–754. 6 indexed citations
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Alder, Ken & Paul Edwards. (1997). The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America.. Journal of American History. 84(3). 1130–1130. 161 indexed citations
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Alder, Ken. (1997). Innovation and Amnesia: Engineering Rationality and the Fate of Interchangeable Parts Manufacturing in France. Technology and Culture. 38(2). 273–311. 6 indexed citations
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Alder, Ken. (1997). Innovation and Amnesia: Engineering Rationality and the Fate of Interchangeable Parts Manufacturing in France. Technology and Culture. 38(2). 273–273. 22 indexed citations
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