Ken Block

675 total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 468 citations indexed

About

Ken Block is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Conservation and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Block has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 468 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Clinical Psychology, 2 papers in Conservation and 1 paper in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ken Block's work include Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (3 papers), Art Therapy and Mental Health (2 papers) and Logic, programming, and type systems (1 paper). Ken Block is often cited by papers focused on Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (3 papers), Art Therapy and Mental Health (2 papers) and Logic, programming, and type systems (1 paper). Ken Block collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ken Block's co-authors include Scott McPeak, Seth Hallem, Dawson Engler, Andy Chou, Tracy Herrmann, William R. Marchand, Stephen R.J. Sheppard and Julie Newton and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Complementary Therapies in Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Ken Block

4 papers receiving 447 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A few billion lines of code later

2010 421 citations Ken Block, Andy Chou et al. Communications of the ACM profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ken Block United States	4	264	256	122	119	106	4	468
Mohammad R. Haghighat United States	11	136 0.5×	149 0.6×	251 2.1×	67 0.6×	309 2.9×	27	777
Sangchul Han South Korea	9	51 0.2×	160 0.6×	67 0.5×	178 1.5×	172 1.6×	56	311
Dongpeng Xu United States	10	90 0.3×	111 0.4×	129 1.1×	199 1.7×	65 0.6×	24	299
Kristopher Micinski United States	8	98 0.4×	161 0.6×	115 0.9×	233 2.0×	183 1.7×	18	396
Pavol Bielik Switzerland	11	204 0.8×	278 1.1×	170 1.4×	118 1.0×	150 1.4×	20	494
Brian Grant United States	7	73 0.3×	67 0.3×	167 1.4×	18 0.2×	103 1.0×	12	368
Michael Emmi United States	11	215 0.8×	124 0.5×	204 1.7×	98 0.8×	256 2.4×	27	559
Chad Spensky United States	9	118 0.4×	141 0.6×	234 1.9×	265 2.2×	105 1.0×	17	377
Bryan Robbins United States	8	138 0.5×	92 0.4×	24 0.2×	53 0.4×	57 0.5×	14	289
Kari Nies United States	9	49 0.2×	229 0.9×	234 1.9×	25 0.2×	170 1.6×	10	462

Countries citing papers authored by Ken Block

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ken Block

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken Block

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ken Block. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ken Block 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 Block. Ken Block is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Marchand, William R., et al.. (2021). Mindfulness-based Therapeutic Sailing for Veterans With Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders. Military Medicine. 187(3-4). e445–e452. 8 indexed citations

2.

Marchand, William R., et al.. (2019). Mindfulness Training plus Nature Exposure for Veterans with Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders: A Model Intervention. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(23). 4726–4726. 11 indexed citations

3.

Marchand, William R., et al.. (2018). Safety and psychological impact of sailing adventure therapy among Veterans with substance use disorders. Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 40. 42–47. 28 indexed citations

4.

Block, Ken, et al.. (2010). A few billion lines of code later. Communications of the ACM. 53(2). 66–75. 421 indexed citations breakdown →

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