Lawrence Rakestraw

936 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 505 citations indexed

About

Lawrence Rakestraw is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Anthropology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Lawrence Rakestraw has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 505 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 3 papers in Anthropology and 2 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Lawrence Rakestraw's work include American Environmental and Regional History (6 papers), Archaeology and Natural History (3 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (2 papers). Lawrence Rakestraw is often cited by papers focused on American Environmental and Regional History (6 papers), Archaeology and Natural History (3 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (2 papers). Lawrence Rakestraw collaborates with scholars based in United States. Lawrence Rakestraw's co-authors include Donald Worster and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Western Historical Quarterly and Pacific Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Lawrence Rakestraw

7 papers receiving 357 citations

Hit Papers

Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the A... 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
    1987 425 citations Lawrence Rakestraw, Donald Worster Western Historical Quarterly profile →

Peers

Lawrence Rakestraw
Thomas R. Berger United States
Richard S. Dunn United Kingdom
George Saliba United States
Lisa Hiwasaki United States
Elmo Richardson United States
Peter Collier United Kingdom
David Shim Netherlands
John R. Borchert United States
D. R. Fraser Taylor Canada
Paul W. Gates United States
Thomas R. Berger United States
Lawrence Rakestraw
Citations per year, relative to Lawrence Rakestraw Lawrence Rakestraw (= 1×) peers Thomas R. Berger

Countries citing papers authored by Lawrence Rakestraw

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lawrence Rakestraw

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lawrence Rakestraw

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

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
1.
Rakestraw, Lawrence. (2002). A history of the United States Forest Service in Alaska. 5 indexed citations
2.
Rakestraw, Lawrence & Donald Worster. (1987). Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. Western Historical Quarterly. 18(3). 349–349. 425 indexed citations breakdown →
3.
Rakestraw, Lawrence. (1979). Forest History in Alaska: Four Approaches to Two Forest Ecosystems. Journal of Forest History. 23(2). 60–71.
4.
Rakestraw, Lawrence. (1979). A history of forest conservation in the Pacific Northwest, 1891-1913. 1 indexed citations
5.
Rakestraw, Lawrence. (1972). Conservation Historiography: An Assessment. Pacific Historical Review. 41(3). 271–288. 9 indexed citations
6.
Rakestraw, Lawrence. (1966). Past, Present, and Future. 10(3). 34–39. 53 indexed citations
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Rakestraw, Lawrence, et al.. (1964). Land Use Policy and Problems in the United States. The American Historical Review. 69(3). 785–785. 7 indexed citations
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Rakestraw, Lawrence. (1958). Sheep Grazing in the Cascade Range: John Minto vs. John Muir. Pacific Historical Review. 27(4). 371–382. 5 indexed citations

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