Lee Sailer

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Lee Sailer is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Social Psychology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lee Sailer has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 4 papers in Social Psychology and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Lee Sailer's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (5 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (5 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (4 papers). Lee Sailer is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (5 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (5 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (4 papers). Lee Sailer collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Lee Sailer's co-authors include Peter D. Killworth, H. Russell Bernard, Steven J. C. Gaulin, Hal B. Gregersen, James S. Boster, Jeffrey A. Kurland, Jean Lave and Alex Stepick and has published in prestigious journals such as Human Relations, Annual Review of Anthropology and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

Lee Sailer

12 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Problem of Informant Accuracy: The Validity of Retrospective Data

1984 584 citations Peter D. Killworth, Lee Sailer et al. Annual Review of Anthropology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lee Sailer United States	10	485	389	363	194	149	13	1.6k
Marijtje A. J. van Duijn Netherlands	28	819 1.7×	643 1.7×	500 1.4×	267 1.4×	168 1.1×	92	2.7k
Tatsuya Kameda Japan	26	1.0k 2.1×	751 1.9×	289 0.8×	304 1.6×	137 0.9×	82	2.4k
José Luís Molina Spain	26	1.1k 2.3×	179 0.5×	222 0.6×	147 0.8×	222 1.5×	133	2.3k
Per Block Switzerland	13	399 0.8×	156 0.4×	273 0.8×	115 0.6×	82 0.6×	24	1.4k
Paul E. Smaldino United States	24	1.1k 2.2×	396 1.0×	175 0.5×	366 1.9×	62 0.4×	78	2.2k
Jason Kaufman United States	20	1.4k 2.9×	173 0.4×	401 1.1×	90 0.5×	495 3.3×	55	2.4k
Johan Koskinen United Kingdom	20	786 1.6×	108 0.3×	641 1.8×	138 0.7×	131 0.9×	62	1.9k
Robert Epstein United States	25	475 1.0×	471 1.2×	71 0.2×	321 1.7×	149 1.0×	92	2.2k
James S. Boster United States	26	399 0.8×	488 1.3×	55 0.2×	729 3.8×	29 0.2×	52	2.0k
Sam G. B. Roberts United Kingdom	19	786 1.6×	755 1.9×	400 1.1×	382 2.0×	183 1.2×	44	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lee Sailer

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All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Gregersen, Hal B. & Lee Sailer. (1993). Chaos Theory and Its Implications for Social Science Research. Human Relations. 46(7). 777–802. 86 indexed citations

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Sailer, Lee, Steven J. C. Gaulin, James S. Boster, & Jeffrey A. Kurland. (1985). Measuring the relationship between dietary quality and body size in primates. Primates. 26(1). 14–27. 85 indexed citations

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Gaulin, Steven J. C. & Lee Sailer. (1985). Are Females the Ecological Sex?. American Anthropologist. 87(1). 111–119. 42 indexed citations

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Sailer, Lee. (1984). New Ethnographies. Urban Life. 13(2). 302–305.

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Killworth, Peter D., et al.. (1984). The Problem of Informant Accuracy: The Validity of Retrospective Data. Annual Review of Anthropology. 13(1). 495–517. 584 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sailer, Lee & Steven J. C. Gaulin. (1984). Proximity, Sociality, and Observation: The Definition of Social Groups. American Anthropologist. 86(1). 91–98. 65 indexed citations

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Gaulin, Steven J. C. & Lee Sailer. (1984). Sexual dimorphism in weight among the primates: The relative impact of allometry and sexual selection. International Journal of Primatology. 5(6). 515–535. 113 indexed citations

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Bernard, H. Russell, Peter D. Killworth, & Lee Sailer. (1982). Informant accuracy in social-network data V. An experimental attempt to predict actual communication from recall data. Social Science Research. 11(1). 30–66. 221 indexed citations

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Bernard, H. Russell, Peter D. Killworth, & Lee Sailer. (1981). A note on inferences regarding network subgroups. Social Networks. 3(1). 89–91. 2 indexed citations

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Bernard, H. Russell, Peter D. Killworth, & Lee Sailer. (1979). Informant accuracy in social network data IV: a comparison of clique-level structure in behavioral and cognitive network data. Social Networks. 2(3). 191–218. 238 indexed citations

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Sailer, Lee. (1978). Structural equivalence: Meaning and definition, computation and application. Social Networks. 1(1). 73–90. 168 indexed citations

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Lave, Jean, Alex Stepick, & Lee Sailer. (1977). extending the scope of formal analysis: a technique for integrating analysis of kinship relations with analyses of other dyadic relations. American Ethnologist. 4(2). 321–338. 7 indexed citations

13.

Sailer, Lee, et al.. (1972). Kinship systems and inverse semigroups. Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 2(1). 37–61. 13 indexed citations

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