Lewis Atherton

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Lewis Atherton is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lewis Atherton has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 4 papers in Marketing and 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Lewis Atherton's work include American Environmental and Regional History (5 papers), American History and Culture (4 papers) and Archaeology and Natural History (3 papers). Lewis Atherton is often cited by papers focused on American Environmental and Regional History (5 papers), American History and Culture (4 papers) and Archaeology and Natural History (3 papers). Lewis Atherton collaborates with scholars based in United States. Lewis Atherton's co-authors include Roderick Nash, Edward C. Kirkland, James Harvey Young, Theodore Saloutos, Page Smith, Ray Allen Billington, Wood Gray, Charles Tilly, David S. Landes and Leonard J. Arrington and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Journal of American History and The Economic History Review.

In The Last Decade

Lewis Atherton

19 papers receiving 763 citations

Hit Papers

Wilderness and the American Mind. 1968 2026 1987 2006 1968 250 500 750
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. Wilderness and the American Mind.
    1968 976 citations Lewis Atherton, Roderick Nash The Journal of Southern History profile →

Peers

Lewis Atherton
Teresa L. Scheid‐Cook United States
D. W. Meinig United States
Alfred Runte United States
Samuel P. Hays United States
J. T. Coppock United Kingdom
Marvin W. Mikesell United States
Patrick C. West United States
Ronald Rees Canada
John Brinckerhoff Jackson United States
Paul W. Taylor United States
Teresa L. Scheid‐Cook United States
Lewis Atherton
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Fields of papers citing papers by Lewis Atherton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lewis Atherton

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Atherton, Lewis, et al.. (1985). Main Street on the Middle Border. 11(2). 86–86. 15 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis, et al.. (1978). The Bonanza Kings: The Social Origins and Business Behavior of Western Mining Entrepreneurs, 1870-1900. Journal of American History. 65(2). 498–498. 1 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis & Ray Allen Billington. (1973). Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher. Western Historical Quarterly. 4(3). 327–327. 8 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis, David S. Landes, & Charles Tilly. (1972). History as Social Science.. The Journal of Southern History. 38(1). 109–109. 6 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis, et al.. (1972). The Frontier Merchant in Mid-America. Western Historical Quarterly. 3(4). 425–425. 17 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis & Roderick Nash. (1968). Wilderness and the American Mind.. The Journal of Southern History. 34(2). 282–282. 976 indexed citations breakdown →
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Atherton, Lewis, et al.. (1968). The Troubled Farmer, 1850-1900: Rural Adjustment to Industrialism. The American Historical Review. 74(2). 734–734. 1 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis & James B. Allen. (1967). The Company Town in the American West. Journal of American History. 53(4). 846–846. 3 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis & Page Smith. (1967). As a City upon a Hill: The Town in American History. The American Historical Review. 72(3). 1072–1072. 7 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis & James W. Silver. (1964). Mississippi: The Closed Society.. The Journal of Southern History. 30(4). 487–487. 4 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis, et al.. (1964). Cattle Raising on the Plains, 1900-1961. Journal of American History. 51(1). 116–116.
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Atherton, Lewis & James Harvey Young. (1962). The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 48(4). 716–716. 9 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis. (1961). The Cattle Kings. 13 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis & Theodore Saloutos. (1961). Farmer Movements in the South, 1865-1933. The American Historical Review. 66(2). 480–480. 8 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis & Leonard J. Arrington. (1960). Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latterday Saints 1830-1900.. The Economic History Review. 12(3). 497–497. 4 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis & Edward C. Kirkland. (1957). Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1860-1900. The American Historical Review. 62(3). 642–642. 14 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis, et al.. (1955). Main Street on the Middle Border. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 42(1). 142–142. 6 indexed citations
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Clark, Thomas D. & Lewis Atherton. (1955). Main Street on the Middle Border.. The Journal of Southern History. 21(4). 559–559. 2 indexed citations
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Atherton, Lewis. (1952). The Territorial Papers of the United States. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 38(4). 703–703.
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Atherton, Lewis. (1951). The Negro in American Business. The Journal of Economic History. 11(3). 304–305. 2 indexed citations

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