Mel Scott

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 793 citations indexed

About

Mel Scott is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Mel Scott has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 793 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Urban Studies, 1 paper in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 0 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Mel Scott's work include Urbanization and City Planning (1 paper), Cultural Industries and Urban Development (1 paper) and American Environmental and Regional History (1 paper). Mel Scott is often cited by papers focused on Urbanization and City Planning (1 paper), Cultural Industries and Urban Development (1 paper) and American Environmental and Regional History (1 paper). Mel Scott collaborates with scholars based in . Mel Scott's co-authors include Richard Bruce, Robert C. Wood, Robert Moses, Charles R. Adrian, Harvey S. Perloff, John W. Reps and Paul Wheatley and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, The American Historical Review and Public Administration Review.

In The Last Decade

Mel Scott

10 papers receiving 586 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.

Five stages of growth in small business

1987 513 citations Mel Scott, Richard Bruce Long Range Planning profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mel Scott	7	273	204	182	163	162	10	793
Roger Bolton United States	11	211 0.8×	345 1.7×	81 0.4×	54 0.3×	84 0.5×	29	749
Philip Cooke United Kingdom	9	285 1.0×	237 1.2×	253 1.4×	62 0.4×	118 0.7×	29	793
Hans Westlund Sweden	14	355 1.3×	281 1.4×	136 0.7×	71 0.4×	113 0.7×	59	879
Norman Walzer United States	16	126 0.5×	341 1.7×	82 0.5×	46 0.3×	63 0.4×	72	806
Christos Kalantaridis United Kingdom	17	534 2.0×	242 1.2×	288 1.6×	79 0.5×	257 1.6×	47	994
D. Hugh Whittaker United Kingdom	16	109 0.4×	164 0.8×	331 1.8×	114 0.7×	116 0.7×	49	807
Paul Burns United Kingdom	11	237 0.9×	120 0.6×	144 0.8×	114 0.7×	152 0.9×	49	620
Graham Bannock India	10	128 0.5×	189 0.9×	100 0.5×	110 0.7×	58 0.4×	31	517
Jan Inge Jenssen Norway	14	356 1.3×	126 0.6×	311 1.7×	256 1.6×	281 1.7×	28	976
Patrizio Bianchi Italy	17	155 0.6×	430 2.1×	294 1.6×	111 0.7×	59 0.4×	68	840

Countries citing papers authored by Mel Scott

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mel Scott

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mel Scott. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mel Scott. The network helps show where Mel Scott may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mel Scott

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

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

1.

Scott, Mel & Richard Bruce. (1987). Five stages of growth in small business. Long Range Planning. 20(3). 45–52. 513 indexed citations breakdown →

2.

Scott, Mel. (1985). The San Francisco Bay Area. 17 indexed citations

3.

Moses, Robert, et al.. (1971). Public Works: A Dangerous Trade. The American Historical Review. 76(1). 210–210. 6 indexed citations

4.

Scott, Mel, et al.. (1971). American City Planning Since 1890.. American Sociological Review. 36(1). 139–139. 157 indexed citations

5.

Wheatley, Paul, John W. Reps, & Mel Scott. (1971). Town Planning in Frontier America. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 1(2). 371–371. 1 indexed citations

6.

Scott, Mel. (1970). The Federal-State Partnership in the Arts. Public Administration Review. 30(4). 376–376. 4 indexed citations

7.

Scott, Mel. (1969). American City Planning. 32 indexed citations

8.

Scott, Mel. (1969). American City Planning Since 1890: A History Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the American Institute of Planners. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 25 indexed citations

9.

Adrian, Charles R., et al.. (1961). Metropology: Folklore and Field Research. Public Administration Review. 21(3). 148–148. 7 indexed citations

10.

Wood, Robert C. & Mel Scott. (1960). The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective.. American Sociological Review. 25(4). 607–607. 31 indexed citations

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