Michael Brown

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 956 citations indexed

About

Michael Brown is a scholar working on History, History and Philosophy of Science and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Brown has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 956 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in History, 8 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 8 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael Brown's work include Medical History and Innovations (8 papers), Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (7 papers) and History of Science and Medicine (5 papers). Michael Brown is often cited by papers focused on Medical History and Innovations (8 papers), Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (7 papers) and History of Science and Medicine (5 papers). Michael Brown collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Michael Brown's co-authors include E. W. Sawyer, Bernardo Cesare, Peter K. Manning, Donald A. Riley, Robert G. Cook, Larry Knopp, Justin M. Sayde, V. A. Alder, Stephen J. Cringle and Christopher Lawrence and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Administrative Science Quarterly and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Michael Brown

30 papers receiving 875 citations

Hit Papers

In Amazonia: A Natural History 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 40 80 120
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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. In Amazonia: A Natural History
    2003 146 citations Michael Brown Tipití Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Brown United Kingdom 11 293 208 162 131 94 38 956
Carl Knappett Canada 20 21 0.1× 275 1.3× 59 0.4× 21 0.2× 118 1.3× 52 1.8k
Colin Richards United Kingdom 19 49 0.2× 91 0.4× 37 0.2× 20 0.2× 7 0.1× 97 1.2k
Catherine M. Cameron United States 21 26 0.1× 284 1.4× 29 0.2× 7 0.1× 26 0.3× 74 1.4k
Paul G. Bahn United Kingdom 23 22 0.1× 112 0.5× 34 0.2× 14 0.1× 120 1.3× 144 2.5k
Creighton Gabel 22 25 0.1× 102 0.5× 54 0.3× 29 0.2× 15 0.2× 53 2.0k
Stephen Houston United States 24 10 0.0× 53 0.3× 146 0.9× 45 0.3× 19 0.2× 89 2.2k
André Leroi‐Gourhan France 19 14 0.0× 105 0.5× 22 0.1× 18 0.1× 92 1.0× 80 1.6k
T. C. Chamberlin United States 4 23 0.1× 56 0.3× 8 0.0× 62 0.5× 30 0.3× 7 771
Andrew Meirion Jones United Kingdom 19 22 0.1× 63 0.3× 17 0.1× 9 0.1× 33 0.4× 62 1.3k
Valentine Roux France 21 8 0.0× 113 0.5× 22 0.1× 16 0.1× 121 1.3× 58 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Brown

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Brown

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Brown

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Brown. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Brown 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 Michael Brown. Michael Brown 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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Brown, Michael. (2022). Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael. (2022). Dolores Martín Moruno and Beatriz Pichel, ed., Emotional Bodies: The Historical Performativity of Emotions. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 77(4). 475–477.
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Brown, Michael. (2020). Wounds and Wonder: Emotion, Imagination and War in the Cultures of Romantic Surgery. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 43(2). 239–259. 3 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael, et al.. (2019). Martial masculinities: Experiencing and imagining the military in the long nineteenth century.
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Brown, Michael. (2017). Cold Steel, Weak Flesh: Mechanism, Masculinity and the Anxieties of Late Victorian Empire. Cultural and Social History. 14(2). 155–181. 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael. (2013). Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle by Sylvia A. Pamboukian (review). Bulletin of the history of medicine. 87(4). 688–690.
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Brown, Michael. (2012). Safeguarding the Intangible. 6(2). 93–97. 8 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael & Justin M. Sayde. (2012). Same/different discrimination by bumblebee colonies. Animal Cognition. 16(1). 117–125. 31 indexed citations
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Sawyer, E. W., Bernardo Cesare, & Michael Brown. (2011). When the Continental Crust Melts. Elements. 7(4). 229–234. 298 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael. (2010). “Like a Devoted Army”: Medicine, Heroic Masculinity, and the Military Paradigm in Victorian Britain. Journal of British Studies. 49(3). 592–622. 19 indexed citations
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Golding, Barry, Annette Foley, & Michael Brown. (2007). Shedding some new light on gender : Evidence about men's informal learning preferences from Australian men's sheds in community contexts. FedUni ResearchOnline (Federation University Australia). 2 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael. (2006). Making sense of modernity's maladies: health and disease in the Industrial Revolution. Endeavour. 30(3). 108–112. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael & Margaret Bruchac. (2006). NAGPRA from the Middle Distance: Legal Puzzles and Unintended Consequences. ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania). 193–217. 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael. (2006). RETHINKING EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY ASYLUM REFORM. The Historical Journal. 49(2). 425–452. 9 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael. (2003). In Amazonia: A Natural History. Tipití Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. 1(1). 146 indexed citations breakdown →
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Knopp, Larry & Michael Brown. (2003). Queer Diffusions. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 21(4). 409–424. 74 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael, et al.. (1998). The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in An Anxious Age. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 27(5). 501–501. 8 indexed citations
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Alder, V. A., Stephen J. Cringle, & Michael Brown. (1987). The effect of regional retinal photocoagulation on vitreal oxygen tension.. PubMed. 28(7). 1078–85. 38 indexed citations

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