Paul Slack

4.4k total citations
72 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Paul Slack is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, History and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Slack has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 14 papers in History and 13 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Paul Slack's work include Historical Economic and Social Studies (27 papers), Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (13 papers) and Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (6 papers). Paul Slack is often cited by papers focused on Historical Economic and Social Studies (27 papers), Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (13 papers) and Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (6 papers). Paul Slack collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Paul Slack's co-authors include Harold J. Cook, Donald Woodward, James Sharpe, Peter Clark, Keith Wrightson, David I. Levine, R. B. Outhwaite, Roy Porter, D. W. Jones and Roger Schofield and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The American Historical Review and Taxon.

In The Last Decade

Paul Slack

66 papers receiving 941 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Slack United Kingdom 20 625 497 311 214 152 72 1.4k
Mark Harrison United Kingdom 22 197 0.3× 250 0.5× 373 1.2× 277 1.3× 73 0.5× 75 1.4k
Philippa Levine United States 20 129 0.2× 451 0.9× 823 2.6× 225 1.1× 70 0.5× 59 1.5k
Barbara A. Hanawalt United States 20 328 0.5× 435 0.9× 292 0.9× 191 0.9× 17 0.1× 60 1.1k
Patrick Wallis United Kingdom 16 320 0.5× 202 0.4× 268 0.9× 71 0.3× 23 0.2× 51 904
Guido Alfani Italy 19 727 1.2× 164 0.3× 257 0.8× 239 1.1× 207 1.4× 86 1.2k
Harold J. Cook United States 17 164 0.3× 262 0.5× 98 0.3× 55 0.3× 32 0.2× 63 855
Derek Fraser United Kingdom 16 193 0.3× 154 0.3× 216 0.7× 215 1.0× 28 0.2× 57 790
William B. Cohen United States 14 63 0.1× 197 0.4× 303 1.0× 178 0.8× 25 0.2× 55 834
Jacques Dupâquier France 15 273 0.4× 191 0.4× 278 0.9× 86 0.4× 28 0.2× 100 800
Betsy Hartmann United States 8 80 0.1× 132 0.3× 541 1.7× 158 0.7× 52 0.3× 13 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Slack

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Slack

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Slack, Paul. (2021). Plague: A Very Short Introduction. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations
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Slack, Paul. (2020). Responses to Plague in Early Modern Europe: The Implications of Public Health. Social research. 87(2). 409–428. 14 indexed citations
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Slack, Paul. (2014). The Invention of Improvement. Oxford University Press eBooks. 18 indexed citations
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Slack, Paul. (2004). Plague: Black Death and Pestilence in Europe (Book). The English Historical Review. 119(483). 1050. 1 indexed citations
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Slack, Paul. (2004). Measuring the national wealth in seventeenth‐century England. The Economic History Review. 57(4). 607–635. 1 indexed citations
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Slack, Paul, et al.. (2002). The peopling of Britain : the shaping of a human landscape. Oxford University Press eBooks. 19 indexed citations
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Chin, Tom D. Y. & Paul Slack. (1997). The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England. Journal of Public Health Policy. 18(3). 367–367. 15 indexed citations
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Packard, Randall M., Terence Ranger, & Paul Slack. (1995). Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 25(4). 648–648. 26 indexed citations
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Morrill, John, Paul Slack, Daniel Woolf, & G. E. Aylmer. (1993). Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England Essays Presented to G.E. Aylmer. Clarendon Press eBooks. 10 indexed citations
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Slack, Paul, F. J. Fisher, Penelope J. Corfield, & N. B. Harte. (1991). London and the English Economy, 1500-1700.. The Economic History Review. 44(3). 533–533. 14 indexed citations
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Slack, Paul & Roy Porter. (1991). The Medical History of Waters and Spas.. The Economic History Review. 44(4). 753–753. 29 indexed citations
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Slack, Paul. (1989). The black death past and present. 2. Some historical problems. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 83(4). 461–463. 42 indexed citations
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Walter, John, Peter Laslett, Keith Wrightson, et al.. (1989). Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 85 indexed citations
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Slack, Paul. (1986). International Calvinism 1541-1715. 24(4). 340–341. 18 indexed citations
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Slack, Paul. (1981). The Disappearance of Plague: An Alternative View. The Economic History Review. 34(3). 469–476. 30 indexed citations
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Clark, Peter, Peter Burke, & Paul Slack. (1977). The urban setting. Open University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Slack, Paul, et al.. (1977). The traditional community under stress. Open University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Clark, Peter & Paul Slack. (1977). Poverty in Early-Stuart Salisbury.. The Economic History Review. 30(2). 355–355. 8 indexed citations
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Slack, Paul. (1972). Religious protest and urban authority: the case of Henry Sherfield, iconoclast, 1633. Studies in Church History. 9. 295–302. 5 indexed citations

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