Richard R. John

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Richard R. John is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Marketing and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard R. John has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 15 papers in Marketing and 14 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Richard R. John's work include American Constitutional Law and Politics (16 papers), American History and Culture (15 papers) and ICT Impact and Policies (14 papers). Richard R. John is often cited by papers focused on American Constitutional Law and Politics (16 papers), American History and Culture (15 papers) and ICT Impact and Policies (14 papers). Richard R. John collaborates with scholars based in United States, Indonesia and United Kingdom. Richard R. John's co-authors include James W. Carey, Andrew Cayton, M. Summerfield, Charles Sellers, W. L. Bade, John F. Connors, Richard S. Tedlow, Jack N. Rakove, Steven W. Usselman and Seng Hansun and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, AIAA Journal and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Richard R. John

62 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 400 800 1.2k
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. Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society
    1992 1.4k citations Richard R. John et al. profile →

Peers

Richard R. John
John Hartley Australia
Vincent Mosco Canada
John Fiske United States
Denis McQuail Netherlands
John Street United Kingdom
Mark Andrejevic Australia
Kevin Robins United Kingdom
Neil Postman United States
Philip Schlesinger United Kingdom
David Croteau United States
John Hartley Australia
Richard R. John
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Countries citing papers authored by Richard R. John

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard R. John

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard R. John

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

All Works

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John, Richard R. & Heidi Tworek. (2021). Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion: From the Titanic Disaster to the Hungarian Uprising. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 211–237.
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John, Richard R.. (2020). The Founders never intended the U.S. Postal Service to be managed like a business. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University).
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John, Richard R., et al.. (2017). Capital Gains. University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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John, Richard R.. (2016). Adversarial Relations? Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 1–21. 1 indexed citations
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John, Richard R.. (2015). Projecting Power Overseas: U.S. Postal Policy and International Standard-Setting at the 1863 Paris Postal Conference. Journal of Policy History. 27(3). 416–438. 4 indexed citations
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John, Richard R.. (2013). Slavery in the American Republic: Developing the Federal Government. Journal of the Early Republic. 33(2). 368. 1 indexed citations
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John, Richard R.. (2011). Business Historians and the Challenge of Innovation. The Business History Review. 85(1). 185–201. 5 indexed citations
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John, Richard R.. (2009). Spreading the News. Harvard University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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John, Richard R.. (2008). Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians. The Business History Review. 82(2). 227–240. 1 indexed citations
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John, Richard R.. (2008). History of Universal Service and the Postal Monopoly. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 1–88. 1 indexed citations
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John, Richard R.. (2008). Review of Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. The Forum. 6(3). 1 indexed citations
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John, Richard R.. (2003). Affairs of Office: The Executive Departments, the Election of 1828, and the Making of the Democratic Party. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 50–84. 3 indexed citations
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John, Richard R.. (1998). Eben Norton Horsford, the Northmen, and the Founding of Massachusetts. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 45. 117–144.
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John, Richard R. & Charles R. Geisst. (1998). Wall Street: A History.. Journal of American History. 85(3). 1107–1107. 1 indexed citations
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John, Richard R., et al.. (1997). Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse. The New England Quarterly. 70(1). 168–168. 5 indexed citations
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Rakove, Jack N. & Richard R. John. (1997). Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 28(1). 148–148. 5 indexed citations
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John, Richard R.. (1995). Spreading the News. Harvard University Press eBooks. 118 indexed citations
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John, Richard R.. (1994). American Historians and the Concept of the Communications Revolution. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 98–110. 6 indexed citations
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Tedlow, Richard S. & Richard R. John. (1986). Managing Big Business: Essays from the Business History Review. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 21(4). 209–14. 6 indexed citations

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