Robert A. Sears

904 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 428 citations indexed

About

Robert A. Sears is a scholar working on Neurology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert A. Sears has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 428 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Neurology, 2 papers in Epidemiology and 1 paper in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Robert A. Sears's work include Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis (2 papers), Fungal Infections and Studies (1 paper) and Meningioma and schwannoma management (1 paper). Robert A. Sears is often cited by papers focused on Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis (2 papers), Fungal Infections and Studies (1 paper) and Meningioma and schwannoma management (1 paper). Robert A. Sears collaborates with scholars based in United States. Robert A. Sears's co-authors include Henry A. Murray, Talcott Parsons, Samuel A. Stouffer, Edward Shils, Gordon W. Āllport, Clyde Kluckhohn, Richard C. Sheldon, E. Ralph Heinz, James F. Schwartz and Barbara H. Settles and has published in prestigious journals such as Endocrinology, Journal of neurosurgery and Journal of Marriage and the Family.

In The Last Decade

Robert A. Sears

6 papers receiving 366 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Toward a General Theory of Action

1952 341 citations Talcott Parsons, Edward Shils et al. The American Catholic Sociological Review profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert A. Sears United States	5	125	121	63	34	31	7	428
Ronald M. Green United States	14	88 0.7×	48 0.4×	70 1.1×	19 0.6×	7 0.2×	72	619
John Howells United Kingdom	14	87 0.7×	63 0.5×	41 0.7×	22 0.6×	5 0.2×	70	629
Pierre Vrignaud France	13	81 0.6×	115 1.0×	84 1.3×	73 2.1×	10 0.3×	37	552
Sébastien Brion United States	10	207 1.7×	176 1.5×	176 2.8×	12 0.4×	25 0.8×	18	644
Sarah Burke United Kingdom	14	75 0.6×	54 0.4×	109 1.7×	33 1.0×	36 1.2×	27	605
Robyn Walker United States	12	52 0.4×	87 0.7×	74 1.2×	49 1.4×	23 0.7×	22	386
Kaibin Xu China	16	175 1.4×	49 0.4×	29 0.5×	23 0.7×	16 0.5×	44	823
Henry Miller United Kingdom	12	97 0.8×	56 0.5×	19 0.3×	171 5.0×	4 0.1×	29	473
Grace Chen United States	7	115 0.9×	115 1.0×	216 3.4×	29 0.9×	18 0.6×	12	503
David L. DeVries United States	13	110 0.9×	126 1.0×	60 1.0×	220 6.5×	3 0.1×	37	596

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All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

1.

Settles, Barbara H., Robert A. Sears, & S. Shirley Feldman. (1975). The Seven Ages of Man. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 37(1). 240–240. 11 indexed citations

2.

Rudman, Daniel, Bettye Hollins, Michale E. Keeling, et al.. (1973). Melanotropic-Lipolytic Peptides in Various Regions of Bovine, Simian and Human Brains and in Simian and Human Cerebrospinal Fluids. Endocrinology. 92(2). 372–379. 34 indexed citations

3.

Heinz, E. Ralph, James F. Schwartz, & Robert A. Sears. (1968). Thrombosis in the vein of Galen malformation. British Journal of Radiology. 41(486). 424–428. 24 indexed citations

4.

Sears, Robert A., et al.. (1968). Fungus Infection of the Gasserian Ganglion. Archives of Neurology. 19(2). 208–212. 2 indexed citations

5.

Sears, Robert A., et al.. (1961). Angiographic Appearance of a Papilloma of the Choroid Plexus. Journal of neurosurgery. 18(6). 822–825. 16 indexed citations

6.

Sears, Robert A.. (1954). THE PRESENT STATUS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF HYDROCEPHALUS. Southern Medical Journal. 47(1). 50–54.

7.

Parsons, Talcott, Edward Shils, Gordon W. Āllport, et al.. (1952). Toward a General Theory of Action. The American Catholic Sociological Review. 13(3). 179–179. 341 indexed citations breakdown →

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