Robert C. West

978 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 438 citations indexed

About

Robert C. West is a scholar working on Finance, Organic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert C. West has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 438 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Finance, 2 papers in Organic Chemistry and 1 paper in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Robert C. West's work include Global Financial Crisis and Policies (2 papers), Global Financial Regulation and Crises (2 papers) and Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (2 papers). Robert C. West is often cited by papers focused on Global Financial Crisis and Policies (2 papers), Global Financial Regulation and Crises (2 papers) and Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (2 papers). Robert C. West collaborates with scholars based in United States. Robert C. West's co-authors include Carl O. Sauer, Eugene G. Rochow, James R. Damewood, William J. Welsh, Edwin J. Perkins, Robert C. Osthoff, Lesley Byrd Simpson, François Le Chevalier, John James and Eugene N. White and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Macromolecules and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Robert C. West

15 papers receiving 338 citations

Hit Papers

Agricultural Origins and Dispersals 1953 2026 1977 2001 1953 50 100 150 200 250
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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. Agricultural Origins and Dispersals
    1953 286 citations Robert C. West, Carl O. Sauer Economic Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert C. West United States 7 77 66 51 49 47 19 438
James C. Scott Canada 7 59 0.8× 20 0.3× 57 1.1× 41 0.8× 31 0.7× 10 447
R. Gerard Ward Australia 12 156 2.0× 23 0.3× 55 1.1× 15 0.3× 57 428
Paul Arthur United Kingdom 12 10 0.1× 29 0.4× 144 2.8× 15 0.3× 12 0.3× 88 753
Charles Sprague Sargent United States 9 9 0.1× 68 1.0× 7 0.1× 32 0.7× 7 0.1× 23 299
Peter Henry Buck Germany 10 76 1.0× 7 0.1× 27 0.5× 4 0.1× 101 2.1× 18 259
William P. Mitchell United States 8 20 0.3× 11 0.2× 88 1.7× 13 0.3× 6 0.1× 22 352
Stephan F. de Borhegyi United States 10 54 0.7× 12 0.2× 187 3.7× 7 0.1× 13 0.3× 63 407
Steven E. Sidebotham United States 14 24 0.3× 14 0.2× 91 1.8× 23 0.5× 8 0.2× 64 808
David Farrier United Kingdom 15 47 0.6× 14 0.2× 2 0.0× 21 0.4× 99 2.1× 69 532
Thomas G. Alexander United States 13 11 0.1× 33 0.5× 2 0.0× 29 0.6× 27 0.6× 114 562

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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
1.
West, Robert C.. (2019). Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863-1923. Cornell University Press eBooks.
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West, Robert C.. (1992). Improving International Competitiveness. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice. 118(2). 107–112. 6 indexed citations
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Welsh, William J., James R. Damewood, & Robert C. West. (1989). Conformational energies and unperturbed chain dimensions of poly(phenylmethylsilylene) and poly(silastyrene). Macromolecules. 22(7). 2947–2951. 15 indexed citations
4.
West, Robert C. & Eugene N. White. (1984). The Regulation and Reform of the American Banking System, 1900-1929. The American Historical Review. 89(1). 217–217.
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West, Robert C.. (1983). The Evolution and Devolution of Bank Regulation in the United States. Journal of Economic Issues. 17(2). 361–367. 5 indexed citations
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West, Robert C.. (1982). The Depository Institutions Deregulation Act of 1980: a historical perspective. Econometric Reviews. 67. 3–13. 2 indexed citations
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West, Robert C., et al.. (1982). Bank holding companies: development and regulation. Econometric Reviews. 67. 3–13. 4 indexed citations
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West, Robert C., et al.. (1979). Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve 1863-1923. Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique. 12(2). 320–320. 3 indexed citations
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James, John & Robert C. West. (1978). Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863-1923. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 9(2). 377–377. 4 indexed citations
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West, Robert C.. (1978). MONEY IN THE COLONIAL AMERICAN ECONOMY. Economic Inquiry. 16(1). 1–15. 30 indexed citations
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West, Robert C., et al.. (1977). The Yanoama Indians: A Cultural Geography.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 57(1). 166–166. 1 indexed citations
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Perkins, Edwin J. & Robert C. West. (1977). Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve 1863-1923. Journal of American History. 64(3). 822–822. 6 indexed citations
13.
West, Robert C.. (1976). Real Bills, The Gold Standard, and Central Bank Policy. The Business History Review. 50(4). 503–513. 1 indexed citations
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West, Robert C., et al.. (1964). Land and Society in Colonial Mexico: The Great Hacienda. The American Historical Review. 70(1). 207–207. 12 indexed citations
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Osthoff, Robert C. & Robert C. West. (1954). The Chlorination of Metals in the Presence of a Donor Solvent1. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 76(18). 4732–4734. 6 indexed citations
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West, Robert C., et al.. (1954). The Addition Reaction between Trichlorogermane and an Olefin. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 76(22). 5878–5878. 26 indexed citations
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West, Robert C. & Carl O. Sauer. (1953). Agricultural Origins and Dispersals. Economic Geography. 29(4). 371–371. 286 indexed citations breakdown →
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West, Robert C., et al.. (1953). Colonial Placer Mining in Colombia.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 33(2). 271–271. 17 indexed citations
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Rochow, Eugene G., et al.. (1951). Propylgermanium Trichloride: The Question of Pyrolysis and Isomerization in the Direct Synthesis of Organogermanium Compounds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 73(11). 5486–5487. 14 indexed citations

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