Robert Kirk

2.1k total citations
56 papers, 777 citations indexed

About

Robert Kirk is a scholar working on Small Animals, History and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Kirk has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 777 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Small Animals, 8 papers in History and 8 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Robert Kirk's work include Animal testing and alternatives (9 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 papers) and Medical History and Innovations (6 papers). Robert Kirk is often cited by papers focused on Animal testing and alternatives (9 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 papers) and Medical History and Innovations (6 papers). Robert Kirk collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sudan. Robert Kirk's co-authors include David J. Lewis, Tim Rocktäschel, Amy Zhang, Edward Grefenstette, D. J. Lewis, Beth Greenhough, Gail Davies, Pru Hobson‐West, Edmund Ramsden and Howard J. Falcon‐Lang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Philosophical Review.

In The Last Decade

Robert Kirk

52 papers receiving 708 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Kirk United Kingdom 17 169 147 125 114 66 56 777
Sebastian E. Heath United States 15 150 0.9× 270 1.8× 73 0.6× 66 0.6× 61 0.9× 39 701
Dominique Castex France 15 113 0.7× 356 2.4× 31 0.2× 7 0.1× 39 0.6× 65 912
J.F. Beckers Belgium 18 253 1.5× 344 2.3× 10 0.1× 204 1.8× 10 0.2× 41 970
Boyd R. Jones New Zealand 18 46 0.3× 249 1.7× 43 0.3× 266 2.3× 60 0.9× 41 895
Andrew Knight United Kingdom 21 104 0.6× 206 1.4× 14 0.1× 390 3.4× 20 0.3× 84 1.2k
Bethany Wilson Australia 15 41 0.2× 273 1.9× 26 0.2× 318 2.8× 45 0.7× 69 722
Jerrold Tannenbaum United States 8 73 0.4× 200 1.4× 11 0.1× 236 2.1× 19 0.3× 16 705
Mark Jago United Kingdom 19 32 0.2× 117 0.8× 6 0.0× 143 1.3× 71 1.1× 84 1.2k
Silvana Diverio Italy 17 36 0.2× 447 3.0× 94 0.8× 314 2.8× 19 0.3× 55 790
R. C. Roberts United Kingdom 18 67 0.4× 511 3.5× 86 0.7× 38 0.3× 15 0.2× 36 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Kirk

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Kirk

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Kirk

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kirk, Robert, Amy Zhang, Edward Grefenstette, & Tim Rocktäschel. (2023). A Survey of Zero-shot Generalisation in Deep Reinforcement Learning. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 76. 201–264. 75 indexed citations
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Kirk, Robert, et al.. (2022). The Birth of Hirudiculture: Parisian Medicine, Leech Farming and the Transformation of Marshland in Nineteenth-Century France. Environment and History. 30(1). 77–103. 1 indexed citations
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Kirk, Robert, et al.. (2022). Governance, expertise, and the ‘culture of care’: The changing constitutions of laboratory animal research in Britain, 1876–2000. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 93. 107–122. 6 indexed citations
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Kirk, Robert & Edmund Ramsden. (2021). “Havens of mercy”: health, medical research, and the governance of the movement of dogs in twentieth-century America. History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 43(4). 126–126. 1 indexed citations
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Davies, Gail, Richard Gorman, Beth Greenhough, et al.. (2020). Animal research nexus: a new approach to the connections between science, health and animal welfare. Medical Humanities. 46(4). 499–511. 27 indexed citations
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Kirk, Robert. (2019). The Silver Spring monkey controversy: changing cultures of care in twentieth-century laboratory animal research. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13(2). 31–59. 3 indexed citations
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Kirk, Robert & Edmund Ramsden. (2018). Working across species down on the farm: Howard S. Liddell and the development of comparative psychopathology, c. 1923–1962. History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 40(1). 24–24. 7 indexed citations
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Falcon‐Lang, Howard J., Conrad C. Labandeira, & Robert Kirk. (2015). HERBIVOROUS AND DETRITIVOROUS ARTHROPOD TRACE FOSSILS ASSOCIATED WITH SUBHUMID VEGETATION IN THE MIDDLE PENNSYLVANIAN OF SOUTHERN BRITAIN. Palaios. 30(3). 192–206. 27 indexed citations
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Kirk, Robert. (2012). "Life in a Germ-Free World": Isolating Life from the Laboratory Animal to the Bubble Boy. Bulletin of the history of medicine. 86(2). 237–275. 30 indexed citations
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Kirk, Robert. (2012). “Standardization through Mechanization”: Germ-Free Life and the Engineering of the Ideal Laboratory Animal. Technology and Culture. 53(1). 61–93. 22 indexed citations
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Kirk, Robert. (2008). ‘Wanted—standard guinea pigs’: standardisation and the experimental animal market in Britain ca. 1919–1947. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 39(3). 280–291. 40 indexed citations
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Price, C. E. & Robert Kirk. (1967). First description of à monogenetic trematode from Malawi.. 76. 137–144. 18 indexed citations
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Kirk, Robert. (1959). Mycoses of Malaya and Singapore.. PubMed. 62(1). 10–7. 1 indexed citations
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Kirk, Robert. (1959). Virus infections in the Sudan.. PubMed. 62. 213–6. 2 indexed citations
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Kirk, Robert. (1957). Factors in the pathogenesis of ocular onchocerciasis.. PubMed. 16(3). 485–93.
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Kirk, Robert, et al.. (1957). Observations on the chemotherapy of onchocerciasis in Bahr el Ghazal Province, Sudan.. PubMed. 16(3). 531–40. 16 indexed citations
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Kirk, Robert. (1957). Filariasis in the Sudan.. PubMed. 16(3). 593–9. 10 indexed citations

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