Robert N. Proctor

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
52 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Robert N. Proctor is a scholar working on History, Political Science and International Relations and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert N. Proctor has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in History, 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 6 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Robert N. Proctor's work include Medical History and Research (9 papers), Smoking Behavior and Cessation (6 papers) and European history and politics (6 papers). Robert N. Proctor is often cited by papers focused on Medical History and Research (9 papers), Smoking Behavior and Cessation (6 papers) and European history and politics (6 papers). Robert N. Proctor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Hungary. Robert N. Proctor's co-authors include Londa Schiebinger, Henry Friedlander, Elizabeth W. Etheridge, Geoffrey Cocks, K. Michael Cummings, Kaori Iida, Kim‐Phuong L. Vu, David F. Noble, Gary Cross and Valery N. Soyfer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Robert N. Proctor

44 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Igno... 1990 2026 2002 2014 2008 1990 200 400 600
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. Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
    2008 720 citations Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) profile →
  2. Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis.
    1990 323 citations Robert N. Proctor et al. 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 N. Proctor United States 21 748 377 345 326 280 52 2.8k
Dorothy Nelkin United States 31 1.9k 2.5× 119 0.3× 235 0.7× 374 1.1× 261 0.9× 163 4.4k
William I. Thomas United States 19 908 1.2× 80 0.2× 315 0.9× 229 0.7× 150 0.5× 31 2.5k
Steven Epstein United States 20 966 1.3× 68 0.2× 173 0.5× 570 1.7× 203 0.7× 50 2.9k
Celeste M. Condit United States 35 1.2k 1.7× 114 0.3× 147 0.4× 265 0.8× 197 0.7× 133 3.9k
Melinda Cooper Australia 20 1.2k 1.6× 66 0.2× 212 0.6× 231 0.7× 443 1.6× 56 2.5k
Catherine Waldby Australia 26 567 0.8× 112 0.3× 790 2.3× 293 0.9× 60 0.2× 72 2.9k
Allen Buchanan United States 37 1.4k 1.9× 88 0.2× 155 0.4× 701 2.2× 2.1k 7.4× 112 5.2k
Robert H. Jackson United States 32 2.1k 2.8× 263 0.7× 191 0.6× 1.9k 5.9× 2.0k 7.1× 177 6.7k
Peter Keating Canada 26 311 0.4× 95 0.3× 313 0.9× 264 0.8× 34 0.1× 86 2.2k
Joan H. Fujimura United States 17 560 0.7× 69 0.2× 107 0.3× 142 0.4× 74 0.3× 31 2.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert N. Proctor

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Proctor, Robert N., et al.. (2019). Big tobacco focuses on the facts to hide the truth: an algorithmic exploration of courtroom tropes and taboos. Tobacco Control. 29(e1). tobaccocontrol–2019. 6 indexed citations
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Kohrman, Matthew, et al.. (2018). Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives. 4 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N.. (2015). The cigarette catastrophe continues. The Lancet. 385(9972). 938–939. 7 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N.. (2013). Why ban the sale of cigarettes? The case for abolition. Tobacco Control. 22(suppl 1). i27–i30. 42 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N. & Londa Schiebinger. (2008). Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance. PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation). 720 indexed citations breakdown →
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Proctor, Robert N.. (2007). “‐Logos,” “‐Ismos,” and “‐Ikos”. Isis. 98(2). 290–309. 6 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N.. (2006). “Everyone knew but no one had proof”: tobacco industry use of medical history expertise in US courts, 1990–2002. Tobacco Control. 15(suppl 4). iv117–iv125. 31 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N.. (2004). Should medical historians be working for the tobacco industry?. The Lancet. 363(9416). 1174–1175. 15 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N.. (2004). Tobacco and Health. 4(2). 1–37.
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Proctor, Robert N.. (2004). The Global Smoking Epidemic: A History and Status Report. Clinical Lung Cancer. 5(6). 371–376. 74 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N.. (2003). Three Roots of Human Recency. Current Anthropology. 44(2). 213–239. 29 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N., et al.. (2003). Mixing location-relevant and irrelevant tasks: Spatial compatibility effects eliminated by stimuli that share the same spatial codes. Visual Cognition. 10(1). 15–50. 26 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N.. (2001). Tobacco and the global lung cancer epidemic. Nature reviews. Cancer. 1(1). 82–86. 164 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N.. (2001). The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty. Endeavour. 25(2). 81–81. 1 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N.. (2000). Expert witnesses take the stand. Nature. 407(6800). 15–16. 2 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N.. (2000). Nazi Science and Nazi Medical Ethics: Some Myths and Misconceptions. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 43(3). 335–346. 33 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N.. (1999). Dawkins's 'Rainbow' reduces science to truth, beauty and fantasy'. Essay review of: Dawkins, Richard: Unweaving the rainbow: science, delusion, and the popular appetite for wonder. Boston, Mass.: Houghton-Mifflin 1998. American Scientist. 10 indexed citations
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Proctor, Robert N.. (1995). Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene. JAMA. 273(16). 1306–1306. 11 indexed citations

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