Roy Porter

743 citations
18 papers · 309 indexed · h-index 8

Impact in

Papers in

Roy Porter

17 papers receiving 219 citations

Peers

Roy Porter
Comparison fields: 5 of 94
  • History 104
  • History and Philosophy of Science 29
  • Medical Terminology 1
  • Complementary and Manual Therapy 7
  • Complementary and alternative medicine 24
Replace Michael Stolberg with:
Michael Stolberg Germany
Benjamin Hope United Kingdom
Henry E. Sigerist
Simon A. Grolnick United States
Trevor Stammers United Kingdom
Candy Gunther Brown United States
George Robb United States
Ronald A. Carson United States
Paul Jones United States
Robert L. Leopold United States
Roy Porter relative to Michael Stolberg Germany Michael Stolberg's profile →
Citations per field
00.5×1.5×2.3×
Michael Stolberg · 1×
Citations per year

Countries citing papers authored by Roy Porter

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Roy Porter's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Roy Porter with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Roy Porter more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Roy Porter

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Roy Porter. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Roy Porter. The network helps show where Roy Porter may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network

The 14 scholars most cited alongside Roy Porter, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with Roy Porter Line = papers co-authored together Roy Porter links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
#Work
1 20178
2 20050
3
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
200262
4
A dictionary of eighteenth-century history
20014
5
Quacks: Fakers & Charlatans in English Medicine
200028
6 19984
7 19966
8 199523
9 199129
10
George Cheyne: The English Malady, 1733
199112
11 19912
12
A Companion to the Enlightenment
19911
13 1991100
14
The hospital of the nation. The story of spa medicine and the Mineral Water Hospital of Bath.
19893
15 19896
16
The asylum and its psychiatry
19884
17
Medical fringe & medical orthodoxy, 1750-1850
19875
18 198512

About Roy Porter

Roy Porter is a scholar working on History, Complementary and Manual Therapy, Clinical Psychology, Dermatology and Psychiatry and Mental health, having authored 18 papers that have together received 309 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (4 papers), Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (4 papers), History of Medicine Studies (4 papers), Medical History and Innovations (3 papers), Cassava research and cyanide (1 paper), Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (1 paper), Canadian Identity and History (1 paper) and Medicine and Dermatology Studies History (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in History (104 citations), History and Philosophy of Science (29 citations), Medical Terminology (1 citation), Complementary and Manual Therapy (7 citations) and Complementary and alternative medicine (24 citations). Roy Porter has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Thomas Laqueur, Paul Slack, Vivian Nutton, W. F. Bynum, Simon A. Jones, Michael Hough, Chris Bishop, Jeremy Black, S. Ryan Johansson and Michael J. MacDonald. Their work appears in journals such as The American Historical Review, Medical History, Population and Development Review, The Economic History Review and Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Rankless by CCL
2026