Samuel P. Hays

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Samuel P. Hays is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel P. Hays has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 11 papers in Marketing and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Samuel P. Hays's work include American Environmental and Regional History (23 papers), American History and Culture (11 papers) and Archaeology and Natural History (4 papers). Samuel P. Hays is often cited by papers focused on American Environmental and Regional History (23 papers), American History and Culture (11 papers) and Archaeology and Natural History (4 papers). Samuel P. Hays collaborates with scholars based in United States. Samuel P. Hays's co-authors include Elmo Richardson, Arthur M. Johnson, Daniel J. Boorstin, William E Brown, Richard White, Harold U. Faulkner, Susan L. Flader, Timothy O’Riordan, Julian J. DelGaudio and Paul Kleppner and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, American Political Science Review and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Samuel P. Hays

53 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressiv... 1959 2026 1981 2003 1959 100 200 300
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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. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920
    1959 323 citations Samuel P. Hays University of Pittsburgh Digital Library profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Samuel P. Hays United States 17 473 469 247 231 206 63 1.4k
Lewis Atherton United States 9 379 0.8× 354 0.8× 63 0.3× 218 0.9× 97 0.5× 23 1.1k
Robert McC. Netting United States 20 422 0.9× 272 0.6× 150 0.6× 357 1.5× 22 0.1× 34 2.1k
Kenneth T. Jackson United States 16 1.4k 2.9× 142 0.3× 254 1.0× 168 0.7× 119 0.6× 39 2.7k
Stephen G. Bunker United States 18 542 1.1× 299 0.6× 361 1.5× 335 1.5× 31 0.2× 63 1.9k
John Hannigan Canada 13 666 1.4× 152 0.3× 89 0.4× 137 0.6× 68 0.3× 31 1.2k
Gilbert C. Fite United States 13 214 0.5× 134 0.3× 69 0.3× 99 0.4× 89 0.4× 71 837
Terry L. Anderson United States 26 464 1.0× 327 0.7× 294 1.2× 444 1.9× 84 0.4× 99 2.3k
D. W. Meinig United States 14 445 0.9× 194 0.4× 112 0.5× 158 0.7× 49 0.2× 57 1.4k
Ramachandra Guha India 17 1.1k 2.4× 511 1.1× 594 2.4× 741 3.2× 47 0.2× 65 2.6k
Michael Mason United Kingdom 20 508 1.1× 142 0.3× 168 0.7× 242 1.0× 39 0.2× 97 1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel P. Hays

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All Works

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Hays, Samuel P.. (2025). Environmental Litigation in Historical Perspective. University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. 19(19.4). 969–969.
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Hays, Samuel P.. (2009). The American People and the National Forests. University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P.. (1998). Explorations in environmental history : essays. University of Pittsburgh Digital Library. 4 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P. & William Cronon. (1992). Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.. Journal of American History. 79(2). 612–612.
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Hays, Samuel P.. (1991). The New Environmental West. Journal of Policy History. 3(3). 223–248. 10 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P.. (1990). Manuscripts for Recent History: A Proposal for a New Approach. Journal of American History. 77(1). 208–208. 3 indexed citations
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Archer, Julian, Peter J. Taylor, Paul Kleppner, et al.. (1983). Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan. Journal of American History. 69(4). 949–949. 16 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P.. (1981). The Environmental Movement. Journal of Forest History. 25(4). 219–221. 6 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P.. (1978). Clean Air: From the 1970 Act to the 1977 Amendments. Duquesne Law Review. 17(1). 33. 11 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P.. (1976). The First Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. 10(1). 39–42. 2 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P.. (1974). The Development of Pittsburgh as a Social Order. 57(4). 431–448. 1 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P.. (1974). The Changing Political Structure of the City in Industrial America. Journal of Urban History. 1(1). 6–38. 30 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P., et al.. (1974). Historical Social Research: Concept, Method, and Technique. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 4(3). 475–475. 3 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P.. (1973). The chemicals and allied industries. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P.. (1969). Right Face, Left Face: The Columbia Strike. Political Science Quarterly. 84(2). 311–327. 4 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P., et al.. (1961). Gifford Pinchot, Forester-Politician. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 47(4). 719–719. 10 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P., et al.. (1958). The Response to Industrialism: 1885-1914.. The Economic History Review. 11(1). 199–199. 1 indexed citations

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