Theodore M. Porter

9.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
87 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Theodore M. Porter is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Economics and Econometrics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Theodore M. Porter has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 10 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Theodore M. Porter's work include Philosophy and History of Science (9 papers), Economic Theory and Institutions (7 papers) and Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 papers). Theodore M. Porter is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (9 papers), Economic Theory and Institutions (7 papers) and Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 papers). Theodore M. Porter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Norway. Theodore M. Porter's co-authors include Patricia Cline Cohen, M. Norton Wise, Mary S. Morgan, Zeno G. Swijtink, Gerd Gigerenzer, Lorraine Daston, Lorenz Krüger, Kevin D. Haggerty, John Beatty and Dorothy Ross and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Theodore M. Porter

79 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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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.

Trust in Numbers

1995 784 citations Theodore M. Porter Princeton University Press eBooks profile →
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900

1986 573 citations Theodore M. Porter Princeton University Press eBooks profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Trust in Numbers 2020 ·Princeton University Press eBooks ·Theodore M. Porter	18
2	The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900 2020 ·Princeton University Press eBooks ·Theodore M. Porter	5
3	Trust in Numbers 2020 ·Princeton University Press eBooks ·Theodore M. Porter	10
4	The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 2020 ·Princeton University Press eBooks ·Theodore M. Porter	6
5	Genetics in the Madhouse 2018 ·Princeton University Press eBooks ·Theodore M. Porter	1
6	Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity 2018 ·Theodore M. Porter	16
7	The curious case of blending inheritance 2014 ·Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences ·Theodore M. Porter	4
8	Construire le socialisme par les chiffres : enquêtes et recensements en URSS de 1917 à 1991 2008 ·(unknown), Theodore M. Porter	5
9	Introduction: Historicizing the Two Cultures 2005 ·History of Science ·Theodore M. Porter	6
10	The Culture of Quantification and the History of Public Reason 2004 ·Journal of the History of Economic Thought ·Theodore M. Porter	8
11	The modern social sciences 2003 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Theodore M. Porter, Dorothy Ross	41
12	The Cambridge history of science: The modern social sciences 2003 ·History of Science ·Theodore M. Porter, Dorothy Ross	18
13	Statistical Utopianism in an Age of Aristocratic Efficiency 2002 ·Osiris ·Theodore M. Porter	5
14	Modern Facts and Postmodern Interpretations 2001 ·Annals of Science ·Theodore M. Porter	3
15	Das Reich des Zufalls : Wissen zwischen Wahrscheinlichkeiten, Häufigkeiten und Unschärfen 1999 ·Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics ·Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno G. Swijtink, Theodore M. Porter, Lorraine Daston, John Beatty, Lorenz Krüger	3
16	The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 1998 ·Technology and Culture ·Theodore M. Porter, Alfred W. Crosby	17
17	Trust in Numbers 1995 ·Theodore M. Porter	260
18	Making Things Quantitative 1994 ·Science in Context ·Theodore M. Porter	110
19	Quantification and the Accounting Ideal in Science 1992 ·Social Studies of Science ·Theodore M. Porter	140
20	The calculus of liberalism : the development of statistical thinking in the social and natural sciences of the nineteenth century 1981 ·University Microfilms International eBooks ·Theodore M. Porter	1

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