Timothy Morton

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Timothy Morton is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy Morton has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 8 papers in Philosophy and 8 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Timothy Morton's work include Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (13 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 papers) and Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (5 papers). Timothy Morton is often cited by papers focused on Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (13 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 papers) and Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (5 papers). Timothy Morton collaborates with scholars based in United States and Saudi Arabia. Timothy Morton's co-authors include Hugh Roberts, Imanuel Lerman, Radhika Madhavan, Yan Gong, Truong Q. Nguyen and Lu Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, SubStance and New Literary History.

In The Last Decade

Timothy Morton

46 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World

2013 999 citations Timothy Morton Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timothy Morton United States	15	871	721	670	456	307	58	2.5k
Stacy Alaimo United States	14	486 0.6×	670 0.9×	486 0.7×	448 1.0×	144 0.5×	34	1.7k
Rob Nixon United States	13	820 0.9×	716 1.0×	1.5k 2.3×	342 0.8×	240 0.8×	37	3.2k
Kathryn Yusoff United Kingdom	23	416 0.5×	1.0k 1.4×	931 1.4×	375 0.8×	104 0.3×	44	2.4k
Lawrence Buell United States	20	1.0k 1.2×	332 0.5×	500 0.7×	218 0.5×	252 0.8×	109	1.9k
Val Plumwood Australia	19	318 0.4×	696 1.0×	989 1.5×	216 0.5×	258 0.8×	42	2.7k
Graham Harman Egypt	20	260 0.3×	448 0.6×	803 1.2×	366 0.8×	465 1.5×	103	2.7k
Elizabeth Grosz United States	30	435 0.5×	645 0.9×	1.6k 2.5×	731 1.6×	511 1.7×	70	4.2k
Tim Ingold United States	8	194 0.2×	938 1.3×	1.1k 1.7×	384 0.8×	99 0.3×	12	3.7k
Greta Gaard United States	16	286 0.3×	348 0.5×	424 0.6×	124 0.3×	93 0.3×	47	1.2k
Deborah Bird Rose Australia	23	234 0.3×	988 1.4×	749 1.1×	239 0.5×	60 0.2×	77	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Timothy Morton

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Morton, Timothy. (2023). Ecocriticism. 2(4). 34–61. 1 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2023). The Stuff of Life. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2021). Creativity or extinction? Extinction can be avoided. The Journal of Architecture. 26(1). 64–66.

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Morton, Timothy. (2018). Dunkle Ökologie Für eine Logik zukünftiger Koexistenz. 4(1). 251–268.

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Morton, Timothy. (2016). Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 157 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2014). Victorian Hyperobjects. Nineteenth Century Contexts. 36(5). 489–500. 6 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2013). Poisoned Ground: Art and Philosophy in the Time of Hyperobjects. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 21(1). 37–50. 9 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2013). Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 999 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morton, Timothy. (2013). She Stood in Tears amid the Alien Corn: Thinking through Agrilogistics. diacritics. 41(3). 90–113. 6 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2012). Everything We Need: Scarcity, Scale, Hyperobjects. Architectural Design. 82(4). 78–81. 2 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2010). Thinking Ecology: The Mesh, the Strange Stranger, and the Beautiful Soul. 6. 14 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2008). John Clare's Dark Ecology. Studies in Romanticism. 47(2). 179. 8 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2007). Ecology without Nature. 81 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2006). Joseph Ritson, Percy Shelley and the Making of Romantic Vegetarianism. Romanticism. 12(1). 52–61. 1 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy, et al.. (2006). The Cambridge Companion to Shelley. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2006). Torn Curtain: The Secret History of the Cold War. UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney). 1 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2002). A Routledge literary sourcebook on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Routledge eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2002). Why Ambient Poetics? Outline for a Depthless Ecology. The Wordsworth Circle. 33(1). 52–56. 4 indexed citations

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Morton, Timothy. (2000). Ethics and politics. Routledge eBooks.

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Morton, Timothy. (1999). Old Spice: William King, Culinary Antiquarianism, and National Boundaries. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 1 indexed citations

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