Vernon J. Williams

1.6k total citations
32 papers, 960 citations indexed

About

Vernon J. Williams is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Vernon J. Williams has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 960 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Cultural Studies and 3 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Vernon J. Williams's work include Race, History, and American Society (8 papers), Psychoanalysis and Social Critique (4 papers) and Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (3 papers). Vernon J. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Race, History, and American Society (8 papers), Psychoanalysis and Social Critique (4 papers) and Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (3 papers). Vernon J. Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States. Vernon J. Williams's co-authors include Audrey Smedley, Kevin Gaines, Elazar Barkan, Gregory S. Parks, Tamara L. Brown, Clarenda M. Phillips, James B. McKee, Carl N. Degler, Richard Robbins and Chris Smaje and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The American Historical Review and Journal of Counseling Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Vernon J. Williams

24 papers receiving 616 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vernon J. Williams United States 8 538 133 130 106 100 32 960
Thomas F. Gossett United States 10 459 0.9× 58 0.4× 46 0.4× 67 0.6× 50 0.5× 16 766
Willard B. Gatewood United States 12 636 1.2× 70 0.5× 26 0.2× 137 1.3× 75 0.8× 78 913
Virginia R. Domínguez United States 14 891 1.7× 65 0.5× 33 0.3× 119 1.1× 247 2.5× 74 1.4k
Lawrence J. Friedman United States 13 298 0.6× 100 0.8× 23 0.2× 68 0.6× 46 0.5× 50 732
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham United States 8 842 1.6× 148 1.1× 12 0.1× 128 1.2× 64 0.6× 16 1.2k
Reginald Horsman United States 11 530 1.0× 141 1.1× 21 0.2× 50 0.5× 188 1.9× 55 1.1k
Winthrop D. Jordan United States 14 756 1.4× 138 1.0× 24 0.2× 88 0.8× 360 3.6× 54 1.4k
Hortense J. Spillers United States 9 1.0k 1.9× 159 1.2× 43 0.3× 95 0.9× 171 1.7× 41 1.9k
Mark Hearn Australia 9 614 1.1× 92 0.7× 29 0.2× 62 0.6× 72 0.7× 43 1.1k
Frank Dikötter United Kingdom 19 670 1.2× 106 0.8× 59 0.5× 18 0.2× 165 1.6× 50 1.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Williams, Vernon J.. (2019). The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve. Journal of American History. 106(4). 1115–1116. 3 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J., et al.. (2019). A tubo-ovarian abscess mimicking an appendiceal abscess: a rare presentation of Streptococcus agalactiae. Oxford Medical Case Reports. 2019(8). 4 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J.. (2011). Was There a Distinct "African American Sociology"?. ˜The œWestern journal of black studies. 35(1). 39–499. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J.. (2008). Fatalism: Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology and the IQ Controversy. Journal of African American Studies. 13(1). 90–96.
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Williams, Vernon J., Tamara L. Brown, Gregory S. Parks, & Clarenda M. Phillips. (2007). African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision. The Journal of Southern History. 73(2). 474–474. 39 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J.. (2006). The Social Sciences and Theories of Race. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 7 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J.. (2005). Jerry Gershenhorn, Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge. The Journal of African American History. 90(3). 328–330. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J.. (2003). African‐American Pioneers in Anthropology. Transforming Anthropology. 11(2). 70–71. 3 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J.. (2003). Between universalism and particularism: Historiographical concerns in the history of anthropology. Journal of African American Studies. 7(2). 61–68. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J.. (2002). A Gifted Amateur: The Case of George Washington Ellis. American Anthropologist. 104(2). 544–550. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J.. (2001). Racial Essentialism: A Case of Historical Continuity and Discontinuity in the Social Sciences. ˜The œWestern journal of black studies. 25(4). 202.
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Williams, Vernon J.. (2001). Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx. History Reviews of New Books. 29(3). 110–110. 3 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J. & Chris Smaje. (2001). Natural Hierarchies: The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 30(6). 573–573. 4 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J., et al.. (1997). Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries.. Journal of American History. 84(1). 268–268. 7 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J., et al.. (1996). . Surgical Laparoscopy Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques. 6(2). 144–146. 10 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J.. (1995). Review: Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual by Kenneth Robert Janken. Ethnic studies review. ESS-15(1). 48–49. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J.. (1993). [Review of] Alain LeRoy Locke (Jeffrey C. Stewart, ed.). Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race. VCU Scholars Compass (Virginia Commonwealth University). 13(1). 34–36. 9 indexed citations
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Williams, Vernon J., et al.. (1990). From a Caste to a Minority: Changing Attitudes of American Sociologists Toward Afro-Americans, 1896-1945.. Journal of American History. 77(2). 717–717.
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Williams, Vernon J.. (1971). Generalized Interpolation Spaces. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 156. 309–309. 2 indexed citations

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