William Bosworth

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 967 citations indexed

About

William Bosworth is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Philosophy and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, William Bosworth has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 967 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 4 papers in Philosophy and 3 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in William Bosworth's work include Political Philosophy and Ethics (8 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 papers) and Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 papers). William Bosworth is often cited by papers focused on Political Philosophy and Ethics (8 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 papers) and Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 papers). William Bosworth collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. William Bosworth's co-authors include Ernest Drucker, Gary Kalkut, Judith A. Hahn, Barry R. Bloom, David Alland, Andrew R. Moss, Ruth A. McAdam, Jing Fang, Shantha Madhavan and Michael H. Alderman and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

William Bosworth

15 papers receiving 906 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Transmission of Tuberculosis in New York City -- An Analysis by DNA Fingerprinting and Conventional Epidemiologic Methods

1994 646 citations David Alland, Gary Kalkut et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Bosworth Australia	9	675	608	425	129	119	17	967
Christine Ho United States	17	575 0.9×	464 0.8×	267 0.6×	26 0.2×	111 0.9×	53	937
Susan Martins Pereira Brazil	22	916 1.4×	375 0.6×	144 0.3×	106 0.8×	35 0.3×	53	1.3k
Maria Lúcia Fernandes Penna Brazil	21	944 1.4×	430 0.7×	264 0.6×	28 0.2×	23 0.2×	40	1.2k
Francisco Carlos Félix Lana Brazil	18	695 1.0×	293 0.5×	128 0.3×	25 0.2×	34 0.3×	120	979
Steven Forsythe United States	19	568 0.8×	331 0.5×	378 0.9×	41 0.3×	139 1.2×	56	1.3k
Wat Uthaivoravit Thailand	15	553 0.8×	402 0.7×	72 0.2×	23 0.2×	243 2.0×	20	855
Lisa V. Adams United States	14	469 0.7×	260 0.4×	123 0.3×	35 0.3×	73 0.6×	47	831
Joilda Silva Nery Brazil	17	580 0.9×	218 0.4×	103 0.2×	44 0.3×	66 0.6×	45	940
Lucie Blok Netherlands	15	660 1.0×	513 0.8×	152 0.4×	34 0.3×	30 0.3×	21	892
Ameeta S. Kalokhe United States	15	409 0.6×	328 0.5×	88 0.2×	268 2.1×	157 1.3×	54	912

Countries citing papers authored by William Bosworth

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Bosworth

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Bosworth

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William Bosworth. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William Bosworth based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with William Bosworth. William Bosworth is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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17 of 17 papers shown

Dowding, Keith, et al.. (2025). Sortition, Parties and Political Careerism. The Political Quarterly. 96(4). 660–667.

Bosworth, William. (2022). Social Power and Non-cooperative Game Theory. Journal of Theoretical Politics. 34(2). 262–279. 1 indexed citations

Bosworth, William. (2021). Editorial to special issue on rational choice and political power. Journal of Political Power. 14(2). 277–280. 1 indexed citations

Bosworth, William & Brad R. Taylor. (2021). The Impossibility of a Bayesian Liberal?. The Journal of Politics. 84(4). 2023–2033. 1 indexed citations

Bosworth, William & Brad R. Taylor. (2020). The Impossibility of a Bayesian Liberal?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Taylor, Brad R. & William Bosworth. (2020). Agreeing to Disagree Politically. New Political Economy. 26(5). 707–716. 4 indexed citations

Bosworth, William & Keith Dowding. (2019). The Cambridge School and Kripke: Bug Detecting with the History of Political Thought. The Review of Politics. 81(4). 621–642. 5 indexed citations

Bosworth, William. (2019). Is Political Philosophy Impossible? Thoughts and Behaviour in Normative Political Theory. By Jonathan Floyd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 288p. $81.99 cloth, $29.99 paper.. Perspectives on Politics. 17(2). 547–549.

Dowding, Keith & William Bosworth. (2018). Ambiguity and vagueness in political terminology: On coding and referential imprecision. European Journal of Political Theory. 20(2). 335–354. 9 indexed citations

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Bosworth, William. (2016). An interpretation of political argument. European Journal of Political Theory. 19(3). 293–313. 8 indexed citations

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Bosworth, William, et al.. (2015). Compensation committees: independence and firm performance. Managerial Finance. 42(1). 23–33. 8 indexed citations

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Bosworth, William & Bruce Clemens. (2011). Does It Pay to Be Environmentally Responsible? Toxic Releases and Financial Performance. Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability. 7(2). 115–121. 12 indexed citations

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Fang, Jing, Shantha Madhavan, William Bosworth, & Michael H. Alderman. (1998). Residential segregation and mortality in New York City. Social Science & Medicine. 47(4). 469–476. 163 indexed citations

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Fang, Jing, William Bosworth, S Madhavan, Hillel W. Cohen, & M. H. Alderman. (1995). Differential mortality in New York City (1988-1992). Part Two: excess mortality in the south Bronx.. PubMed. 72(2). 483–99. 9 indexed citations

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Alland, David, Gary Kalkut, Andrew R. Moss, et al.. (1994). Transmission of Tuberculosis in New York City -- An Analysis by DNA Fingerprinting and Conventional Epidemiologic Methods. New England Journal of Medicine. 330(24). 1710–1716. 646 indexed citations breakdown →

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Drucker, Ernest, P Alcabes, Blanca Sckell, P Alcabes, & William Bosworth. (1994). Childhood tuberculosis in the Bronx, New York. The Lancet. 343(8911). 1482–1485. 91 indexed citations

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Bosworth, William. (1962). Catholicism and Crisis in Modern France. Princeton University Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations

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