William C. Sturtevant

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 979 citations indexed

About

William C. Sturtevant is a scholar working on Anthropology, General Health Professions and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, William C. Sturtevant has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 979 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Anthropology, 3 papers in General Health Professions and 3 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in William C. Sturtevant's work include Archaeology and Natural History (4 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (3 papers). William C. Sturtevant is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and Natural History (4 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (3 papers). William C. Sturtevant collaborates with scholars based in United States. William C. Sturtevant's co-authors include Thomas E. Gladwin, James Axtell, Henry F. Dobyns, Bruce G. Trigger, David J. Meltzer, Carroll L. Riley, James B. Griffin, Bruce D. Smith, Elisabeth Tooker and Andrés Ortíz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, American Sociological Review and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

William C. Sturtevant

38 papers receiving 676 citations

Hit Papers

Handbook of North American Indians 1978 2026 1994 2010 1978 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. Handbook of North American Indians
    1978 375 citations William C. Sturtevant Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William C. Sturtevant United States 12 292 180 138 119 114 49 979
Catherine H. Berndt Australia 16 381 1.3× 104 0.6× 244 1.8× 118 1.0× 39 0.3× 44 1.1k
Aram A. Yengoyan United States 9 205 0.7× 85 0.5× 181 1.3× 58 0.5× 81 0.7× 42 630
Peter Rivière United Kingdom 21 551 1.9× 93 0.5× 267 1.9× 222 1.9× 92 0.8× 53 1.5k
Richard J. Parmentier United States 14 378 1.3× 123 0.7× 410 3.0× 156 1.3× 161 1.4× 49 1.5k
James J. Fox Australia 25 382 1.3× 84 0.5× 535 3.9× 117 1.0× 107 0.9× 103 2.0k
Ronald M. Berndt Australia 25 790 2.7× 168 0.9× 443 3.2× 228 1.9× 60 0.5× 93 2.2k
Sol Tax United States 16 230 0.8× 113 0.6× 356 2.6× 73 0.6× 32 0.3× 58 1.4k
Lorna Marshall United States 15 512 1.8× 186 1.0× 248 1.8× 69 0.6× 30 0.3× 22 1.1k
Dennis Tedlock United States 15 265 0.9× 117 0.7× 200 1.4× 40 0.3× 196 1.7× 42 1.1k
Harold C. Conklin United States 14 148 0.5× 50 0.3× 121 0.9× 55 0.5× 77 0.7× 36 1.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William C. Sturtevant

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sturtevant, William C.. (2016). Historia de la Etnología. 3(2). 15.
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Sturtevant, William C.. (2006). David and Dennis Cusick: Early Iroquois Realist Artists. Smithsonian Digital Repository (Smithsonian Institution). 31(2).
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Sturtevant, William C.. (1994). The Misconnection of Guale and Yamasee with Muskogean. International Journal of American Linguistics. 60(2). 139–148. 3 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C.. (1987). A Creek source book. Garland eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C.. (1987). A Seminole source book. Garland eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C., et al.. (1985). Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 10: Southwest.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 65(3). 603–603. 17 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C. & Elisabeth Tooker. (1982). ETHNOGRAPHY BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS. Anthropology News. 23(8). 7–7. 8 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C.. (1980). Patagonian Giants and Baroness Hyde de Neuville's Iroquois Drawings. Ethnohistory. 27(4). 331–331. 2 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C.. (1979). Ethnology: Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation. Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.. American Anthropologist. 81(4). 916–917. 1 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C.. (1975). Huns, Free-Thinking Americans, and the AAA. ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania). 2(1). 4–6. 1 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C.. (1975). Two 1761 Wigwams at Niantic, Connecticut. American Antiquity. 40(4). 437–444. 9 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C., et al.. (1974). Boxes and bowls : decorated containers by nineteenth-century Haida, Tlingit, Bella Bella, and Tsimshian Indian artists. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C., et al.. (1971). The Tattoo Book. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C.. (1971). Smithsonian Plans New Native American Handbook.. 30(2). 214–8. 2 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C., et al.. (1965). Ethnographic Details in the American Drawings of John White, 1577-1590. Ethnohistory. 12(1). 54–54. 1 indexed citations
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Gladwin, Thomas E., et al.. (1963). Anthropology and Human Behavior.. American Sociological Review. 28(3). 489–489. 155 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C.. (1959). A TECHNIQUE FOR ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTE‐TAKING*. American Anthropologist. 61(4). 677–678. 2 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C.. (1959). Authorship of the Powell Linguistic Classification. International Journal of American Linguistics. 25(3). 196–199. 1 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C.. (1958). Siouan Languages in the East1. American Anthropologist. 60(4). 738–743. 4 indexed citations
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Sturtevant, William C.. (1954). Medicine Bundles and Busks of the Florida Seminole. ˜The œFlorida anthropologist. 7(2). 31–70. 5 indexed citations

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