William Cronon

14.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
55 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

William Cronon is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William Cronon has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 6 papers in Anthropology and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in William Cronon's work include American Environmental and Regional History (36 papers), Archaeology and Natural History (6 papers) and American History and Culture (4 papers). William Cronon is often cited by papers focused on American Environmental and Regional History (36 papers), Archaeology and Natural History (6 papers) and American History and Culture (4 papers). William Cronon collaborates with scholars based in United States. William Cronon's co-authors include Roderick Nash, James Axtell, John D. Haeger, Steven E. Silvern, Alfred W. Crosby, James E. Sherow, Glenn W. LaFantasie, Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Chauncy D. Harris and Steward T. A. Pickett and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, Ecological Applications and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

William Cronon

50 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

The Trouble with Wilderne... 1984 2026 1998 2012 1996 1996 1992 1984 1992 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature
    1996 1.3k citations William Cronon Environmental History profile →
  2. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
    1996 1.1k citations William Cronon profile →
  3. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.
    1992 1.0k citations William Cronon et al. The American Historical Review profile →
  4. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
    1984 657 citations William Cronon et al. The American Historical Review profile →
  5. A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative
    1992 418 citations William Cronon Journal of American History profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
William Cronon 2.1k 1.5k 1.5k 1.4k 948 55 7.2k
Noel Castree 3.7k 1.8× 2.3k 1.6× 864 0.6× 2.0k 1.5× 499 0.5× 191 9.3k
Bram Büscher 1.4k 0.7× 731 0.5× 793 0.5× 2.5k 1.8× 500 0.5× 110 4.9k
John McNeill 1.4k 0.7× 513 0.3× 814 0.6× 1.4k 1.0× 746 0.8× 266 9.9k
Roderick Nash 1.4k 0.7× 552 0.4× 1.2k 0.8× 745 0.5× 569 0.6× 69 4.2k
Rosaleen Duffy 1.6k 0.8× 663 0.4× 568 0.4× 1.4k 1.0× 528 0.6× 81 3.9k
Sarah Whatmore 1.9k 0.9× 2.5k 1.6× 401 0.3× 1.1k 0.8× 435 0.5× 76 6.5k
Lesley Head 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 538 0.4× 1.0k 0.8× 353 0.4× 139 4.4k
Anna Tsing 3.9k 1.9× 2.1k 1.4× 566 0.4× 1.3k 0.9× 347 0.4× 84 9.9k
Dan Brockington 2.4k 1.2× 905 0.6× 2.1k 1.4× 5.7k 4.1× 783 0.8× 148 9.9k
Yi‐Fu Tuan 5.9k 2.9× 2.8k 1.8× 761 0.5× 913 0.7× 321 0.3× 110 13.3k

Countries citing papers authored by William Cronon

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Cronon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Cronon

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cronon, William. (2013). Storytelling. The American Historical Review. 118(1). 1–19. 12 indexed citations
2.
Cronon, William. (2009). Le problème de la wilderness, ou le retour vers une mauvaise nature. Écologie & politique. N°38(1). 173–173. 9 indexed citations
3.
Cronon, William, et al.. (2007). Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest. 4 indexed citations
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Cronon, William, et al.. (2002). Repensando la naturaleza: encuentros y desencuentros disciplinarios en torno a lo ambiental. Repositorio Institucional UN - Biblioteca Digital. 11 indexed citations
5.
Cronon, William. (2000). RESISTING MONOLITHS AND TABULAE RASAE. Ecological Applications. 10(3). 673–675. 19 indexed citations
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Cronon, William. (1996). Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. 1063 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cronon, William. (1996). The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature. Environmental History. 1(1). 7–28. 1335 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sherow, James E. & William Cronon. (1996). Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. Western Historical Quarterly. 27(3). 373–373. 166 indexed citations
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Saltmarsh, John & William Cronon. (1996). Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. The New England Quarterly. 69(4). 680–680. 23 indexed citations
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Cronon, William. (1996). The Trouble with Wilderness: A Response. Environmental History. 1(1). 47–55. 23 indexed citations
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Cronon, William. (1994). The West: A Moving Target. Western Historical Quarterly. 25(4). 476–476. 1 indexed citations
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McDonnell, Mark J., Steward T. A. Pickett, Gene E. Likens, & William Cronon. (1993). Humans as components of ecosystems : the ecology of subtle human effects and populated areas. Springer eBooks. 198 indexed citations
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Faragher, John Mack, William Cronon, George Miles, et al.. (1993). The Frontier Trail: Rethinking Turner and Reimagining the American West. The American Historical Review. 98(1). 106–106. 21 indexed citations
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Faragher, John Mack, et al.. (1993). Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West. Journal of American History. 80(3). 1007–1007. 1 indexed citations
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Hays, Samuel P. & William Cronon. (1992). Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.. Journal of American History. 79(2). 612–612.
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Condit, Carl W. & William Cronon. (1992). Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. Technology and Culture. 33(3). 591–591. 21 indexed citations
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Cronon, William. (1989). Modern Environmental History. Ecology. 70(6). 1965–1966.
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Cronon, William & Alfred W. Crosby. (1987). Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Journal of American History. 74(1). 150–150. 276 indexed citations
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Kupperman, Karen Ordahl & William Cronon. (1984). Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. Journal of American History. 71(1). 109–109. 155 indexed citations
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LaFantasie, Glenn W. & William Cronon. (1984). Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. The New England Quarterly. 57(1). 120–120. 164 indexed citations

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