William Dean Howells

1.1k citations
44 papers · 155 indexed · h-index 7

Impact in

    • American and British Literature Analysis
    • American Literature and Humor Studies
    • Literature: history, themes, analysis
    • Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
    • Poetry Analysis and Criticism
    • Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
  • History top 5%
    • American Sports and Literature

Papers in

    • Theater, Performance, and Music History 4
    • Musicology and Musical Analysis 2
    • American and British Literature Analysis 9
    • American Literature and Humor Studies 6
    • Poetry Analysis and Criticism 2
    • Crime and Detective Fiction Studies 1

William Dean Howells

23 papers receiving 50 citations

Peers

William Dean Howells
Comparison fields: 5 of 31
  • Literature and Literary Theory 106
  • History 44
  • Music 9
  • Philosophy 21
  • General Arts and Humanities 2
Replace Walter B. Rideout with:
Walter B. Rideout
Norman S. Grabo United States
Margaret Fuller
Ellen Moers
William B. Dillingham United States
Lora Romero United States
Hyatt H. Waggoner
Lewis P. Simpson United States
Christof Wegelin United States
Cynthia Griffin Wolff United States
William Dean Howells relative to Walter B. Rideout Walter B. Rideout's profile →
Citations per field
00.5×
Walter B. Rideout · 1×
Citations per year

Countries citing papers authored by William Dean Howells

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of William Dean Howells's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by William Dean Howells with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites William Dean Howells more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by William Dean Howells

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by William Dean Howells. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by William Dean Howells. The network helps show where William Dean Howells may publish in the future.

Co-authors

The 21 scholars most cited alongside William Dean Howells, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with William Dean Howells Line = papers co-authored together William Dean Howells links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1
Between the Dark and the Daylight: Romances
20090
2
The World of Chance
20081
3
The Vacation of the Kelwyns: An Idyl of the Middle Eighteen-Seventies
20070
4
The Shadow of a Dream
20072
5
The Day of Their Wedding: A Novel
20060
6
Their silver wedding journey
20040
7
My Mark Twain; Reminiscences and Criticisms
19999
8
Selected literary criticism
199326
9
A realist in the American theatre : selected drama criticism of William Dean Howells
19920
10
Heroines of fiction
19923
11
The early prose writings of William Dean Howells, 1853-1861
19901
12
Prefaces to contemporaries, 1882-1920
19780
13
The Henry James year book
19761
14
Years of My Youth, and Three Essays
19751
15
A Boy's Town: Described For Harper's Young People
19701
16
European and American masters
19631
17
The war of the critics over William Dean Howells
19622
18
The complete plays of W.D. Howells
19602
19 196019
20 19591

About William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells is a scholar working on Music, Literature and Literary Theory, History, Cultural Studies and Anthropology, having authored 44 papers that have together received 155 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include American and British Literature Analysis (9 papers), American Literature and Humor Studies (6 papers), American Sports and Literature (6 papers), Theater, Performance, and Music History (4 papers), Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 papers), Poetry Analysis and Criticism (2 papers), Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (1 paper) and Historical Studies of British Isles (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Literature and Literary Theory (106 citations), History (44 citations), Music (9 citations), Philosophy (21 citations) and General Arts and Humanities (2 citations). Frequent co-authors include Ronald Gottesman, Donald Pizer, Christof Wegelin, Henry Nash Smith, Edwin H. Cady, Lewis Leary, Michael Millgate, Mark Twain, Martin A. Green and Martha Banta. Their work appears in journals such as The Modern Language Review, College Composition and Communication, American Literature, The New England Quarterly and Comparative Literature.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Rankless by CCL
2026