William Divale

1.4k total citations
27 papers, 887 citations indexed

About

William Divale is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Divale has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 887 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Social Psychology and 4 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in William Divale's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (7 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (5 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 papers). William Divale is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (7 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (5 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 papers). William Divale collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Moldova. William Divale's co-authors include Marvin Harris, Raoul Naroll, Allan Mazur, Janet E. Kilbride, Caroline F. Keating, Peter Leahy, Marshall H. Segall, Suntaree Komin, Claire Bowern and Bobbi S. Low and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and Journal of Conflict Resolution.

In The Last Decade

William Divale

26 papers receiving 703 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Divale United States	16	334	206	167	147	130	27	887
Robin Fox United States	17	529 1.6×	386 1.9×	342 2.0×	133 0.9×	56 0.4×	67	1.3k
Robert Knox Dentan United States	10	628 1.9×	282 1.4×	202 1.2×	138 0.9×	46 0.4×	34	986
Clare Holden United Kingdom	11	361 1.1×	197 1.0×	123 0.7×	156 1.1×	156 1.2×	13	1.0k
Richard Borshay Lee Canada	6	298 0.9×	183 0.9×	203 1.2×	375 2.6×	230 1.8×	8	1.1k
William F. Hanks United States	19	262 0.8×	356 1.7×	60 0.4×	259 1.8×	77 0.6×	42	1.6k
C. R. Hallpike Canada	13	269 0.8×	139 0.7×	171 1.0×	135 0.9×	43 0.3×	31	876
Lars Rodseth United States	10	411 1.2×	286 1.4×	288 1.7×	94 0.6×	43 0.3×	14	728
Barbara Tedlock United States	13	353 1.1×	60 0.3×	118 0.7×	198 1.3×	54 0.4×	32	1.0k
John A. Price Canada	12	333 1.0×	86 0.4×	119 0.7×	107 0.7×	89 0.7×	38	807
James Thompson United Kingdom	21	596 1.8×	482 2.3×	349 2.1×	87 0.6×	51 0.4×	47	1.4k

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Kirby, Kathryn R., Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, et al.. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0158391–e0158391. 156 indexed citations

Mylonas, Kostas, Adrian Furnham, Emmanouil Konstantinidis, et al.. (2013). The Explanations for Unemployment Scale: An Eight-Country Study on Factor Equivalence. Language arts journal of Michigan. 3 indexed citations

Divale, William, et al.. (2007). Services for the Chronically Mentally Ill in Moldova: A Struggle to Survive. International Journal of Mental Health. 36(4). 45–56. 2 indexed citations

Kenya, Sonjia, et al.. (2003). Effects of Immigration on Selected Health Risk Behaviors of Black College Students. Journal of American College Health. 52(3). 113–120. 15 indexed citations

Divale, William, et al.. (2001). Modernization as Changes in Cultural Complexity: New Cross-Cultural Measurements. Cross-Cultural Research. 35(2). 127–153. 15 indexed citations

Divale, William. (1995). Cold Symptoms and Emotional Dissatisfaction Among Rural/Urban and Culturally Diverse High School Students. Cross-Cultural Research. 29(1). 27–42. 2 indexed citations

Divale, William. (1984). Matrilocal residence in pre-literate society. 27 indexed citations

Divale, William & Marvin Harris. (1978). Reply to Lancaster and Lancaster. American Anthropologist. 80(1). 117–118. 1 indexed citations

Divale, William & Marvin Harris. (1978). The Male Supremacist Complex: Discovery of a Cultural Invention. American Anthropologist. 80(3). 668–671. 4 indexed citations

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Divale, William, et al.. (1978). On the Misuse of Statistics: A Reply to Hirschfeld et al. American Anthropologist. 80(2). 379–386. 2 indexed citations

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Divale, William, et al.. (1977). Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments]. Current Anthropology. 18(3). 441–458. 16 indexed citations

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Divale, William, et al.. (1977). Hunting and the Development of Sign Language: A Cross-Cultural Test. Journal of Anthropological Research. 33(2). 185–201. 13 indexed citations

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Naroll, Raoul & William Divale. (1976). natural selection in cultural evolution: warfare versus peaceful diffusion. American Ethnologist. 3(1). 97–129. 23 indexed citations

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Divale, William. (1976). Using Date of European Contact for Time-Lagged Variables in Cross-Cultural Surveys. 11(1). 39–55. 3 indexed citations

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Divale, William, et al.. (1976). War, Peace, and Marital Residence in Pre-Industrial Societies. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 20(1). 57–78. 10 indexed citations

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Divale, William. (1976). Newspapers: Some Guidelines for Communicating Anthropology. Human Organization. 35(2). 183–191. 2 indexed citations

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Divale, William. (1975). Temporal Focus and Random Error in Cross-Cultural Hypothesis Tests. 10(1). 19–36. 23 indexed citations

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Divale, William. (1974). Migration, External Warfare, and Matrilocal Residence. 9(2). 75–133. 94 indexed citations

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Divale, William. (1973). Warfare in primitive societies : a bibliography. ABC-CLIO eBooks. 15 indexed citations

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Divale, William. (1972). Systemic population control in the middle and upper palaeolithic: Inferences based on contemporary hunter‐gatherers. World Archaeology. 4(2). 222–243. 40 indexed citations

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