William M. O’Barr

3.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
85 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

William M. O’Barr is a scholar working on Law, Gender Studies and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William M. O’Barr has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Law, 16 papers in Gender Studies and 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in William M. O’Barr's work include Law in Society and Culture (13 papers), Media, Gender, and Advertising (12 papers) and Legal Education and Practice Innovations (8 papers). William M. O’Barr is often cited by papers focused on Law in Society and Culture (13 papers), Media, Gender, and Advertising (12 papers) and Legal Education and Practice Innovations (8 papers). William M. O’Barr collaborates with scholars based in United States, Lithuania and Argentina. William M. O’Barr's co-authors include John M. Conley, Susan S. Silbey, E. Allan Lind, Laurence Goldman, Richard Ohmann, Cheris Kramarae, Mark Tessler, Edward Timke, James G. Carrier and Michael S. Kimmel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

William M. O’Barr

65 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Rules Versus Relationships: The Ethnography of Legal Disc... 1978 2026 1994 2010 1991 1978 1999 50 100 150 200 250
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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. Rules Versus Relationships: The Ethnography of Legal Discourse.
    1991 278 citations John M. Conley, William M. O’Barr et al. profile →
  2. Speech style and impression formation in a court setting: The effects of “powerful” and “powerless” speech
    1978 241 citations William M. O’Barr et al. profile →
  3. Just Words: Law, Language and Power
    1999 220 citations John M. Conley, William M. O’Barr et al. profile →

Peers

William M. O’Barr
Sherry Simon Canada
Lawrence Venuti United States
Karen A.Foss United States
Susan Bassnett United Kingdom
Linda Hutcheon Canada
Joseph P. Folger United States
Richard Macksey
Linda Alcoff United States
Alan Bass Russia
Jean François Lyotard
Sherry Simon Canada
William M. O’Barr
Citations per year, relative to William M. O’Barr William M. O’Barr (= 1×) peers Sherry Simon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William M. O’Barr

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Katz, Jackson, Michael Serazio, Susan Smulyan, et al.. (2019). Roundtable on Masculinities and Advertising, Part II. 20(3). 1 indexed citations
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Katz, Jackson, Michael Serazio, Susan Smulyan, et al.. (2019). Roundtable on Masculinities and Advertising, Part I. 20(2). 1 indexed citations
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O’Barr, William M.. (2011). Creativity in Advertising. 11(4). 1 indexed citations
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O’Barr, William M.. (2010). The Rise and Fall of the TV Commercial. 11(2). 1 indexed citations
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O’Barr, William M.. (2006). The Interpretation of Advertisements. 7(3). 2 indexed citations
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O’Barr, William M.. (2005). A Brief History of Advertising in America. 6(3). 4 indexed citations
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Kimmel, Michael S. & William M. O’Barr. (2003). Interview with Michael Kimmel. 4(2). 3 indexed citations
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O’Barr, William M.. (2003). Editorial Introduction. 4(3). 2 indexed citations
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Conley, John M. & William M. O’Barr. (2002). Back to the Trobriands: The Enduring Influence of Malinowski's Crime and Custom in Savage Society. Law & Social Inquiry. 27(4). 847–874. 11 indexed citations
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Ewen, Stuart, et al.. (2002). Roundtable on Values in Advertising. 3(1). 1 indexed citations
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O’Barr, William M.. (2001). Culture and Causality: Non-Western Systems of Explanation. Law and Contemporary Problems. 64(4). 317–317. 3 indexed citations
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O’Barr, William M., et al.. (2000). The Airbrushing of Culture: An Insider Looks At Global Advertising. 1(1). 1 indexed citations
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O’Barr, William M., et al.. (1997). From the Editor: Some Lessons of Hindsight. Law & Society Review. 31(4). 633–636. 3 indexed citations
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O’Barr, William M.. (1995). From the Editor. Law & Society Review. 29(1). 5–9. 1 indexed citations
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Conley, John M. & William M. O’Barr. (1993). Legal Anthropology Comes Home: A Brief History of the Ethnographic Study of Law. Loyola of Los Angeles law review. 27(1). 41. 15 indexed citations
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Conley, John M. & William M. O’Barr. (1992). The Culture of Capital: An Anthropological Investigation of Institutional Investment. North Carolina law review. 70(3). 823. 5 indexed citations
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Cahn, Naomi, John M. Conley, & William M. O’Barr. (1992). Speaking Differences: The Rules and Relationships of Litigants' Discourses. Michigan Law Review. 90(6). 1705–1705.
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Conley, John M. & William M. O’Barr. (1988). Fundamentals of Jurisprudence: An Ethnography of Judicial Decision Making in Informal Courts. North Carolina law review. 66(3). 467. 18 indexed citations
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Tessler, Mark, et al.. (1976). Tradition and Identity in Changing Africa. Geographical Journal. 142(1). 146–146. 14 indexed citations

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