William M. O’Barr

167 total papers · 3.5k total citations
86 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 86 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, Jean F. O’Barr, Björn H. Jernudd, Mark Tessler and Edward Timke 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

66 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, 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 Susan S. Silbey, John M. Conley et al. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews profile →
  2. Speech style and impression formation in a court setting: The effects of “powerful” and “powerless” speech
    1978 241 citations E. Allan Lind, William M. O’Barr et al. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology profile →
  3. Just Words: Law, Language and Power
    1999 220 citations Laurence Goldman, John M. Conley et al. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
William M. O’Barr 475 464 458 253 248 86 1.7k
Brenda Danet 166 0.3× 323 0.7× 475 1.0× 86 0.3× 299 1.2× 39 1.3k
Elizabeth Mertz 353 0.7× 442 1.0× 160 0.3× 72 0.3× 118 0.5× 60 2.0k
Sherry Simon 64 0.1× 791 1.7× 493 1.1× 131 0.5× 364 1.5× 78 2.0k
James F. Weiner 50 0.1× 351 0.8× 424 0.9× 65 0.3× 243 1.0× 63 1.5k
Karen A.Foss 48 0.1× 532 1.1× 191 0.4× 165 0.7× 279 1.1× 47 1.4k
Angela Cora Garcia 35 0.1× 591 1.3× 1.1k 2.4× 130 0.5× 598 2.4× 50 2.2k
C. Fred Alford 88 0.2× 979 2.1× 89 0.2× 49 0.2× 135 0.5× 81 2.3k
Ralph Grillo 49 0.1× 1.2k 2.7× 226 0.5× 77 0.3× 175 0.7× 74 2.1k
Elizabeth Frazer 37 0.1× 641 1.4× 128 0.3× 343 1.4× 191 0.8× 62 1.4k
Dennis Davis 282 0.6× 532 1.1× 36 0.1× 115 0.5× 96 0.4× 50 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by William M. O’Barr

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Fields of papers citing papers by William M. O’Barr

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William M. O’Barr. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William M. O’Barr based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with William M. O’Barr. William M. O’Barr is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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