William Nelles

471 total citations
17 papers, 260 citations indexed

About

William Nelles is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Classics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, William Nelles has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 260 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 2 papers in Classics and 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in William Nelles's work include Narrative Theory and Analysis (8 papers), Contemporary Literature and Criticism (3 papers) and Digital Humanities and Scholarship (3 papers). William Nelles is often cited by papers focused on Narrative Theory and Analysis (8 papers), Contemporary Literature and Criticism (3 papers) and Digital Humanities and Scholarship (3 papers). William Nelles collaborates with scholars based in United States. William Nelles's co-authors include James A. Golen, J. Dowd, Linda Ruth Williams, Harold F. Mosher and Wallace Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Engineering Education, Poetics Today and Comparative Literature.

In The Last Decade

William Nelles

14 papers receiving 192 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Nelles United States 7 99 98 75 47 35 17 260
Carolyn Plumb United States 10 116 1.2× 33 0.3× 36 0.5× 168 3.6× 13 0.4× 41 294
Joyce Coleman United States 6 31 0.3× 30 0.3× 32 0.4× 33 0.7× 9 0.3× 16 204
Amy Wilson‐Lopez United States 11 89 0.9× 42 0.4× 46 0.6× 167 3.6× 9 0.3× 31 296
Leslie A. Olsen United States 9 23 0.2× 191 1.9× 12 0.2× 56 1.2× 42 1.2× 18 343
Patricia Paugh United States 10 23 0.2× 39 0.4× 14 0.2× 207 4.4× 15 0.4× 22 272
Tracey L. Weldon United States 8 42 0.4× 27 0.3× 12 0.2× 64 1.4× 106 3.0× 15 349
Tracy S. Craig South Africa 8 58 0.6× 19 0.2× 5 0.1× 178 3.8× 26 0.7× 26 269
Meredith Knight United States 6 71 0.7× 7 0.1× 67 0.9× 181 3.9× 9 0.3× 10 339
Frackson Mumba United States 11 25 0.3× 16 0.2× 6 0.1× 332 7.1× 14 0.4× 47 399
Christine Schnittka United States 10 74 0.7× 3 0.0× 53 0.7× 247 5.3× 36 1.0× 31 370

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Nelles

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Nelles, William. (2022). Essays in Narrative and Fictionality: Reassessing Nine Central Concepts. Style. 56(3). 331–335. 1 indexed citations
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Nelles, William & Linda Ruth Williams. (2018). Narrative Order in the First-Person Novel. Poetics Today. 39(1). 131–158. 2 indexed citations
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Nelles, William. (2016). Antinomic Chronology in “Mirrorstory”. Style. 50(4). 409–414. 1 indexed citations
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Nelles, William. (2014). Jane's Brains:. 16(1). 6–29. 3 indexed citations
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Nelles, William. (2012). Microfiction: What Makes a Very Short Story Very Short?. Narrative. 20(1). 87–104. 19 indexed citations
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Nelles, William. (2011). A Hypothetical Implied Author. Style. 45(1). 109–118. 3 indexed citations
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Nelles, William. (2009). Sexing Shakespeare's Sonnets: Reading Beyond Sonnet 20. English Literary Renaissance. 39(1). 128–140. 2 indexed citations
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Nelles, William. (2006). Werner Wolf and Walter Bernhart, Eds. Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media. Style. 40(4). 357.
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Nelles, William. (2006). Omniscience for Atheists: Or, Jane Austen's Infallible Narrator. Narrative. 14(2). 118–131. 17 indexed citations
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Nelles, William, et al.. (2003). Improving first-year engineering education. 3. 13C2/6–13C211. 41 indexed citations
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Dowd, J., et al.. (2001). Improving First‐Year Engineering Education*. Journal of Engineering Education. 90(1). 33–41. 92 indexed citations
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Nelles, William. (1999). Beowulf's sorhfullne sið with Breca. Neophilologus. 83(2). 299–312. 1 indexed citations
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Nelles, William. (1997). Frameworks: Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 35 indexed citations
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Nelles, William. (1993). Historical and Implied Authors and Readers. Comparative Literature. 45(1). 22–22. 18 indexed citations
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Nelles, William. (1990). Getting Focalization into Focus. Poetics Today. 11(2). 365–365. 24 indexed citations
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Mosher, Harold F., et al.. (1990). Guides to Narratology. Poetics Today. 11(2). 419–419. 1 indexed citations
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Nelles, William. (1983). Saving the State in Lowell's "For the Union Dead". American Literature. 55(4). 639–639.

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