William Stephenson

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
161 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

William Stephenson is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, William Stephenson has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 34 papers in Ecology and 17 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in William Stephenson's work include Q Methodology Applications (38 papers), Crustacean biology and ecology (18 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (17 papers). William Stephenson is often cited by papers focused on Q Methodology Applications (38 papers), Crustacean biology and ecology (18 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (17 papers). William Stephenson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. William Stephenson's co-authors include Herbert Solomon, Robert Castle, Calvin S. Hall, Melvin L. DeFleur, Breana Campbell, R. Endean, W. T. Williams, I. Bennett, D J Brenner and Steven R. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Psychological Bulletin and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

William Stephenson

150 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

The Study of Behavior: Q-Technique and Its Methodology. 1955 2026 1978 2002 1955 1967 200 400 600
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 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. The Study of Behavior: Q-Technique and Its Methodology.
    1955 671 citations William Stephenson et al. profile →
  2. The Content Analysis of Dreams
    1967 610 citations William Stephenson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Stephenson United States 28 988 643 524 496 445 161 3.8k
Myron Wish United States 12 117 0.1× 398 0.6× 253 0.5× 563 1.1× 259 0.6× 20 3.6k
DNN 19 179 0.2× 1.3k 2.0× 85 0.2× 567 1.1× 626 1.4× 44 3.9k
Gerhard Lenski United States 28 142 0.1× 701 1.1× 276 0.5× 3.8k 7.7× 294 0.7× 70 8.4k
Jay Verkuilen United States 28 161 0.2× 248 0.4× 455 0.9× 1.4k 2.9× 175 0.4× 67 4.7k
David Sloan Wilson United States 39 148 0.1× 360 0.6× 676 1.3× 3.3k 6.6× 286 0.6× 123 6.9k
Bobbi S. Low United States 38 129 0.1× 497 0.8× 155 0.3× 1.3k 2.5× 496 1.1× 84 4.2k
Hugh Lehman Canada 9 119 0.1× 114 0.2× 184 0.4× 468 0.9× 147 0.3× 33 2.2k
Richard J. Harris United States 30 107 0.1× 149 0.2× 410 0.8× 944 1.9× 89 0.2× 107 4.3k
F. J. Odling‐Smee United Kingdom 14 53 0.1× 435 0.7× 514 1.0× 1.3k 2.5× 261 0.6× 22 3.7k
Kim Nimon United States 28 154 0.2× 165 0.3× 219 0.4× 402 0.8× 140 0.3× 98 3.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Stephenson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Stephenson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stephenson, William. (2007). Fowles's the French Lieutenant's Woman. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 72(2). 527–536. 3 indexed citations
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Cantrill, James G., et al.. (2000). Protected areas and regional sustainability: surveying decision makers in the Lake Superior Basin.. Natural resources journal. 40(1). 19–45. 5 indexed citations
3.
Stephenson, William. (1991). Ulysses and Finnegans Wake: A Q-Methodological Look at Profundity (Part I: Ulysses). Operant Subjectivity. 14(3).
4.
Stephenson, William. (1986). Protoconcursus: The Concourse Theory of Communication (Conclusion). Universiteitsbibliotheek EUR. 9(3). 73–96. 13 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William. (1984). Perspectives on Q Methodology: II. Monistic Protopostulate of Communicability. Operant Subjectivity. 8(1). 4 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William, et al.. (1979). Problems in establishing a benthic baseline during a macrobenthos survey near Gladstone, Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 90. 21–32. 5 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William. (1979). Observations on Sir Cyril Burt And “The Burt Affair”. Operant Subjectivity. 2(4). 1 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William. (1979). Q methodology and Newton's fifth rule.. American Psychologist. 34(4). 354–357. 8 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William. (1975). Biological results of the snellius expedition : XXVI. The Portunidae (Decapoda - Brachyura) of the snellius expedition (Part II). The Digital Academic Repository of Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Naturalis Biodiversity Center). 49(14). 173–206. 9 indexed citations
10.
Stephenson, William, Steven R. Brown, & D J Brenner. (1972). Science, psychology, and communication: essays honoring William Stephenson. Teachers College Press eBooks. 56 indexed citations
11.
Stephenson, William. (1969). The store that Timothy built. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William, W. T. Williams, & G. N. Lance. (1968). Numerical Approaches to the Relationships of Certain American Swimming Crabs (Crustacea: Portunidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 124(3645). 1–25. 7 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William. (1967). Outdoor studies in living animals in Queensland. 2 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William. (1967). The Portunid Crabs (Crustacea : Portunidae) Collected by the NAGA Expedition. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 7 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William. (1962). PERFORMANCE OF A SMALL TWO-STAGE, LIGHT-GAS GUN USED FOR IMPACT TESTING. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).
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Stephenson, William. (1961). The Australian Portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae). V. Recent Collections. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 12(1). 92–128. 12 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William, et al.. (1960). Experimental Studies on the Ecology of Intertidal Environments at Heron Island. I. Exclusion of Fish from Beach Rock.. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 11(2). 241–268. 80 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William, et al.. (1957). The Australian Portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae). I. The Genus Thalamita. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 8(3). 312–368. 22 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William, et al.. (1957). The Australian Portunids (Crustacea: Portunidae). II. The Genus Charybdis. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 8(4). 491–508. 28 indexed citations
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Stephenson, William. (1953). Three New Stomatopoda (Crustacea) from Eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 4(1). 201–218. 5 indexed citations

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