William T. Vickers

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 689 citations indexed

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William T. Vickers is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Anthropology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, William T. Vickers has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 689 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Social Psychology, 3 papers in Anthropology and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in William T. Vickers's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 papers), Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (3 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (3 papers). William T. Vickers is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 papers), Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (3 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (3 papers). William T. Vickers collaborates with scholars based in United States. William T. Vickers's co-authors include Raymond Hames, William M. Denevan, Gerardo Reichel‐Dolmatoff, Timothy Plowman, Eduardo B. Fernández, Michael F. Brown and Peter Rivière and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, American Anthropologist and Economic Geography.

In The Last Decade

William T. Vickers

22 papers receiving 594 citations

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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.

Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians

1984 182 citations William M. Denevan, Raymond Hames et al. Economic Geography profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William T. Vickers United States	11	215	154	153	146	111	22	689
Eric Β. Ross United States	15	152 0.7×	134 0.9×	75 0.5×	112 0.8×	48 0.4×	39	819
Allyn MacLean Stearman United States	15	188 0.9×	121 0.8×	100 0.7×	254 1.7×	45 0.4×	26	611
Leslie E. Sponsel United States	10	109 0.5×	88 0.6×	128 0.8×	104 0.7×	58 0.5×	45	562
Eugene S. Hunn United States	19	414 1.9×	155 1.0×	205 1.3×	247 1.7×	32 0.3×	51	1.7k
Gerardo Reichel‐Dolmatoff Colombia	16	81 0.4×	305 2.0×	78 0.5×	45 0.3×	122 1.1×	57	944
William Balée United States	15	211 1.0×	191 1.2×	72 0.5×	469 3.2×	433 3.9×	42	1.5k
Laura Rival United Kingdom	15	58 0.3×	414 2.7×	65 0.4×	106 0.7×	166 1.5×	35	1.1k
Harold C. Conklin United States	14	81 0.4×	148 1.0×	60 0.4×	196 1.3×	41 0.4×	36	1.0k
Dan Flores United States	8	150 0.7×	136 0.9×	19 0.1×	107 0.7×	25 0.2×	21	627
Rui Sérgio Sereni Murrieta Brazil	17	168 0.8×	48 0.3×	56 0.4×	222 1.5×	139 1.3×	40	951

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Vickers, William T., et al.. (2022). Evaluating Audio-to-Text utilizing Dragon in the Context of Just-in-Time Requirements. 124–125. 1 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T.. (2006). The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place, and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, A.D. 1000–2000. American Anthropologist. 108(3). 593–594. 58 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T.. (1999). Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy along the Amazon. American Anthropologist. 101(4). 884–885. 7 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T.. (1998). The religious ethnography of lowland South America. Reviews in Anthropology. 27(2). 109–121. 2 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T.. (1994). From opportunism to nascent conservation. Human Nature. 5(4). 307–337. 42 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T.. (1992). War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon. Hispanic American Historical Review. 72(4). 614–615. 2 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T.. (1991). Hunting yields and game composition over ten years in an Amazon Indian territory. 53–81. 61 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T.. (1989). Traditional Concepts of Power Among the Siona‐Secoya and the Advent of the Nation‐State. Latin American Anthropology Review. 1(2). 55–60. 5 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T.. (1989). In the Eyes of the Beholder: Leadership and the Social Construction of Power and Dominance among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon. Latin American Anthropology Review. 1(2). 70–70. 8 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T.. (1989). Los sionas y secoyas : su adaptación al ambiente amazónico. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 15 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T.. (1989). Traditional Concepts of Power Among the Siona-Secoya and the Advent of the Nation-State. Latin American Anthropology Review. 1(2). 55–60. 4 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T., et al.. (1988). Rucuyaya Alonso y la historia social y economica del Alto Napo, 1850-1950.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 68(3). 604–604. 1 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T.. (1988). Game Depletion Hypothesis of Amazonian Adaptation: Data from a Native Community. Science. 239(4847). 1521–1522. 43 indexed citations

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Rivière, Peter, Raymond Hames, & William T. Vickers. (1986). Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians. Man. 21(2). 366–366. 5 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T. & Timothy Plowman. (1984). Useful plants of the Siona and Secoya Indians of eastern Ecuador. Field Museum of Natural History eBooks. 43 indexed citations

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Denevan, William M., Raymond Hames, & William T. Vickers. (1984). Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians. Economic Geography. 60(1). 91–91. 182 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vickers, William T.. (1984). Fishers of Men or Founders of Empire? The Wycliffe Bible Translators in Latin America. DAVID STOLL. American Ethnologist. 11(1). 200–201. 2 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T.. (1983). Tropical forest mimicry in Swiddens: A reassessment of Geertz's Model with Amazonian data. Human Ecology. 11(1). 35–45. 26 indexed citations

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Hames, Raymond & William T. Vickers. (1982). Optimal diet breadth theory as a model to explain variability in Amazonian hunting. American Ethnologist. 9(2). 358–378. 118 indexed citations

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Vickers, William T. & Gerardo Reichel‐Dolmatoff. (1977). The Shaman and the Jaguar: A Study of Narcotic Drugs among the Indians of Colombia.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 57(2). 370–370. 49 indexed citations

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