James Boswell
Impact in
- History top 2%
- Scottish History and National Identity
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Travel Writing and Literature
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- Literature: history, themes, analysis
Papers in
- History 11
- Scottish History and National Identity 6
- Historical Studies of British Isles 3
- European Political History Analysis 1
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- American Constitutional Law and Politics 3
- Co-authors
- James Clifford (1 shared paper)Samuel Johnson (2 shared papers)Frank Brady (1 shared paper)William K. Wimsatt (1 shared paper)Sheila Roberts (1 shared paper)Pat Rogers (1 shared paper)James T. Boulton (1 shared paper)N. McBride (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1 paper)Eighteenth-Century Studies (1 paper)The Modern Language Review (1 paper)C.H.Beck eBooks (1 paper)Medical Entomology and Zoology (17 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
James Boswell
31 papers receiving 148 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 74
- History 93
- Literature and Literary Theory 90
- Museology 20
- Philosophy 34
- Anthropology 29
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside James Boswell, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Life of Johnson | 1994 | 142 |
| 2 | 1953 | 20 | |
| 3 | Boswell: the ominous years, 1774-1776 | 1963 | 16 |
| 4 | 2008 | 15 | |
| 5 | Boswell on the grand tour : Italy, Corsica, and France 1765-1766 | 1955 | 12 |
| 6 | A journey to the Western Islands of Scotland . With the journal of a tour to the Hebrides | 1984 | 10 |
| 7 | Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782 | 1977 | 9 |
| 8 | Boswell for the defence, 1769-1774 | 1959 | 5 |
| 9 | Boswell in Extremes, 1776-1778 | 1970 | 5 |
| 10 | 2008 | 5 | |
| 11 | JS 100: the story of Sainsbury's | 1969 | 5 |
| 12 | Boswell in Search of a Wife, 1766–1769 | 1956 | 5 |
| 13 | journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, The | 2013 | 5 |
| 14 | Boswell's Life of Johnson, Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales | 2009 | 4 |
| 15 | Boswell's "Life of Johnson", New Questions, New Answers | 1985 | 4 |
| 16 | The Yale editions of the private papers of James Boswell | 1951 | 3 |
| 17 | 1993 | 3 | |
| 18 | Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell | 2014 | 3 |
| 19 | 1995 | 3 | |
| 20 | Boswell's column : being his seventy contributions to "The London Magazine" under the pseudonym The Hypochondriack from 1777 to 1783, here first printed in book form in England | 1951 | 3 |
About James Boswell
James Boswell is a scholar working on History, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Pollution, having authored 53 papers that have together received 305 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Scottish History and National Identity (6 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 papers), Historical Studies of British Isles (3 papers), Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (2 papers), Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (1 paper), American and British Literature Analysis (1 paper), European Political History Analysis (1 paper) and Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in History (93 citations), Literature and Literary Theory (90 citations), Museology (20 citations), Philosophy (34 citations) and Anthropology (29 citations). James Boswell has collaborated with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include James Clifford, Samuel Johnson, Frank Brady, William K. Wimsatt, Sheila Roberts, Pat Rogers, James T. Boulton, N. McBride, Allan Ingram and Paul Baines. Their work appears in journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Modern Language Review, C.H.Beck eBooks and Medical Entomology and Zoology.
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