John Thornton

24 papers and 400 indexed citations
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About

John Thornton is a scholar working on Anthropology, Oral Surgery and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, John Thornton has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 400 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Anthropology, 2 papers in Oral Surgery and 2 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in John Thornton’s work include Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 papers) and African history and culture studies (4 papers). John Thornton is often cited by papers focused on Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 papers) and African history and culture studies (4 papers). John Thornton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Ireland. John Thornton's co-authors include Paul E. Lovejoy, K.J. Rogers, Patrick Manning, Pieter Emmer, Wyatt MacGaffey, Stuart B. Schwartz, R. A. Dixon, Bernadette H. Schell, Linda M. Heywood and Irā Berlin and has published in prestigious journals such as British Journal of Pharmacology, The American Historical Review and British Journal of Anaesthesia.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Thornton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Thornton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Thornton 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 John Thornton. John Thornton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by John Thornton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by John Thornton. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by John Thornton. The network helps show where John Thornton may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by John Thornton

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