Kai Erikson
Impact in
- Sociology and Political Science top 0.5%
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Risk Perception and Management
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Clinical Psychology top 2%
Papers in
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- Disaster Management and Resilience 6
- Risk Perception and Management 6
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice 2
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities 2
- Co-authors
- John Demos (1 shared paper)Ned Polsky (1 shared paper)David J. Rothman (1 shared paper)Robert A. Dentler (2 shared papers)Richard L. Means (1 shared paper)Thomas E. Drabek (1 shared paper)Robert Nisbet (1 shared paper)William R. Freudenburg (8 shared papers)
- Journals
- Social Problems (10 papers)Social Forces (4 papers)American Sociological Review (4 papers)Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (3 papers)Sociological Inquiry (3 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesAustralia
In The Last Decade
Kai Erikson
59 papers receiving 2.8k citations
Kai Erikson's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 154
- Sociology and Political Science 2.3k
- Clinical Psychology 646
- General Health Professions 594
- Emergency Medical Services 154
- Social Psychology 448
Countries citing papers authored by Kai Erikson
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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Erikson
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Kai Erikson, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 70 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood Hit paper breakdown → | 1979 | 671 |
| 2 | Notes on the Sociology of Deviance Hit paper breakdown → | 1962 | 404 |
| 3 | Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance Hit paper breakdown → | 1968 | 399 |
| 4 | A New Species of Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters | 1994 | 244 |
| 5 | 1968 | 178 | |
| 6 | Notes on trauma and community. | 1995 | 177 |
| 7 | 1976 | 170 | |
| 8 | 1967 | 154 | |
| 9 | 1972 | 130 | |
| 10 | 1986 | 124 | |
| 11 | 1967 | 117 | |
| 12 | 1967 | 100 | |
| 13 | 1994 | 94 | |
| 14 | 1959 | 93 | |
| 15 | 1967 | 89 | |
| 16 | 1962 | 78 | |
| 17 | 1957 | 75 | |
| 18 | 1966 | 57 | |
| 19 | 2008 | 55 | |
| 20 | 2010 | 41 |
About Kai Erikson
Kai Erikson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Philosophy and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 70 papers that have together received 3.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Disaster Management and Resilience (6 papers), Risk Perception and Management (6 papers), Mental Health and Psychiatry (3 papers), Radioactive contamination and transfer (3 papers), Nuclear and radioactivity studies (3 papers), Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (2 papers), Psychiatric care and mental health services (2 papers) and Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Sociology and Political Science (2.3k citations), Clinical Psychology (646 citations), General Health Professions (594 citations), Emergency Medical Services (154 citations) and Social Psychology (448 citations). Kai Erikson has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include John Demos, Ned Polsky, David J. Rothman, Robert A. Dentler, Richard L. Means, Thomas E. Drabek, Robert Nisbet, William R. Freudenburg, Mary McIntosh and A. J. W. Taylor. Their work appears in journals such as Social Problems, Social Forces, American Sociological Review, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Sociological Inquiry.
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