William Julius Wilson

406 total papers · 29.7k total citations
120 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

About

William Julius Wilson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, William Julius Wilson has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 20 papers in General Health Professions and 8 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in William Julius Wilson’s work include Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (38 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (16 papers) and Race, History, and American Society (11 papers). William Julius Wilson is often cited by papers focused on Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (38 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (16 papers) and Race, History, and American Society (11 papers). William Julius Wilson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. William Julius Wilson's co-authors include Bernard C. Watson, Daryl Michael Scott, Harry Edwards, Loïc Wacquant, Robert J. Sampson, Nancy Ettlinger, Bruce Rankin, Delbert S. Elliott, David Huizinga and Amanda Elliott and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Julius Wilson

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

William Julius Wilson

116 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by William Julius Wilson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by William Julius Wilson

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