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Daniel R. Williams

Daniel R. Williams

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
56
Citations
17541
World Ranking
1853
National Ranking
886

Daniel R. Williams publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 162 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Daniel R. Williams D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel R. Williams sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 56 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Daniel R. Williams is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research spans various aspects of social sciences, with a concentration on sociology and political science, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and safety research.

Their work covers key topics including social and intergroup psychology, experimental behavioral economics studies, place attachment and urban studies, misinformation and its impacts, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, homelessness and social issues, and cultural differences and values.

Williams has published in several academic venues, with multiple works appearing in Mind & Language and Synthese. Other publication venues include the Journal of Environmental Psychology and Economics and Philosophy, along with contributions to UNC Libraries.

Recent publications include:

  • Socially adaptive belief, 2020, Mind & Language
  • "Re-placed" - Reconsidering relationships with place and lessons from a pandemic, 2020, Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • The marketplace of rationalizations, 2022, Economics and Philosophy
  • Motivated ignorance, rationality, and democratic politics, 2020, Synthese
  • Signalling, commitment, and strategic absurdities, 2021, Mind & Language

Their frequently collaborating coauthors include Andrés Di Masso, Lynne C. Manzo, Christopher M. Raymond, Timo von Wirth, and Patrick Devine-Wright.

Best Publications

  • The Measurement of Place Attachment: Validity and Generalizability of a Psychometric Approach

    Daniel R. Williams;Jerry J. Vaske

  • Beyond the commodity metaphor: Examining emotional and symbolic attachment to place

    Daniel R. Williams;Michael E. Patterson;Joseph W. Roggenbuck;Alan E. Watson

  • A Theoretical Analysis of Host Community Resident Reactions to Tourism

    Claudia Jurowski;Muzaffer Uysal;Daniel R. Williams

  • Sense of place: An elusive concept that is finding a home in ecosystem management

    Daniel R. Williams;Susan I. Stewart

  • Characterizing the influence of past experience on recreation behavior.

    Richard Schreyer;David W. Lime;Daniel R. Williams

  • Identity affirmation through leisure activities: Leisure symbols of the self.

    Lois M. Haggard;Daniel R. Williams

  • Maintaining research traditions on place: Diversity of thought and scientific progress

    Michael E. Patterson;Daniel R. Williams

  • Increasing state market share through a regional positioning.

    Muzaffer Uysal;Joseph S. Chen;Daniel R. Williams

  • Demographic Influences on Environmental Value Orientations and Normative Beliefs About National Forest Management

    Jerry J. Vaske;Maureen P. Donnelly;Daniel R. Williams;Sandra Jonker

  • Collecting and analyzing qualitative data: Hermeneutic principles, methods and case examples

    Michael E. Patterson;Daniel R. Williams

  • Understanding the role of ethnicity in outdoor recreation experiences.

    Deborah S. Carr;Daniel R. Williams

  • An hermeneutic approach to studying the nature of wilderness experiences

    Michael E. Patterson;Alan E. Watson;Daniel R. Williams;Joseph R. Roggenbuck

  • The meaning of place: Attachments to Femundsmarka National Park, Norway, among tourists and locals

    Bjorn P. Kaltenborn;Daniel R. Williams

  • Multiple dwelling and tourism: negotiating place, home and identity.

    Norman McIntyre;Daniel R. Williams;Kevin E. McHugh

  • Leisure identities, globalization, and the politics of place

    Daniel R. Williams

  • Environmental Meaning and Ecosystem Management: Perspectives from Environmental Psychology and Human Geography

    Daniel R. Williams;Michael E. Patterson

  • Defining acceptable conditions in wilderness

    J. W. Roggenbuck;D. R. Williams;A. E. Watson

  • Between fixities and flows: Navigating place attachments in an increasingly mobile world

    Andrés Di Masso;Daniel R. Williams;Christopher M. Raymond;Matthias Buchecker

  • The Effect of the Experience Use History on the Multidimensional Structure of Motivations to Participate in Leisure Activities

    Daniel R. Williams;Richard Schreyer;Richard C. Knopf

  • Making sense of 'place': Reflections on pluralism and positionality in place research

    Daniel R. Williams

  • Environmental psychology: Mapping landscape meanings for ecosystem management

    Daniel R. Williams;Michael E. Patterson

  • MEASURING PLACE ATTACHMENT: MORE PRELIMINARY RESULTS

    Daniel R. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

William Stewart
William Stewart University of Glasgow
Muzaffer Uysal
Muzaffer Uysal University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stephen F. McCool
Stephen F. McCool University of Montana
Susan I. Stewart
Susan I. Stewart University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jerry J. Vaske
Jerry J. Vaske Colorado State University
Bjørn P. Kaltenborn
Bjørn P. Kaltenborn Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Joar Vittersø
Joar Vittersø University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Patrick Devine-Wright
Patrick Devine-Wright University of Exeter
Richard C. Stedman
Richard C. Stedman Cornell University
Christine A. Vogt
Christine A. Vogt Arizona State University

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