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Royal Foundations

Royal Foundations is a historical institutional mechanism in the origins of universities, distinguished by formal establishment and endowment of academic institutions through sovereign royal authority, often accompanied by legal autonomy and privileges granted by monarchs to promote higher learning.

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

William P. D. Wightman · Nature · 1961 · 626 citations · Full text

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Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

John Balfour · Nature · 1870 · 621 citations · Full text

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History of the Royal Society.

Richard F. Jones, Thomas Sprat, Jackson I. Cope et al. · Modern Language Notes · 1961 · 282 citations

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Establishing the new science: the experience of the early Royal Society

Choice Reviews Online · 1990 · 187 citations

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What's in a Name? The Origins of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1837-71)

George W. Stocking · Man · 1971 · 177 citations

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Authors

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  1. TI
    Trevor I. Williams

    Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 166 citations

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  2. MB
    Marie Boas Hall

    John Brown University, United States

    2 publications · 23 citations

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  3. NF
    N. Feather

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 68 citations

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  4. HW
    Harold Whitmore Jones

    1 publications · 282 citations

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  5. KR
    Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

    Yale University, United States

    1 publications · 138 citations

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Institutions

21

  1. University of Kent

    Canterbury, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    74 citations

  2. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    93 citations

  3. University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  4. University of Hull

    Hull, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  5. BMJ Group (United Kingdom)

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  6. Western University

    London, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    47 citations

  7. Universidad de Londres

    Mexico City, Mexico

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  8. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    20 citations

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  2. Nature

    4 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. The British Journal for the History of Science

    BJHS · 3 publications · 46 citations

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  4. Endeavour

    3 publications · 166 citations

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  5. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 3 publications · 272 citations

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