1. Identifying the Leading Global Contributors to Scholarship in Religion Journals: A Bibliometric Study.
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Hodge, David R., Turner, Patricia R., and Huang, Chao-Kai
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LABOR productivity , *SOCIOLOGY , *VOCATIONAL guidance , *SERIAL publications , *BIBLIOMETRICS , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *PERIODICAL articles , *RELIGION , *SECONDARY analysis , *IMPACT factor (Citation analysis) - Abstract
This study identified the 100 most impactful global contributors to religion journals and mapped their respective disciplinary affiliations. To conduct this investigation, we performed a secondary data analysis of a Scopus-derived database featuring the world's leading scientists. The mean contributor published 51.93 papers, had an h-index of 13.57, and an hm-index 11.50. Most contributors were located in the USA with the most common disciplinary affiliations being religion, non-specialized (n = 22), sociology, non-specialized (n = 21), sociology of religion (n = 20), and theology (n = 11). The results reveal that religion discourse is populated by some of the leading scholars in the world. Leveraging their expertise can help advance the field's knowledge development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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