Alan Gewirth

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Alan Gewirth is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Philosophy and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Gewirth has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 18 papers in Philosophy and 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Alan Gewirth's work include Political Philosophy and Ethics (22 papers), Philosophical Ethics and Theory (10 papers) and Free Will and Agency (7 papers). Alan Gewirth is often cited by papers focused on Political Philosophy and Ethics (22 papers), Philosophical Ethics and Theory (10 papers) and Free Will and Agency (7 papers). Alan Gewirth collaborates with scholars based in United States. Alan Gewirth's co-authors include Jack Donnelly, Mary B. Mahowald, Fred Feldman, Alexander Passerin d'Entrèves, Bernard Williams, Aaron Wernham, Anita L. Allen, David DeGrazia, Virginia Held and David Gallagher and has published in prestigious journals such as The Philosophical Review, The Journal of Philosophy and American Journal of Industrial Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Alan Gewirth

62 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

REASON AND MORALITY 1979 2026 1994 2010 1979 100 200 300
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. REASON AND MORALITY
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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Gewirth United States 16 443 438 307 214 207 74 1.3k
Diana Tietjens Meyers United States 18 475 1.1× 381 0.9× 217 0.7× 99 0.5× 119 0.6× 63 1.1k
Larry May United States 19 477 1.1× 485 1.1× 376 1.2× 169 0.8× 105 0.5× 90 1.1k
J. J. C. Smart Australia 4 230 0.5× 329 0.8× 489 1.6× 394 1.8× 153 0.7× 9 1.2k
Michael Gagarin United States 15 381 0.9× 185 0.4× 550 1.8× 101 0.5× 86 0.4× 65 1.4k
Stanley Hauerwas United States 21 730 1.6× 237 0.5× 373 1.2× 67 0.3× 156 0.8× 153 1.4k
Lawrence Blum United States 19 535 1.2× 279 0.6× 310 1.0× 235 1.1× 268 1.3× 58 1.4k
Cheshire Calhoun United States 16 583 1.3× 344 0.8× 344 1.1× 241 1.1× 130 0.6× 48 1.4k
Т. М. Scanlon United States 15 389 0.9× 543 1.2× 761 2.5× 633 3.0× 190 0.9× 37 1.6k
Christine Pierce United States 5 385 0.9× 295 0.7× 185 0.6× 104 0.5× 100 0.5× 9 922
Lorraine Code Canada 17 680 1.5× 213 0.5× 316 1.0× 73 0.3× 168 0.8× 60 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Gewirth

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Gewirth

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

All Works

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Allen, Anita L., Lawrence C. Becker, Deryck Beyleveld, et al.. (1998). Gewirth: Critical Essays on Action, Rationality, and Community. Rowman & Littlefield eBooks. 10 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1998). The Community of Rights. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 225–235. 122 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1998). Self-Fulfillment. Princeton University Press eBooks. 71 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1997). ‘Ought’ and Reasons for Action. The Southern Journal of Philosophy. 35(2). 171–177.
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Gewirth, Alan. (1994). Is Cultural Pluralism Relevant to Moral Knowledge?. Social Philosophy and Policy. 11(1). 22–43. 22 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1987). Moral Foundations of Civil Rights Law. The Modern Schoolman. 64(4). 235–255. 1 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1986). Economic Rights. Philosophical Topics. 14(2). 169–193. 1 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1985). Why There Are Human Rights. Social Theory and Practice. 11(2). 235–248. 6 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1985). Rights and Virtues. ˜The œreview of metaphysics. 38(4). 14 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1984). Practical Philosophy, Civil Liberties, and Poverty. The Monist. 67(4). 549–568. 1 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1982). Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 98 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1980). Limitations of the Moral Point of View. The Monist. 63(1). 69–84. 1 indexed citations
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Mahowald, Mary B. & Alan Gewirth. (1980). Reason and Morality.. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 40(3). 446–446. 23 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1979). On Deriving a Morally Significant ‘Ought’. Philosophy. 54(208). 231–232. 1 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1978). The Golden Rule Rationalized. Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 3. 133–147. 20 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1971). Descartes. The Journal of Philosophy. 68(9). 288–296. 6 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1970). Civil Disobedience, Law, and Morality. The Monist. 54(4). 536–555. 3 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1969). The non-trivializability of universalizability. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 47(2). 123–131. 2 indexed citations
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Gewirth, Alan. (1954). Subjectivism and Objectivism in the Social Sciences. Philosophy of Science. 21(2). 157–163. 5 indexed citations
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