Alan Wolfe

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Alan Wolfe is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Wolfe has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 2 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Alan Wolfe's work include Political Economy and Marxism (3 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (2 papers) and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (2 papers). Alan Wolfe is often cited by papers focused on Political Economy and Marxism (3 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (2 papers) and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (2 papers). Alan Wolfe collaborates with scholars based in United States. Alan Wolfe's co-authors include Charles Taylor, Barry M. Mitnick, Michael Schudson, Kenneth Keniston, Philip J. Cook, Robert H. Frank, A.D. Hunter, Benjamin I. Page, Jytte Klausen and David A. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Journal of Sociology and Social Forces.

In The Last Decade

Alan Wolfe

51 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan Wolfe United States	20	1.0k	480	240	237	216	59	2.2k
Dennis H. Wrong United States	17	1.7k 1.7×	628 1.3×	134 0.6×	224 0.9×	182 0.8×	69	3.0k
Bronisław Malinowski United Kingdom	19	1.2k 1.1×	241 0.5×	139 0.6×	200 0.8×	174 0.8×	66	2.6k
C. Fred Alford United States	16	981 1.0×	357 0.7×	294 1.2×	237 1.0×	222 1.0×	81	2.3k
Irving Louis Horowitz United States	28	1.8k 1.8×	749 1.6×	197 0.8×	168 0.7×	363 1.7×	316	3.4k
Christian Lenhardt Canada	5	925 0.9×	567 1.2×	367 1.5×	127 0.5×	314 1.5×	6	2.3k
Shierry Weber Nicholsen United States	9	1.2k 1.1×	681 1.4×	452 1.9×	168 0.7×	355 1.6×	21	2.7k
Mark Poster United States	27	1.5k 1.5×	351 0.7×	317 1.3×	195 0.8×	217 1.0×	107	3.4k
Hans Joas Germany	22	1.6k 1.6×	448 0.9×	280 1.2×	192 0.8×	178 0.8×	133	2.5k
David Weberman United States	7	806 0.8×	472 1.0×	299 1.2×	121 0.5×	277 1.3×	16	2.0k
Cornélius Castoriadis France	20	1.5k 1.5×	547 1.1×	249 1.0×	129 0.5×	269 1.2×	100	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Wolfe

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All Works

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Wolfe, Alan. (2017). Does American Democracy Still Work?. Yale University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan. (2009). One Liberalism. Contexts. 8(2). 80–80.

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Wolfe, Alan. (2005). Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 3 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan & Samuel P. Huntington. (2004). Native Son: Samuel Huntington Defends the Homeland. Foreign Affairs. 83(3). 120–120. 8 indexed citations

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Hunter, A.D. & Alan Wolfe. (1999). One Nation, after All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Think about: God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the Right, the Left, and Each Other.. Journal of American History. 86(1). 336–336. 66 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan, Robert H. Frank, & Philip J. Cook. (1996). The Winner-Take-All Society: How More and More Americans Compete for Ever Fewer and Bigger Prizes, Encouraging Economic Waste, Income Inequality, and an Impoverished Cultural Life.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 25(4). 539–539. 114 indexed citations

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Finn, Chester E. & Alan Wolfe. (1996). What's Wrong With the American University?.. 20(1). 2 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan. (1995). Realism and romanticism in sociology. Society. 32(2). 56–63. 2 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan. (1993). The Modern Corporation: Private Agent OrPublic Actor?. Washington and Lee law review. 50(4). 1673. 9 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan & Michael Schudson. (1993). Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 22(1). 111–111. 152 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan. (1991). Mind, Self, Society, and Computer: Artificial Intelligence and the Sociology of Mind. American Journal of Sociology. 96(5). 1073–1096. 36 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan. (1990). Books vs. articles: Two ways of publishing sociology. Sociological Forum. 5(3). 477–489. 34 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan. (1988). The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s.Alan M. Wald. American Journal of Sociology. 93(4). 974–975. 1 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan, et al.. (1987). Toward a Political Sociology of Reaganism. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 16(1). 31–31.

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Wolfe, Alan. (1984). The Irony of Anti-Communism: Ideology and Interest in Post-war American Foreign Policy. Socialist register. 21(21). 4 indexed citations

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Mahon, Rianne & Alan Wolfe. (1980). The Limits of Legitimacy: Political Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism. Labour / Le Travail. 5. 245–245. 3 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan, et al.. (1972). Political analysis : an unorthodox approach. 3 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan & Kenneth Keniston. (1972). Youth and Dissent: The Rise of a New Opposition. AAUP Bulletin. 58(4). 452–452. 118 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan. (1971). Reform Without Reform: The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.. 3 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alan, et al.. (1970). An End to political science: the Caucus papers. Basic Books. 13 indexed citations

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