Barbara Herrnstein Smith

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Barbara Herrnstein Smith is a scholar working on Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Herrnstein Smith has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Philosophy, 7 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Barbara Herrnstein Smith's work include Philosophy and History of Science (4 papers), Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (4 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 papers). Barbara Herrnstein Smith is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (4 papers), Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (4 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 papers). Barbara Herrnstein Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Denmark. Barbara Herrnstein Smith's co-authors include Richard Shusterman, John Bender, Christopher Norris, Mary Louise Pratt, Paul Hernadi, Thorsten Blenckner, Mikhail Sofiev, Mark Rounsevell, Alexander J. Wolf and Tiina Nõges and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Communication, The Journal of Higher Education and The Journal of Philosophy.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

42 papers receiving 778 citations

Hit Papers

Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End 1970 2026 1988 2007 1970 50 100 150
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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. Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End
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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
Barbara Herrnstein Smith United States 15 358 339 196 129 95 48 1.3k
Christine Brooke‐Rose United Kingdom 9 365 1.0× 197 0.6× 152 0.8× 107 0.8× 65 0.7× 32 1.1k
Theodore Ziolkowski United States 15 356 1.0× 424 1.3× 222 1.1× 69 0.5× 73 0.8× 217 1.2k
Josué V. Harari 8 309 0.9× 484 1.4× 186 0.9× 132 1.0× 93 1.0× 19 1.3k
Hans Blumenberg 15 593 1.7× 187 0.6× 319 1.6× 113 0.9× 91 1.0× 89 1.5k
Gastón Bachelard United Kingdom 22 369 1.0× 172 0.5× 238 1.2× 57 0.4× 84 0.9× 67 1.4k
Roland A. Champagne United States 13 568 1.6× 442 1.3× 271 1.4× 120 0.9× 164 1.7× 61 1.7k
Steven Connor United Kingdom 13 225 0.6× 353 1.0× 189 1.0× 102 0.8× 61 0.6× 71 1.0k
Jane Tompkins 12 406 1.1× 599 1.8× 181 0.9× 88 0.7× 85 0.9× 35 1.5k
Frank Kermode United States 16 495 1.4× 843 2.5× 338 1.7× 105 0.8× 133 1.4× 98 1.8k
George M. Wilson United States 17 701 2.0× 263 0.8× 310 1.6× 205 1.6× 147 1.5× 58 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara Herrnstein Smith

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (2022). Antirepresentationalism Before and After Rorty. Common Knowledge. 28(3). 424–442. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (2022). The Emergence of Relativism: German Thought from the Enlightenment to National Socialism. Common Knowledge. 28(2). 284–286. 1 indexed citations
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Allen, Barry, et al.. (2022). Introduction: Richard Rorty, Pragmatic Provocateur. Common Knowledge. 28(3). 359–365.
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (2019). Unloading the Self-Refutation Charge. Common Knowledge. 25(1-3). 76–91. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (2018). Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene: On Science, Belief, and the Humanities. PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation). 6 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (2016). What Was “Close Reading”?. Minnesota Review. 2016(87). 57–75. 49 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (2016). Anthropotheology: Latour Speaking Religiously. New Literary History. 47(2-3). 331–351. 3 indexed citations
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Jensen, Casper Bruun, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, G. E. R. Lloyd, et al.. (2011). Introduction: Contexts for a Comparative Relativism. Common Knowledge. 17(1). 1–12. 34 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (2011). THE CHIMERA OF RELATIVISM. Common Knowledge. 17(1). 13–26. 4 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein, Anto Aasa, Rein Ahas, et al.. (2008). Climate-related change in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. in: BACC Author Group, Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin. 62 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (2006). Scandalous Knowledge. Edinburgh University Press eBooks. 18 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (2005). Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 64 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (2002). Cutting-Edge Equivocation: Conceptual Moves and Rhetorical Strategies in Contemporary Anti-Epistemology. South Atlantic Quarterly. 101(1). 187–212. 6 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (1993). Al margen del discurso: la relación de la literatura con el lenguaje. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja).
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein, et al.. (1992). Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. Comparative Literature. 44(1). 105–105. 79 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (1980). Narrative Versions, Narrative Theories. Critical Inquiry. 7(1). 213–236. 172 indexed citations
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Champagne, Roland A. & Barbara Herrnstein Smith. (1980). On the Margins of Discourse: The Relation of Literature to Language. World Literature Today. 54(3). 495–495. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (1975). On the Margins of Discourse. Critical Inquiry. 1(4). 769–798. 34 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (1974). Women Artists: Some Muted Notes. Journal of Communication. 24(2). 146–149. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. (1970). Literature, as Performance, Fiction, and Art. The Journal of Philosophy. 67(16). 553–553. 5 indexed citations

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