Christian Smith

10.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Christian Smith is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Smith has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 36 papers in Health and 15 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Christian Smith's work include Religion and Society Interactions (51 papers), Religion, Society, and Development (45 papers) and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (36 papers). Christian Smith is often cited by papers focused on Religion and Society Interactions (51 papers), Religion, Society, and Development (45 papers) and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (36 papers). Christian Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States. Christian Smith's co-authors include Melinda Lundquist Denton, Mark Regnerus, Nancy T. Ammerman, Robert D. Woodberry, David Sikkink, Robert Faris, Jerry Z. Park, Sally K. Gallagher, Joseph L. Price and Hilary Davidson and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, PLoS ONE and Social Forces.

In The Last Decade

Christian Smith

101 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

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    2005 556 citations Christian Smith, Melinda Lundquist Denton profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christian Smith United States 38 4.3k 2.6k 751 553 519 109 5.6k
Darren E. Sherkat United States 42 5.0k 1.2× 3.0k 1.1× 741 1.0× 379 0.7× 918 1.8× 92 6.4k
Mark Chaves United States 38 4.6k 1.1× 2.5k 1.0× 738 1.0× 248 0.4× 285 0.5× 88 5.3k
Mark Regnerus United States 37 3.9k 0.9× 2.9k 1.1× 445 0.6× 409 0.7× 890 1.7× 64 5.8k
John P. Bartkowski United States 34 2.5k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 283 0.4× 205 0.4× 480 0.9× 122 3.6k
Elijah Anderson United States 19 5.0k 1.2× 852 0.3× 578 0.8× 685 1.2× 485 0.9× 45 6.4k
Paul Heelas United Kingdom 21 2.3k 0.5× 845 0.3× 347 0.5× 466 0.8× 734 1.4× 50 4.2k
Nan Dirk de Graaf Netherlands 31 2.7k 0.6× 705 0.3× 791 1.1× 547 1.0× 283 0.5× 108 3.9k
John K. Cochran United States 43 3.9k 0.9× 1.4k 0.5× 385 0.5× 137 0.2× 679 1.3× 148 5.2k
Andrea Tyrée United States 15 3.8k 0.9× 1.1k 0.4× 606 0.8× 1.2k 2.2× 521 1.0× 29 5.9k
Peer Scheepers Netherlands 45 5.3k 1.2× 651 0.2× 2.5k 3.4× 496 0.9× 951 1.8× 236 7.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Smith

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smith, Christian. (2025). Why Religion Went Obsolete. Oxford University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian, et al.. (2019). Religious Parenting. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian, et al.. (2019). Religious Parenting. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian. (2017). Religion. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian. (2017). Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 19 indexed citations
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Vaidyanathan, Brandon, Jonathan Hill, & Christian Smith. (2011). Religion and Charitable Financial Giving to Religious and Secular Causes: Does Political Ideology Matter?. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 50(3). 450–469. 34 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian, et al.. (2009). CogFLUX : Grunden till ett automatiskt textförenklingssystem för svenska. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Regnerus, Mark & Christian Smith. (2005). Selection Effects in Studies of Religious Influence. Review of Religious Research. 47(1). 23–23. 99 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian, Robert Faris, Melinda Lundquist Denton, & Mark Regnerus. (2003). Mapping American Adolescent Subjective Religiosity and Attitudes of Alienation toward Religion: A Research Report. Sociology of Religion. 64(1). 111–111. 99 indexed citations
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Regnerus, Mark, et al.. (2003). Religion in the Lives of American Adolescents: A Review of the Literature. A Research Report of the National Study of Youth and Religion.. 51 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian & Robert Faris. (2002). Religion and the Life Attitudes and Self-Images of American Adolescents. A Research Report of the National Study of Youth and Religion.. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 22(2). 263–72. 3 indexed citations
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Park, Jerry Z. & Christian Smith. (2000). 'To Whom Much Has Been Given...' Religious Capital and Community Voluntarism Among Churchgoing Protestants. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Ammerman, Nancy T. & Christian Smith. (1999). American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving.. Social Forces. 77(4). 1660–1660. 472 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian, et al.. (1998). Devotion in Dixie and beyond: A Test of the "Shibley Thesis" on the Effects of Regional Origin and Migration on Individual Religiosity. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 37(3). 494–494. 49 indexed citations
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Hamil‐Luker, Jenifer & Christian Smith. (1998). Religious Authority and Public Opinion on the Right to Die. Sociology of Religion. 59(4). 373–373. 39 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian. (1996). Resisting Reagan. 99 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian, et al.. (1996). Promised Land: Base Christian Communities and the Struggle for the Amazon.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 25(5). 627–627. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian & George Thomas. (1993). Revivalism and Cultural Change: Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in the Nineteenth-Century United States.. Social Forces. 72(1). 282–282. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian, et al.. (1992). The Emergence of Liberation Theology: Radical Religion and Social Movement Theory. Sociological Analysis. 53(3). 333–333. 59 indexed citations
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Smith, Christian, et al.. (1981). Interpreted resistivity and IP section line W1 Wahmonie area, Nevada Test Site, Nevada. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 1 indexed citations

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