Erving Goffman

194 total papers · 143.5k total citations
79 papers, 65.8k citations indexed

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Erving Goffman is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Erving Goffman has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 65.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Philosophy and 6 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Erving Goffman’s work include Sociology and Education Studies (5 papers), Media, Gender, and Advertising (4 papers) and Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (4 papers). Erving Goffman is often cited by papers focused on Sociology and Education Studies (5 papers), Media, Gender, and Advertising (4 papers) and Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (4 papers). Erving Goffman collaborates with scholars based in United States and Israel. Erving Goffman's co-authors include Melvin Seeman, Harold W. Pfautz, Edward A. Tiryakian, Melvin L. DeFleur, Edgar H. Schein, Everett C. Hughes, Melville Dalton, Louis Schneider, Ralph H. Turner and Milton Bloombaum and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Academy of Management Review and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erving Goffman

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

Erving Goffman

75 papers receiving 56.2k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Erving Goffman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Erving Goffman

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