Frank Swetz

1.7k total citations
76 papers, 865 citations indexed

About

Frank Swetz is a scholar working on Theoretical Computer Science, Education and History and Philosophy of Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Swetz has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 865 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Theoretical Computer Science, 14 papers in Education and 8 papers in History and Philosophy of Science. Recurrent topics in Frank Swetz's work include History and Theory of Mathematics (28 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (10 papers) and Historical and Literary Studies (5 papers). Frank Swetz is often cited by papers focused on History and Theory of Mathematics (28 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (10 papers) and Historical and Literary Studies (5 papers). Frank Swetz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Malaysia and United Kingdom. Frank Swetz's co-authors include Marcia Ascher, Georges Ifrah, Patricia Cline Cohen, David E. Smith, Anthony W -C Lun, John N. Crossley, O. Roger Anderson, John Fauvel, William Dunham and Victor Katz and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Journal of Research in Science Teaching and Science Education.

In The Last Decade

Frank Swetz

67 papers receiving 647 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frank Swetz United States	15	390	251	150	87	87	76	865
Margarita R. Levin United States	3	307 0.8×	142 0.6×	123 0.8×	114 1.3×	46 0.5×	7	770
Judith V. Grabiner United States	11	212 0.5×	298 1.2×	76 0.5×	168 1.9×	31 0.4×	42	683
Uffe Thomas Jankvist Denmark	14	628 1.6×	274 1.1×	159 1.1×	39 0.4×	58 0.7×	109	798
Marcia Ascher United States	13	259 0.7×	69 0.3×	89 0.6×	26 0.3×	58 0.7×	40	628
Élie Zahar United Kingdom	12	214 0.5×	101 0.4×	82 0.5×	270 3.1×	70 0.8×	24	802
Rush Rhees United Kingdom	16	191 0.5×	75 0.3×	39 0.3×	165 1.9×	180 2.1×	46	1.6k
Brian Rotman United Kingdom	9	68 0.2×	32 0.1×	27 0.2×	39 0.4×	87 1.0×	25	432
John Selden United States	12	558 1.4×	101 0.4×	317 2.1×	4 0.0×	57 0.7×	47	813
P. T. Geach United Kingdom	19	61 0.2×	54 0.2×	22 0.1×	411 4.7×	131 1.5×	95	2.4k
Joshua Guberman United States	7	112 0.3×	51 0.2×	37 0.2×	52 0.6×	78 0.9×	10	462

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Swetz

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Frank Swetz's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Frank Swetz with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Frank Swetz more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Frank Swetz

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Frank Swetz. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Frank Swetz. The network helps show where Frank Swetz may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Swetz

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Swetz, Frank. (2012). The Search for certainty : a journey through the history of mathematics from 1800-2000. 1 indexed citations

2.

Swetz, Frank. (2003). Leibniz, the Yijing , and the Religious Conversion of the Chinese. Mathematics Magazine. 76(4). 276–291. 4 indexed citations

3.

Swetz, Frank. (2003). TEACHING THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS, CHOOSING A TEXT “WHITHER THOU GOEST?”. PRIMUS. 13(2). 165–173. 1 indexed citations

4.

Swetz, Frank. (1995). SOME NOT SO RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS — ITS TEACHING, LEARNING, AND TEXTBOOKS. PRIMUS. 5(2). 97–107. 11 indexed citations

5.

Swetz, Frank. (1995). The Volume of a Sphere: A Chinese Derivation. Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12. 88(2). 142–145. 1 indexed citations

6.

Swetz, Frank, et al.. (1995). Learn from the Masters. American Mathematical Society eBooks. 11 indexed citations

7.

Anderson, O. Roger, et al.. (1994). Evolution in secondary school biology textbooks of the PRC, the USA, and the latter stages of the USSR. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 31(5). 475–505. 28 indexed citations

8.

Swetz, Frank. (1993). Back to the Present: Ruminations on an Old Arithmetic Text. Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12. 86(6). 491–494.

9.

Swetz, Frank. (1992). Fifteenth and sixteenth century arithmetic texts: What can we learn from them?. Science & Education. 1(4). 365–378. 7 indexed citations

10.

Swetz, Frank. (1989). Capitalism and Arithmetic: The New Math of the 15th Century. Science & Society. 53(3). 42 indexed citations

11.

Swetz, Frank & David E. Smith. (1987). Capitalism and arithmetic : the new math of the 15th century, including the full text of the Treviso arithmetic of 1478, translated by David Eugene Smith. 33 indexed citations

12.

Swetz, Frank. (1986). Geometry and algebra in ancient civilizations. Historia Mathematica. 13(1). 83–85. 44 indexed citations

13.

Swetz, Frank, et al.. (1986). A Chinese mathematical classic of the third century: The sea island mathematical manual of Liu Hui. Historia Mathematica. 13(2). 99–117. 3 indexed citations

14.

Swetz, Frank. (1986). Peking man to socialist man: The teaching of human evolution in China. Science Education. 70(4). 401–411. 6 indexed citations

15.

Swetz, Frank. (1981). Some Thoughts on Teaching the History of Mathematics.. 4(2). 34–39. 1 indexed citations

16.

Swetz, Frank, et al.. (1977). Was Pythagoras Chinese? : an examination of right triangle theory in ancient China. 14 indexed citations

17.

Swetz, Frank. (1974). The introduction of mathematics in higher education in China, 1865–1887. Historia Mathematica. 1(2). 167–179. 5 indexed citations

18.

Swetz, Frank, et al.. (1974). Mathematics Education in China. Its Growth and Development.. Pacific Affairs. 47(4). 532–532. 2 indexed citations

19.

Swetz, Frank. (1973). Chinese Education and the Great Cultural Revolution: A Search for Relevance.. Contemporary education. 3 indexed citations

20.

Swetz, Frank. (1971). Children's Picture Books in the People's Republic of China.. Science and Children. 1 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact