Galen Watts

788 total citations
46 papers, 294 citations indexed

About

Galen Watts is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Galen Watts has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 294 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Health and 10 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Galen Watts's work include Religion and Society Interactions (17 papers), Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (13 papers) and Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (9 papers). Galen Watts is often cited by papers focused on Religion and Society Interactions (17 papers), Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (13 papers) and Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (9 papers). Galen Watts collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Belgium and United States. Galen Watts's co-authors include B.J. Hopkins, A R Jones, Dick Houtman, A. I. Harris, S. G. Zonak, K. P. Rauch, Chelsea E. Sharon, A. J. Baker, R. Genzel and R. Simon and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The Astrophysical Journal and Surface Science.

In The Last Decade

Galen Watts

39 papers receiving 275 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Galen Watts Canada	10	92	65	62	58	49	46	294
David Albert Jones United Kingdom	14	48 0.5×	11 0.2×	18 0.3×	87 1.5×	37 0.8×	80	532
Mark Mueller United States	9	24 0.3×	31 0.5×	24 0.4×	227 3.9×	1 0.0×	34	360
J. M. Smith United Kingdom	10	138 1.5×	87 1.3×	3 0.0×	74 1.3×	21 0.4×	23	404
Richard Davis United States	8	142 1.5×	19 0.3×	4 0.1×	118 2.0×	12 0.2×	18	368
Patricia Hansen United States	13	102 1.1×	28 0.4×	14 0.2×	74 1.3×	1 0.0×	72	600
M. Rossi Italy	16	36 0.4×	32 0.5×	7 0.1×	441 7.6×	4 0.1×	33	620
George L. Miller Canada	11	23 0.3×	12 0.2×	29 0.5×	15 0.3×	1 0.0×	30	615
Daniel J. McLaughlin United States	10	53 0.6×	6 0.1×	4 0.1×	237 4.1×	6 0.1×	27	411
Elizabeth Wilson United States	9	59 0.6×	20 0.3×	16 0.3×	11 0.2×	2 0.0×	37	243
Peter Funke United States	10	57 0.6×		22 0.4×	133 2.3×	7 0.1×	49	373

Countries citing papers authored by Galen Watts

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Fields of papers citing papers by Galen Watts

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Galen Watts

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Watts, Galen, et al.. (2025). Between Description and Evaluation: How Sociologists Do Normativity. The American Sociologist. 56(3). 535–561. 1 indexed citations

Aupers, Stef, Dick Houtman, & Galen Watts. (2025). New Religious Movements and the Romantic Spirit of Modernity. Cambridge University Press eBooks.

Watts, Galen, et al.. (2025). The Weak(ening) Link Between Religiosity and Morality: Evidence from Five Western Countries. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 64(2). 198–210.

Watts, Galen & Dick Houtman. (2024). The specter of authenticity: Social science after the deconstruction of Romanticism. History of the Human Sciences. 37(5). 45–67. 1 indexed citations

Watts, Galen, et al.. (2024). The Spiritual Turn and “Feminization”: Turning a Gender Lens on Spirituality. Sociology of Religion. 86(2). 243–270. 1 indexed citations

Watts, Galen, et al.. (2024). Symbolic Pollution and Religious Change: The Religious Imaginary of Anglo-CanadianSpiritual but Not ReligiousMillennials. Sociology of Religion. 1 indexed citations

Watts, Galen. (2024). Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 53(4). 351–354. 1 indexed citations

Watts, Galen. (2023). Capital and distinction or goods and traditions? Toward a post-Bourdieusian cultural theory. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 12(2). 171–211. 1 indexed citations

Watts, Galen. (2022). Social Science as Public Philosophy Revived. Lirias (KU Leuven). 3(1). 2 indexed citations

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Watts, Galen. (2021). Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept. European Journal of Social Theory. 25(3). 458–476. 16 indexed citations

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Watts, Galen, et al.. (2021). Religious Studies and the Spiritual Turn. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 33(5). 482–504.

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Watts, Galen. (2020). The religion of the heart: “Spirituality” in late modernity. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 10(1). 1–33. 14 indexed citations

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Watts, Galen. (2020). Making sense of the study of spirituality: late modernity on trial. Religion. 50(4). 590–614. 6 indexed citations

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Watts, Galen, Joseph Lazio, Patrick Taylor, et al.. (2019). GBT Planetary Radar System. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(7). 208.

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Watts, Galen. (2015). A surface treatment for non-specular reflection. 490–491. 1 indexed citations

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Prestage, Richard, et al.. (2014). Experiences with the Design and Construction of Astronomical Instrumentation using CASPER: The Digital Backend System. 223. 1 indexed citations

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Frayer, D. T., R. Simon, Galen Watts, et al.. (2012). A 4mm spectroscopic dual-beam receiver for the Robert C. Byrd green bank radio telescope. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8452. 84522J–84522J. 1 indexed citations

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Harris, A. I., A. J. Baker, P. R. Jewell, et al.. (2007). The Zpectrometer: an Ultra-Wideband Spectrometer for the Green Bank Telescope. ASPC. 375. 82. 3 indexed citations

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Hopkins, B.J. & Galen Watts. (1974). A RHEED study of the growth of antimony on clean tungsten (100). Surface Science. 45(1). 77–90. 8 indexed citations

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Hopkins, B.J. & Galen Watts. (1974). A combined LEED/RHEED Auger study of oxygen adsorption on the W(112) surface. Surface Science. 44(1). 237–246. 19 indexed citations

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