Gerald Rosenberg

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Gerald Rosenberg is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Law and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald Rosenberg has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 10 papers in Law and 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Gerald Rosenberg's work include Legal Systems and Judicial Processes (11 papers), Judicial and Constitutional Studies (9 papers) and American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 papers). Gerald Rosenberg is often cited by papers focused on Legal Systems and Judicial Processes (11 papers), Judicial and Constitutional Studies (9 papers) and American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 papers). Gerald Rosenberg collaborates with scholars based in United States and Australia. Gerald Rosenberg's co-authors include Kim Lane Scheppele, David J. Garrow, Peter H. Schuck, Neal Devins, John Williams, Derrick Bell, Lee C. Bollinger, Richard Delgado, David G. Savage and Stephen L. Carter and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and The Yale Law Journal.

In The Last Decade

Gerald Rosenberg

32 papers receiving 897 citations

Hit Papers

The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring about Social Change? 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 200 400 600
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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. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring about Social Change?
    1992 621 citations Gerald Rosenberg et al. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gerald Rosenberg United States 10 706 427 391 352 145 36 1.2k
Michael W. McCann United States 12 574 0.8× 388 0.9× 477 1.2× 139 0.4× 146 1.0× 31 1.1k
Charles R. Epp United States 9 685 1.0× 773 1.8× 816 2.1× 255 0.7× 200 1.4× 23 1.5k
Lester K. Spence United States 14 467 0.7× 308 0.7× 367 0.9× 323 0.9× 59 0.4× 25 913
Matthew J. Streb United States 12 241 0.3× 550 1.3× 383 1.0× 229 0.7× 83 0.6× 30 1.0k
Ryan Goodman United States 14 218 0.3× 610 1.4× 594 1.5× 82 0.2× 122 0.8× 46 1.1k
Lynn Mather United States 12 378 0.5× 150 0.4× 329 0.8× 177 0.5× 89 0.6× 44 818
Stuart A. Scheingold United States 16 371 0.5× 796 1.9× 599 1.5× 101 0.3× 243 1.7× 43 1.4k
Reva Siegel United States 19 350 0.5× 467 1.1× 390 1.0× 124 0.4× 24 0.2× 86 986
Frank Munger United States 11 211 0.3× 197 0.5× 322 0.8× 62 0.2× 47 0.3× 49 630
Judith Resnik United States 15 413 0.6× 231 0.5× 299 0.8× 181 0.5× 94 0.6× 138 826

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerald Rosenberg

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald Rosenberg

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (2009). Saul Alinsky and the Litigation Campaign to Win the Right to Same-Sex Marriage. ˜The œJohn Marshall law review. 42. 643. 2 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (2007). Substituting Symbol for Substance: What Did Brown Really Accomplish?. 106. 2 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (2006). Tilting at Windmills: Brown II and the Hopeless Quest to Resolve Deep-Seated Social Conflict through Litigation. Minnesota journal of law & inequality. 24(1). 31. 1 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (2004). The 1964 Civil Rights Act: The Crucial Role of Social Movements in the Enactment and Implementation of Anti-Discrimination Law. Saint Louis University law journal. 49(4). 1147. 2 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (2004). Brown and Its Impact on Schools and American Life: A Dialogue. 19. 1.
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (2001). The Road Taken: Robert A. Dahl's Decision-Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policy-Maker. Emory law journal. 50. 613. 3 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (2001). The Sorrow and the Pity: Kent State, Political Dissent, and the Misguided Worship of the First Amendment. eYLS (Yale Law School). 17. 1 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (2000). Across the Great Divide (Between Law and Political Science). 3. 267. 3 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (2000). Bringing Politics Back In (reviewing Lucas A. Powe, Jr., The Warren Court and American Politics (2000)). Northwestern University law review. 95(1). 309. 10 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (1999). Incentives, Reputation, and the Glorious Determinants of Judicial Behavior. University of Cincinnati law review. 68. 637. 1 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (1999). We the People: Transformations. eYLS (Yale Law School). 2. 209. 16 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (1998). Knowledge and Desire: Thinking About Courts and Social Change. Physical Review Letters. 101(19). 191802–191802. 5 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald & John Williams. (1997). Do Not Go Gently into That Good Right: The First Amendment in the High Court of Australia. The Supreme Court Review. 1997. 439–495. 4 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (1996). Positivism, Interpretivism, and the Study of Law. Law & Social Inquiry. 21(2). 435–455. 24 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald & David J. Garrow. (1994). Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of "Roe v. Wade.". Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 23(5). 656–656. 9 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Gerald. (1994). The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model. 4. 6. 7 indexed citations
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Delgado, Richard, et al.. (1993). Rodrigo's Fourth Chronicle: Neutrality and Stasis in Antidiscrimination Law. Stanford Law Review. 45(4). 1133–1133. 3 indexed citations
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Schuck, Peter H., et al.. (1993). Public Law Litigation and Social Reform. The Yale Law Journal. 102(7). 1763–1763. 10 indexed citations
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Devins, Neal & Gerald Rosenberg. (1992). Judicial Matters. California Law Review. 80(4). 1027–1027. 4 indexed citations
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Carter, Stephen L. & Gerald Rosenberg. (1992). Do Courts Matter?. Michigan Law Review. 90(6). 1216–1216.

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