Gregory Schopen

1.4k total citations
45 papers, 474 citations indexed

About

Gregory Schopen is a scholar working on Religious studies, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory Schopen has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 474 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Religious studies, 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Gregory Schopen's work include Indian and Buddhist Studies (35 papers), Chinese history and philosophy (14 papers) and Eurasian Exchange Networks (11 papers). Gregory Schopen is often cited by papers focused on Indian and Buddhist Studies (35 papers), Chinese history and philosophy (14 papers) and Eurasian Exchange Networks (11 papers). Gregory Schopen collaborates with scholars based in United States and Australia. Gregory Schopen's co-authors include Richard Salomon, Jonathan Jong, Weston La Barre, P. Christopher Smith, Michel Izard, R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and Elias Bickerman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Oriental Society, Religion and Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

In The Last Decade

Gregory Schopen

41 papers receiving 342 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gregory Schopen United States 12 285 273 239 100 81 45 474
Jonathan S. Walters United Kingdom 9 86 0.3× 123 0.5× 106 0.4× 66 0.7× 55 0.7× 16 260
John Stratton Hawley United States 9 90 0.3× 96 0.4× 91 0.4× 75 0.8× 94 1.2× 45 273
Hans G. Kippenberg Germany 10 88 0.3× 211 0.8× 63 0.3× 49 0.5× 114 1.4× 69 364
Donald K. Swearer United States 10 99 0.3× 212 0.8× 100 0.4× 135 1.4× 37 0.5× 43 342
Elizabeth A. Castelli United States 7 127 0.4× 184 0.7× 79 0.3× 52 0.5× 39 0.5× 18 322
Amy Hollywood United States 9 56 0.2× 172 0.6× 43 0.2× 62 0.6× 99 1.2× 33 332
Gerd Theißen Germany 13 520 1.8× 355 1.3× 79 0.3× 54 0.5× 89 1.1× 82 693
Bart D. Ehrman United States 13 375 1.3× 334 1.2× 78 0.3× 41 0.4× 81 1.0× 49 613
Eric J. Sharpe United Kingdom 7 96 0.3× 210 0.8× 28 0.1× 50 0.5× 101 1.2× 41 327
John Peter Kenney United States 7 55 0.2× 111 0.4× 65 0.3× 41 0.4× 94 1.2× 18 310

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gregory Schopen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gregory Schopen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schopen, Gregory. (2017). Buddhist Monks and Business Matters. University of Hawaii Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (2017). Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India. University of Hawaii Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (2010). Indian monastic Buddhism : collected papers on textual, inscriptional and archaeological evidence. 1 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (2010). On Incompetent Monks and Able Urbane Nuns in a Buddhist Monastic Code. Journal of Indian Philosophy. 38(2). 107–131. 6 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (2007). The learned monk as a comic figure: on reading a Buddhist Vinaya as Indian literature. Journal of Indian Philosophy. 35(3). 201–226. 14 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (2006). The Buddhist "Monastery" and the Indian Garden: Aesthetics, Assimilations, and the Siting of Monastic Establishments. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 126(4). 487. 11 indexed citations
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Salomon, Richard & Gregory Schopen. (2002). On an Alleged Reference to Amitābha in a Kharoṣṭhī Inscription on a Gandhārian Relief. 25. 3–31. 1 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (2002). Counting the Buddha and the Local Spirits in: A Monastic Ritual of Inclusion for the Rain Retreat. Journal of Indian Philosophy. 30(4). 359–388. 1 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (2000). The Mahayana and the Middle Period in Indian Buddhism: Through a Chinese looking-glass. 32(2). 1–25. 4 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (2000). The Good Monk and His Money in a Buddhist Monasticism of "The Mahayana Period.". 32(1). 85–105. 9 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (1999). The Bones of a Buddha and the Business of a Monk: Conservative Monastic Values in an Early Mahāyāna Polemical Tract. Journal of Indian Philosophy. 27(4). 279–324. 5 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (1997). Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks. University of Hawaii Press eBooks. 69 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (1996). The suppression of nuns and the ritual murder of their special dead in two buddhist monastic texts. Journal of Indian Philosophy. 24(6). 5 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory, et al.. (1991). From Benares to Beijing : essays on Buddhism and Chinese Religion in honour of Prof. Jan Yün-Hua. 1 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (1991). Archaeology and Protestant Presuppositions in the Study of Indian Buddhism. History of Religions. 31(1). 1–23. 52 indexed citations
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Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi, Gregory Schopen, Jonathan Jong, et al.. (1981). Collected Essays. Numen. 28(1). 81–81. 3 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (1979). Mah?y?na in Indian inscriptions. Indo-Iranian Journal. 21(1). 7 indexed citations
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Schopen, Gregory. (1977). Sukhāvatī as a generalized religious goal in sanskrit mahāyāna sūtra literature. Indo-Iranian Journal. 19(3). 177–210. 1 indexed citations
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