James R. Sweeney

51 total papers · 1.2k total citations
25 papers, 517 citations indexed

About

James R. Sweeney is a scholar working on History, Classics and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, James R. Sweeney has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 517 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in History, 6 papers in Classics and 5 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in James R. Sweeney's work include Race, History, and American Society (5 papers), Byzantine Studies and History (5 papers) and Historical and Archaeological Studies (4 papers). James R. Sweeney is often cited by papers focused on Race, History, and American Society (5 papers), Byzantine Studies and History (5 papers) and Historical and Archaeological Studies (4 papers). James R. Sweeney collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ghana and Germany. James R. Sweeney's co-authors include Harold J. Berman, H. H. Biswell, Albert J. Schmidt, Stanley Chodorow, János M. Bak, Gary Dabbagh, Patrick Foster, M. J. Bowden, Richard S. Hutton and Mark Neisser and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, The American Historical Review and Journal of American History.

In The Last Decade

James R. Sweeney

19 papers receiving 353 citations

Hit Papers

Law and Revolution: The F... 1984 2026 1998 2012 1984 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition
    1984 430 citations James R. Sweeney, Harold J. Berman Journal of Law and Religion profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
James R. Sweeney 238 193 126 105 68 25 517
William T. Walker 118 0.5× 157 0.8× 32 0.3× 166 1.6× 179 2.6× 38 521
J. H. Burns 227 1.0× 107 0.6× 47 0.4× 59 0.6× 143 2.1× 40 484
Susan Staves 113 0.5× 156 0.8× 37 0.3× 181 1.7× 212 3.1× 40 569
Richard Schlatter 130 0.5× 140 0.7× 29 0.2× 77 0.7× 96 1.4× 25 485
Stuart Gilbert 153 0.6× 230 1.2× 13 0.1× 52 0.5× 67 1.0× 25 596
Jonathan W. Zophy 238 1.0× 206 1.1× 12 0.1× 93 0.9× 104 1.5× 21 486
Geoffrey Hosking 288 1.2× 321 1.7× 17 0.1× 43 0.4× 55 0.8× 61 560
Lauro Martines 168 0.7× 92 0.5× 25 0.2× 117 1.1× 285 4.2× 46 536
Wolfgang Schluchter 144 0.6× 384 2.0× 21 0.2× 34 0.3× 25 0.4× 41 518
Richard T. Vann 110 0.5× 184 1.0× 12 0.1× 90 0.9× 158 2.3× 40 463

Countries citing papers authored by James R. Sweeney

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Fields of papers citing papers by James R. Sweeney

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James R. Sweeney

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

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