John D. Schaeffer

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 843 citations indexed

About

John D. Schaeffer is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, John D. Schaeffer has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 843 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 7 papers in Philosophy and 2 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in John D. Schaeffer's work include Giambattista Vico and Joyce (7 papers), Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (5 papers) and Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (3 papers). John D. Schaeffer is often cited by papers focused on Giambattista Vico and Joyce (7 papers), Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (5 papers) and Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (3 papers). John D. Schaeffer collaborates with scholars based in United States. John D. Schaeffer's co-authors include Laura Bird, Donald Phillip Verene, Ronald L. Rutowski and Giambattista Vico and has published in prestigious journals such as Evolution, College Composition and Communication and Educational Philosophy and Theory.

In The Last Decade

John D. Schaeffer

22 papers receiving 665 citations

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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.

The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History

1985 271 citations John D. Schaeffer New Vico Studies profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John D. Schaeffer United States	11	260	250	133	103	85	31	843
José Ortéga y Gassét Venezuela	19	310 1.2×	281 1.1×	157 1.2×	97 0.9×	42 0.5×	154	1.2k
Christine Brooke‐Rose United Kingdom	9	152 0.6×	365 1.5×	197 1.5×	116 1.1×	39 0.5×	32	1.1k
Frederick Lawrence United States	6	232 0.9×	502 2.0×	124 0.9×	190 1.8×	43 0.5×	20	1.0k
John J. Stuhr United States	7	297 1.1×	452 1.8×	154 1.2×	107 1.0×	27 0.3×	34	1.2k
Mark C. Taylor United States	13	399 1.5×	532 2.1×	119 0.9×	132 1.3×	47 0.6×	57	1.2k
Ronald Bogue United States	11	132 0.5×	541 2.2×	157 1.2×	139 1.3×	52 0.6×	40	1.3k
David Couzens Hoy United States	10	242 0.9×	539 2.2×	86 0.6×	160 1.6×	27 0.3×	24	1.1k
David Wills United Kingdom	11	290 1.1×	370 1.5×	222 1.7×	113 1.1×	29 0.3×	62	1.1k
Tom Conley United States	4	249 1.0×	431 1.7×	152 1.1×	91 0.9×	27 0.3×	6	1.1k
Robert J. Ellrich	3	165 0.6×	518 2.1×	189 1.4×	148 1.4×	50 0.6×	5	1.1k

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Schaeffer, John D.. (2014). James J. Murphy, Richard A. Katula, and Michael Hoppmann. A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric. Style. 48(2). 252. 1 indexed citations

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Vico, Giambattista, John D. Schaeffer, & Donald Phillip Verene. (2011). A translation from Latin into English of Giambattista Vico's il diritto universale/universal law. 1 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, John D.. (2004). Tropical Latitude: Prophecy, Orality, and the Rhetoric of Tolerance in Jeremy Taylor's The Liberty of Prophesying. Studies in philology. 101(4). 454–470.

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Schaeffer, John D.. (2000). Truth and Authority in Vico’s “Universal Law”. New Vico Studies. 18. 106–111.

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1998). Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge. New Vico Studies. 16. 88–89. 1 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1997). From Natural Religion to Natural Law in Vico: Rhetoric, Poetic, and Vico’s Imaginative Universals. Rhetorica. 15(1). 41–51. 1 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1996). Henry Grady or Tom Watson. New Vico Studies. 14. 110–112.

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1996). Philosophy and Rhetoric. New Vico Studies. 14. 118–120. 180 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1995). Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory. New Vico Studies. 13. 85–90. 4 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1994). Kenneth Burke. New Vico Studies. 12. 133–135. 21 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1993). “The Narrative Construction of Reality”. New Vico Studies. 11. 135–137. 21 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1992). Eco and Vico. New Vico Studies. 10. 73–77.

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1990). Seven Theories of Human Nature. New Vico Studies. 8. 137–139. 2 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1990). Anti-Theory in Ethics and Moral Conservatism. New Vico Studies. 8. 135–137. 42 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1990). Sensus Communis: Vico, Rhetoric, and the Limits of Relativism. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 25 indexed citations

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Bird, Laura & John D. Schaeffer. (1989). Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?. New Vico Studies. 7. 106–108. 25 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1987). Sensus Communis in Vico and Gadamer. New Vico Studies. 5. 117–130. 2 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1986). Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. New Vico Studies. 4. 209–211. 172 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1985). The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. New Vico Studies. 3. 201–201. 271 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schaeffer, John D.. (1984). From Wit to Narration. New Vico Studies. 2. 59–73. 1 indexed citations

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