John Finnis

340 total papers · 13.7k total citations
123 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

John Finnis is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Law and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John Finnis has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 28 papers in Law and 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in John Finnis's work include American Constitutional Law and Politics (23 papers), Political Philosophy and Ethics (13 papers) and Medieval Philosophy and Theology (12 papers). John Finnis is often cited by papers focused on American Constitutional Law and Politics (23 papers), Political Philosophy and Ethics (13 papers) and Medieval Philosophy and Theology (12 papers). John Finnis collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. John Finnis's co-authors include William H. Wilcox, Richard Tuck, Germain Grisez, Joseph Boyle, Paul E. Sigmund, Peter Danielson, Roger Scruton, William E. May, Joseph Raz and Ruth Gavison and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Philosophical Review and The Philosophical Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

John Finnis

107 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Natural Law and Natural R... 1981 2026 1996 2011 1983 1981 250 500 750
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. Natural Law and Natural Rights.
    1983 758 citations William H. Wilcox, John Finnis The Philosophical Review profile →
  2. Natural Law and Natural Rights.
    1981 595 citations Richard Tuck, John Finnis The Philosophical Quarterly profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
John Finnis 1.2k 859 805 772 480 123 2.9k
H. L. A. Hart 1.3k 1.1× 982 1.1× 775 1.0× 981 1.3× 727 1.5× 55 3.3k
Jules L. Coleman 1.5k 1.3× 1.4k 1.6× 501 0.6× 1.1k 1.4× 419 0.9× 78 3.8k
Isaiah Berlín 1.5k 1.3× 223 0.3× 778 1.0× 1.6k 2.1× 209 0.4× 129 4.1k
Joël Feinberg 1.1k 1.0× 392 0.5× 930 1.2× 1.1k 1.5× 1.1k 2.2× 78 3.7k
Jeremy Bentham 628 0.5× 302 0.4× 314 0.4× 775 1.0× 216 0.5× 113 2.2k
Thaddeus Metz 1.3k 1.2× 178 0.2× 807 1.0× 1.5k 1.9× 461 1.0× 162 4.1k
A. John Simmons 1.3k 1.1× 209 0.2× 757 0.9× 636 0.8× 299 0.6× 64 2.1k
Samuel Scheffler 1.1k 1.0× 153 0.2× 1.4k 1.7× 890 1.2× 871 1.8× 55 3.3k
Charles Larmore 1.2k 1.0× 156 0.2× 807 1.0× 953 1.2× 202 0.4× 62 2.6k
Gerald Dworkin 863 0.7× 191 0.2× 855 1.1× 767 1.0× 766 1.6× 88 3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by John Finnis

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Finnis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Finnis

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

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