Jonathan Gottschall

1.2k total citations
27 papers, 438 citations indexed

About

Jonathan Gottschall is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Gottschall has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 438 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 6 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Gottschall's work include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (10 papers), Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (4 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 papers). Jonathan Gottschall is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (10 papers), Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (4 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 papers). Jonathan Gottschall collaborates with scholars based in United States. Jonathan Gottschall's co-authors include John A. Johnson, Joseph Carroll, Daniel J. Kruger, James F. Johnson, Kate Muse, Christopher L. Skeels, Stephen G. Patterson, John W. Masland, Stelios Georgiades and Kimberly A. Parker and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Research in Personality, The Journal of Sex Research and Evolution and Human Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Gottschall

25 papers receiving 341 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jonathan Gottschall United States 12 171 161 124 87 72 27 438
Graham St John Australia 13 219 1.3× 41 0.3× 49 0.4× 39 0.4× 55 0.8× 59 528
Madhavi Menon United States 10 126 0.7× 43 0.3× 170 1.4× 43 0.5× 113 1.6× 30 412
Elizabeth Barnes United States 10 141 0.8× 58 0.4× 29 0.2× 67 0.8× 21 0.3× 24 433
Noël Carroll United States 11 111 0.6× 96 0.6× 47 0.4× 155 1.8× 67 0.9× 25 579
Donald M. Lowe 9 197 1.2× 91 0.6× 24 0.2× 33 0.4× 50 0.7× 18 598
Charlotte Witt United States 15 230 1.3× 82 0.5× 41 0.3× 35 0.4× 82 1.1× 32 560
Gayle Salamon United States 10 211 1.2× 28 0.2× 126 1.0× 31 0.4× 128 1.8× 23 467
Kira Leck United States 9 289 1.7× 162 1.0× 53 0.4× 20 0.2× 200 2.8× 12 504
Julian Young United States 11 118 0.7× 92 0.6× 29 0.2× 57 0.7× 20 0.3× 41 444
Stephen Halliwell United Kingdom 11 107 0.6× 84 0.5× 12 0.1× 150 1.7× 58 0.8× 38 710

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gottschall, Jonathan. (2015). The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch. 8 indexed citations
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Carroll, Joseph, John A. Johnson, Jonathan Gottschall, & Daniel J. Kruger. (2012). Graphing Jane Austen. 2(1). 1–24. 5 indexed citations
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Carroll, Joseph, Jonathan Gottschall, & John A. Johnson. (2012). Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 13 indexed citations
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Carroll, Joseph, Jonathan Gottschall, John A. Johnson, & Daniel J. Kruger. (2012). Graphing Jane Austen. Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks. 14 indexed citations
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Carroll, Joseph, John A. Johnson, Jonathan Gottschall, Daniel J. Kruger, & Stelios Georgiades. (2010). Quantifying tonal analysis in The Mayor of Casterbridge. Style. 44. 164–188. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, John A., Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, & Daniel J. Kruger. (2010). Portrayal of personality in Victorian novels reflects modern research findings but amplifies the significance of agreeableness. Journal of Research in Personality. 45(1). 50–58. 12 indexed citations
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Gottschall, Jonathan. (2010). Evolutionary literary studies. A foreword to Norbert Francis’s review article, ‘A modest proposal’, being a review of J. Gottschall, Literature, Science, and a New Humanities. Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics. 19(3). 301–304. 1 indexed citations
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Gottschall, Jonathan. (2009). Response to Kathleen Ragan's "What Happened to the Heroines in Folktales?". Marvels & Tales. 23(2). 437–442. 1 indexed citations
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Gottschall, Jonathan, et al.. (2009). Human nature in British novels of the longer Nineteenth Century: Doing the math. 2 indexed citations
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Gottschall, Jonathan. (2008). What Are Literary Scholars for? What Is Art For?. Style. 42. 186.
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Gottschall, Jonathan. (2008). The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 28(3-4). 219–35. 43 indexed citations
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Gottschall, Jonathan, et al.. (2008). The “Beauty Myth” Is No Myth. Human Nature. 19(2). 174–188. 22 indexed citations
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Johnson, John A., Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, & Daniel J. Kruger. (2008). Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels. Evolutionary Psychology. 6(4). 10 indexed citations
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Gottschall, Jonathan. (2008). Literature, Science, and a New Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks. 56 indexed citations
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Gottschall, Jonathan, et al.. (2007). Are the Beautiful Good in Western Literature?: A Simple Illustration of theNecessityof Literary Quantification. Journal of Literary Studies. 23(1). 41–62. 5 indexed citations
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Gottschall, Jonathan. (2007). Greater Emphasis on Female Attractiveness in Homo Sapiens: A Revised Solution to an Old Evolutionary Riddle. Evolutionary Psychology. 5(2). 8 indexed citations
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Gottschall, Jonathan, et al.. (2006). Romantic Love: A Literary Universal?. Philosophy and literature. 30(2). 450–470. 18 indexed citations
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Gottschall, Jonathan, et al.. (2003). Are per-incident rape-pregnancy rates higher than per-incident consensual pregnancy rates?. Human Nature. 14(1). 1–20. 31 indexed citations
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Gottschall, Jonathan. (2003). The Tree of Knowledge and Darwinian Literary Study. Philosophy and literature. 27(2). 255–268. 12 indexed citations
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Gottschall, Jonathan, et al.. (2003). Patterns of characterization in folktales across geographic regions and levels of cultural complexity. Human Nature. 14(4). 365–382. 17 indexed citations

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