Jonathan Jong

3.7k total citations
84 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Jong is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Jong has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 34 papers in Social Psychology and 27 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Jong's work include Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (26 papers), Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (22 papers) and Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (13 papers). Jonathan Jong is often cited by papers focused on Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (26 papers), Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (22 papers) and Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (13 papers). Jonathan Jong collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand. Jonathan Jong's co-authors include Jamin Halberstadt, Harvey Whitehouse, Matthias Bluemke, Christopher Kavanagh, Ryan McKay, Miguel Farias, Christopher Mee, Inti A. Brazil, Jonathan A. Lanman and Joshua Conrad Jackson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Jong

76 papers receiving 1.3k 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 Jong United Kingdom 19 708 617 392 306 246 84 1.4k
Armin W. Geertz Denmark 15 387 0.5× 585 0.9× 356 0.9× 155 0.5× 206 0.8× 87 1.1k
Raymond F. Paloutzian United States 19 724 1.0× 805 1.3× 1.4k 3.5× 588 1.9× 109 0.4× 66 2.0k
Miguel Farias United Kingdom 22 687 1.0× 595 1.0× 354 0.9× 702 2.3× 627 2.5× 62 1.9k
T. M. Luhrmann United States 30 658 0.9× 990 1.6× 521 1.3× 612 2.0× 297 1.2× 97 2.8k
Emma Cohen United Kingdom 23 1.0k 1.4× 768 1.2× 273 0.7× 124 0.4× 559 2.3× 48 2.0k
Patty Van Cappellen United States 15 603 0.9× 435 0.7× 356 0.9× 383 1.3× 119 0.5× 40 1.3k
Harris L. Friedman United States 23 775 1.1× 223 0.4× 331 0.8× 761 2.5× 123 0.5× 106 1.8k
Paul Reddish Czechia 12 742 1.0× 479 0.8× 159 0.4× 79 0.3× 383 1.6× 18 1.1k
Paul R. Pearson United Kingdom 22 619 0.9× 547 0.9× 684 1.7× 973 3.2× 171 0.7× 52 2.2k
Robert C. Roberts United States 16 711 1.0× 335 0.5× 116 0.3× 146 0.5× 559 2.3× 69 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Jonathan Jong

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jonathan Jong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan Jong

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gervais, Will M., Ryan McKay, Jazmin L. Brown‐Iannuzzi, et al.. (2025). Belief in belief: Even atheists in secular countries show intuitive preferences favoring religious belief. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(13). e2404720122–e2404720122. 1 indexed citations
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Baimel, Adam, et al.. (2024). Religiosity, spirituality, and mental health in eight countries.. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 16(4). 388–396. 1 indexed citations
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Jong, Jonathan, et al.. (2023). The Nontheistic Sacred: The Psychological Functions of Metal Music and Artifacts. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. 33(3). 198–213. 2 indexed citations
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McPhetres, Jonathon, Jonathan Jong, & Miron Zuckerman. (2020). Religious Americans Have Less Positive Attitudes Toward Science, but This Does Not Extend to Other Cultures. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 12(4). 528–536. 41 indexed citations
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Jong, Jonathan, Adam Baimel, Robert M. Ross, et al.. (2020). Traumatic life experiences and religiosity in eight countries. Scientific Data. 7(1). 140–140. 10 indexed citations
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Jong, Jonathan. (2020). Death anxiety and religion. Current Opinion in Psychology. 40. 40–44. 31 indexed citations
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Bluemke, Matthias, Jamin Halberstadt, Jonathan Jong, et al.. (2019). Negative life experiences and religiosity. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Jong, Jonathan, et al.. (2019). Beyond Buddhism and animism: A psychometric test of the structure of Burmese Theravada Buddhism. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0226414–e0226414. 6 indexed citations
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Jong, Jonathan, et al.. (2019). Death salience moderates the effect of trauma on religiosity.. Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy. 11(6). 639–646. 4 indexed citations
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Escoffier, Nicolas, et al.. (2018). Groups and Emotional Arousal Mediate Neural Synchrony and Perceived Ritual Efficacy. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 2071–2071. 10 indexed citations
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Jackson, Joshua Conrad, Jonathan Jong, David K. Bilkey, et al.. (2018). Synchrony and Physiological Arousal Increase Cohesion and Cooperation in Large Naturalistic Groups. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 127–127. 68 indexed citations
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Jackson, Joshua Conrad, et al.. (2017). Testing the causal relationship between religious belief and death anxiety. Religion Brain & Behavior. 8(1). 57–68. 34 indexed citations
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Whitehouse, Harvey, Jonathan Jong, Michael D. Buhrmester, et al.. (2017). The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 44292–44292. 120 indexed citations
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McKay, Ryan, et al.. (2017). Rituals Improve Children's Ability to Delay Gratification. Child Development. 89(2). 349–359. 40 indexed citations
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Halberstadt, Jamin, Joshua Conrad Jackson, David K. Bilkey, et al.. (2016). Incipient Social Groups: An Analysis via In-Vivo Behavioral Tracking. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0149880–e0149880. 13 indexed citations
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Jong, Jonathan & Aku Visala. (2014). Evolutionary debunking arguments against theism, reconsidered. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 76(3). 243–258. 14 indexed citations
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Jong, Jonathan, et al.. (2012). Defeating the Christian’s Claim to Warrant. 15(2). 127–144. 5 indexed citations
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Jong, Jonathan. (1993). The Beginnings of Buddhism. 26(2). 11–30. 3 indexed citations
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Jong, Jonathan. (1989). The story of Rāma in Tibet : text and translation of the Tun-huang manuscripts. F. Steiner eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Jong, Jonathan, et al.. (1988). Sriman Mahābhāratam : according to southern recension based on the South Indian texts with footnotes and readings. 1 indexed citations

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