Joseph Campbell

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Joseph Campbell is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Campbell has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Anthropology and 6 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Joseph Campbell's work include Cultural and Mythological Studies (4 papers), Topic Modeling (3 papers) and American and British Literature Analysis (3 papers). Joseph Campbell is often cited by papers focused on Cultural and Mythological Studies (4 papers), Topic Modeling (3 papers) and American and British Literature Analysis (3 papers). Joseph Campbell collaborates with scholars based in United States. Joseph Campbell's co-authors include Bill D. Moyers, Betty S. Flowers, C. G. Jung, Morris E. Opler, Stuart L. Brown, Marlène Abadie, Philip E. Leis, John M. Mazur, R. Jay Cummings and Philip Rieff and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Campbell

65 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

The Power of Myth 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 100 200 300 400 500
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 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.

  1. The Power of Myth
    1988 520 citations Joseph Campbell et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joseph Campbell United States 22 434 390 292 290 272 80 2.0k
James Westfall Thompson United States 21 289 0.7× 806 2.1× 500 1.7× 135 0.5× 107 0.4× 75 2.4k
Bruno Bettelheim United States 23 419 1.0× 776 2.0× 1.1k 3.6× 293 1.0× 725 2.7× 106 3.5k
Hazel E. Barnes South Africa 9 295 0.7× 522 1.3× 283 1.0× 461 1.6× 184 0.7× 45 1.7k
Jean‐Paul Sartre France 23 428 1.0× 850 2.2× 415 1.4× 833 2.9× 332 1.2× 98 3.0k
Maurice Natanson United States 17 356 0.8× 706 1.8× 363 1.2× 584 2.0× 209 0.8× 71 2.3k
Naomi Quinn United States 17 804 1.9× 982 2.5× 584 2.0× 143 0.5× 195 0.7× 35 3.4k
Kathleen McLaughlin 7 298 0.7× 829 2.1× 261 0.9× 681 2.3× 522 1.9× 8 2.9k
I. C. Jarvie Canada 19 133 0.3× 653 1.7× 67 0.2× 223 0.8× 65 0.2× 121 1.6k
Helen Lane United Kingdom 8 106 0.2× 853 2.2× 229 0.8× 293 1.0× 349 1.3× 24 2.0k
Adam Jaworski United Kingdom 29 205 0.5× 833 2.1× 45 0.2× 190 0.7× 765 2.8× 110 3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Joseph Campbell

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joseph Campbell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Joseph Campbell. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Joseph Campbell. The network helps show where Joseph Campbell may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph Campbell

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

All Works

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Zhang, Ce, Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, Katia Sycara, & Yaqi Xie. (2024). HiKER-SGG: Hierarchical Knowledge Enhanced Robust Scene Graph Generation. 28233–28243. 3 indexed citations
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Campbell, Joseph, et al.. (2024). Let Me Help You! Neuro-Symbolic Short-Context Action Anticipation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(11). 9749–9756. 1 indexed citations
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Stepputtis, Simon, Joseph Campbell, Yaqi Xie, et al.. (2023). Long-Horizon Dialogue Understanding for Role Identification in the Game of Avalon with Large Language Models. 11193–11208.
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Campbell, Joseph, Simon Stepputtis, Ruiyu Li, et al.. (2023). Explainable Action Advising for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. 5515–5521. 3 indexed citations
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Yu, Chong, Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, et al.. (2023). Theory of Mind for Multi-Agent Collaboration via Large Language Models. 180–192. 27 indexed citations
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Campbell, Joseph, et al.. (2015). Residents' Perceptions Toward Utility-Scale Wind Farm Development. Journal of Extension. 53(6).
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Campbell, Joseph, et al.. (2015). Partnering with Private Industry—Ground Rules for Working Together. Journal of Extension. 53(4). 1 indexed citations
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Price, Charles T., Lawrence G. Lenke, Keith H. Bridwell, et al.. (1999). Correspondence. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 81(5). 743–4. 2 indexed citations
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Cummings, R. Jay, et al.. (1998). Interobserver Reliability and Intraobserver Reproducibility of the System of King et al. for the Classification of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis*. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 80(8). 1107–11. 100 indexed citations
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Campbell, Joseph, et al.. (1997). The mythic dimension : selected essays 1959-1987. 10 indexed citations
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Campbell, Joseph. (1997). Mitos, sueños y religión. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 45(37). 1042–1042. 1 indexed citations
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Campbell, Joseph, et al.. (1994). The way of myth : talking with Joseph Campbell. 3 indexed citations
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Campbell, Joseph, et al.. (1990). The Hero's Journey. 27 indexed citations
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Campbell, Joseph. (1989). Mythologies of the primitive planters : the Northern Americas. Harper & Row eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Campbell, Joseph, et al.. (1974). Anansi the Spider; A Tale from the Ashanti. Ethnomusicology. 18(3). 488–488. 11 indexed citations
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Campbell, Joseph. (1970). Myths, dreams, and religion. 28 indexed citations
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Campbell, Joseph, et al.. (1965). The Masks of God, Occidental Mythology. Journal of American Folklore. 78(307). 71–71. 17 indexed citations
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Campbell, Joseph. (1957). Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 3. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Campbell, Joseph. (1952). The portable Arabian nights. 1 indexed citations

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