Kenneth I. Pargäment

50.6k total citations · 14 hit papers
374 papers, 33.0k citations indexed

About

Kenneth I. Pargäment is a scholar working on Health, Sociology and Political Science and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenneth I. Pargäment has authored 374 papers receiving a total of 33.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 318 papers in Health, 147 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 138 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kenneth I. Pargäment's work include Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (318 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (82 papers) and Religion, Society, and Development (81 papers). Kenneth I. Pargäment is often cited by papers focused on Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (318 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (82 papers) and Religion, Society, and Development (81 papers). Kenneth I. Pargäment collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Canada. Kenneth I. Pargäment's co-authors include Harold G. Koenig, Justin L. Barrett, Lisa M. Pérez, Annette Mahoney, Peter C. Hill, Nalini Tarakeshwar, Brian J. Zinnbauer, Susan H. McFadden, Julie J. Exline and Bruce W. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Applied Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Kenneth I. Pargäment

365 papers receiving 29.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Psychology of Religio... 1988 2026 2000 2013 1998 1998 2000 2003 1998 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory Research Practice
    1998 1.9k citations Kenneth I. Pargäment et al. profile →
  2. Patterns of Positive and Negative Religious Coping with Major Life Stressors
    1998 1.6k citations Kenneth I. Pargäment, Harold G. Koenig et al. profile →
  3. The many methods of religious coping: Development and initial validation of the RCOPE
    2000 1.5k citations Kenneth I. Pargäment, Harold G. Koenig et al. profile →
  4. Advances in the conceptualization and measurement of religion and spirituality: Implications for physical and mental health research.
    2003 1.4k citations Kenneth I. Pargäment et al. profile →
  5. The Psychology of Religion and Coping
    1998 1.0k citations Kenneth I. Pargäment et al. profile →
  6. Religion and Spirituality: Unfuzzying the Fuzzy
    1997 934 citations Kenneth I. Pargäment et al. profile →
  7. Forgiveness: Theory, research, and practice.
    2000 885 citations Michael E. McCullough, Kenneth I. Pargäment et al. Guilford Press eBooks profile →
  8. The Brief RCOPE: Current Psychometric Status of a Short Measure of Religious Coping
    2011 699 citations Kenneth I. Pargäment et al. Religions profile →
  9. The Emerging Meanings of Religiousness and Spirituality: Problems and Prospects
    1999 614 citations Kenneth I. Pargäment et al. profile →
  10. Religion and the Problem-Solving Process: Three Styles of Coping
    1988 603 citations Kenneth I. Pargäment et al. profile →
  11. Religious Coping Methods as Predictors of Psychological, Physical and Spiritual Outcomes among Medically Ill Elderly Patients: A Two-year Longitudinal Study
    2004 586 citations Kenneth I. Pargäment, Harold G. Koenig et al. profile →
  12. God help me: (I): Religious coping efforts as predictors of the outcomes to significant negative life events
    1990 551 citations Kenneth I. Pargäment et al. profile →
  13. Religious Struggle as a Predictor of Mortality Among Medically Ill Elderly Patients
    2001 541 citations Kenneth I. Pargäment, Harold G. Koenig et al. profile →
  14. The Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale: Development and initial validation.
    2014 421 citations Julie J. Exline, Kenneth I. Pargäment et al. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kenneth I. Pargäment United States 86 24.4k 15.2k 13.6k 9.8k 3.6k 374 33.0k
Harold G. Koenig United States 94 29.0k 1.2× 16.7k 1.1× 14.0k 1.0× 8.8k 0.9× 7.6k 2.1× 644 40.3k
Michael E. McCullough United States 68 10.8k 0.4× 13.6k 0.9× 10.1k 0.7× 17.8k 1.8× 2.8k 0.8× 169 31.7k
James S. Jackson United States 78 7.0k 0.3× 8.6k 0.6× 11.7k 0.9× 5.3k 0.5× 6.8k 1.9× 237 23.9k
Martin Pinquart Germany 66 5.5k 0.2× 8.6k 0.6× 7.7k 0.6× 5.5k 0.6× 6.4k 1.8× 229 24.4k
Thomas A. Wills United States 80 4.7k 0.2× 11.7k 0.8× 7.8k 0.6× 8.4k 0.9× 7.0k 1.9× 169 31.3k
Christopher G. Ellison United States 73 12.6k 0.5× 4.7k 0.3× 11.2k 0.8× 4.3k 0.4× 3.0k 0.8× 233 18.6k
Leonard I. Pearlin United States 43 7.6k 0.3× 8.5k 0.6× 10.2k 0.7× 5.7k 0.6× 10.0k 2.8× 79 25.6k
Neal Krause United States 75 11.4k 0.5× 5.1k 0.3× 6.6k 0.5× 5.2k 0.5× 4.7k 1.3× 379 17.5k
Crystal L. Park United States 75 5.9k 0.2× 11.8k 0.8× 4.3k 0.3× 5.9k 0.6× 3.1k 0.9× 394 21.4k
Mary P. Koss United States 75 12.7k 0.5× 19.4k 1.3× 11.0k 0.8× 2.6k 0.3× 7.9k 2.2× 196 35.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pargäment, Kenneth I., et al.. (2025). Sacred moments as a source of life altering change: Insights from psychological theory and research. Journal of Moral Education. 1–18. 1 indexed citations
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Esperandio, Mary Rute Gomes, et al.. (2022). Brazilian Adaptation and Validation of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles (RSS) Scale—Extended and Short Version. Religions. 13(4). 282–282. 9 indexed citations
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Argentieri, M. Austin, Bobak Seddighzadeh, Oluwaseyi O. Isehunwa, et al.. (2021). R|S Atlas: Identifying existing cohort study data resources to accelerate epidemiological research on the influence of religion and spirituality on human health. BMJ Open. 11(10). e043830–e043830. 1 indexed citations
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Wilt, Joshua A., et al.. (2021). A mixed-methods study of communing with and complaining to the divine: Imagined conversations with god among undergraduates reporting religious and spiritual struggles.. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 15(2). 206–217. 6 indexed citations
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Warner, Erica T., Blake Victor Kent, Ying Zhang, et al.. (2021). The Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH): Psychometric Evaluation and Initial Validation of the SSSH Baseline Spirituality Survey. Religions. 12(3). 150–150. 8 indexed citations
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Jung, Jong Hyun, Kenneth I. Pargäment, Shaun Joynt, Johannes H. De Kock, & Richard G. Cowden. (2021). The pain and gain of religious/spiritual struggles: a longitudinal study of South African adults. Mental Health Religion & Culture. 25(3). 305–319. 8 indexed citations
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Wilt, Joshua A., et al.. (2020). Open-Ended and Closed-Ended Measures of Religious/Spiritual Struggles: A Mixed-Methods Study. Religions. 11(10). 505–505. 9 indexed citations
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Magyar‐Russell, Gina, Kenneth I. Pargäment, Joshua B. Grubbs, Joshua Wilt, & Julie J. Exline. (2020). The experience of sacred moments and mental health benefits over time.. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 14(2). 161–169. 7 indexed citations
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Dein, Simon, Kate Miriam Loewenthal, Christopher Alan Lewis, & Kenneth I. Pargäment. (2020). COVID-19, mental health and religion: an agenda for future research. Mental Health Religion & Culture. 23(1). 1–9. 130 indexed citations
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Shah, Sejal B., et al.. (2019). “Gambling with God”: A Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound with Religious Motivation in the Context of a Mixed-Mood Episode. Harvard Review of Psychiatry. 27(1). 65–72.
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King, Stephen D., George Fitchett, Patricia E. Murphy, et al.. (2017). Religious/Spiritual Struggle in Young Adult Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Survivors. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. 7(2). 210–216. 12 indexed citations
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Wilt, Joshua A., Todd W. Hall, Kenneth I. Pargäment, & Julie J. Exline. (2017). Trajectories of Religious/Spiritual Struggles Between Years 1 and 2 of College: The Predictive Role of Religious Belief Salience. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. 27(4). 172–187. 13 indexed citations
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Mahoney, Annette, et al.. (2014). Sanctification of marriage and spiritual intimacy predicting observed marital interactions across the transition to parenthood.. Journal of Family Psychology. 28(5). 604–614. 53 indexed citations
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Pargäment, Kenneth I., Annette Mahoney, & Edward P. Shafranske. (2013). An applied psychology of religion and spirituality. American Psychological Association eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Pargäment, Kenneth I., Julie J. Exline, & James W. Jones. (2013). Context, theory, and research. American Psychological Association eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Mahoney, Annette, et al.. (2013). Heaven on Earth: Beneficial Effects of Sanctification for Individual and Interpersonal Well-being. Oxford University Press eBooks. 20 indexed citations
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Abu‐Raiya, Hisham & Kenneth I. Pargäment. (2010). Empirically based psychology of Islam: summary and critique of the literature. Mental Health Religion & Culture. 14(2). 93–115. 111 indexed citations
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Krumrei-Mancuso, Elizabeth J., Annette Mahoney, & Kenneth I. Pargäment. (2008). Turning to God to forgive: More than meets the eye.. Pepperdine Digital Commons (Pepperdine University). 27(4). 302–310. 10 indexed citations
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McCullough, Michael E., Kenneth I. Pargäment, & Carl E. Thoresen. (2000). Forgiveness: Theory, research, and practice.. Guilford Press eBooks. 885 indexed citations breakdown →

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