Maurice Natanson

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Maurice Natanson is a scholar working on Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Maurice Natanson has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Philosophy, 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 5 papers in History and Philosophy of Science. Recurrent topics in Maurice Natanson's work include Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (9 papers), Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre (4 papers) and Philosophy, Science, and History (3 papers). Maurice Natanson is often cited by papers focused on Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (9 papers), Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre (4 papers) and Philosophy, Science, and History (3 papers). Maurice Natanson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and France. Maurice Natanson's co-authors include Hazel E. Barnes, Jean‐Paul Sartre, Richard Rudner, Eugene T. Gendlin, Jacob Needleman, Richard Grathoff, Helmut R. Wagner, Bernard N. Meltzer, Henry W. Johnstone and Irving Louis Horowitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Sociological Review and Social Forces.

In The Last Decade

Maurice Natanson

63 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontol... 1958 2026 1980 2003 1958 250 500 750 1000
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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. Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology.
    1958 1.1k citations Maurice Natanson et al. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Maurice Natanson United States 17 706 584 363 356 289 71 2.3k
Hazel E. Barnes South Africa 9 522 0.7× 461 0.8× 283 0.8× 295 0.8× 196 0.7× 45 1.7k
Jean Paul Sartre 18 710 1.0× 584 1.0× 254 0.7× 219 0.6× 157 0.5× 120 2.2k
Jean‐Paul Sartre France 23 850 1.2× 833 1.4× 415 1.1× 428 1.2× 332 1.1× 98 3.0k
Kathleen McLaughlin 7 829 1.2× 681 1.2× 261 0.7× 298 0.8× 406 1.4× 8 2.9k
Walter Kaufmann United States 19 539 0.8× 804 1.4× 186 0.5× 149 0.4× 110 0.4× 92 1.9k
David E. Linge United States 4 524 0.7× 315 0.5× 204 0.6× 165 0.5× 143 0.5× 6 1.7k
James W. Fernández United States 21 1.2k 1.7× 257 0.4× 202 0.6× 272 0.8× 257 0.9× 74 2.9k
Peter Winch United Kingdom 13 688 1.0× 775 1.3× 92 0.3× 154 0.4× 271 0.9× 40 2.1k
Joseph Campbell United States 22 390 0.6× 290 0.5× 292 0.8× 434 1.2× 118 0.4× 80 2.0k
John Cumming Australia 7 599 0.8× 321 0.5× 242 0.7× 205 0.6× 130 0.4× 17 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Maurice Natanson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maurice Natanson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Maurice Natanson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Maurice Natanson 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 Maurice Natanson. Maurice Natanson 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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Natanson, Maurice & Steven Crowell. (1995). The Prism of the Self Philosophical Essays in Honor of Maurice Natanson. Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice. (1983). The Schematism of Moral Agency. New Literary History. 15(1). 13–13. 1 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice. (1981). An Editorial Fragment. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine. 6(1). 3–4. 3 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice, et al.. (1972). Phenomenology and Social Reality: Essays in Memory of Alfred Schutz.. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 33(1). 117–117. 14 indexed citations
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Meltzer, Bernard N. & Maurice Natanson. (1971). The Journeying Self: A Study in Philosophy and Social Role.. Social Forces. 50(1). 132–132. 39 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice, et al.. (1967). Alienation and Social Role. 2. 255–268. 1 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice. (1967). Phenomenology as a Rigorous Science. International Philosophical Quarterly. 7(1). 5–20. 4 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice, et al.. (1966). Considerations towards a Theory of Social Change.. The Journal of Philosophy. 63(16). 469–469. 3 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice & Arthur C. Danto. (1966). Analytical Philosophy of History.. American Sociological Review. 31(2). 279–279. 20 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice, et al.. (1966). Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Argumentation.. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 26(4). 591–591. 44 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice & Jacob Needleman. (1965). Being-in-the-World: Selected Papers of Ludwig Binswanger.. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 25(3). 429–429. 94 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice, et al.. (1965). What is Phenomenology? and Other Essays.. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 25(4). 592–592. 7 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice & Eugene F. Kaelin. (1964). An Existentialist Aesthetic: The Theories of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 24(4). 597–597. 5 indexed citations
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Goldstein, Leon J., et al.. (1963). Collected Papers. Volume I: The Problem of Social Reality.. The Journal of Philosophy. 60(19). 557–557. 40 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice, et al.. (1962). Existential Phenomenology.. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 22(4). 592–592. 6 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice. (1959). Phenomenology and Existentialism. The Modern Schoolman. 37(1). 1–10. 1 indexed citations
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Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa, et al.. (1959). For Roman Ingarden. 1 indexed citations
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Kaminsky, Jack & Maurice Natanson. (1958). The Social Dynamics of George Herbert Mead.. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 18(3). 417–417. 9 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice. (1957). The privileged moment: A study in the rhetoric of Thomas Wolfe. Quarterly Journal of Speech. 43(2). 143–150. 4 indexed citations
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Natanson, Maurice. (1955). The limits of rhetoric. Quarterly Journal of Speech. 41(2). 133–139. 18 indexed citations

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