Meyer Barash

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 998 citations indexed

About

Meyer Barash is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Sociology and Political Science and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Meyer Barash has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 998 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Organic Chemistry, 1 paper in Sociology and Political Science and 1 paper in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Meyer Barash's work include Organic Chemistry Cycloaddition Reactions (3 papers), Synthesis and Reactions of Organic Compounds (2 papers) and Religion and Society Interactions (1 paper). Meyer Barash is often cited by papers focused on Organic Chemistry Cycloaddition Reactions (3 papers), Synthesis and Reactions of Organic Compounds (2 papers) and Religion and Society Interactions (1 paper). Meyer Barash collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Meyer Barash's co-authors include Roger Caillois, Bennett M. Berger and William A. Lessa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Meyer Barash

8 papers receiving 726 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Man, Play, and Games.

1963 877 citations Bennett M. Berger, Roger Caillois et al. American Sociological Review profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Meyer Barash United Kingdom	6	556	220	112	99	97	8	998
Laurie Taylor United States	9	575 1.0×	114 0.5×	98 0.9×	134 1.4×	120 1.2×	21	908
Celia Pearce United States	14	610 1.1×	130 0.6×	136 1.2×	69 0.7×	124 1.3×	35	967
Akiba A. Cohen Israel	20	618 1.1×	148 0.7×	71 0.6×	104 1.1×	107 1.1×	58	1.3k
William D. Taylor United States	12	376 0.7×	92 0.4×	78 0.7×	167 1.7×	113 1.2×	20	1.1k
John A. Courtright United States	17	340 0.6×	143 0.7×	43 0.4×	330 3.3×	72 0.7×	32	1.0k
Suzanne K. Damarin United States	10	296 0.5×	105 0.5×	76 0.7×	83 0.8×	162 1.7×	36	876
T. L. Taylor Denmark	11	996 1.8×	208 0.9×	150 1.3×	55 0.6×	239 2.5×	18	1.2k
Benzion Chanowitz United States	9	487 0.9×	96 0.4×	21 0.2×	444 4.5×	48 0.5×	12	1.3k
Colin Fraser United Kingdom	16	225 0.4×	432 2.0×	16 0.1×	147 1.5×	34 0.4×	28	1.2k
A. A. Lumsdaine United States	4	448 0.8×	38 0.2×	25 0.2×	162 1.6×	30 0.3×	8	858

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meyer Barash

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Barash, Meyer, et al.. (1974). Social Change in India.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 3(4). 329–329. 14 indexed citations

2.

Barash, Meyer, et al.. (1963). The Non-Religion of the Future: A Sociological Study. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 3(1). 120–120. 3 indexed citations

3.

Berger, Bennett M., Roger Caillois, & Meyer Barash. (1963). Man, Play, and Games.. American Sociological Review. 28(4). 651–651. 877 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Lessa, William A., Roger Caillois, & Meyer Barash. (1962). Man and the Sacred. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 1(2). 229–229. 25 indexed citations

5.

Barash, Meyer. (1960). Optically Active Forms of a Derivative of Tetra-substituted Sulphur. Nature. 187(4737). 591–592. 3 indexed citations

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Barash, Meyer, et al.. (1959). 710. Chemical constitution and amœbicidal action. Part IV. Synthesis of emetine and stereoisomers of emetine. Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed). 0(0). 3530–3543. 12 indexed citations

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Barash, Meyer, et al.. (1959). 432. Chemical constitution and amoœbicidal action. Part II. Synthesis of an analogue of emetine and two stereoisomers of de-ethylemetine. Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed). 0(0). 2157–2168. 10 indexed citations

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Caillois, Roger, et al.. (1959). Man and the Sacred. The American Catholic Sociological Review. 20(4). 354–354. 54 indexed citations

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