Michael Weston

765 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 209 citations indexed

About

Michael Weston is a scholar working on Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Weston has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 209 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Philosophy, 2 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 1 paper in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Michael Weston's work include Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (3 papers), Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (2 papers) and Philosophy and Literary Analysis (1 paper). Michael Weston is often cited by papers focused on Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (3 papers), Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (2 papers) and Philosophy and Literary Analysis (1 paper). Michael Weston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Michael Weston's co-authors include Colin Radford, John Skorupski and John T. E. Richardson and has published in prestigious journals such as The Philosophical Quarterly, European Journal of Philosophy and Philosophical Investigations.

In The Last Decade

Michael Weston

8 papers receiving 152 citations

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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.

How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Anna Karenina?

1975 179 citations Colin Radford, Michael Weston Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Weston United Kingdom	4	94	82	63	57	48	9	209
Susan L. Feagin United States	8	76 0.8×	82 1.0×	69 1.1×	45 0.8×	50 1.0×	31	228
Alex Neill United Kingdom	8	64 0.7×	45 0.5×	34 0.5×	22 0.4×	26 0.5×	24	173
Cyril Barrett United Kingdom	7	165 1.8×	48 0.6×	33 0.5×	88 1.5×	26 0.5×	23	343
Gary Iseminger United States	7	67 0.7×	72 0.9×	25 0.4×	66 1.2×	27 0.6×	31	188
Eduard Marbach Switzerland	9	179 1.9×	57 0.7×	57 0.9×	181 3.2×	14 0.3×	24	318
Stacie Friend United Kingdom	8	114 1.2×	65 0.8×	34 0.5×	112 2.0×	89 1.9×	25	264
Bert O. States United States	9	36 0.4×	84 1.0×	39 0.6×	71 1.2×	98 2.0×	40	345
Jerome Stolnitz United States	10	104 1.1×	84 1.0×	15 0.2×	69 1.2×	33 0.7×	34	291
Richard Kuhns United States	8	31 0.3×	34 0.4×	20 0.3×	31 0.5×	20 0.4×	35	188
Linda Coleman United States	4	58 0.6×	53 0.6×	70 1.1×	84 1.5×	18 0.4×	8	278

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Weston

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Weston

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All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

1.

Weston, Michael. (2013). Howard Mounce: Wittgensteinian Transcendent Realism?. 10.

2.

Weston, Michael. (2009). Forms of Our Life: Wittgenstein and the Later Heidegger. Philosophical Investigations. 33(3). 245–265. 1 indexed citations

3.

Weston, Michael. (2003). Philosophy, Literature and the Human Good. 4 indexed citations

4.

Weston, Michael. (2002). Kierkegaard and the Origins of the Post–Modern ‘Self’. European Journal of Philosophy. 10(3). 398–412. 1 indexed citations

5.

Weston, Michael. (1999). Evading the Issue: The Strategy of Kierkegaard’s Postscript. Philosophical Investigations. 22(1). 35–64. 3 indexed citations

6.

Weston, Michael. (1994). Kierkegaard and Modern Continental Philosophy: An Introduction. 7 indexed citations

7.

Weston, Michael & John Skorupski. (1980). Symbol and Theory. A Philosophical Study of Theories of Religion in Social Anthropology.. The Philosophical Quarterly. 30(120). 281–281. 12 indexed citations

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Weston, Michael & John T. E. Richardson. (1977). The Grammar of Justification: An Interpretation of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language.. The Philosophical Quarterly. 27(107). 180–180. 2 indexed citations

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Radford, Colin & Michael Weston. (1975). How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Anna Karenina?. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. 49(1). 67–94. 179 indexed citations breakdown →

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