Michael Witzel

1.3k total citations
50 papers, 360 citations indexed

About

Michael Witzel is a scholar working on Religious studies, Language and Linguistics and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Witzel has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 360 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Religious studies, 12 papers in Language and Linguistics and 11 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Michael Witzel's work include Indian and Buddhist Studies (13 papers), Ancient Near East History (11 papers) and Linguistics and language evolution (10 papers). Michael Witzel is often cited by papers focused on Indian and Buddhist Studies (13 papers), Ancient Near East History (11 papers) and Linguistics and language evolution (10 papers). Michael Witzel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Michael Witzel's co-authors include D. Babel, Otto Braun‐Falco, Jacques Chiaroni, Richard Villems, Stéphane Mazières, Natalie M. Myres, Ene Metspalu, Richard Sproat, Mait Metspalu and Roy King and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and Archives of Dermatological Research.

In The Last Decade

Michael Witzel

38 papers receiving 310 citations

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Witzel United States	11	80	61	52	47	45	50	360
Daniel Ogden United Kingdom	13	13 0.2×	151 2.5×	195 3.8×	19 0.4×	60 1.3×	63	554
Lester K. Little United States	13	29 0.4×	42 0.7×	51 1.0×	35 0.7×		31	566
Peter Heather United Kingdom	11	19 0.2×	121 2.0×	131 2.5×	15 0.3×		33	364
Geraldine Heng United States	10	24 0.3×	21 0.3×	104 2.0×	33 0.7×		23	436
Kathleen Coleman United States	8	4 0.1×	106 1.7×	135 2.6×	24 0.5×	10 0.2×	34	290
James Barr United Kingdom	13	3 0.0×	146 2.4×	27 0.5×	386 8.2×	11 0.2×	87	643
Christiane Klapisch‐Zuber France	11	11 0.1×	36 0.6×	40 0.8×	26 0.6×		60	518
Edward L. Shaughnessy United States	11	14 0.2×	36 0.6×	108 2.1×	24 0.5×		62	588
Herodotus	8	8 0.1×	122 2.0×	150 2.9×	15 0.3×		34	289
Nadia Abu El‐Haj United States	9	180 2.3×	119 2.0×	130 2.5×	8 0.2×		17	569

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Thapar, Romila, et al.. (2019). Which of us are Aryans?: rethinking the concept of our origins. 8 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael. (2017). The Pleiades and the Bears viewed from inside the Vedic texts. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 5(2). 17–26.

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Witzel, Michael. (2016). Early Sanskritization. Origins and Development of the Kuru State. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 1(4). 1–26. 12 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael, et al.. (2016). Vedic Śākhās: past, present, future : proceedings of the Fifth International Vedic Workshop, Bucharest, 2011. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).

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Witzel, Michael. (2016). Substrate Languages in Old Indo-Aryan. (Ṛgvedic, Middle and Late Vedic). University Library Heidelberg. 7 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael. (2015). Textual criticism in Indology and in European philology during the 19th and 20th centuries. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 21(3). 9–91. 3 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael. (2014). A First Link between the Ṛgvedic Panjab and Mesopotamia: śimbala/śalmali, and GIŠgišimmar?. Studia Orientalia Electronica. 94. 497–508.

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Witzel, Michael. (2011). Gandhāra and the Formation of the Vedic and Zoroastrian Canons. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University).

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Witzel, Michael, et al.. (2009). The Hindutva View of History: Rewriting Textbooks in India and the United States. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 22 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael. (2009). Moving Targets? Texts, language, archaeology and history in the Late Vedic and early Buddhist periods. Indo-Iranian Journal. 52(2-3). 287–310. 9 indexed citations

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Gaenszle, Martin, et al.. (2009). Rai Mythology: Kiranti Oral Texts. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael. (2009). The linguistic history of some Indian domestic plants. Journal of Biosciences. 34(6). 829–833. 4 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael. (2008). On the localisation of Vedic texts and schools: materials on Vedic Sakhas, 7. CrossAsia-Repository (Universität Heidelberg). 4 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael. (2008). Autochthonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian texts. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 7(3). 1–93. 13 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael, et al.. (2007). Rig-Veda : das heilige Wissen. 3 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael. (2003). Das alte Indien. C.H.Beck eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael. (1992). Alfred Hillebrandt Reconsidered. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 112(4). 611–611. 2 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael. (1990). Notes on Vedic Dialects, (1). Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University). 25(25). 31–70. 1 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael. (1983). Anun?sika in medieval Veda tradition. Indo-Iranian Journal. 25(3). 180–180. 1 indexed citations

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Witzel, Michael & Otto Braun‐Falco. (1963). �ber den Haarwurzelstatus am menschlichen Capillitium unter physiologischen Bedingungen. Archives of Dermatological Research. 216(3). 221–230. 23 indexed citations

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