Rens van Loon

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 604 citations indexed

About

Rens van Loon is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rens van Loon has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 604 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Clinical Psychology, 4 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and 3 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Rens van Loon's work include Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (7 papers), Community Health and Development (3 papers) and Organizational Learning and Leadership (3 papers). Rens van Loon is often cited by papers focused on Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (7 papers), Community Health and Development (3 papers) and Organizational Learning and Leadership (3 papers). Rens van Loon collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and China. Rens van Loon's co-authors include Hubert J. M. Hermans, Harry J. G. Kempen and Tessa Berg and has published in prestigious journals such as American Psychologist, Journal of Religion and Health and Journal of Constructivist Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Rens van Loon

12 papers receiving 490 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.

The dialogical self: Beyond individualism and rationalism.

1992 520 citations Hubert J. M. Hermans, Harry J. G. Kempen et al. American Psychologist profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rens van Loon Netherlands	4	408	256	120	113	99	14	604
Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka Netherlands	2	370 0.9×	192 0.8×	106 0.9×	150 1.3×	168 1.7×	3	571
Piotr Oleś Poland	12	311 0.8×	187 0.7×	91 0.8×	80 0.7×	67 0.7×	49	566
Barbara S. Held United States	14	452 1.1×	429 1.7×	102 0.8×	89 0.8×	62 0.6×	44	833
Angela Uchôa Branco Brazil	13	345 0.8×	92 0.4×	141 1.2×	150 1.3×	199 2.0×	72	598
Gerald Monk United States	9	129 0.3×	273 1.1×	161 1.3×	64 0.6×	52 0.5×	21	527
Bradford Keeney United States	12	305 0.7×	534 2.1×	82 0.7×	55 0.5×	60 0.6×	55	774
David A. Jopling Canada	8	219 0.5×	111 0.4×	120 1.0×	31 0.3×	50 0.5×	17	499
Gertrud Nunner‐Winkler Germany	12	473 1.2×	283 1.1×	299 2.5×	56 0.5×	151 1.5×	79	924
Sue Roffey Australia	13	225 0.6×	323 1.3×	122 1.0×	77 0.7×	474 4.8×	46	821
Michael A. Westerman United States	15	300 0.7×	390 1.5×	91 0.8×	30 0.3×	89 0.9×	47	609

Countries citing papers authored by Rens van Loon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rens van Loon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rens van Loon

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

All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Loon, Rens van, et al.. (2025). Understanding Dialogical Leadership.

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Loon, Rens van. (2020). Radicalization in leadership from over-positioning to trans-positioning. Journal of Constructivist Psychology. 33(3). 279–289. 1 indexed citations

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Loon, Rens van, et al.. (2019). The Dialogical Challenge of Leadership Development. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1–23. 1 indexed citations

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Loon, Rens van, et al.. (2019). The Future of Leadership: The Courage to Be Both Leader and Follower. Journal of Leadership Studies. 13(1). 73–74. 1 indexed citations

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Loon, Rens van. (2019). Dialogical Self Theory as a Metalanguage and Metatheory for Psychotherapy. Journal of Constructivist Psychology. 33(1). 103–107. 1 indexed citations

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Loon, Rens van, et al.. (2019). European Commission: Leading diversity by dialogue. Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). 125–138. 2 indexed citations

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Loon, Rens van. (2017). Creating Organizational Value through Dialogical Leadership. 10 indexed citations

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Loon, Rens van. (2017). Creating Organizational Value through Dialogical Leadership: Boiling Rice in Still Water. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 3 indexed citations

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Loon, Rens van & Tessa Berg. (2016). Dialogical Leadership: The “Other” way to coach leaders. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations

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Loon, Rens van, et al.. (2015). Dialogical leadership : Dialogue as Condition Zero. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 12(3). 62–75. 3 indexed citations

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Loon, Rens van. (2015). Commentary and review of the article Dialogical and Eastern Perspectives on the Self in Practice: Teaching Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction in Philadelphia and Seoul, D. McCown and H. Ahn, 2015. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 9(1). 177–181.

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Hermans, Hubert J. M., Harry J. G. Kempen, & Rens van Loon. (1992). The dialogical self: Beyond individualism and rationalism.. American Psychologist. 47(1). 23–33. 58 indexed citations

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Hermans, Hubert J. M., Harry J. G. Kempen, & Rens van Loon. (1992). The dialogical self: Beyond individualism and rationalism.. American Psychologist. 47(1). 23–33. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hermans, Hubert J. M. & Rens van Loon. (1991). The personal meaning of symbols: A method of investigation. Journal of Religion and Health. 30(3). 241–261. 3 indexed citations

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