Scott Atran

14.7k total citations
138 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Scott Atran is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Atran has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 37 papers in Social Psychology and 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Scott Atran's work include Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (35 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (22 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (18 papers). Scott Atran is often cited by papers focused on Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (35 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (22 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (18 papers). Scott Atran collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Scott Atran's co-authors include Douglas L. Medin, Jeremy Ginges, Ara Norenzayan, Norbert Roß, John D. Coley, Joseph Henrich, Robert Axelrod, Hammad Sheikh, Megan Bang and Richard Davis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Scott Atran

131 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Scott Atran France 44 3.7k 2.8k 1.1k 1.1k 1.0k 138 7.3k
Pascal Boyer United States 36 2.3k 0.6× 1.7k 0.6× 653 0.6× 1.1k 1.0× 1.3k 1.3× 135 5.3k
Howard Giles United States 62 5.0k 1.4× 3.2k 1.1× 787 0.7× 2.3k 2.1× 536 0.5× 335 16.1k
Harvey Whitehouse United Kingdom 38 3.1k 0.9× 2.3k 0.8× 554 0.5× 502 0.5× 767 0.7× 150 5.3k
Jerome H. Barkow Canada 20 2.9k 0.8× 1.9k 0.7× 727 0.6× 2.4k 2.1× 1.1k 1.1× 54 6.5k
Cristine H. Legare United States 41 1.3k 0.4× 2.0k 0.7× 2.6k 2.3× 753 0.7× 793 0.8× 104 5.4k
Richard A. Shweder United States 35 2.0k 0.5× 2.2k 0.8× 533 0.5× 668 0.6× 687 0.7× 102 5.6k
David Sloan Wilson United States 39 3.3k 0.9× 1.5k 0.5× 261 0.2× 1.6k 1.4× 676 0.6× 123 6.9k
Hugo Mercier France 26 1.8k 0.5× 782 0.3× 773 0.7× 549 0.5× 858 0.8× 124 4.0k
Asifa Majid Netherlands 38 1.3k 0.4× 2.3k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 3.7k 3.4× 1.5k 1.5× 174 7.9k
Daniel Bar‐Tal Israel 51 6.5k 1.8× 3.3k 1.2× 434 0.4× 595 0.5× 764 0.7× 201 9.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Atran

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Atran

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Scott Atran. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Scott Atran 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 Scott Atran. Scott Atran 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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Atran, Scott, et al.. (2025). When group grievances become personal: The neural correlates of group and personal rejection. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 25(3). 799–813. 1 indexed citations
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Todorova, Boryana, et al.. (2025). Group and personal rejection are similarly linked to extreme intergroup attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 121. 104788–104788.
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Gómez, Ángel, Alexandra Vázquez, & Scott Atran. (2023). Transcultural pathways to the will to fight. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(24). e2303614120–e2303614120. 1 indexed citations
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Pretus, Clara, et al.. (2023). Predicting radicalism after perceived injustice: The role of separatist identity, sacred values, and police violence. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 11(2). 730–746. 2 indexed citations
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Gómez, Ángel, Scott Atran, Alexandra Vázquez, et al.. (2022). Willingness to sacrifice among convicted Islamist terrorists versus violent gang members and other criminals. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 2596–2596. 6 indexed citations
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Atran, Scott, Hammad Sheikh, & Ángel Gómez. (2014). For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight. 5(1). 24 indexed citations
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Sheikh, Hammad, Jeremy Ginges, Alin Coman, & Scott Atran. (2012). Religion, group threat and sacred values. Judgment and Decision Making. 7(2). 110–118. 44 indexed citations
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Atran, Scott & Robert Axelrod. (2010). Interview with Ramadan Shallah, Secretary General, Palestinian Islamic Jihad. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.
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Atran, Scott & Robert Axelrod. (2010). Interview with Ramadan Shallah, Secretary General, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Damascus, Syria, December 15, 2009). HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 4(2). 0.
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Dehghani, Morteza, Scott Atran, Rumen Iliev, et al.. (2010). Sacred values and conflict over Iran’s nuclear program. Judgment and Decision Making. 5(7). 540–546. 58 indexed citations
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Dehghani, Morteza, Rumen Iliev, Sonya Sachdeva, et al.. (2009). Emerging sacred values: Iran’s nuclear program. Judgment and Decision Making. 4(7). 530–533. 26 indexed citations
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Atran, Scott & Jeremy Ginges. (2009). How Words Could End a War. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 5 indexed citations
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Dehghani, Morteza, Rumen Iliev, Scott Atran, Jeremy Ginges, & Douglas L. Medin. (2009). Emerging sacred values: The Iranian nuclear program. Judgment and Decision Making. 4. 990–993. 17 indexed citations
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Atran, Scott. (2009). To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 4 indexed citations
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Ginges, Jeremy & Scott Atran. (2009). What Motivates Participation in Violent Political Action. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1167(1). 115–123. 69 indexed citations
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Atran, Scott. (2009). Values, empathy, and fairness across social barriers. 18 indexed citations
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Atran, Scott, et al.. (2001). Anti-Anti-Cartesianism: Reply to Suart Shanker. Current Anthropology. 42(4). 498–500. 2 indexed citations
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Coley, John D., Douglas L. Medin, & Scott Atran. (1997). Does rank have its privilege? Inductive inferences within folkbiological taxonomies. Cognition. 64(1). 73–112. 84 indexed citations
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Atran, Scott. (1986). Fondements de l'histoire naturelle : pour une anthropologie de la science. 4 indexed citations

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