Simon Ditchfield

826 total citations
34 papers, 162 citations indexed

About

Simon Ditchfield is a scholar working on History, Religious studies and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Ditchfield has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 162 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in History, 9 papers in Religious studies and 5 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Simon Ditchfield's work include Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (17 papers), Early Modern Women Writers (7 papers) and Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (6 papers). Simon Ditchfield is often cited by papers focused on Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (17 papers), Early Modern Women Writers (7 papers) and Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (6 papers). Simon Ditchfield collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Simon Ditchfield's co-authors include John H. Arnold, Helen Smith, Catherine A. Brekus, Euan Cameron, W. Chester, Dana L. Robert, David Gordon, Éric Rebillard, Benjamin Hansen and Randall Balmer and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Critical Inquiry and The English Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Simon Ditchfield

24 papers receiving 109 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Ditchfield United Kingdom 8 108 49 36 33 25 34 162
Elisabeth G. Gleason Canada 7 118 1.1× 30 0.6× 46 1.3× 41 1.2× 19 0.8× 29 164
Philippe Buc Austria 8 103 1.0× 22 0.4× 99 2.8× 35 1.1× 63 2.5× 37 203
Paolo Prodi United Kingdom 7 71 0.7× 29 0.6× 25 0.7× 50 1.5× 23 0.9× 31 152
Jodi Bilinkoff United States 6 74 0.7× 63 1.3× 17 0.5× 24 0.7× 21 0.8× 16 138
Bob Scribner United Kingdom 8 97 0.9× 16 0.3× 17 0.5× 51 1.5× 40 1.6× 20 164
Annabel Jane Wharton United States 7 41 0.4× 31 0.6× 35 1.0× 14 0.4× 49 2.0× 24 144
Sharon T. Strocchia United States 7 81 0.8× 21 0.4× 35 1.0× 22 0.7× 7 0.3× 29 140
Irena Backus Switzerland 5 74 0.7× 23 0.5× 13 0.4× 23 0.7× 25 1.0× 43 111
Pamela Sheingorn 8 81 0.8× 11 0.2× 80 2.2× 16 0.5× 20 0.8× 18 152
Jerome Friedman United States 8 63 0.6× 23 0.5× 16 0.4× 35 1.1× 49 2.0× 25 145

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Ditchfield

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Ditchfield

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cameron, Euan, Dana L. Robert, Jon Butler, et al.. (2022). CHH volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter. Church History. 91(2). f1–f10. 1 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon. (2022). Thinking with Jesuit Saints: The Canonization of Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier in Context. Journal of Jesuit Studies. 9(3). 327–337. 1 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon, et al.. (2017). The unbelieved and historians, part III: Responses and elaborations. History Compass. 15(12). 2 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon. (2017). What’s in a Title? Writing a History of the Counter-Reformation for a Postcolonial Age. Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History. 108(1). 255–263. 1 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon. (2016). Preface to the 20th Anniversary Issue: The Pasts and Futures of Early Modernity in Global Perspective. Journal of Early Modern History. 20(6). 509–509. 1 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon, et al.. (2012). Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 11 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon. (2010). Suppliche al pontefice: Diocesi di Trento, 1566-1605. The English Historical Review. CXXV(512). 173–173.
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Ditchfield, Simon. (2010). Decentering the Catholic Reformation Papacy and Peoples in the Early Modern World. Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History. 101(1). 14 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon. (2009). Thinking with Saints: Sanctity and Society in the Early Modern World. Critical Inquiry. 35(3). 552–584. 20 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon. (2009). Plasmare il suono : il culto dei santi e la musica (secc. XVI-XVIII). 1000–1007. 2 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon. (2005). Il processo di canonizzazione di Caterina Vigri (1586-1712). The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 56(3). 607. 2 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon. (1999). From Peter to John Paul II. ˜The œCatholic historical review. 85(2). 256–260. 1 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon. (1998). In search of local knowledge : Rewriting early modern Italian religious history. 19(2). 255–296. 3 indexed citations
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Arnold, John H., et al.. (1998). History and heritage: consuming the past in contemporary culture.. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 14 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon, et al.. (1997). Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy. Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular. 8(1). 27–28. 21 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon. (1993). Martyrs on the Move: Relics as Vindicators of Local Diversity in the Tridentine Church. Studies in Church History. 30. 283–294. 7 indexed citations
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Ditchfield, Simon. (1992). How not to be a Counter-Reformation saint: the attempted canonization of Pope Gregory X, 1622–45. Papers of the British School at Rome. 60. 379–422. 15 indexed citations

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