Will Herberg

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 751 citations indexed

About

Will Herberg is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Will Herberg has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 751 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 4 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Will Herberg's work include Religion and Society Interactions (6 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 papers) and Race, History, and American Society (4 papers). Will Herberg is often cited by papers focused on Religion and Society Interactions (6 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 papers) and Race, History, and American Society (4 papers). Will Herberg collaborates with scholars based in United States. Will Herberg's co-authors include John J. Kane, Karl Barth, Martin Buber, Frederick Merk, Anton T. Boisen, Gerhard Lenski, Stanley Rothman, John Tracy Ellis, David Novák and Philip B. Kurland and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, Journal of Social Issues and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

In The Last Decade

Will Herberg

16 papers receiving 461 citations

Hit Papers

Protestant--Catholic--Jew: An Essay in American Religious... 1960 2026 1982 2004 1960 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Protestant--Catholic--Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology
    1960 408 citations Will Herberg Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Will Herberg United States 5 587 192 137 119 74 24 751
Roger O’Toole Canada 8 579 1.0× 168 0.9× 37 0.3× 119 1.0× 48 0.6× 28 685
Barbara Hargrove United States 11 310 0.5× 117 0.6× 28 0.2× 83 0.7× 31 0.4× 23 432
Sydney E. Ahlstrom United States 11 318 0.5× 179 0.9× 17 0.1× 46 0.4× 99 1.3× 35 497
H. Richard Niebuhr United States 9 242 0.4× 80 0.4× 26 0.2× 55 0.5× 38 0.5× 23 466
A. Leland Jamison 3 352 0.6× 84 0.4× 58 0.4× 158 1.3× 27 0.4× 8 479
Pierre Hégy United States 9 348 0.6× 120 0.6× 21 0.2× 52 0.4× 45 0.6× 36 520
Jay P. Dolan United States 12 299 0.5× 216 1.1× 40 0.3× 42 0.4× 179 2.4× 38 478
Thomas A. Tweed United States 11 473 0.8× 135 0.7× 100 0.7× 74 0.6× 68 0.9× 43 673
Stephen Sharot Israel 11 342 0.6× 64 0.3× 80 0.6× 88 0.7× 16 0.2× 37 423
Patricia Wittberg United States 12 324 0.6× 90 0.5× 31 0.2× 132 1.1× 67 0.9× 42 429

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Fields of papers citing papers by Will Herberg

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Will Herberg

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Will Herberg. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Will Herberg 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 Will Herberg. Will Herberg 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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Novák, David, et al.. (1989). From Marxism to Judaism: Collected Essays of Will Herberg. Journal of Law and Religion. 7(1). 247–247. 1 indexed citations
2.
Herberg, Will. (1975). Four existentialist theologians : a reader from the works of Jacques Maritain, Nicolas Berdyaev, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich.. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 3 indexed citations
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Herberg, Will, et al.. (1971). On academic freedom. 3 indexed citations
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Herberg, Will. (1963). The Integration of the Jew Into America's Three-Religion Society. Journal of Church and State. 5(1). 27–40. 1 indexed citations
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Lenski, Gerhard, Stanley Rothman, Will Herberg, et al.. (1963). Aspects of Religion and Patriotism: Some Recent Studies. The Antioch Review. 23(4). 515–515.
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Herberg, Will. (1962). Religion in a Secularized Society: Some Aspects of America's Three-Religion Pluralism (Lecture II). Review of Religious Research. 4(1). 33–33.
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Herberg, Will. (1962). Religion in a Secularized Society: The New Shape of Religion in America (Lecture I). Review of Religious Research. 3(4). 145–145. 3 indexed citations
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Isambert, François André, et al.. (1961). Protestants, catholiques et israélites. La religion dans la société aux Etats-Unis. Revue Française de Sociologie. 2(3). 225–225.
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Herberg, Will. (1960). Protestant--Catholic--Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 408 indexed citations breakdown →
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Herberg, Will. (1959). There Is a Religious Revival!. Review of Religious Research. 1(2). 45–45. 1 indexed citations
11.
Herberg, Will. (1958). Four existentialist theologians. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 10 indexed citations
12.
Yinger, J. Milton, Anton T. Boisen, & Will Herberg. (1956). Religion in Crisis and Custom: A Sociological and Psychological Study.. American Sociological Review. 21(2). 237–237. 1 indexed citations
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Kane, John J. & Will Herberg. (1956). Protestant-Catholic-Jew. The American Catholic Sociological Review. 17(1). 66–66. 283 indexed citations
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Buber, Martin & Will Herberg. (1956). The writings of Martin Buber. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 6 indexed citations
15.
Herberg, Will. (1955). The Biblical Basis of American Democracy. Thought. 30(1). 37–50. 1 indexed citations
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Herberg, Will. (1954). Religious Communities in Present-Day America. The Review of Politics. 16(2). 155–174. 1 indexed citations
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Herberg, Will. (1952). Jewish Labor Movement in the United States: Early Years to World War I. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 5(4). 501–501.
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Herberg, Will. (1952). Jewish Labor Movement in the United States: World War I to the Present. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 6(1). 44–44. 1 indexed citations
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Herberg, Will. (1952). Jewish Labor Movement in the United States: Early Years to World War I. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 5(4). 501–523. 2 indexed citations
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Herberg, Will. (1951). Judaism and Modern Man: An Interpretation of Jewish Religion. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 3 indexed citations

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