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. 2023 Oct;62(5):3501-3519.
doi: 10.1007/s10943-023-01815-6. Epub 2023 Apr 19.

Identifying the Leading Global Contributors to Scholarship in Religion Journals: A Bibliometric Study

David R Hodge  1   2 , Patricia R Turner  3 , Chao-Kai Huang  3
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Identifying the Leading Global Contributors to Scholarship in Religion Journals: A Bibliometric Study

David R Hodge et al. J Relig Health. 2023 Oct.

Abstract

This study identified the 100 most impactful global contributors to religion journals and mapped their respective disciplinary affiliations. To conduct this investigation, we performed a secondary data analysis of a Scopus-derived database featuring the world's leading scientists. The mean contributor published 51.93 papers, had an h-index of 13.57, and an hm-index 11.50. Most contributors were located in the USA with the most common disciplinary affiliations being religion, non-specialized (n = 22), sociology, non-specialized (n = 21), sociology of religion (n = 20), and theology (n = 11). The results reveal that religion discourse is populated by some of the leading scholars in the world. Leveraging their expertise can help advance the field's knowledge development.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Career impact; Faculty productivity; Religion scholars; h-index.

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