Field · Arts and Humanities
Most cited papers in Arts and Humanities
What are the most cited papers in Arts and Humanities?
The most cited paper in Arts and Humanities is "A power primer." (Jacob Cohen, 1992), with 42,833 citations. Next come "Naturalistic inquiry" (36,480) and "Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism" (26,020).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 3,173 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A power primer. Jacob Cohen · Psychological Bulletin | 1992 | 42,833 |
| 2 | Naturalistic inquiry Yvonna S. Lincoln, Egon G. Guba, Joseph J. Pilotta · International Journal of Intercultural Relations | 1985 | 36,480 |
| 3 | Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism Anthony J. S. Reid · Pacific Affairs | Sep 1985 | 26,020 |
| 4 | Logic and Conversation H. P. Grice | 12 Dec 1975 | 20,658 |
| 5 | WordNet George Armitage Miller · Communications of the ACM | Nov 1995 | 14,290 |
| 6 | Experience and Education JOHN M. DEWEY · The Educational Forum | 30 Sep 1986 | 13,467 |
| 7 | APE: Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution in R language Emmanuel Paradis, Julien Claude, Korbinian Strimmer · Bioinformatics | 20 Jan 2004 | 12,865 |
| 8 | The social readjustment rating scale Thomas H. Holmes, Richard H. Rahe · Journal of Psychosomatic Research | Aug 1967 | 11,193 |
| 9 | The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale John E. Overall, Donald R. Gorham · Psychological Reports | Jun 1962 | 11,002 |
| 10 | Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39 Susan Leigh Star, James R. Griesemer · Social Studies of Science | Aug 1989 | 10,685 |
| 11 | Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman · Cognitive Psychology | Sep 1973 | 10,112 |
| 12 | Validation and Utility of a Self-report Version of PRIME-MD The PHQ Primary Care Study Robert L. Spitzer · JAMA | 10 Nov 1999 | 9,950 |
| 13 | The Production of Space Erik A. Swyngedouw, Henri Lefebvre · Economic Geography | Jul 1992 | 9,675 |
| 14 | One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis? Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke · Qualitative Research in Psychology | 12 Aug 2020 | 9,387 |
| 15 | The Psychophysics Toolbox. David H. Brainard · PubMed | 1997 | 9,189 |
| 16 | Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English Kathleen M. Broussard, Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson et al. · TESOL Quarterly | 2000 | 8,233 |
| 17 | DESCARTES' ERROR: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain Elwin Marg · Optometry and Vision Science | Nov 1995 | 8,192 |
| 18 | The Experiential Aspects of Consumption: Consumer Fantasies, Feelings, and Fun Morris B. Holbrook, Elizabeth C. Hirschman · Journal of Consumer Research | Sep 1982 | 8,178 |
| 19 | Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms Daniel Ellsberg · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1961 | 8,035 |
| 20 | The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme Stephen Jay Gould, Richard C Lewontin · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 21 Sep 1979 | 7,845 |
| 21 | Bad is Stronger than Good Roy Frederick Baumeister, Ellen Bratslavsky, Catrin Finkenauer et al. · Review of General Psychology | Dec 2001 | 7,560 |
| 22 | The Psychology of Attitudes Dipankar Chakravarti, Alice H. Eagly, Shelly Chaiken · Journal of Marketing Research | May 1997 | 7,186 |
| 23 | Mercury : visualization and analysis of crystal structures Clare F. Macrae, Paul R. Edgington, Patrick McCabe et al. · Journal of Applied Crystallography | 10 May 2006 | 7,127 |
| 24 | Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language Norman L. Fairclough | 1995 | 6,769 |
| 25 | An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Emmanuelle de Champs · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) | 2017 | 6,667 |
| 26 | Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy Stefan Frazier, H. Douglas Brown · TESOL Quarterly | 2001 | 6,240 |
| 27 | Relevance: Communication and Cognition Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson | 6 Mar 1986 | 6,071 |
| 28 | Statistical Power Analysis Jacob Cohen · Current Directions in Psychological Science | Jun 1992 | 5,855 |
| 29 | The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery Luigi Rizzi · Kluwer international handbooks of linguistics | 1997 | 5,756 |
| 30 | Introduction to Ceramics WILLIAM DAVID KINGERY, H. Kent Bowen, DONALD R. UHLMANN et al. · Journal of The Electrochemical Society | Mar 1977 | 5,733 |
| 31 | A Diagnostic Interview Jean Endicott · Archives of General Psychiatry | Jul 1978 | 5,726 |
| 32 | A perspective on judgment and choice: Mapping bounded rationality. Daniel J. Kahneman · American Psychologist | 2003 | 5,582 |
| 33 | Outline of a Theory of Practice Pierre Bourdıeu | 6 Dec 2007 | 5,556 |
| 34 | The contemporary theory of metaphor George P. Lakoff · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 26 Nov 1993 | 5,349 |
| 35 | National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule Lee N. Robins · Archives of General Psychiatry | Apr 1981 | 5,296 |
| 36 | Naming and Necessity Saul A. Kripke | 1972 | 5,275 |
| 37 | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? MARC DAVID HAUSER, Noam Chomsky, W. Tecumseh Fitch · Science | 21 Nov 2002 | 5,242 |
| 38 | Surface Studies of Solids by Total Reflection of X-Rays L. G. Parratt · Physical Review | 15 Jul 1954 | 5,195 |
| 39 | Accommodation of a scientific conception: Toward a theory of conceptual change George J. Posner, Kenneth A. Strike, Peter W. Hewson et al. · Science Education | Apr 1982 | 5,128 |
| 40 | Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis Teun A. van Dijk · Discourse & Society | Apr 1993 | 5,049 |
| 41 | Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body. Mimi Nichter, Susan Bordo · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | 1995 | 5,047 |
| 42 | Communication and Persuasion: Central and Peripheral Routes to Attitude Change Franziska Marquart, Brigitte Naderer | 5 Nov 2015 | 5,025 |
| 43 | THEORETICAL BASES OF COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND TESTING Michael Canale, Merrill Swain · Applied Linguistics | 1980 | 5,011 |
| 44 | Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Moira Ferguson, Mary Louise Pratt · Eighteenth-Century Studies | 1993 | 4,995 |
| 45 | Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach William A. Gamson, Andre Modigliani · American Journal of Sociology | Jul 1989 | 4,990 |
| 46 | The Role of Consciousness in Second Language Learning1 R. W. SCHMIDT · Applied Linguistics | Jun 1990 | 4,905 |
| 47 | Qualitative Content Analysis Philipp Mayring · Forum: Qualitative Social Research (Freie Universität Berlin) | 25 Aug 2008 | 4,840 |
| 48 | The Machine That Changed the World Bernard M. Wolf · Journal of International Business Studies | Sep 1991 | 4,765 |
| 49 | Central and Peripheral Routes to Advertising Effectiveness: The Moderating Role of Involvement Richard E. Petty, John T. Cacioppo, David W. Schumann · Journal of Consumer Research | Sep 1983 | 4,638 |
| 50 | A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome Richard Edward Green et al. · Science | 6 May 2010 | 4,626 |
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