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Jewish Theological Seminary

In research, Jewish Theological Seminary stands highest in Social Sciences (#4,601 of 14,833 worldwide), Arts and Humanities (#1,386 of 3,511 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#5,540 of 9,330 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences (Arts and Humanities is 17.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#23,348
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#4,841
of 7,310
Research works
488
▼ 41% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.2k
4.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.94×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
14%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Jewish Theological Seminary

What is Jewish Theological Seminary known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #4,601 of 14,833 10.1%460
Arts and HumanitiesField #1,386 of 3,511 12.6%237
Social SciencesField #5,540 of 9,330 7.7%212

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Jewish Theological Seminary sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Jewish Theological Seminary work in?

In 2022-now, 94% of research at Jewish Theological Seminary is in Social Sciences, 3% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (50%), Social Sciences (38%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (3%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 39 fractional works · 93.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 21 fractional works · 50.0% of its workPhilosophy: 7 fractional works · 17.2% of its workReligious studies: 6 fractional works · 15.1% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 9.5% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 3.8% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workClassics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 16 fractional works · 38.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 24.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 4.3% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKJewishTheological…41fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences1%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences94%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities2150.0%
    2. Social Sciences1638.2%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12.7%
    4. Psychology11.5%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting01.2%
    1. Medicine12.7%
    2. Nursing00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology00.6%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.3%
    1. Engineering01.1%
    2. Physics and Astronomy00.4%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Jewish Theological Seminary specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Arts and Humanities takes 17.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Arts and HumanitiesField · 20.6 works17×
  2. Social SciencesDomain · 38.6 works3.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringPhysics and Astronomy: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 17.32× its world share, 21 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.26× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.02× its world share, 16 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 17.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 12 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities17.32×21 works
  2. Social Sciences3.02×16 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.26×1 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology0.63×0 works
  5. Psychology0.49×1 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting0.38×0 works
  7. Nursing0.33×0 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.24×0 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.18×0 works
  10. Medicine0.14×1 works
  11. Engineering0.07×0 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Jewish Theological Seminary?

Ranked on the quality score, Shaye J. D. Cohen, Benjamin D. Sommer and Baruch Micah Bokser lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Jewish Theological Seminary.

  1. 1 Shaye J. D. Cohen United States · #128,164 worldwide 2.8k citations · 125 works
  2. 2 Benjamin D. Sommer United States · #763,897 worldwide 1.1k citations · 124 works
  3. 3 Baruch Micah Bokser United States · #789,331 worldwide 385 citations · 57 works
  4. 4 H. L. Ginsberg United States · #876,781 worldwide 647 citations · 80 works
  5. 5 Robert Gordis United States · #1,172,971 worldwide 808 citations · 112 works
  6. 6 Abraham Joshua Heschel United States · #1,238,424 worldwide 1.3k citations · 59 works
  7. 7 Beth A. Berkowitz United States · #1,285,362 worldwide 424 citations · 70 works
  8. 8 Richard Kalmin United States · #1,431,656 worldwide 819 citations · 74 works
  9. 9 Ismar Schorsch United States · #1,525,914 worldwide 380 citations · 53 works
  10. 10 Raymond P. Scheindlin United States · #1,659,288 worldwide 512 citations · 88 works
All ranked researchers at Jewish Theological Seminary

What are the most cited papers from Jewish Theological Seminary?

The most cited paper from Jewish Theological Seminary is "LANGUAGE, POWER AND IDENTITY IN ANCIENT PALESTINE" (Seth Roslow Schwartz, 1995), with 180 citations. Next come "Respect for Judaism by Gentiles According to Josephus" (139) and "The Origins of the Matrilineal Principle in Rabbinic Law" (138).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 LANGUAGE, POWER AND IDENTITY IN ANCIENT PALESTINE Seth Roslow Schwartz · Past & Present 1995 180
2 Respect for Judaism by Gentiles According to Josephus Shaye J. D. Cohen · Harvard Theological Review Oct 1987 139
3 The Origins of the Matrilineal Principle in Rabbinic Law Shaye J. D. Cohen · AJS Review The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies 1985 138
4 Crossing the Boundary and Becoming a Jew Shaye J. D. Cohen · Harvard Theological Review 1989 124
5 Christians and Heretics in Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity Richard Kalmin · Harvard Theological Review Apr 1994 99
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Jewish Theological Seminary?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Theology, Palestine, Biblical Monotheism, Jewish Society, Israel, Human Rights, Nationalism and Urban Development.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Theology7▲ 190×3 topics
  2. Palestine7▲ 308×2 topics
  3. Biblical Monotheism6▲ 558×1 topic
  4. Jewish Society6▲ 558×1 topic
  5. Israel5▲ 337×2 topics
  6. Human Rights4▲ 10×3 topics
  7. Nationalism4▲ 23×3 topics
  8. Urban Development4▲ 27×4 topics
  9. Ethnic Identity4▲ 81×1 topic
  10. Occupation4▲ 148×1 topic
  11. Globalization4▲ 4.4×7 topics
  12. Cultural Transmission3▲ 109×2 topics
  13. Arabia3▲ 277×1 topic
  14. Byzantine3▲ 277×1 topic
  15. Medieval Spain3▲ 442×2 topics
  16. Avicenna3▲ 406×1 topic
  17. Maimonides3▲ 715×1 topic
  18. Christian-Muslim Relations3▲ 252×1 topic
  19. Gospel Translation3▲ 309×1 topic
  20. Cultural Identity2▲ 12×6 topics
  21. Ethics2▲ 12×8 topics
  22. Religion2▲ 10×6 topics
  23. Education2▲ 2.6×4 topics
  24. Identity2▲ 5.0×4 topics
  25. International Law1▲ 11×3 topics
  26. Development1▲ 9.1×2 topics
  27. NGOs1▲ 35×2 topics
  28. Social Capital1▲ 6.2×2 topics
  29. Diaspora1▲ 52×2 topics
  30. Health1▲ 7.6×2 topics
  31. Religious Identity1▲ 50×2 topics
  32. Community1▲ 23×3 topics
  33. Social Change1▲ 21×2 topics
  34. Gender Dynamics1▲ 23×1 topic
  35. Height1▲ 127×1 topic
  36. Hugo Grotius1▲ 360×1 topic
  37. Prosocial Behavior1▲ 95×1 topic
  38. Sociopolitical1▲ 72×1 topic
  39. Thomas Hobbes1▲ 360×1 topic
  40. Volunteering1▲ 198×1 topic

Which research topics does Jewish Theological Seminary publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies, Archaeology and Historical Studies and Medieval and Classical Philosophy.

Biblical Studies and Int…6Biblical Studies and Interpretation: 6 fractional worksJewish and Middle Eastern Studies: 4 fractional worksArchaeology and Historical Studies: 3 fractional worksMedieval and Classical P…3Medieval and Classical Philosophy: 3 fractional worksHistorical and Linguisti…3Historical and Linguistic Studies: 3 fractional worksNonprofit Sector and Volunteering: 1 fractional worksSeventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought: 1 fractional worksHistorical Economic and Social Studies: 1 fractional worksDevelopment, Ethics, and Society: 1 fractional worksJewish Identity and Society: 1 fractional works
Religious studiesSociology and Political ScienceArcheologyPhilosophy3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Biblical Studies and Interpretation Religious studies 6 works
  2. 2 Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies Sociology and Political Science 4 works
  3. 3 Archaeology and Historical Studies Archeology 3 works
  4. 4 Medieval and Classical Philosophy Philosophy 3 works
  5. 5 Historical and Linguistic Studies Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  6. 6 Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  7. 7 Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought Philosophy 1 works
  8. 8 Historical Economic and Social Studies Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  9. 9 Development, Ethics, and Society Development 1 works
  10. 10 Jewish Identity and Society Demography 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available13.6%not open86.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.7%domestic only94.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Jewish Theological Seminary's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 41% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Jewish Theological Seminary as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00010% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Jewish Theological Seminary0.00021% in 202519801990200020102020

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