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Researcher · Asbury Theological Seminary · United States

Ben Witherington

Ben Witherington publishes mostly in Religious studies, Sociology and Political Science and Archeology, on topics such as Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Christian Theology and Mission and Religion, Society, and Development.

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World rank
#1,060,431
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#344,371
of 1,627,098
Works
204
Citations
2k
Citations per work
9.6
h-index
23
i10-index 33Top 1.3% in Religious studies
Ben Witherington

What does Ben Witherington research?

Ben Witherington's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (65%), Social Sciences (17%).

Social Sciences: 169 works · 82.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 133 works · 65.4% of their workReligious studies: 101 works · 49.3% of their workArcheology: 18 works · 9.0% of their workPhilosophy: 9 works · 4.4% of their workHistory: 6 works · 2.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 35 works · 17.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 30 works · 14.7% of their workDevelopment: 6 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 35 works · 17.2% of their workTHEIR WORKBen Witherington204works
Social Sciences83%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities13365.4%
    2. Social Sciences3517.4%
  2. Everything else3517.2%
  1. 1Religious studies49% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  3. 3Archeology9% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy4% of their works
  5. 5Development3% of their works
  6. 6History3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben Witherington's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biblical Monotheism, Jewish Society, African Christianity, Development, Globalization, Faith-Based Organizations, Global Christianity and Short-Term Missions.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Biblical Monotheism1161 topic
  2. Jewish Society1161 topic
  3. African Christianity482 topics
  4. Development352 topics
  5. Globalization332 topics
  6. Faith-Based Organizations251 topic
  7. Global Christianity251 topic
  8. Short-Term Missions251 topic
  9. Social Services251 topic
  10. Biblical Interpretation231 topic
  11. Pentecostalism231 topic
  12. Arabia181 topic
  13. Byzantine181 topic
  14. Christian-Muslim Relations151 topic
  15. Gospel Translation151 topic
  16. Canon Law111 topic
  17. Religious Policy111 topic
  18. Social Change101 topic
  19. Sociopolitical101 topic

Where does Ben Witherington work?

Ben Witherington's main affiliation in the publication record is Asbury Theological Seminary, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ben Witherington have?

OpenAlex counts 204 works and 1,958 citations for Ben Witherington, an h-index of 23, ranking #1,060,431 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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