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Researcher · Jewish Theological Seminary · United States

Benjamin D. Sommer

Benjamin D. Sommer publishes mostly in Religious studies, Sociology and Political Science and Archeology, on topics such as Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Historical and Linguistic Studies and Archaeology and Historical Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#526,686
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#182,730
of 1,627,098
Works
124
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
8.5
h-index
15
i10-index 15Top 4.3% in Religious studies
Benjamin D. Sommer

What does Benjamin D. Sommer research?

Benjamin D. Sommer's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (63%), Social Sciences (26%).

Social Sciences: 110 works · 88.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 78 works · 62.7% of their workReligious studies: 57 works · 46.1% of their workArcheology: 17 works · 13.7% of their workPhilosophy: 4 works · 2.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 32 works · 26.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 26 works · 20.7% of their workDevelopment: 4 works · 2.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 14 works · 11.2% of their workTHEIR WORKBenjamin D.Sommer124works
Social Sciences89%

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 Humanities7862.7%
    2. Social Sciences3226.1%
  2. Everything else1411.2%
  1. 1Religious studies46% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science21% of their works
  3. 3Archeology14% of their works
  4. 4Development3% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy3% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Benjamin D. Sommer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biblical Monotheism, Jewish Society, Cultural Transmission, Christian-Muslim Relations, Gospel Translation, Palestine, Arabia and Byzantine.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Biblical Monotheism971 topic
  2. Jewish Society971 topic
  3. Cultural Transmission342 topics
  4. Christian-Muslim Relations291 topic
  5. Gospel Translation291 topic
  6. Palestine292 topics
  7. Arabia231 topic
  8. Byzantine231 topic
  9. Globalization122 topics
  10. Nationalism112 topics
  11. Global Christianity81 topic
  12. Short-Term Missions81 topic
  13. Development71 topic
  14. Social Change71 topic
  15. Ethnic Identity61 topic
  16. Israel61 topic
  17. Ancient Magic51 topic
  18. Gnosticism51 topic
  19. Religion51 topic
  20. Secularism51 topic

Where does Benjamin D. Sommer work?

Benjamin D. Sommer's main affiliation in the publication record is Jewish Theological Seminary, United States.

How many publications and citations does Benjamin D. Sommer have?

OpenAlex counts 124 works and 1,056 citations for Benjamin D. Sommer, an h-index of 15, ranking #526,686 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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