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Researcher · University of Notre Dame · United States

James C. VanderKam

James C. VanderKam publishes mostly in Archeology, Religious studies and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Archaeology and Historical Studies and Historical and Linguistic Studies.

ORCID 0009-0007-1254-2607 OpenAlex
World rank
#129,013
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#49,018
of 1,627,098
Works
349
Citations
3.1k
Citations per work
8.9
h-index
31
i10-index 62Top 1.2% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
James C. VanderKam

What does James C. VanderKam research?

James C. VanderKam's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (68%), Social Sciences (18%).

Social Sciences: 300 works · 86.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 238 works · 68.2% of their workArcheology: 118 works · 33.8% of their workReligious studies: 108 works · 31.0% of their workHistory: 12 works · 3.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 62 works · 17.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 42 works · 12.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 13 works · 3.7% of their workDevelopment: 7 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 49 works · 13.9% of their workTHEIR WORKJames C.VanderKam349works
Social Sciences86%

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 Humanities23868.2%
    2. Social Sciences6217.9%
  2. Everything else4913.9%
  1. 1Archeology34% of their works
  2. 2Religious studies31% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  5. 5History3% of their works
  6. 6Development2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James C. VanderKam's research?

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

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Biblical Monotheism2211 topic
  2. Jewish Society2211 topic
  3. Arabia1421 topic
  4. Byzantine1421 topic
  5. Cultural Transmission1002 topics
  6. Christian-Muslim Relations771 topic
  7. Gospel Translation771 topic
  8. Ancient Egypt511 topic
  9. Linguistics511 topic
  10. Ancient Magic231 topic
  11. Babylonian231 topic
  12. Gnosticism231 topic
  13. Mesopotamia231 topic
  14. Development161 topic
  15. Social Change161 topic
  16. Mormonism121 topic
  17. Polygamy121 topic

Where does James C. VanderKam work?

James C. VanderKam's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Notre Dame, United States.

How many publications and citations does James C. VanderKam have?

OpenAlex counts 349 works and 3,109 citations for James C. VanderKam, an h-index of 31, ranking #129,013 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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