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Researcher · University of Toronto · Canada

John Van Seters

John Van Seters publishes mostly in Religious studies, Archeology and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Archaeology and Historical Studies and Historical and Linguistic Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#137,263
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#4,448
of 183,316
Works
176
Citations
2.3k
Citations per work
13.0
h-index
24
i10-index 40Top 1.1% in Religious studies
John Van Seters

What does John Van Seters research?

John Van Seters's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (65%), Social Sciences (22%).

Social Sciences: 153 works · 86.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 115 works · 65.2% of their workReligious studies: 59 works · 33.3% of their workArcheology: 50 works · 28.6% of their workHistory: 6 works · 3.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 38 works · 21.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 26 works · 14.5% of their workDevelopment: 6 works · 3.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 13.3% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Van Seters176works
Social Sciences87%

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 Humanities11565.2%
    2. Social Sciences3821.5%
  2. Everything else2313.3%
  1. 1Religious studies33% of their works
  2. 2Archeology29% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  4. 4Development4% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  6. 6History3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Van Seters's research?

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

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Biblical Monotheism1211 topic
  2. Jewish Society1211 topic
  3. Arabia741 topic
  4. Byzantine741 topic
  5. Christian-Muslim Relations451 topic
  6. Gospel Translation451 topic
  7. Ancient Egypt191 topic
  8. Linguistics191 topic
  9. Babylonian161 topic
  10. Mesopotamia161 topic
  11. Development141 topic
  12. Social Change141 topic
  13. Ancient Rome81 topic
  14. Greek Literature81 topic
  15. Mormonism61 topic
  16. Polygamy61 topic

Where does John Van Seters work?

John Van Seters's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Toronto, Canada.

How many publications and citations does John Van Seters have?

OpenAlex counts 176 works and 2,292 citations for John Van Seters, an h-index of 24, ranking #137,263 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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