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Researcher · Columbia University · United States

Morton Smith

Morton Smith publishes mostly in Archeology, Religious studies and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Archaeology and Historical Studies and Classical Antiquity Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#88,517
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#34,191
of 1,627,098
Works
219
Citations
4.3k
Citations per work
19.6
h-index
39
i10-index 74Top 0.5% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
Morton Smith

What does Morton Smith research?

Morton Smith's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (57%), Social Sciences (23%).

Social Sciences: 177 works · 80.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 126 works · 57.4% of their workArcheology: 63 works · 28.9% of their workReligious studies: 48 works · 21.9% of their workPhilosophy: 14 works · 6.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 51 works · 23.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 24 works · 11.1% of their workAnthropology: 17 works · 7.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 10 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 42 works · 19.2% of their workTHEIR WORKMorton Smith219works
Social Sciences81%

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 Humanities12657.4%
    2. Social Sciences5123.4%
  2. Everything else4219.2%
  1. 1Archeology29% of their works
  2. 2Religious studies22% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology8% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy7% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Morton Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biblical Monotheism, Jewish Society, Arabia, Byzantine, Cultural Transmission, Ancient Rome, Greek Literature and Archaeology.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Biblical Monotheism971 topic
  2. Jewish Society971 topic
  3. Arabia651 topic
  4. Byzantine651 topic
  5. Cultural Transmission582 topics
  6. Ancient Rome331 topic
  7. Greek Literature331 topic
  8. Archaeology312 topics
  9. Ancient Magic291 topic
  10. Christian-Muslim Relations291 topic
  11. Gnosticism291 topic
  12. Gospel Translation291 topic
  13. Ancient Egypt181 topic
  14. Linguistics181 topic
  15. Mediterranean131 topic
  16. Pottery Production131 topic
  17. Babylonian121 topic
  18. Mesopotamia121 topic

Where does Morton Smith work?

Morton Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Columbia University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Morton Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 219 works and 4,303 citations for Morton Smith, an h-index of 39, ranking #88,517 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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