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Researcher · Université Paris Nanterre · France

Paul Ricœur

Paul Ricœur publishes mostly in Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity, Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research and Linguistics and Discourse Analysis.

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World rank
#213,696
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#13,527
of 324,115
Works
476
Citations
20k
Citations per work
43.0
h-index
52
i10-index 138Top 0.2% in Philosophy
Paul Ricœur

What does Paul Ricœur research?

Paul Ricœur's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (28%), Social Sciences (27%), Psychology (5%).

Social Sciences: 284 works · 59.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 132 works · 27.8% of their workPhilosophy: 101 works · 21.3% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 31 works · 6.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 126 works · 26.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 79 works · 16.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 28 works · 5.9% of their workEducation: 20 works · 4.1% of their workPsychology: 26 works · 5.4% of their workClinical Psychology: 26 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 192 works · 40.3% of their workTHEIR WORKPaul Ricœur476works
Social Sciences60%

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 Humanities13227.8%
    2. Social Sciences12626.5%
    3. Psychology265.4%
  2. Everything else19240.3%
  1. 1Philosophy21% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  5. 5Clinical Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Education4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul Ricœur's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ethics, Interpretation, Phenomenology, Philosophy, Religion, Hermeneutics, Mental Health and Narrative.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Ethics1023 topics
  2. Interpretation822 topics
  3. Phenomenology822 topics
  4. Philosophy792 topics
  5. Religion792 topics
  6. Hermeneutics591 topic
  7. Mental Health592 topics
  8. Narrative591 topic
  9. Developmental Trauma331 topic
  10. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy331 topic
  11. Argumentation311 topic
  12. Discourse Analysis311 topic
  13. Environmental Participation311 topic
  14. Territorial Governance311 topic
  15. Healthcare Legislation261 topic
  16. Patient Rights261 topic
  17. Family Dynamics231 topic
  18. Husserl231 topic
  19. Psychology231 topic
  20. Societal Change231 topic
  21. Derrida201 topic
  22. Levinas201 topic

Where does Paul Ricœur work?

Paul Ricœur's main affiliation in the publication record is Université Paris Nanterre, France.

How many publications and citations does Paul Ricœur have?

OpenAlex counts 476 works and 20,468 citations for Paul Ricœur, an h-index of 52, ranking #213,696 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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