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Most cited papers in Philosophy
What are the most cited papers in Philosophy?
The most cited paper in Philosophy is "Naturalistic inquiry" (Yvonna S. Lincoln, Egon G. Guba, Joseph J. Pilotta, 1985), with 36,480 citations. Next come "Logic and Conversation" (20,658) and "Experience and Education" (13,467).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,663 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naturalistic inquiry Yvonna S. Lincoln, Egon G. Guba, Joseph J. Pilotta · International Journal of Intercultural Relations | 1985 | 36,480 |
| 2 | Logic and Conversation H. P. Grice | 12 Dec 1975 | 20,658 |
| 3 | Experience and Education JOHN M. DEWEY · The Educational Forum | 30 Sep 1986 | 13,467 |
| 4 | The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale John E. Overall, Donald R. Gorham · Psychological Reports | Jun 1962 | 11,002 |
| 5 | Validation and Utility of a Self-report Version of PRIME-MD The PHQ Primary Care Study Robert L. Spitzer · JAMA | 10 Nov 1999 | 9,950 |
| 6 | DESCARTES' ERROR: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain Elwin Marg · Optometry and Vision Science | Nov 1995 | 8,192 |
| 7 | An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Emmanuelle de Champs · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) | 2017 | 6,667 |
| 8 | Relevance: Communication and Cognition Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson | 6 Mar 1986 | 6,071 |
| 9 | A Diagnostic Interview Jean Endicott · Archives of General Psychiatry | Jul 1978 | 5,726 |
| 10 | A perspective on judgment and choice: Mapping bounded rationality. Daniel J. Kahneman · American Psychologist | 2003 | 5,582 |
| 11 | National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule Lee N. Robins · Archives of General Psychiatry | Apr 1981 | 5,296 |
| 12 | Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach William A. Gamson, Andre Modigliani · American Journal of Sociology | Jul 1989 | 4,990 |
| 13 | The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID) Robert L. Spitzer · Archives of General Psychiatry | Aug 1992 | 4,407 |
| 14 | Chapman and Hall Anne Lohrli · Notes and Queries | Sep 1985 | 4,367 |
| 15 | Transtheoretical therapy: Toward a more integrative model of change. James O. Prochaska, Carlo C. DiClemente · Psychotherapy | 1982 | 3,953 |
| 16 | Chronic illness as biographical disruption Michael R. Bury · Sociology of Health & Illness | Jul 1982 | 3,923 |
| 17 | Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. William P. Alston, John Rogers Searle · The Philosophical Quarterly | Apr 1970 | 3,914 |
| 18 | 58. Contingency, Irony and Solidarity Richard M. Rorty · Princeton University Press eBooks | 29 Jul 2015 | 3,743 |
| 19 | Recovery from mental illness: The guiding vision of the mental health service system in the 1990s. William A. Anthony · Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal | Apr 1993 | 3,725 |
| 20 | A Systematic Method for Clinical Description and Classification of Personality Variants Claude Robert Cloninger · Archives of General Psychiatry | Jun 1987 | 3,708 |
| 21 | The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI). A short diagnostic structured interview: reliability and validity according to the CIDI Yves Lecrubier, David V. Sheehan, E. Weiller et al. · European Psychiatry | 1997 | 3,572 |
| 22 | Shared Decision Making — The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care Michael J. Barry, Susan Edgman‐Levitan · New England Journal of Medicine | 29 Feb 2012 | 3,516 |
| 23 | Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice James V. Spickard, Catherine Bell · Sociology of Religion | 1993 | 3,370 |
| 24 | The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A dimensional alternative to traditional nosologies. Roman Kotov et al. · Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 23 Mar 2017 | 3,357 |
| 25 | A theory of focus interpretation Mats Rooth · Natural Language Semantics | Feb 1992 | 3,203 |
| 26 | Toward the future of psychiatric diagnosis: the seven pillars of RDoC Bruce N. Cuthbert, Thomas R. Insel · BMC Medicine | 14 May 2013 | 3,126 |
| 27 | Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? Edmund L. Gettier · Analysis | Jun 1963 | 3,113 |
| 28 | Autoethnography: An Overview Carolyn Ellis, Tony E. Adams, Arthur P. Bochner · Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) | 24 Nov 2010 | 3,060 |
| 29 | Patient-centredness: a conceptual framework and review of the empirical literature Nicola Mead, Peter Bower · Social Science & Medicine | Oct 2000 | 3,004 |
| 30 | The Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) Rona E Moss-Morris, John A Weinman, Keith J. Petrie et al. · Psychology and Health | 2002 | 2,992 |
| 31 | Understanding and Validity in Qualitative Research Joseph A. Maxwell · Harvard Educational Review | Sep 1992 | 2,954 |
| 32 | Philosophical conceptions of the self: implications for cognitive science Shaun Gallagher, Shaun Gallagher · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2000 | 2,948 |
| 33 | Genre as social action Carolyn R. Miller · Quarterly Journal of Speech | May 1984 | 2,878 |
| 34 | Psychosis as a State of Aberrant Salience: A Framework Linking Biology, Phenomenology, and Pharmacology in Schizophrenia Shitij Kapur · American Journal of Psychiatry | 27 Dec 2002 | 2,858 |
| 35 | Equity, Equality, and Need: What Determines Which Value Will Be Used as the Basis of Distributive Justice? Morton Deutsch · Journal of Social Issues | Jul 1975 | 2,784 |
| 36 | Toward a theory of schizophrenia Gregory Bateson, Don D. Jackson, Jay Haley et al. · Systems Research and Behavioral Science | 17 Jan 2007 | 2,767 |
| 37 | Moral injury and moral repair in war veterans: A preliminary model and intervention strategy Brett T. Litz, Nathan R. Stein, Eileen M. Delaney et al. · Clinical Psychology Review | 30 Jul 2009 | 2,712 |
| 38 | The Contours of Positive Human Health Carol Diane Ryff, Burton H. Singer · Psychological Inquiry | 1998 | 2,653 |
| 39 | Experiential avoidance and behavioral disorders: A functional dimensional approach to diagnosis and treatment. Steven C. Hayes, Kelly G. Wilson, Elizabeth V. Gifford et al. · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1996 | 2,578 |
| 40 | Agreeing to Disagree Robert J. Aumann · The Annals of Statistics | Nov 1976 | 2,509 |
| 41 | Scorekeeping in a language game David Lewis · Journal of Philosophical Logic | 1979 | 2,461 |
| 42 | Modern Moral Philosophy G. E. M. Anscombe · Philosophy | 1958 | 2,456 |
| 43 | Trust the People! Populism and the Two Faces of Democracy Margaret Canovan · Political Studies | Mar 1999 | 2,441 |
| 44 | Referring as a collaborative process Herbert H. Clark, Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs · Cognition | Feb 1986 | 2,433 |
| 45 | Beyond the divide between cognition and discourse: Using interpretative phenomenological analysis in health psychology Jonathan Ashley Smith · Psychology and Health | Feb 1996 | 2,376 |
| 46 | Remission in Schizophrenia: Proposed Criteria and Rationale for Consensus Nancy C. Andreasen, William T. Carpenter, John Michael Kane et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry | Mar 2005 | 2,373 |
| 47 | Decision-making in the physician–patient encounter: revisiting the shared treatment decision-making model Cathy A. Charles, Amiram Gafni, Timothy Joseph Whelan · Social Science & Medicine | Sep 1999 | 2,370 |
| 48 | Psychosomatic Medicine in Germany: More Timely than Ever Stephan Zipfel, Wolfgang Herzog, Johannes Kruse et al. · Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics | 2016 | 2,327 |
| 49 | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Ulla Hofmann | 2001 | 2,268 |
| 50 | Epiphenomenal Qualia Frank Jackson · The Philosophical Quarterly | Apr 1982 | 2,253 |
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