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Zygon
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Zygon

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 1125 8 29 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 25
Documents by Best Scientists*: 51
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 31
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.339
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Zygon?

Zygon primarily tackles Epistemology, Theology, Environmental ethics, Religious studies and Naturalism. The studies in Epistemology featured incorporate elements of Context (language use) and Interpretation (philosophy).

  • Epistemology (58.86%)
  • Theology (13.63%)
  • Environmental ethics (6.65%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES OF MORALITY AND THE MANIPULATIVE USE OF SIGNALS (127 citations)
  • RELIGION AND HEALTH: A REVIEW AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS (123 citations)
  • Explaining consciousness : The hard problem (118 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Zygon:

The most cited articles facilitate discussions on Epistemology, Social psychology, Consciousness, Morality and Environmental ethics. The journal publications facilitate discussions on Epistemology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Cognition, Humanity and Value (ethics). The works on Social psychology tackled in the published papers bring together disciplines like Compassion and Meditation.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Epistemology
  • Law
  • World War II

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in Zygon are Epistemology, Theology, Original sin, Environmental ethics and Contemplation. Epistemology research discussed connects with the study of Perspective (graphical). While work presented in it provided substantial information on Theology, it also covered topics in Conflict thesis, Teleological argument and Natural philosophy.

The journal investigates Original sin in the context of the closely related subject of areas like

  • Fall of man that connect with fields like Hamartiology, Evolutionary theory, Problem of evil and Theodicy,

  • Law that intertwine with fields like Intelligent design,

  • Monogenism which connect with Racism and Ignorance.. While the journal focused on Environmental ethics, it was also able to explore topics like Resistance (psychoanalysis), Mars Exploration Program, Action (philosophy), Ecology (disciplines) and Eschatology. The Contemplation research discussed in it can contribute to the expansion of the discourse in closely related subjects like

  • Art history which is related to area like Rowan,

  • History of science, which have a strong connection to Citizen science and Natural theology..

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • BETWEEN IRON SKIES AND COPPER EARTH: ANTINATALISM AND THE DEATH OF GOD (2 citations)
  • WHO ARE THE HUMANITIES FOR? DECOLONIZING THE HUMANITIES (1 citations)
  • AMARTYA SEN'S CAPABILITIES APPROACH: RESISTANCE AND TRANSFORMATIVE POWER IN THE AGE OF TRANSHUMANISM (0 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Zygon (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Willem B. Drees (70 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Philip Hefner (56 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Karl E. Peters (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ralph Wendell Burhoe (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gregory R. Peterson (22 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Zygon (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (63 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Chicago (61 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Harvard University (39 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Pennsylvania (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Rollins College (35 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 90.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 0.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 66.67% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 33.33% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • From Commodification to the Common Good: Reconstructing Science, Technology, and Society. By Hans Radder. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. 309 pages. $45.00 (hardcover).

    Arthur C. Petersen

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • RISK AND SACRAMENT: BEING HUMAN IN A COVID-19 WORLD

    Ziba Norman;Michael J. Reiss

    (2020)
    10 Citations
  • SCIENCE–RELIGION BOUNDARIES IN INDIAN SCIENTIFIC WORKPLACES

    (2021)
    6 Citations
  • SEEKING COMMON GROUND BETWEEN THEOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE FOR JUST TRANSITIONS

    (2022)
    5 Citations
  • DISTINCTIVELY HUMAN? MEANING‐MAKING AND WORLD SHAPING AS CORE PROCESSES OF THE HUMAN NICHE

    (2023)
    3 Citations
  • IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ROBOTS WILL NOT ONE DAY BECOME PERSONS?

    (2023)
    2 Citations
  • Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism. By Peter Coviello. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. 293 pages. $87.00 (Hardcover); $29.00 (Softcover).

    (2020)
    1 Citations
  • WILLEM DREES ON THE HUMANITIES

    Michael Ruse

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values That Move Us Beyond Fear. By Elaine Howard Ecklund. Ada, MI: Brazos Press, 2020. 176 Pages. $17.99. (Paperback).

    Arthur C. Petersen

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • SCIENCE FICTION AND METHODOLOGY

    Arthur C. Petersen

    (2020)
    0 Citations

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