2026 Anthony Grafton: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	46	3612	3328	1734	1571	264	9427

Research.com Recognitions

2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2002 - International Balzan Prize
1988 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Anthony Grafton is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and works primarily within the Arts and Humanities. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including History, Religious studies, History and Philosophy of Science, Anthropology, and Visual Arts and Performing Arts.

The main topics explored in their research include:

History of Science and Medicine
Historical and Religious Studies of Rome
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Visual Culture and Art Theory
Biblical Studies and Interpretation
Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

The recent papers authored by Anthony Grafton highlight diverse interests across history and art:

"The 2019 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture: The Winged Eye at Work: Leon Battista Alberti Surveys Old St. Peter's" (2020), published in Renaissance Quarterly
"A Florentine Looks at Florence: Piero Cennini on the Baptistery and the Feast of St John" (2022), published in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
"Eloge: Noel Swerdlow (1941-2021)" (2022), published in Isis
"We Will Remember Zion" (2020), published in MLN

Additionally, there is a paper titled "Information: A Historical Companion" (2021) authored by Ann Blair and published in the Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich), which is relevant to their research network.

Their frequent coauthors include:

Ulinka Rublack
Ann Blair
Paul Duguid
Anja-Silvia Goeing
Maren Elisabeth Schwab

The venues where Anthony Grafton has regularly published include:

Erudition and the Republic of Letters
Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
Renaissance Quarterly
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Isis

Their book publications are with prominent academic presses including Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, and Cambridge University Press. Notable titles are:

The Art of Discovery (2022), published by Princeton University Press
Inky Fingers (2020), published by Harvard University Press
Magus (2023), published by Harvard University Press
Protestant Empires (2020), published by Cambridge University Press

Throughout their career, Anthony Grafton has been recognized with several awards including:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
International Balzan Prize (2002)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1988)

Best Publications

“STUDIED FOR ACTION”: HOW GABRIEL HARVEY READ HIS LIVY

Lisa Jardine;Anthony Grafton

787
Citations
The Footnote: A Curious History

Anthony Grafton

489
Citations
From humanism to the humanities : education and the liberal arts in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe

Anthony Grafton;Lisa Jardine

427
Citations
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea

Anthony Grafton

342
Citations
Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship

Anthony Grafton

223
Citations
Renaissance Readers and Ancient Texts: Comments on Some Commentaries

Anthony Grafton

201
Citations
Secrets of nature : astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe

William Royall Newman;Anthony Grafton

200
Citations
Joseph Scaliger : a study in the history of classical scholarship

Anthony Grafton

186
Citations
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery

Anthony Grafton

165
Citations
From Humanism to the Humanities

A. Grafton;L. Jardine

154
Citations
What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

Anthony Grafton

145
Citations
Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance

Anthony Grafton;Leon Battista Alberti

137
Citations
On the Scholarship of Politian and Its Context

A. Grafton

130
Citations
Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800

Anthony Grafton

126
Citations
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West

Anthony Grafton

115
Citations
The classical tradition

Anthony Grafton;Glenn W. Most;Salvatore Settis

106
Citations
Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers

Anthony Grafton

101
Citations
Conversion in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages : seeing and believing

Kenneth Mills;Anthony Grafton

89
Citations
Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe

Anthony Grafton;Nancy G. Siraisi

68
Citations
The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine and Reform, 1626-1660

Anthony T. Grafton;Charles Webster

54
Citations
Is the History of Reading a Marginal Enterprise? Guillaume Budé and His Books

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47
Citations
From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe

Ian Maclean;Anthony Grafton;Lisa Jardine

20
Citations
Joseph Scaliger, A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Vol. 1. Textual Criticism and Exegesis.

Danton Sailor;Anthony Grafton

4
Citations
From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Europe

George Huppert;Anthony Grafton;Lisa Jardine

0
Citations
Hercules at the Crossroads: The Life, Works, and Thought of Coluccio Salutati.

Anthony Grafton;Ronald G. Witt

0
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