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D-Index
54
Citations
22015
World Ranking
2084
National Ranking
1001

Christian Smith publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christian Smith sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 183 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Christian Smith D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christian Smith sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christian Smith is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences, health professions, and arts and humanities, with a particular focus on sociology, political science, philosophy, social psychology, and geography, planning, and development.

The main topics of Christian Smith's work include:

  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
  • Community Health and Development
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Religious Tourism and Spaces
  • Political Economy and Marxism

Their recent publications reflect involvement in a variety of research areas and venues. Notable papers include:

  • "The point is to change it": The Imperative for Activist Literary Studies (2020), Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
  • Procedures for Reliable Cultural Model Analysis Using Semi-structured Interviews (2021), Field Methods
  • Does State Allocation of University Funding Mitigate Effectively Maintained Inequality? (2021), Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting
  • Predicting terrorist attacks in the United States using localized news data (2022), PLoS ONE
  • Comparison between Behavior Trees and Finite State Machines (2024), arXiv (Cornell University)

Christian Smith has also authored a book titled Why Religion Went Obsolete, published by Oxford University Press with a projected publication year of 2025.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Heather E. Price, Steven J. Krieg, Rusha Chatterjee, Nitesh V. Chawla, and Matteo Iovino.

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues such as Field Methods, Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, PLoS ONE, arXiv (Cornell University), and the Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting, demonstrating a diverse scope of interest across social sciences, humanities, and health professions.

Best Publications

  • Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers

    Christian Smith;Melinda Lundquist Denton

  • American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving

    Christian Smith

  • Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults

    Christian Smith;Patricia Snell

  • Theorizing Religious Effects Among American Adolescents

    Christian Smith

  • Moral, believing animals : human personhood and culture

    Christian Smith

  • What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

    Christian Smith

  • The Emergence of Liberation Theology: Radical Religion and Social Movement Theory

    Christian Smith

  • Christian America? What Evangelicals Really Want

    Christian Smith

  • Fundamentalism et al: Conservative Protestants in America

    Robert D. Woodberry;Christian S. Smith

  • Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood

    Christian Smith;Kari Christoffersen;Hilary Davidson;Patricia Snell Herzog

  • Mapping American Adolescent Religious Participation

    Christian Smith;Melinda Lundquist Denton;Robert Faris;Mark Regnerus

  • Souls in Transition

    Christian Smith;Patricia Snell

  • ‘To Whom Much Has Been Given...’: Religious Capital and Community Voluntarism Among Churchgoing Protestants

    Jerry Z. Park;Christian Smith

  • SYMBOLIC TRADITIONALISM AND PRAGMATIC EGALITARIANISM Contemporary Evangelicals, Families, and Gender

    Sally K. Gallagher;Christian Smith

  • Social Context in the Development of Adolescent Religiosity

    Mark D. Regnerus;Christian Smith;Brad Smith

  • Who Gives to the Poor? The Influence of Religious Tradition and Political Location on the Personal Generosity of Americans Toward the Poor

    Mark D. Regnerus;Christian Smith;David Sikkink

  • The secular revolution : power, interests, and conflict in the secularization of American public life

    Christian Smith

  • Mapping American Adolescent Subjective Religiosity and Attitudes of Alienation Toward Religion: A Research Report

    Christian Smith;Robert Faris;Melinda Lundquist Denton;Mark Regnerus

  • Disruptive Religion : The Force of Faith in Social Movement Activism

    Christian Smith

  • Moral, Believing Animals

    Christian Smith

  • The Emergence of Liberation Theology: Radical Religion and Social Movement Theory.

    Emilia Rodriguez-Stein;Christian Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark D. Regnerus
Mark D. Regnerus The University of Texas at Austin
Elaine Howard Ecklund
Elaine Howard Ecklund Rice University
Robert Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow Princeton University
Ted G. Jelen
Ted G. Jelen University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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