2026 Dan Zahavi: 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	62	1248	1103	9	8	278	19198

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Denmark Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Denmark Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Dan Zahavi is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the intersecting domains of psychology and arts and humanities, with a particular focus on subfields such as social psychology, philosophy, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics include:

Mental Health and Psychiatry
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Embodied and Extended Cognition
Emotions and Moral Behavior
Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
Empathy and Medical Education
Action Observation and Synchronization

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Dan Zahavi include:

We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and Selfhood, 2021, Journal of Social Ontology
Critical phenomenology and psychiatry, 2021, Continental Philosophy Review

Other significant recent works connected with the broader research network include:

Basic empathy: Developing the concept of empathy from the ground up, 2020, International Journal of Nursing Studies
Sociality and Embodiment: Online Communication During and After Covid-19, 2022, Foundations of Science
Defining key concepts for mental state attribution, 2024, Communications Psychology

Frequent co-authors who contributed to publications in partnership with Dan Zahavi include:

Sophie Loidolt
Anthony Vincent Fernandez
Mads Gram Henriksen
Karl Erik Sandsten
Josef Parnas

Dan Zahavi has published books with several academic publishers, including:

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (2020) published by Oxford University Press
Max Scheler in Dialogue (2022) published by Springer Nature (Netherlands)
Self-Awareness and Alterity (2020) published by Northwestern University Press

Academic publication venues frequently featuring Zahavi's research are:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Continental Philosophy Review
Psychopathology
Australasian Philosophical Review
Danish Yearbook of Philosophy

Best Publications

Husserl's phenomenology

Dan Zahavi

1707
Citations
Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective

Dan Zahavi

1191
Citations
Self-Awareness and Alterity: A Phenomenological Investigation

Dan Zahavi

1053
Citations
EASE: Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience.

Josef Parnas;Paul Møller;Tilo Kircher;Jørgen Thalbitzer

1035
Citations
Self and Other: Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy, and Shame

Dan Zahavi

988
Citations
The Phenomenological Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

Shaun Gallagher;Dan Zahavi

926
Citations
The Phenomenological Mind

Shaun Gallagher;Dan Zahavi

717
Citations
Beyond empathy: Phenomenological approaches to intersubjectivity

Dan Zahavi

703
Citations
Empathy, Embodiment and Interpersonal Understanding: From Lipps to Schutz

Dan Zahavi

383
Citations
Empathy and Direct Social Perception: A Phenomenological Proposal

Dan Zahavi

359
Citations
Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness

Shaun Gallagher;Dan Zahavi

353
Citations
Simulation, projection and empathy.

Dan Zahavi

343
Citations
Rediscovering Psychopathology: The Epistemology and Phenomenology of the Psychiatric Object

Josef Parnas;Louis A. Sass;Dan Zahavi

333
Citations
Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity: A Response to the Linguistic-Pragmatic Critique

Dan Zahavi;Elizabeth A. Behnke

323
Citations
Phenomenology and the project of naturalization

Dan Zahavi

284
Citations
Schizophrenic autism: clinical phenomenology and pathogenetic implications.

Josef Parnas;Pierre Bovet;Dan Zahavi

256
Citations
Self and Other: The Limits of Narrative Understanding

Dan Zahavi

252
Citations
Applied phenomenology: why it is safe to ignore the epoché

Dan Zahavi;Dan Zahavi

221
Citations
Self, no self? : perspectives from analytical, phenomenological, and Indian traditions

Mark Siderits;Evan Thompson;Dan Zahavi

221
Citations
Phenomenal consciousness and self-awareness: A phenomenological critique of representational theory

Josef Parnas;Dan Zahavi

172
Citations
The Oxford handbook of contemporary phenomenology

Dan Zahavi

154
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Parnas University of Copenhagen

Shaun Gallagher University of Memphis

Tilo Kircher Philipp University of Marburg

Louis A. Sass Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Philippe Rochat Emory University

Evan Thompson University of British Columbia

Uriah Kriegel Rice University

Andreas Roepstorff Aarhus University

Vasudevi Reddy University of Portsmouth

Thomas Fuchs University of Göttingen

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