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Jonathan Potter 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 Jonathan Potter sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 251 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jonathan Potter 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 Jonathan Potter sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jonathan Potter is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans main fields including Arts and Humanities and Psychology, with notable contributions in subfields such as Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their work focuses on several interconnected topics, particularly in language and social interaction. Key topics of their publications include:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Forgiveness and Related Behaviors

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Jonathan Potter cover diverse aspects of social psychology and language analysis. These include:

  • Rethinking attitudes and social psychology - Issues of function, order, and combination in subject-side and object-side assessments in natural settings (2020), published in Qualitative Research in Psychology
  • Over-Exposed Self-Correction: Practices for Managing Competence and Morality (2022), published in Research on Language and Social Interaction
  • The Visible Politics of Intersubjectivity: Constructing Knowledge as Shared to Manage Resistance in News Interviews (2023), published in Journal of Language and Social Psychology
  • The Gratitude Opportunity Space (2021), published in Social Interaction Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality
  • Understanding mixed emotions in organized helping through emotionography (2023), published in Frontiers in Psychology

Jonathan Potter has frequently collaborated with fellow researchers including Alexa Hepburn, Galina B. Bolden, Kaicheng Zhan, Wan Wei, and Song Hee Park.

Their publications appear regularly in recognized venues such as Patient Education and Counseling, Qualitative Research in Psychology, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, and Frontiers in Psychology.

In addition to journal articles, Jonathan Potter has made contributions to academic books published by different organizations. Noteworthy titles include:

  • Discourse and Social Psychology (2020), published by Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology
  • Innovative studies in organized helping: Transforming relations, emotions and referents through sequentially structured practices (2024), published by Frontiers Media

Best Publications

  • Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour

    Jonathan Potter;Margaret Wetherell

  • Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction

    Jonathan Potter

  • Discursive Psychology

    Derek Edwards;Jonathan Potter

  • Mapping the Language of Racism: Discourse and the Legitimation of Exploitation

    Margaret Wetherell;Jonathan Potter

  • Discourse and Social Psychology

    Jonathan Potter

  • Qualitative interviews in psychology: problems and possibilities

    Jonathan Potter;Alexa Hepburn

  • Discursive psychology and discourse analysis

    Jonathan Potter

  • Discourse analysis and constructionist approaches: theoretical background

    Jonathan Potter

  • La representación de la realidad: discurso, retórica y construcción social

    Jonathan Potter

  • Death and Furniture: the rhetoric, politics and theology of bottom line arguments against relativism

    Derek Edwards;Malcolm Ashmore;Jonathan Potter

  • Focus Group Practice

    Claudia Puchta;Jonathan Potter

  • Discourse: Noun, Verb or Social Practice?

    Jonathan Potter;Margaret Wetherell;Rosalind Gill;Derek Edwards

  • Language and causation : a discursive action model of description and attribution

    Derek Edwards;Jonathan Potter

  • Discursive psychology, mental states and descriptions

    Derek Edwards;Jonathan Potter

  • Unequal egalitarianism: A preliminary study of discourses concerning gender and employment opportunities

    Margaret Wetherell;Hilda Stiven;Jonathan Potter

  • Directives: Entitlement and contingency in action

    Alexandra Craven;Jonathan Potter

  • Conversation and Cognition

    Hedwig te Molder;Jonathan Potter

  • Discourse analysis and discursive psychology.

    Jonathan Potter

  • El Análisis del discurso implica analizar: Crítica de seis atajos analíticos

    Charles Antaki;Michael Billig;Derek Edwards;Jonathan Potter

  • Attitudes and evaluative practices: Category vs. item and subjective vs. objective constructions in everyday food assessments

    Sally Wiggins;Jonathan Potter

  • QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS IN PSYCHOLOGY

    Jonathan Potter;Alexa Hepburn

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek Edwards
Derek Edwards Loughborough University
Margaret Wetherell
Margaret Wetherell University of Auckland
Michael Billig
Michael Billig Loughborough University
Stephen Reicher
Stephen Reicher University of St Andrews
Charles Antaki
Charles Antaki Loughborough University
Dominic Abrams
Dominic Abrams University of Kent
Sue Wilkinson
Sue Wilkinson Loughborough University
Alan Radley
Alan Radley Loughborough University
Michael A. Hogg
Michael A. Hogg Claremont Graduate University
Rosalind Gill
Rosalind Gill City, University of London

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