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Judith Butler 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 Judith Butler sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 307 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Judith Butler 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 Judith Butler sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 84 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Judith Butler is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the domain of Social Sciences, with 28 publications contributing to this field. More specifically, Butler's work spans several subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Political Science and International Relations, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The main topics explored in Butler's scholarship include:

  • Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
  • Political Theology and Sovereignty
  • Psychology and Mental Health
  • Academic Freedom and Politics
  • Gender Studies in Language
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Families in Therapy and Culture

Judith Butler has published multiple recent papers covering various themes and venues. Some of these are:

  • "Interview: Mourning Is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities" (2020) in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
  • "Sexual Difference as a Question of Ethics: Alterities of the Flesh in Irigaray and Merleau-Ponty" (2021) in Educação & Formação
  • "The Public Futures of the Humanities" (2022) in Daedalus
  • "Companion Thinking: A Response" (2020) in New Literary History
  • "Reflections on Gender Trouble Thirty Years Later: Reply to Hershatter, Loos, and Patel" (2020) in The Journal of Asian Studies

Frequent co-authors often collaborating with Butler include:

  • Frédéric Worms
  • Adriana Cavarero
  • Étienne Balibar
  • Warren Montag
  • Bonnie Honig

The publication venues in which Butler's work frequently appears include:

  • Les Temps qui restent
  • Agora
  • The MIT Press eBooks
  • Manchester University Press eBooks
  • Educação & Formação

Judith Butler has a number of book publications, predominantly with Fordham University Press eBooks, where eight titles have been published. These include:

  • Giving an Account of Oneself (2025)
  • Senses of the Subject (2020)
  • Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence (2021)
  • The Livable and the Unlivable (2023)
  • Eros (2021)

Other publishers include Columbia University Press with the book What World Is This? (2022), Bloomsbury Academic eBooks with Vibrant Death (2022), and Presses Universitaires De France with Le vivable et l'invivable (2021).

Butler was recognized in 2019 as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

    Judith P. Butler

  • Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of sex

    Judith P. Butler

  • Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

    Judith P. Butler

  • Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

    Judith P. Butler

  • The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection

    Judith P. Butler

  • Performative Acts and Gender Constitution : An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory

    Judith Butler

  • Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter

    Judith P. Butler

  • Giving an Account of Oneself

    Judith P. Butler

  • Imitation and Gender Insubordination

    Judith Butler

  • Bodies that matter

    Judith Butler

  • Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

    Judith P. Butler

  • Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

    Judith P. Butler

  • Körper von Gewicht: die diskursiven Grenzen des Geschlechts

    Judith P. Butler;Karin Wördemann

  • Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of "Postmodernism"

    Judith Butler

  • Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death

    Judith P. Butler

  • Dispossession: The Performative in the Political

    Judith P. Butler;Athena Athanasiou

  • Feminists Theorize the Political

    Judith P. Butler;Joan Wallach Scott

  • Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France

    Judith P. Butler

  • Psyche der Macht: das Subjekt der Unterwerfung

    Judith P. Butler

  • Hass spricht. Zur Politik des Performativen

    Judith P. Butler

  • Contingency, hegemony, universality : contemporary dialogues on the left

    Judith P. Butler;Ernesto Laclau;Slavoj Žižek

Frequent Co-Authors

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek University of Ljubljana
Ernesto Laclau
Ernesto Laclau University of Essex
Joan Wallach Scott
Joan Wallach Scott Institute for Advanced Study
Talal Asad
Talal Asad City University of New York
Mariana Valverde
Mariana Valverde University of Toronto
Robert C. Post
Robert C. Post Yale University
Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib Columbia University
bell hooks
bell hooks Berea College
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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