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2025

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D-Index
145
Citations
224782
World Ranking
5
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1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Germany Leader Award
  • 2013 - Erasmus Prize, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
  • 2005 - Holberg Prize, Government of Norway "for developing path-breaking theories of discourse and communicative action and thereby providing new perspectives on law and democracy"
  • 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jürgen Habermas is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research primarily falls under the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Communication, and Political Science and International Relations, alongside contributions to Molecular Biology and Artificial Intelligence.

The main topics in Habermas's work include Social Media and Politics, E-Government and Public Services, Disaster Management and Resilience, Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, Climate Change Communication and Perception, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, and Asian Studies and History.

Habermas has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Jean-Benoît Pilet (30 publications)
  • Jane Suiter (30 publications)
  • Brigitte Geißel (29 publications)
  • Maija Setälä (29 publications)
  • Patricia Mockler (29 publications)

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Habermas or associated teams include:

  • Deliberative democracy and the climate crisis, 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Global citizen deliberation on genome editing, 2020, Science
  • Authoritarian Innovations: Crafting support for a less democratic Southeast Asia, 2020, Democratization
  • Deliberative democracy in the age of serial crisis, 2020, International Political Science Review
  • Democracy without Shortcuts: Introduction to the Special Issue, 2020, Journal of Deliberative Democracy

Frequent publication venues for Habermas's work include Bristol University Press eBooks, Journal of Deliberative Democracy, Politics, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, and Science.

Regarding book publications, Habermas's work has been featured extensively by:

  • Bristol University Press eBooks with multiple editions of "Deliberative Mini-Publics" published in 2021
  • KU Leuven, publishing "Deliberative Mini-Publics: Core Design Features" in 2021
  • Policy Press, which published "Deliberative Mini-Publics" in 2021

Among awards received, Habermas has been recognized with the Erasmus Prize by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation in 2013 and the Holberg Prize from the Government of Norway in 2005, awarded "for developing path-breaking theories of discourse and communicative action and thereby providing new perspectives on law and democracy." Habermas is also a Member of Academia Europaea since 1989 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1984.

Best Publications

  • The Theory of Communicative Action

    Jürgen Habermas;Thomas McCarthy

  • Knowledge and Human Interests

    Jürgen Habermas

  • The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society

    Jürgen Habermas;Thomas Burgerm

  • Faktizität und Geltung

    Jürgen Habermas

  • The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures

    Jürgen Habermas

  • Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action

    Jürgen Habermas

  • Knowledge and Human Interests

    Howard L. Parsons;Jurgen Habermas;Jeremy J. Shapiro

  • Communication and the Evolution of Society

    Jürgen Habermas;Thomas McCarthy

  • Knowledge and Human Interests.

    Richard W. Miller;Jurgen Habermas;Jeremy Shapiro

  • Between Facts and Norms

    Jürgen Habermas

  • The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

    Jürgen Habermas

  • Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns

    Jürgen Habermas

  • Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics

    Jürgen Habermas

  • Religion in the Public Sphere

    Jurgen Habermas

  • The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity

    Jürgen Habermas

  • The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiry into a category of Bourgeois society

    Jürgen Habermas;Thomas Burger

  • Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida

    Jürgen Habermas;Jacques Derrida;Giovanna Borradori

  • Faktizität und Geltung : Beiträge zur Diskurstheorie des Rechts und des demokratischen Rechtsstaats

    Jürgen Habermas

  • Communication and the Evolution of Society

    C. Fred Alford;Jurgen Habermas;Thomas McCarthy

  • Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action.

    David M. Rasmussen;Jurgen Habermas;Christian Lenhardt;Shierry Weber Nicholsen

  • Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy@@@The Cambridge Companion to Habermas

    Nigel Dodd;Jurgen Habermas;Stephen K. White

  • Knowledge and Human Interests

    Steven Lukes;Jurgen Habermas

  • The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiryinto a category of bourgeois society

    Jürgen Habermas;Thomas Burger;Frederick Lawrence

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida École Normale Supérieure
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty Stanford University
Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse University of California, San Diego
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer Heidelberg University
Niklas Luhmann
Niklas Luhmann Bielefeld University
Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno Goethe University Frankfurt
Robert Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow Princeton University
Peter L. Berger
Peter L. Berger Boston University
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Mary Douglas
Mary Douglas University College London

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