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2023

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
75
Citations
50876
World Ranking
520
National Ranking
6

Paul Ricoeur 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 Paul Ricoeur sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 269 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paul Ricoeur 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 Paul Ricoeur 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: 75 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 1999 - International Balzan Prize

Overview

Paul Ricœur was affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their academic work spanned multiple disciplines, notably including sociology and political science, philosophy, general health professions, religious studies, and literature and literary theory.

Themes central to Ricœur's research encompassed hermeneutics and narrative identity, health, medicine and society, biblical studies and interpretation, theology and canon law studies, historical and linguistic studies, multicultural socio-legal studies, and ethics in medical practice.

The following papers were among those published by Ricœur, detailing their recent scholarly contributions:

  • La question coloniale, 2021, Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies
  • Constructing Comparables, 2022, Theory Culture & Society
  • The Question of the Colonies, 2021, Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies
  • Die politische Macht. Das Ende des Theologisch-Politischen?, 2020, Evangelische Theologie

Ricœur's frequent coauthors included Hannah Arendt, Georges Fradier, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Nicolas Treiber, and Gabríel Marcel.

Their work appeared in several publication venues with multiple contributions to:

  • Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies
  • Theory Culture & Society
  • Philosophie Magazine
  • Evangelische Theologie
  • Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion

Ricœur also authored books, including the forthcoming "Amour et Justice" published by Mohr Siebeck eBooks, scheduled for 2025.

The scholarly record notes receipt of the International Balzan Prize in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Time and narrative

    Paul Ricoeur;Kathleen Mclaughlin;David Pellauer

  • The Rule of Metaphor : Multi-disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language

    Paul Ricoeur;Robert Czerny;Kathleen Mclaughlin;John Costello

  • The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language

    Peter Lamarque;Paul Ricoeur;Robert Czerny;Kathleen McLaughlin

  • Ideología y utopía

    Paul Ricoeur;George H. Taylor;Alberto Luis Bixio

  • Hermeneutics and the human sciences

    Paul Ricoeur

  • Freud and Philosophy an Essay on Interpretation

    Paul Ricoeur;Denis Savage

  • Time and Narrative

    Unknown

  • The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text

    Paul Ricoeur

  • Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation

    Paul Ricoeur;John B. Thompson

  • From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics II

    Paul Ricoeur;Richard Kearney

  • Time and Narrative, Vol. 1.

    Joseph R. Gusfield;Paul Ricoeur;Kathleen McLaughlin;David Pellauer

  • Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology

    Paul Ricoeur;David Carr;Edward G. Ballard;Lester E. Embree

  • The rule of metaphor

    Harrison Hall;Paul Ricoeur;Robert Czerny

  • La métaphore vive

    Paul Ricoeur

  • Narrative Time

    Unknown

  • La mémoire, l'histoire, l'oubli

    Paul Ricoeur

  • Temps et récit

    Paul Ricoeur

  • The conflict of interpretations : essays in hermeneutics

    Neil Wilson;Paul Ricoeur;Don Ihde

  • The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination and Feeling

    Paul Ricoeur

  • Freud and Philosophy

    Paul Ricoeur

  • LIFE IN QUEST OF NARRATIVE

    Paul Ricoeur

  • La memoria, la historia, el olvido

    Paul Ricoeur

  • The conflict of interpretations

    Hans-Georg Gadamer;Paul Ricoeur

  • Sí mismo como otro

    Paul Ricoeur

  • Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning

    Martin A. Bertman;Paul Ricoeur

Frequent Co-Authors

David Carr
David Carr University of Edinburgh
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer Heidelberg University
Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre Boston University
Richard Kearney
Richard Kearney Boston College

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