2026 Richard A. Shweder: 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	50	2695	2465	1307	1181	142	16535

Research.com Recognitions

1997 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Richard A. Shweder is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans social sciences and medicine, with a particular focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, surgery, sociology and political science, law, and gender studies.

Their scholarly contributions frequently address topics related to female genital mutilation/cutting issues, genital health and disease, law in society and culture, feminism, gender, and sexuality studies, as well as Dutch social and cultural studies, pragmatism in philosophy and education, and anthropological studies and insights.

Notable recent publications include:

The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women: some reasonable doubts (2021, Global Discourse)
Reconsidering the role of patriarchy in upholding female genital modifications: analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial societies (2022, International Journal of Impotence Research)
Permitting gender equality in Abrahamic circumcision: the central argument - in retrospect and reply (2022, Global Discourse)
The illusions of "magical thinking": Whose chimera, ours or theirs? (2022, Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory)
Issue Information - TOC (2023, Ethos)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard A. Shweder include Edward W. Lowe, Ellen Gruenbaum, Brian D. Earp, Greg Downey, and Daniel H. Lende.

Common publication venues for their work are:

Global Discourse
Ethos
International Journal of Impotence Research
Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Journal of Medical Ethics

Richard A. Shweder has been recognized with several awards, including election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997 and as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1985.

Best Publications

Culture theory : essays on mind, self, and emotion

Richard A. Shweder;Robert Alan LeVine

1565
Citations
Culture and moral development.

Richard A. Shweder;Manamohan Mahapatra;Joan G. Miller

1374
Citations
Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross-Culturally?

Richard A. Shweder;Edmund J. Bourne

1215
Citations
Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology

Richard A. Shweder

1077
Citations
The Cultural psychology of development : one mind, many mentalities

Richard A. Shweder;Jacqueline J. Goodnow;Giyoo Hatano;Robert A. LeVine

948
Citations
Cultural psychology: Cultural psychology – what is it?

Unknown

894
Citations
The "big three" of morality (autonomy, community, divinity) and the "big three" explanations of suffering.

Richard A. Shweder;Nancy C. Much;Manamohan Mahapatra;Lawrence Park

674
Citations
Cultural Psychology: Who Needs It?

Richard A. Shweder;Maria A. Sullivan

553
Citations
Likeness and Likelihood in Everyday Thought: Magical Thinking in Judgments About Personality [and Comments and Reply]

Richard A. Shweder;Joseph B. Casagrande;Donald W. Fiske;J. David Greenstone

410
Citations
The cultural psychology of the emotions.

Richard A. Shweder

409
Citations
Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry

Patricia A. Adler;Peter Adler;Richard Jessor;Anne Colby

375
Citations
How relevant is an individual difference theory of personality

Richard A Shweder

352
Citations
Why Do Men Barbecue?: Recipes for Cultural Psychology

Richard A. Shweder

275
Citations
Fact and Artifact in Trait Perception: The Systematic Distortion Hypothesis

Richard A. Shweder

260
Citations
The Social Construction of the Person: How Is it Possible?

Richard A. Shweder;Joan G. Miller

236
Citations
'What About 'Female Genital Mutilation'? and Why Understanding Culture Matters in the First Place

Richard A. Shweder

222
Citations
The Future of Moral Psychology: Truth, Intuition, and the Pluralist Way

Richard A. Shweder;Jonathan Haidt

214
Citations
Whorf and His Critics: Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Influences on Color Memory

John A. Lucy;Richard A. Shweder

209
Citations
Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies

Richard A. Shweder;Martha Minow;Hazel Rose Markus

193
Citations
Metatheory in Social Science: Pluralisms and Subjectivities

Donald Winslow Fiske;Richard A. Shweder

177
Citations
Metatheory in Social Science: Pluralisms and Subjectivities.

Ladislav Holy;Donald W. Fiske;Richard A. Shweder

15
Citations
Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry.

Elizabeth Chin;Richard Jessor;Anne Colby;Richard A. Shweder

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hazel Rose Markus Stanford University

Richard Jessor University of Colorado Boulder

Joan G. Miller New School

Jonathan Haidt New York University

Robert A. LeVine Harvard University

Elliot Turiel University of California, Berkeley

Jacqueline J. Goodnow Macquarie University

Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota

Donald N. McCloskey University of Illinois at Chicago

Byron J. Good Harvard University

External Links

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