Mark Chaves

9.9k citations
88 papers · 5.3k · 2 hit papers · h-index 37

Impact in

  • Health top 0.05%
    • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
    • Religion and Society Interactions
    • Religion, Society, and Development
    • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering

Papers in

    • Religion and Society Interactions 60
    • Religion, Society, and Development 56
    • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering 3
    • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology 40

Mark Chaves

87 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Mark Chaves's Hit Papers

Is the United States a Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis? 2016 · 267 citations
2670+10+21Years since publication100200300

Peers

Mark Chaves
Comparison fields: 5 of 106
  • Health 2.5k
  • Sociology and Political Science 4.6k
  • Public Administration 140
  • Demography 455
  • Religious studies 160
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Mark Chaves, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Secularization as Declining Religious Authority
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1994366
2 1993304
3 2004289
4
Is the United States a Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis?
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2016267
5 1994233
6 2001218
7 2004201
8 1995197
9 2001196
10 2001181
11 1992165
12 1999161
13 2003151
14 2010134
15 1999120
16 1993119
17 1998107
18 2003103
19 199295
20 199993

About Mark Chaves

Mark Chaves is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health, Political Science and International Relations, Philosophy and Demography, having authored 88 papers that have together received 5.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Religion and Society Interactions (60 papers), Religion, Society, and Development (56 papers), Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (40 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (18 papers), Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (4 papers), Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (3 papers), Media, Religion, Digital Communication (3 papers) and Family Dynamics and Relationships (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health (2.5k citations), Sociology and Political Science (4.6k citations), Public Administration (140 citations), Demography (455 citations) and Religious studies (160 citations). Mark Chaves has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include David Voas, C. Kirk Hadaway, Penny Long Marler, Philip S. Gorski, José Casanova, Kraig Beyerlein, William Tsitsos, Joseph Galaskiewicz, Laura Stephens and Paul Boyer. Their work appears in journals such as Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Sociological Review and Social Forces.

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