Michel Foucault
Impact in
- Gender Studies top 0.01%
- Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Sociology and Political Science top 0.01%
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
Papers in
- Philosophy 48
- Linguistics and Discourse Analysis 11
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- Foucault, Power, and Ethics 38
- Co-authors
- Colin Gordon (6 shared papers)Alan Sheridan (5 shared papers)Sharon Zukin (1 shared paper)Francesca Moore (1 shared paper)Paul Rabinow (10 shared papers)Andrew M. Smith (3 shared papers)Hernán Vera (1 shared paper)David F. Cooper (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Foucault Studies (10 papers)Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (6 papers)Critical Inquiry (6 papers)SubStance (4 papers)The American Historical Review (4 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesFranceUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
Michel Foucault
515 papers receiving 87.4k citations
Michel Foucault's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 220
- Gender Studies 13.0k
- Sociology and Political Science 56.4k
- Philosophy 10.9k
- Public Administration 3.0k
- Literature and Literary Theory 9.7k
Countries citing papers authored by Michel Foucault
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Fields of papers citing papers by Michel Foucault
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Michel Foucault, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 601 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977 Hit paper breakdown → | 1980 | 13884 |
| 2 | Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Hit paper breakdown → | 1996 | 9161 |
| 3 | The History of Sexuality Hit paper breakdown → | 1976 | 6704 |
| 4 | The Subject and Power Hit paper breakdown → | 1982 | 4240 |
| 5 | The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. Hit paper breakdown → | 1971 | 4043 |
| 6 | Archaeology of Knowledge Hit paper breakdown → | 1970 | 3712 |
| 7 | The archaeology of knowledge ; and, The discourse on language Hit paper breakdown → | 1972 | 3161 |
| 8 | The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. Hit paper breakdown → | 1979 | 3059 |
| 9 | The Archaeology of Knowledge. Hit paper breakdown → | 1974 | 2926 |
| 10 | Discipline and punish the birth of the prison Hit paper breakdown → | 1979 | 2901 |
| 11 | Of Other Spaces Hit paper breakdown → | 1986 | 2773 |
| 12 | The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 2649 |
| 13 | The Birth of the Clinic Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 2166 |
| 14 | Madness and Civilization Hit paper breakdown → | 1961 | 2056 |
| 15 | The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Hit paper breakdown → | 1974 | 2048 |
| 16 | Discipline and Punish Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 1968 |
| 17 | The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 1946 |
| 18 | The Foucault Reader Hit paper breakdown → | 1984 | 1942 |
| 19 | The Subject and Power Hit paper breakdown → | 1998 | 1779 |
| 20 | History of Sexuality Vol. 2, Introduction Hit paper breakdown → | 1990 | 1596 |
About Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault is a scholar working on Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory, Clinical Psychology and History, having authored 601 papers that have together received 118.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Foucault, Power, and Ethics (38 papers), Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research (20 papers), Health, Medicine and Society (12 papers), European history and politics (11 papers), Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (11 papers), French Historical and Cultural Studies (11 papers), Psychoanalysis and Social Critique (11 papers) and Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Gender Studies (13.0k citations), Sociology and Political Science (56.4k citations), Philosophy (10.9k citations), Public Administration (3.0k citations) and Literature and Literary Theory (9.7k citations). Michel Foucault has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Colin Gordon, Alan Sheridan, Sharon Zukin, Francesca Moore, Paul Rabinow, Andrew M. Smith, Hernán Vera, David F. Cooper, Arnold I. Davidson and François Ewald. Their work appears in journals such as Foucault Studies, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Critical Inquiry, SubStance and The American Historical Review.
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