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Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Rasha Alsaigh
King Abdulaziz University
2
Heath Williams
The University of Notre Dame Australia
3
Lisa Guenther
Queen's University
4
Anna Giustina
University of Liège
5
Saulius Geniušas
Chinese University of Hong Kong
6
Thomas Byrne
University of Macau
7
Patricia Meindl
University of Copenhagen
8
Nicola Spano
University of Würzburg
9
Martin Ritter
University of Vienna
10
Di Huang
East China Normal University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Inner awareness: the argument from attention
Philosophical Studies|2024
25 cit.
2
The Origins of Sedimentation in <scp>Husserl</scp>'s Phenomenology
European Journal of Philosophy|2024
22 cit.
3
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Learnings from Employing IPA as a Qualitative Methodology in Educational Research
The Qualitative Report|2024
17 cit.
4
The Unconscious in Husserl’s Phenomenology
Human Studies|2024
12 cit.
5
Yearning for the Irretrievable: Nostalgia and Time
Emotion Review|2024
10 cit.
6
The struggle for identity in doctoral supervision: a phenomenologically grounded qualitative study of power and conflict
Studies in Higher Education|2025
10 cit.
7
From the Phenomenology of Reactivation to the Hermeneutics of Innovation
International Journal of Social Imaginaries|2024
8 cit.
8
Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology of sedimentations
Continental Philosophy Review|2025
5 cit.
9
An introduction to phenomenology in qualitative education research: A critical reading of ‘Understanding things from within’
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences|2025
4 cit.
10
The Dawn of the Phenomenology of Feelings
Philosophy Today|2024
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Leena Kakkori
University of Eastern Finland
2
Tammy Mills
Montclair State University
3
Amie Zimmer
St. John's College of Nursing
4
Matt Burch
University of Missouri
5
Rosi Bombieri
University of Verona
6
Robert Stern
Boston University
7
Kristóf Orzói
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
8
Katherine M. Robiadek
Xavier University
9
QIN Ming-li
Dalian University of Technology
10
George Heffernan
Merrimack College

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The Empirical Phenomenological Method: Theoretical Foundation and Research Applications
Social Sciences|2023
22 cit.
2
Enacting affirmative ethics through autotheory: sense-making with affect during COVID-19
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education|2022
9 cit.
3
“The Nous Project”: A SEL program to promote emotional self-understanding in elementary school children
Social and Emotional Learning Research Practice and Policy|2024
3 cit.
4
The Individual as an Object of Love: The Property View of Love Meets the Hegelian View of Properties
Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy|2023
2 cit.
5
Explaining Synthetic<i>A Priori</i>Knowledge: The Achilles Heel of Transcendental Idealism?
Kantian Review|2022
1 cit.
6
Kierkegaard, Løgstrup and the Conditions of Love: From God's Grace to Life as a Gift
Studies in Christian Ethics|2022
1 cit.
7
Enacting Posthuman Ethics to Do Academia Differently: Toward an Affirmative Peer Reviewing Practice
Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry|2022
1 cit.
8
Understanding Hegel's Logic: On Houlgate's <scp><i>Hegel on Being</i></scp>
European Journal of Philosophy|2023
1 cit.
9
Schelling on freedom, evil and imputation: A puzzle
European Journal of Philosophy|2023
1 cit.
10
"Lines Written in my Closet": Volume One of Judith Sargent Murray's Poetry Manuscripts
Digital Archive @ GSU|2022
0 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Haridimos Tsoukas
University of Cyprus
2
Walter Biemel
FH Aachen
3
Dan Zahavi
University of Copenhagen
4
Karen Francis
Charles Sturt University
5
Seán Hand
University of California, Santa Barbara
6
Kristian Moltke Martiny
University of Copenhagen
7
Jan Slaby
Freie Universität Berlin
8
William J. Richardson
Midlands Technical College
9
Maura Dowling
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
10
Michaël Friedman
University of Bonn

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
On Organizational Becoming: Rethinking Organizational Change
Organization Science|2002
2.7k cit.
2
The firm as a distributed knowledge system: A constructionist approach
Strategic Management Journal|1996
2k cit.
3
Grounded theory research: A design framework for novice researchers
SAGE Open Medicine|2019
1.9k cit.
4
The Development of Constructivist Grounded Theory
International Journal of Qualitative Methods|2006
1.6k cit.
5
Memoing in qualitative research
Journal of research in nursing|2007
1.5k cit.
6
Explanation and Scientific Understanding
The Journal of Philosophy|1974
1.4k cit.
7
What is Organizational Knowledge?
Journal of Management Studies|2001
1.1k cit.
8
EASE: Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience
Psychopathology|2005
865 cit.
9
A Dialogical Approach to the Creation of New Knowledge in Organizations
Organization Science|2009
689 cit.
10
The Validity of Idiographic Research Explanations
Academy of Management Review|1989
671 cit.

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