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The Goths in the Fourth Century

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Author(s): Peter Heather, John Matthews
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication year: 1991
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The Goths in the Fourth Century (1991), published by Liverpool University Press, has been cited 331 times.

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The Goths in the Fourth Century by Peter Heather and John Matthews was published by Liverpool University Press in 1991. Conceptually, the work connects to History and Philosophy.

OpenAlex records 331 citations. Citations peaked in 2005 with 68 citing works. Notable citing venues include Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oxford University Press eBooks and Studies in Germanic linguistics. The citing works include 228 book chapters and 27 journal articles. They come from 20 countries, led by the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia.

Open Library reports a combined count of 1 reading logs and catalog editions. Its subject matter aligns with Quality Education among the Sustainable Development Goals.

The latest English Wikipedia check verified 12 article–work reference matches. These are references or bibliography entries, which may include other editions of the same work; they do not measure readership.

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331
Total Citations
1997–2025
12
Online Mentions
6
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🎓 Academic & Scientific
Reference point for synthesis Strong
🏛 Practical & Real-World
Sustainability & policy relevance Moderate
Strong (≥0.80) Moderate (0.50–0.79) Emerging (<0.50)

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Citation context scite

  • Total: 6
  • Supporting: 0
  • Mentioning: 5
  • Contradicting: 0

Who is citing this work? OpenAlex

Analysis of 331 citing works. 35.0% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →

book-chapter (228)paratext (36)article (27)other (19)book (16) Cambridge University Press eBooksOxford University Press eBooksStudies in Germanic linguistics
United Kingdom (92) United States (49) Australia (22) France (4) Canada (3) Greece (3) Ireland (2) Israel (2) Italy (2) Sri Lanka (2) China (1) Czechia (1) Germany (1) Japan (1) Lithuania (1)
Institutional sectors
Education (174) Government (4) Archive (3) Company (2) Funder (2) Other (2)
  • University of Oxford (18)
  • Macquarie University (18)
  • University of Cambridge (14)
  • University of Warwick (13)
  • University of Alabama in Huntsville (12)
  • University of Bristol (10)
  • Jacksonville State University (10)
  • King's College London (7)
  • University College London (7)
  • The Ohio State University (7)
  • Newbold College of Higher Education (6)
  • University of Manchester (5)
  • Manchester Metropolitan University (4)
  • Royal Holloway University of London (4)
  • University of Sheffield (4)
  • University of Nottingham (3)
  • Queen's University Belfast (2)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (2)
  • The University of Sydney (2)
  • University of Leeds (2)
  • University of Liverpool (2)
  • National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2)
  • Tel Aviv University (2)
  • Durham University (2)
  • Princeton University (2)
  • National Hellenic Research Foundation (2)
  • Department of Archaeology (2)
  • University of Wales Trinity Saint David (2)
  • Andrews University (1)
  • Courtauld Institute of Art (1)
  • University of Notre Dame (1)
  • Université de Tours (1)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1)
  • Australian National University (1)
  • University of London (1)
  • University of Parma (1)
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore (1)
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)
  • Harvard University (1)
  • University of Richmond (1)
  • Alan Cameron (23)
  • Andrew Gillett (18)
  • Andrei Gândilă (12)
  • Averil Cameron (12)
  • Yuliya Minets (10)
  • Gillian Clark (10)
  • Daniel T. Reff (7)
  • Michael Whitby (6)
  • Peter Garnsey (5)
  • Alan S. Bowman (5)
  • Peter Heather (5)
  • Paul Fouracre (4)
  • Philip Sabin (4)
  • Garth Fowden (4)
  • Elio Lo Cascio (4)
  • Dale Townshend (4)
  • Angela Wright (4)
  • Brian Campbell (3)
  • David Hunt (3)
  • Bryan Ward‐Perkins (3)
  • Guy Halsall (3)
  • Ian N. Wood (3)
  • Alan K. Bowman (3)
  • M. I. Loring (2)
  • Clare Stancliffe (2)
  • Mireille Corbier (2)
  • R. C. Blockley (2)
  • Andrew Louth (2)
  • Abilio Barbero (2)
  • Mark Humphries (2)
  • Peter Brown (2)
  • Malcolm Todd (2)
  • Ian Wood (2)
  • John Moorhead (2)
  • C. R. Whittaker (2)
  • David M. Gwynn (2)
  • Michael Toch (1)
  • Anna Lankina (1)
  • Malcolm A. R. Colledge (1)
  • Boris Rankov (1)

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Gothic Christianity

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Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption

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Contributors & affiliations OpenAlex

2 authors · 0 institutions

Authors

  • Peter Heather First Corresponding
  • John Matthews ORCID

Concepts & topics OpenAlex

2 specific concepts identified.
History Philosophy

UN Sustainable Development Goals OpenAlex

1 targets detected.
Quality Education (0.53)

Citations OpenAlex

50 most recent citing works (newest first)
This table lists only the 50 most recent citing works; OpenAlex records 331 in total — browse the full citation corpus on OpenAlex →
YearTitleVenueDOI
2025 Соборность Церкви и восьмой канон I Вселенского собора Bogoslov 10.62847/bogoslov.2025.8.4.002
2024 İSKİTLERİN MS 238-254 YILLARI ARASINDA ROMA TOPRAKLARINI İSTİLALARI ÜZERİNE YENİ DEĞERLENDİRMELER Tarih İncelemeleri Dergisi 10.18513/egetid.1539475
2024 Wulfila, the Gothic Bible, and the Mission to the Goths: Rethinking the ‘Apostle to the Goths’ in Terms of Homoian Theology, Conversion as a Strategy of Empire, and Fourth Century Social and Cultural Transformations Religions 10.3390/rel15101177
2024 Les concepts en sciences de l’Antiquité : mode d’emploi Dialogues d histoire ancienne 10.3917/dha.501.0309
2024 The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9
2024 Thurneysen’s Law Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.c3
2024 Verner’s Law and Final Devoicing Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.c2
2024 Conclusion and conjecture Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.c6
2024 Index of Gothic words Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.wi
2024 Index of subjects Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.si
2024 References Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.refs
2024 Introduction Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.c1
2024 List of symbols and abbreviations Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.glossary
2024 List of tables Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.lot
2024 List of figures Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.lof
2024 Aspirated fricatives from Greek to Gothic Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.c5
2024 Table of contents Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.toc
2024 Preface Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.preface
2024 Prelim pages Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.prelim
2024 Dedication Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.ded
2024 Index of authors Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.ai
2024 Split correspondences of Northwest Germanic /fl-/ to Gothic /fl-/~/þl-/ Studies in Germanic linguistics 10.1075/sigl.9.c4
2022 Fighting against nature: Romans and Barbarians on the Icy Danube Journal of Ancient History 10.1515/jah-2021-0015
2022 The Final 10 Years New approaches to Byzantine history and culture 10.1007/978-3-030-97464-0_10
2021 The Slow Fall of Babel Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108980821
2021 Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108980821.006
2021 Introduction: Awakening to Linguistic Otherness Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108980821.001
2021 Languages and Identities in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108980821.003
2021 Conclusion: What’s in the Language? Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108980821.008
2021 Speaking in Tongues in Christian Late Antiquity Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108980821.005
2021 The Languages of Saints and Demons Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108980821.007
2021 Bibliography Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108980821.009
2021 Index Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108980821.010
2021 The Tower of Babel and Beyond: The Primordial Linguistic Situation, the Original Language, and the Start of Linguistic Diversification Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108980821.004
2021 Meeting the Alloglottic Other: The Socio-Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Spread of Christianity Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108980821.002
2020 Religious Conflict in Roman Nicomedia Punctum Books 10.2307/j.ctv19cwdm9.8
2020 Time in the Gothic Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.021
2020 The Goths in Ancient History Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.002
2020 The Gothic Novel Beyond Radcliffe and Lewis Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.016
2020 Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.015
2020 Introduction: The Gothic in/and History Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.001
2020 Gothic and the French Revolution, 1789–1804 Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.013
2020 The Term ‘Gothic’ in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680‒1800 Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.003
2020 Early British Gothic and the American Revolution Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.012
2020 The Aesthetics of Terror and Horror: A Genealogy Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.014
2020 The German ‘School’ of Horrors: A Pharmacology of the Gothic Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.018
2020 Gothic and the History of Sexuality Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.019
2020 Shakespeare’s Gothic Transmigrations Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.007
2020 Reassessing the Gothic/Classical Relationship Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.008
2020 Oriental Gothic: Imperial-Commercial Nightmares from the Eighteenth Century to the Romantic Period Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781108561044.017