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Norman Finkelstein

1953 - Today

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Norman Gary Finkelstein ( FING-kəl-steen; born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Finkelstein was born in New York City to Jewish Holocaust-survivor parents. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norman Finkelstein has received more than 2,752,928 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Norman Finkelstein is the 22nd most popular political scientist (up from 24th in 2019), the 3,192nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,594th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Political Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Norman Finkelsteins by language

Over the past year Norman Finkelstein has had the most page views in the with 1,448,827 views, followed by German (80,771), and French (43,198). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (701.43%), Portuguese (650.99%), and English (616.85%)

Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Norman Finkelstein ranks 22 out of 46. Before him are Joseph Nye, John Mearsheimer, Muhammad Asad, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Ilan Pappé, and Arend Lijphart. After him are Robert D. Putnam, William Graham Sumner, Hayranidil Kadın, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Karl Deutsch, and Leonard Hobhouse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Norman Finkelstein ranks 129. Before him are Masami Kurumada, Arielle Dombasle, Ahmad Sa'adat, Kathleen Kennedy, Ewald Lienen, and Myung-whun Chung. After him are Bill Nunn, Douglas Diamond, Franz Klammer, Christoph Daum, Amy Irving, and Tom Hulce.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norman Finkelstein ranks 3,192 out of 20,380. Before him are Donald E. Westlake (1933), Zoe Saldana (1978), Frederick William Franz (1893), Diane Ladd (1935), Richard S. Hamilton (1943), and Will Sampson (1933). After him are James Turrell (1943), Jelly Roll Morton (1890), Reggie Jackson (1946), Divine (1945), Anne Ramsey (1929), and Bill Nunn (1953).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In United States

Among political scientists born in United States, Norman Finkelstein ranks 8. Before him are Francis Fukuyama (1952), Harold Lasswell (1902), Gene Sharp (1928), Robert A. Dahl (1915), Joseph Nye (1937), and John Mearsheimer (1947). After him are Robert D. Putnam (1941), William Graham Sumner (1840), Robert Keohane (1941), Graham Allison (1940), Sidney Verba (1932), and Cass Sunstein (1954).

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