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Top Social Sciences (field) Researchers

Pierre Bourdıeu ranks first, out of 2,337 ranked researchers.

Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.

The ranking

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France · #2 worldwide 10k citations · 235 works
  2. 2 Michel Foucault Poland · #5 worldwide 4.6k citations · 194 works
  3. 3 Noam Chomsky United States · #7 worldwide 3.7k citations · 239 works
  4. 4 Charles Tilly United States · #8 worldwide 3.7k citations · 238 works
  5. 5 Norman K. Denzin United States · #16 worldwide 8.6k citations · 169 works
  6. 6 Stanley Hoffmann United States · #21 worldwide 2.3k citations · 197 works
  7. 7 Amartya Sen United States · #28 worldwide 4.9k citations · 190 works
  8. 8 Francis Fukuyama United States · #30 worldwide 4.1k citations · 158 works
  9. 9 William Diebold United States · #33 worldwide 3.8k citations · 208 works
  10. 10 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States · #43 worldwide 7.4k citations · 383 works
  11. 11 Bruno Latour France · #46 worldwide 2k citations · 198 works
  12. 12 Niklas Luhmann Germany · #53 worldwide 2.3k citations · 277 works
  13. 13 G. John Ikenberry United States · #57 worldwide 3k citations · 159 works
  14. 14 Juan Ramón De La Fuente Mexico · #61 worldwide 1.5k citations · 228 works
  15. 15 Judith Butler United States · #70 worldwide 6.7k citations · 132 works
  16. 16 Jacques Derrida France · #82 worldwide 1.3k citations · 192 works
  17. 17 Émile Durkheim United States · #87 worldwide 2.5k citations · 135 works
  18. 18 Loïc Wacquant United States · #89 worldwide 3.1k citations · 153 works
  19. 19 Immanuel Wallerstein United States · #111 worldwide 1.7k citations · 232 works
  20. 20 Johan Galtung Norway · #119 worldwide 2.3k citations · 135 works
  21. 21 Fritz Stern United States · #126 worldwide 1.2k citations · 183 works
  22. 22 Anthony Giddens United States · #164 worldwide 4.9k citations · 114 works
  23. 23 Lawrence Freedman United Kingdom · #179 worldwide 1.2k citations · 214 works
  24. 24 Karl Marx Denmark · #180 worldwide 1.1k citations · 217 works
  25. 25 Richard A. Posner United States · #212 worldwide 1.9k citations · 228 works
  26. 26 Alejandro Portes United States · #247 worldwide 4.7k citations · 108 works
  27. 27 Manuel Castells United States · #259 worldwide 1.1k citations · 160 works
  28. 28 Martha C. Nussbaum United States · #279 worldwide 1.6k citations · 260 works
  29. 29 Eliot A. Cohen United States · #297 worldwide 1.1k citations · 147 works
  30. 30 Bryan S. Turner United States · #337 worldwide 1.9k citations · 273 works
  31. 31 Linda Darling‐Hammond United States · #370 worldwide 2.4k citations · 137 works
  32. 32 Barry Buzan United Kingdom · #391 worldwide 1.6k citations · 116 works
  33. 33 Richard Rorty United States · #462 worldwide 1.2k citations · 258 works
  34. 34 John C. Campbell United States · #555 worldwide 1.3k citations · 341 works
  35. 35 Ulrich Beck Germany · #556 worldwide 2.7k citations · 100 works
  36. 36 Zygmunt Bauman United Kingdom · #622 worldwide 827 citations · 145 works
  37. 37 Max Weber United Kingdom · #687 worldwide 960 citations · 119 works
  38. 38 Fritz W. Scharpf Germany · #718 worldwide 1.3k citations · 128 works
  39. 39 Theda Skocpol United States · #762 worldwide 1.4k citations · 114 works
  40. 40 Lucian W. Pye United States · #809 worldwide 1k citations · 121 works
  41. 41 Gaddis Smith United States · #846 worldwide 886 citations · 130 works
  42. 42 Andrew J. Pierre United States · #944 worldwide 951 citations · 155 works
  43. 43 Greg J. Duncan United States · #1,034 worldwide 2.7k citations · 117 works
  44. 44 Donald S. Zagoria United States · #1,072 worldwide 758 citations · 142 works
  45. 45 William B. Quandt United States · #1,126 worldwide 784 citations · 132 works
  46. 46 Harold D. Lasswell United States · #1,281 worldwide 819 citations · 164 works
  47. 47 David Hume Australia · #1,397 worldwide 1.9k citations · 378 works
  48. 48 John Agnew United States · #1,593 worldwide 1.2k citations · 99 works
  49. 49 Jack Goody United Kingdom · #1,614 worldwide 708 citations · 137 works
  50. 50 Donatella della Porta Italy · #1,775 worldwide 1k citations · 157 works
  51. 51 Andy Hargreaves United States · #1,791 worldwide 1.3k citations · 91 works
  52. 52 Kenneth I. Pargäment United States · #1,823 worldwide 1.9k citations · 103 works
  53. 53 Dimitrios Buhalis United Kingdom · #1,916 worldwide 2k citations · 152 works
  54. 54 Nancy Fraser United States · #1,979 worldwide 824 citations · 91 works
  55. 55 Francis T. Cullen United States · #2,039 worldwide 1.7k citations · 109 works
  56. 56 Stephen J. Ball United Kingdom · #2,268 worldwide 1.4k citations · 128 works
  57. 57 Douglas S. Massey United States · #2,384 worldwide 1.4k citations · 100 works
  58. 58 John Locke United States · #2,559 worldwide 1.3k citations · 285 works
  59. 59 Uwe Schimank Germany · #2,694 worldwide 604 citations · 122 works
  60. 60 Barry R. Chiswick United States · #2,719 worldwide 1.1k citations · 114 works
  61. 61 Howard S. Becker United States · #2,778 worldwide 915 citations · 171 works
  62. 62 Bruno Palier France · #3,071 worldwide 457 citations · 131 works
  63. 63 Wolfgang Streeck Germany · #3,133 worldwide 838 citations · 198 works
  64. 64 Frank Schimmelfennig Switzerland · #3,254 worldwide 782 citations · 93 works
  65. 65 Seymour Martin Lipset United States · #3,750 worldwide 529 citations · 132 works
  66. 66 Herbert W. Marsh Australia · #3,807 worldwide 4.6k citations · 265 works
  67. 67 Craig Calhoun United States · #3,969 worldwide 645 citations · 138 works
  68. 68 Bob Jessop United Kingdom · #4,009 worldwide 1k citations · 163 works
  69. 69 Cass R. Sunstein United States · #4,061 worldwide 2.5k citations · 336 works
  70. 70 Jürgen Baumert Germany · #4,606 worldwide 1k citations · 160 works
  71. 71 B. Guy Peters United States · #4,708 worldwide 895 citations · 126 works
  72. 72 Philip G. Altbach United States · #5,185 worldwide 1.2k citations · 258 works
  73. 73 Ian McAllister Australia · #5,245 worldwide 985 citations · 132 works
  74. 74 Jeremy Waldron United States · #5,358 worldwide 482 citations · 107 works
  75. 75 Guy Caire France · #6,219 worldwide 342 citations · 112 works
  76. 76 Alí A. Mazrui Uganda · #6,412 worldwide 395 citations · 113 works
  77. 77 Andrew M. Greeley United States · #7,322 worldwide 501 citations · 149 works
  78. 78 Mark D. Griffiths United Kingdom · #7,344 worldwide 3.3k citations · 412 works
  79. 79 Simon Marginson Australia · #7,516 worldwide 757 citations · 128 works
  80. 80 Friedrich Engels Brazil · #7,554 worldwide 285 citations · 145 works
  81. 81 Bob Lingard Australia · #7,700 worldwide 837 citations · 107 works
  82. 82 Alain Touraine France · #7,721 worldwide 363 citations · 149 works
  83. 83 Ruud Koopmans Germany · #7,965 worldwide 597 citations · 75 works
  84. 84 Bernard Lahire France · #8,308 worldwide 258 citations · 138 works
  85. 85 Patrick Le Galès France · #8,754 worldwide 374 citations · 100 works
  86. 86 Henry A. Giroux Canada · #9,320 worldwide 961 citations · 260 works
  87. 87 Howard Giles United States · #10,091 worldwide 1.6k citations · 138 works
  88. 88 Michael W. Apple United States · #10,094 worldwide 1.2k citations · 221 works
  89. 89 E Swyngedouw Slovakia · #10,188 worldwide 753 citations · 212 works
  90. 90 Hans Kelsen United States · #10,595 worldwide 304 citations · 103 works
  91. 91 David Boud Australia · #10,930 worldwide 772 citations · 88 works
  92. 92 Ernest T. Pascarella United States · #11,122 worldwide 1.1k citations · 86 works
  93. 93 Ludger Woessmann Germany · #11,249 worldwide 1.1k citations · 95 works
  94. 94 Edmund Burke United Kingdom · #11,259 worldwide 1.4k citations · 272 works
  95. 95 Ruth Wodak United Kingdom · #11,692 worldwide 696 citations · 191 works
  96. 96 Robert E. Slavin United States · #11,834 worldwide 1.5k citations · 140 works
  97. 97 Marinus H. van IJzendoorn Netherlands · #12,036 worldwide 1.9k citations · 193 works
  98. 98 Annemarie Schımmel United States · #12,093 worldwide 241 citations · 119 works
  99. 99 Eric A. Hanushek United States · #12,103 worldwide 1.3k citations · 134 works
  100. 100 Mel Ainscow United Kingdom · #12,345 worldwide 642 citations · 96 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Social Sciences, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.

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