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Researcher · University of California, Berkeley · United States

Michael Burawoy

Michael Burawoy publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Public Administration, on topics such as Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice, Social and Cultural Dynamics and Political Economy and Marxism.

ORCID 0000-0002-7195-7278 OpenAlex
World rank
#10,391
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,580
of 1,627,098
Works
345
Citations
20k
Citations per work
58.6
h-index
53
i10-index 136Top 0.3% in Sociology and Political Science
Michael Burawoy

What does Michael Burawoy research?

Michael Burawoy's work is mostly in Social Sciences (73%), Arts and Humanities (3%).

Social Sciences: 263 works · 76.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 253 works · 73.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 162 works · 47.1% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 51 works · 14.7% of their workPublic Administration: 14 works · 4.2% of their workEducation: 13 works · 3.9% of their workAnthropology: 12 works · 3.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 10 works · 2.8% of their workHistory: 10 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 82 works · 23.8% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael Burawoy345works
Social Sciences76%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences25373.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities102.8%
  2. Everything else8223.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science47% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations15% of their works
  3. 3Public Administration4% of their works
  4. 4Education4% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology4% of their works
  6. 6History3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Burawoy's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Public Sociology, Social Theory, Neoliberalism, Capitalism, Cultural Capital, Social Class and Imperialism.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization1665 topics
  2. Public Sociology711 topic
  3. Social Theory711 topic
  4. Neoliberalism562 topics
  5. Capitalism532 topics
  6. Cultural Capital461 topic
  7. Social Class461 topic
  8. Imperialism401 topic
  9. Marxism401 topic
  10. Labor Movement291 topic
  11. Union Revitalization291 topic
  12. Gramsci161 topic
  13. Hegemony161 topic
  14. Institutional Theory141 topic
  15. Organizational Change141 topic
  16. Economic Recession131 topic
  17. Economy131 topic
  18. Post-Communist Transition131 topic
  19. Russia131 topic

Where does Michael Burawoy work?

Michael Burawoy's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Berkeley, United States.

How many publications and citations does Michael Burawoy have?

OpenAlex counts 345 works and 20,227 citations for Michael Burawoy, an h-index of 53, ranking #10,391 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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