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Researcher · Columbia University · United States

Peter M. Blau

Peter M. Blau 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 Complex Systems and Decision Making.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,937
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,358
of 1,627,098
Works
206
Citations
57k
Citations per work
276.0
h-index
59
i10-index 99Top 0.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Peter M. Blau

What does Peter M. Blau research?

Peter M. Blau's work is mostly in Social Sciences (53%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (5%), Decision Sciences (5%).

Social Sciences: 138 works · 67.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 110 works · 53.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 83 works · 40.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 16 works · 7.6% of their workPublic Administration: 11 works · 5.4% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 works · 5.4% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 11 works · 5.4% of their workDecision Sciences: 9 works · 4.6% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 9 works · 4.6% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8 works · 3.8% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 8 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 68 works · 32.8% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter M. Blau206works
Social Sciences67%

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 Sciences11053.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance115.4%
    3. Decision Sciences94.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting83.8%
  2. Everything else6832.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science40% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  3. 3Public Administration5% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics5% of their works
  5. 5Management Science and Operations Research5% of their works
  6. 6Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter M. Blau's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Mobility, Institutional Theory, Public Sociology, Social Theory, Cultural Capital, Social Class, Social Capital and Soft Systems Methodology.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Mobility302 topics
  2. Institutional Theory212 topics
  3. Public Sociology191 topic
  4. Social Theory191 topic
  5. Cultural Capital181 topic
  6. Social Class181 topic
  7. Social Capital141 topic
  8. Soft Systems Methodology141 topic
  9. System Dynamics141 topic
  10. Trust141 topic
  11. Neighborhood Effects121 topic
  12. Residential Segregation121 topic
  13. Collaborative Governance111 topic
  14. Identity Theory111 topic
  15. Public Management Reform111 topic
  16. Social Exchange111 topic
  17. Institutional Entrepreneurship101 topic
  18. Organizational Change101 topic

Where does Peter M. Blau work?

Peter M. Blau's main affiliation in the publication record is Columbia University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter M. Blau have?

OpenAlex counts 206 works and 56,849 citations for Peter M. Blau, an h-index of 59, ranking #3,937 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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