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Researcher · University of Chicago · United States

Ronald S. Burt

Ronald S. Burt publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Strategy and Management, on topics such as Social Capital and Networks, Complex Network Analysis Techniques and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence.

ORCID 0000-0002-7947-2101 OpenAlex
World rank
#735
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#333
of 1,627,098
Works
233
Citations
77k
Citations per work
330.7
h-index
82
i10-index 143Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Ronald S. Burt

What does Ronald S. Burt research?

Ronald S. Burt's work is mostly in Social Sciences (30%), Business, Management and Accounting (16%), Physics and Astronomy (16%).

Social Sciences: 125 works · 53.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 69 works · 29.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 69 works · 29.6% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 38 works · 16.4% of their workStrategy and Management: 26 works · 11.1% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 12 works · 5.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 works · 4.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 10 works · 4.5% of their workDecision Sciences: 7 works · 3.0% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 7 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 72 works · 30.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 37 works · 15.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 37 works · 15.8% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 37 works · 15.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRonald S. Burt233works
Physical Sciences16%Social Sciences54%

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 Sciences6929.6%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting3816.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance104.5%
    4. Decision Sciences73.0%
  2. Everything else7230.7%
    1. Physics and Astronomy3715.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science30% of their works
  2. 2Statistical and Nonlinear Physics16% of their works
  3. 3Strategy and Management11% of their works
  4. 4Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management5% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  6. 6Management Science and Operations Research3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ronald S. Burt's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Capital, Network Dynamics, Social Influence, Community, Trust, Strategic Alliances, Community Structure and Scale-Free Networks.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Capital883 topics
  2. Network Dynamics842 topics
  3. Social Influence842 topics
  4. Community611 topic
  5. Trust611 topic
  6. Strategic Alliances482 topics
  7. Community Structure441 topic
  8. Scale-Free Networks441 topic
  9. Bounded Confidence401 topic
  10. Opinion Dynamics401 topic
  11. Business Networks311 topic
  12. Coopetition311 topic
  13. Cultural Capital281 topic
  14. Social Class281 topic
  15. Institutional Theory191 topic
  16. Organizational Change191 topic
  17. Dynamic Capabilities171 topic
  18. Knowledge Transfer171 topic
  19. Entrepreneurial Orientation101 topic
  20. Opportunity Recognition101 topic

Where does Ronald S. Burt work?

Ronald S. Burt's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Chicago, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ronald S. Burt have?

OpenAlex counts 233 works and 77,049 citations for Ronald S. Burt, an h-index of 82, ranking #735 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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