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Top Anthropology Researchers

Pierre Bourdıeu ranks first, out of 4,733 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 Charles Tilly United States · #8 worldwide 3.7k citations · 238 works
  3. 3 Immanuel Wallerstein United States · #111 worldwide 1.7k citations · 232 works
  4. 4 Martha C. Nussbaum United States · #279 worldwide 1.6k citations · 260 works
  5. 5 Bryan S. Turner United States · #337 worldwide 1.9k citations · 273 works
  6. 6 Gail M. Gerhart United States · #627 worldwide 1.7k citations · 102 works
  7. 7 Franco Ferrari United States · #827 worldwide 661 citations · 139 works
  8. 8 Tzvetan Todorov France · #1,447 worldwide 666 citations · 98 works
  9. 9 George Gömöri United States · #1,514 worldwide 649 citations · 127 works
  10. 10 Jack Goody United Kingdom · #1,614 worldwide 708 citations · 137 works
  11. 11 J. van der Plicht Netherlands · #1,632 worldwide 1.8k citations · 110 works
  12. 12 David Gordon Australia · #1,753 worldwide 1.4k citations · 117 works
  13. 13 Stanley L. Engerman United States · #2,046 worldwide 853 citations · 140 works
  14. 14 Walter D. Mignolo United States · #2,207 worldwide 581 citations · 97 works
  15. 15 George E. Marcus United States · #2,256 worldwide 1.1k citations · 96 works
  16. 16 Christopher Bronk Ramsey United Kingdom · #2,257 worldwide 2.4k citations · 79 works
  17. 17 Edward W. Said United States · #2,266 worldwide 528 citations · 101 works
  18. 18 George W. Stocking United States · #2,703 worldwide 619 citations · 87 works
  19. 19 Mary Douglas United Kingdom · #2,747 worldwide 667 citations · 89 works
  20. 20 James G. Carrier United States · #3,180 worldwide 798 citations · 78 works
  21. 21 Terence Ranger United Kingdom · #3,283 worldwide 452 citations · 88 works
  22. 22 Rudolf Schmid United States · #3,287 worldwide 1.9k citations · 216 works
  23. 23 Paul E. Lovejoy Canada · #3,759 worldwide 413 citations · 86 works
  24. 24 A. L. Kroeber United States · #3,778 worldwide 689 citations · 116 works
  25. 25 Richard Handler United States · #3,881 worldwide 627 citations · 71 works
  26. 26 Edmund Leach United Kingdom · #4,124 worldwide 629 citations · 69 works
  27. 27 Jan Vansina United States · #4,265 worldwide 421 citations · 94 works
  28. 28 W. F. Albright United States · #4,325 worldwide 560 citations · 195 works
  29. 29 Alan Macfarlane United Kingdom · #4,334 worldwide 553 citations · 77 works
  30. 30 Marilyn Strathern United Kingdom · #4,393 worldwide 579 citations · 98 works
  31. 31 Robert L. Tignor United States · #4,492 worldwide 725 citations · 64 works
  32. 32 Paul Rabinow United States · #5,088 worldwide 1.3k citations · 59 works
  33. 33 Colin Baker United Kingdom · #5,527 worldwide 1.3k citations · 59 works
  34. 34 Dorian Q. Fuller United Kingdom · #5,651 worldwide 644 citations · 77 works
  35. 35 Jürgen Osterhammel Germany · #5,719 worldwide 286 citations · 125 works
  36. 36 William H. McNeill United States · #5,772 worldwide 404 citations · 114 works
  37. 37 Robert I. Rotberg United States · #5,889 worldwide 373 citations · 83 works
  38. 38 Chris Turney Australia · #6,168 worldwide 1.4k citations · 88 works
  39. 39 Guy Caire France · #6,219 worldwide 342 citations · 112 works
  40. 40 Frederick Cooper United States · #6,223 worldwide 346 citations · 76 works
  41. 41 Thomas D. Hall United States · #6,331 worldwide 1.3k citations · 56 works
  42. 42 Alí A. Mazrui Uganda · #6,412 worldwide 395 citations · 113 works
  43. 43 İra M. Lapıdus United States · #6,468 worldwide 312 citations · 91 works
  44. 44 Eric R. Wolf United States · #6,473 worldwide 1.1k citations · 56 works
  45. 45 Natalie Zemon Davis Canada · #6,504 worldwide 320 citations · 76 works
  46. 46 William M. Gardner United States · #6,578 worldwide 2.7k citations · 54 works
  47. 47 Jacques Godechot France · #6,735 worldwide 243 citations · 172 works
  48. 48 Andrew Strathern United States · #6,779 worldwide 450 citations · 75 works
  49. 49 Charles Segal United States · #6,818 worldwide 356 citations · 71 works
  50. 50 Philip D. Curtin United States · #6,863 worldwide 323 citations · 80 works
  51. 51 David Eltis United States · #6,886 worldwide 381 citations · 69 works
  52. 52 Theodor W. Adorno Colombia · #7,258 worldwide 341 citations · 170 works
  53. 53 Claude E. Welch United States · #7,578 worldwide 545 citations · 159 works
  54. 54 Morris E. Opler United States · #7,598 worldwide 551 citations · 65 works
  55. 55 Ramón Grosfoguel United States · #7,627 worldwide 776 citations · 54 works
  56. 56 Sahra Talamo Germany · #7,637 worldwide 1.5k citations · 53 works
  57. 57 T. D. Barnes Canada · #7,704 worldwide 344 citations · 64 works
  58. 58 Karl W. Butzer United States · #7,777 worldwide 701 citations · 80 works
  59. 59 James D. Sidaway Singapore · #8,089 worldwide 626 citations · 61 works
  60. 60 Christopher Gill United Kingdom · #8,140 worldwide 517 citations · 90 works
  61. 61 David Richardson United Kingdom · #8,169 worldwide 677 citations · 60 works
  62. 62 Robert M. Grant United States · #8,225 worldwide 784 citations · 185 works
  63. 63 Erich S. Gruen United States · #8,326 worldwide 276 citations · 71 works
  64. 64 Arnaldo Momigliano United Kingdom · #8,771 worldwide 281 citations · 66 works
  65. 65 Anthony F. C. Wallace United States · #8,847 worldwide 408 citations · 73 works
  66. 66 Fergus Millar United Kingdom · #8,969 worldwide 306 citations · 63 works
  67. 67 Mahmood Mamdani United States · #9,146 worldwide 1k citations · 50 works
  68. 68 Sandy P. Harrison United Kingdom · #9,244 worldwide 1.4k citations · 109 works
  69. 69 Chester G. Starr United States · #9,286 worldwide 289 citations · 63 works
  70. 70 Richard N. Frye United States · #9,449 worldwide 296 citations · 65 works
  71. 71 Louis B. Wright United States · #9,684 worldwide 238 citations · 81 works
  72. 72 Andrew F. Stewart United States · #9,812 worldwide 675 citations · 65 works
  73. 73 Anthony Grafton United States · #9,960 worldwide 225 citations · 89 works
  74. 74 Maurice Bloch United Kingdom · #10,046 worldwide 393 citations · 58 works
  75. 75 Paula Reimer United Kingdom · #10,166 worldwide 1.6k citations · 50 works
  76. 76 P. J. Rhodes United Kingdom · #10,213 worldwide 355 citations · 56 works
  77. 77 Colin Renfrew United Kingdom · #10,298 worldwide 550 citations · 91 works
  78. 78 Joseph C. Miller United States · #10,377 worldwide 404 citations · 73 works
  79. 79 Claude Cahen France · #11,099 worldwide 244 citations · 69 works
  80. 80 Walter Scheidel United States · #11,226 worldwide 399 citations · 53 works
  81. 81 Edmund Burke United Kingdom · #11,259 worldwide 1.4k citations · 272 works
  82. 82 M. L. West United Kingdom · #11,301 worldwide 236 citations · 90 works
  83. 83 James H. Oliver United States · #11,352 worldwide 257 citations · 69 works
  84. 84 Ian Hodder United States · #11,362 worldwide 414 citations · 60 works
  85. 85 J. C. M. van Winden United States · #11,389 worldwide 181 citations · 133 works
  86. 86 Erik Trinkaus United States · #11,512 worldwide 664 citations · 71 works
  87. 87 Francesco d’Errico France · #11,594 worldwide 641 citations · 66 works
  88. 88 Irka Hajdas Switzerland · #11,680 worldwide 1.1k citations · 67 works
  89. 89 David Livingstone United Kingdom · #12,138 worldwide 272 citations · 72 works
  90. 90 David Mattingly United Kingdom · #12,433 worldwide 252 citations · 67 works
  91. 91 Vivian Nutton United Kingdom · #12,444 worldwide 220 citations · 141 works
  92. 92 Claude Meillassoux France · #12,562 worldwide 275 citations · 56 works
  93. 93 Mohamed A. Saleh United States · #12,595 worldwide 906 citations · 46 works
  94. 94 Sophie Roux Burundi · #12,787 worldwide 312 citations · 79 works
  95. 95 Bruce G. Trigger Canada · #12,837 worldwide 393 citations · 93 works
  96. 96 Victor Terras United States · #13,118 worldwide 151 citations · 93 works
  97. 97 C. R. Boxer United Kingdom · #13,138 worldwide 172 citations · 78 works
  98. 98 John Southon United States · #13,396 worldwide 1.4k citations · 105 works
  99. 99 Arturo Escobar Cuba · #13,534 worldwide 620 citations · 102 works
  100. 100 R. Lawrence Edwards United States · #13,593 worldwide 2k citations · 153 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Anthropology, 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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