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Top Gender Studies Researchers

Sigmund Freud ranks first, out of 4,254 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 Sigmund Freud United States · #25 worldwide 2.7k citations · 174 works
  2. 2 Robert J. Barro United States · #36 worldwide 7.9k citations · 165 works
  3. 3 Judith Butler United States · #70 worldwide 6.7k citations · 132 works
  4. 4 Robert O. Bonow United States · #85 worldwide 4.5k citations · 220 works
  5. 5 Loïc Wacquant United States · #89 worldwide 3.1k citations · 153 works
  6. 6 Richard Blundell United Kingdom · #129 worldwide 5.2k citations · 140 works
  7. 7 Simon Kuznets United States · #198 worldwide 2.5k citations · 124 works
  8. 8 Martha C. Nussbaum United States · #279 worldwide 1.6k citations · 260 works
  9. 9 Bryan S. Turner United States · #337 worldwide 1.9k citations · 273 works
  10. 10 Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn United States · #523 worldwide 2.9k citations · 132 works
  11. 11 James J. Heckman United States · #541 worldwide 3.3k citations · 175 works
  12. 12 Alberto Alesina United States · #549 worldwide 2.6k citations · 133 works
  13. 13 David Card United States · #603 worldwide 2.8k citations · 111 works
  14. 14 Julie Ann Sosa United States · #1,018 worldwide 3k citations · 91 works
  15. 15 Greg J. Duncan United States · #1,034 worldwide 2.7k citations · 117 works
  16. 16 Russell W. Belk Canada · #1,068 worldwide 1.6k citations · 121 works
  17. 17 Alice H. Eagly United States · #1,123 worldwide 3.3k citations · 94 works
  18. 18 Gary S. Becker United States · #1,308 worldwide 4.4k citations · 84 works
  19. 19 Kevin Murphy United States · #1,428 worldwide 2.9k citations · 90 works
  20. 20 David William Foster United Kingdom · #1,486 worldwide 474 citations · 132 works
  21. 21 Joshua A. Fishman United States · #1,693 worldwide 1.1k citations · 125 works
  22. 22 Paula England United States · #2,107 worldwide 1.8k citations · 80 works
  23. 23 Richard A. Easterlin United States · #2,117 worldwide 2.2k citations · 76 works
  24. 24 Susan T. Fiske United States · #2,195 worldwide 3k citations · 120 works
  25. 25 Rebecca J. Cook Canada · #2,510 worldwide 1.3k citations · 72 works
  26. 26 Glen H. Elder United States · #2,512 worldwide 1.5k citations · 85 works
  27. 27 Mark R. Rosenzweig United States · #2,521 worldwide 2.1k citations · 158 works
  28. 28 James M. Poterba United States · #2,723 worldwide 1.5k citations · 100 works
  29. 29 John Stephens United States · #2,853 worldwide 810 citations · 88 works
  30. 30 Joan Wallach Scott United States · #3,074 worldwide 643 citations · 76 works
  31. 31 Patti M. Valkenburg Netherlands · #3,151 worldwide 1.5k citations · 85 works
  32. 32 Martin Ravallion United States · #3,172 worldwide 1.7k citations · 132 works
  33. 33 Sandra E. Black Canada · #3,268 worldwide 2.3k citations · 223 works
  34. 34 Chin‐Chung Tsai Taiwan · #3,597 worldwide 1.8k citations · 116 works
  35. 35 Rosi Braidotti Netherlands · #3,641 worldwide 425 citations · 85 works
  36. 36 Patrícia Hill Collins United States · #3,688 worldwide 4.5k citations · 62 works
  37. 37 Kenneth J. Meier United States · #3,704 worldwide 1.1k citations · 115 works
  38. 38 Claudia Goldin United States · #3,894 worldwide 777 citations · 82 works
  39. 39 Otis Dudley Duncan United States · #4,267 worldwide 982 citations · 77 works
  40. 40 Tait D. Shanafelt United States · #4,320 worldwide 1.3k citations · 117 works
  41. 41 Marilynn B. Brewer United States · #4,431 worldwide 2.4k citations · 63 works
  42. 42 Peter H. Rossi United States · #4,474 worldwide 1.2k citations · 107 works
  43. 43 Geoffrey McNicoll United States · #4,518 worldwide 873 citations · 73 works
  44. 44 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom · #4,660 worldwide 2.5k citations · 60 works
  45. 45 Emmanuel Saez United States · #5,601 worldwide 1k citations · 78 works
  46. 46 Murray A. Straus United States · #5,740 worldwide 933 citations · 75 works
  47. 47 Aletha C. Huston United States · #6,015 worldwide 1.4k citations · 58 works
  48. 48 Donald C. Hambrick United States · #6,037 worldwide 2.9k citations · 56 works
  49. 49 Evangelia Demerouti Netherlands · #6,252 worldwide 3.6k citations · 55 works
  50. 50 Orazio Attanasio United Kingdom · #6,414 worldwide 1k citations · 96 works
  51. 51 Nancy Folbre United States · #6,481 worldwide 701 citations · 66 works
  52. 52 Nancy E. Adler United States · #6,556 worldwide 1.4k citations · 59 works
  53. 53 Orley Ashenfelter United States · #6,671 worldwide 1.1k citations · 102 works
  54. 54 David Neumark United States · #6,691 worldwide 1.1k citations · 129 works
  55. 55 Henry Jenkins United States · #6,810 worldwide 641 citations · 60 works
  56. 56 Frank F. Furstenberg United States · #6,824 worldwide 820 citations · 82 works
  57. 57 David M. Buss United States · #6,855 worldwide 1.9k citations · 90 works
  58. 58 Linda J. Waite United States · #6,984 worldwide 869 citations · 62 works
  59. 59 Alan Dundes United States · #7,134 worldwide 351 citations · 71 works
  60. 60 Mark D. Griffiths United Kingdom · #7,344 worldwide 3.3k citations · 412 works
  61. 61 Sylvia Walby United Kingdom · #7,520 worldwide 613 citations · 77 works
  62. 62 Justin B. Dimick United States · #7,553 worldwide 748 citations · 108 works
  63. 63 Anne Case United States · #7,613 worldwide 1.2k citations · 57 works
  64. 64 Linda McDowell United Kingdom · #7,813 worldwide 709 citations · 86 works
  65. 65 Deborah Lupton Australia · #7,830 worldwide 663 citations · 114 works
  66. 66 Ángela McRobbie United Kingdom · #7,896 worldwide 515 citations · 62 works
  67. 67 John Bongaarts United States · #7,970 worldwide 828 citations · 67 works
  68. 68 Vegard Skirbekk Norway · #8,005 worldwide 1.4k citations · 56 works
  69. 69 Sara McLanahan United States · #8,123 worldwide 1.1k citations · 79 works
  70. 70 Catherine Marshall France · #8,141 worldwide 533 citations · 110 works
  71. 71 Alan Rubin United States · #8,304 worldwide 916 citations · 59 works
  72. 72 Iris Marion Young United States · #8,309 worldwide 816 citations · 53 works
  73. 73 Celia Roberts United Kingdom · #8,486 worldwide 569 citations · 81 works
  74. 74 Andrew J. Oswald United Kingdom · #8,524 worldwide 1.2k citations · 91 works
  75. 75 Pierre‐André Chiappori United States · #9,159 worldwide 1.1k citations · 59 works
  76. 76 Janet Shibley Hyde United States · #9,260 worldwide 1.2k citations · 55 works
  77. 77 Henry A. Giroux Canada · #9,320 worldwide 961 citations · 260 works
  78. 78 Russell Spears Netherlands · #9,514 worldwide 1.4k citations · 94 works
  79. 79 Susan Greenhalgh United States · #9,520 worldwide 562 citations · 56 works
  80. 80 Esther D. Rothblum United States · #9,537 worldwide 631 citations · 71 works
  81. 81 Kingsley Davis United States · #9,557 worldwide 509 citations · 67 works
  82. 82 Douglas T. Hall United States · #9,778 worldwide 913 citations · 55 works
  83. 83 Myra Marx Ferree United States · #9,830 worldwide 630 citations · 52 works
  84. 84 David Finkelhor United States · #9,970 worldwide 796 citations · 57 works
  85. 85 Michael S. Kimmel United States · #9,971 worldwide 516 citations · 60 works
  86. 86 Gill Valentine United Kingdom · #9,984 worldwide 579 citations · 61 works
  87. 87 Howard Giles United States · #10,091 worldwide 1.6k citations · 138 works
  88. 88 Robert Moffitt United States · #10,443 worldwide 1.2k citations · 84 works
  89. 89 Bernard Berelson United States · #10,528 worldwide 1.6k citations · 47 works
  90. 90 Ching Sing Chai Singapore · #10,567 worldwide 946 citations · 75 works
  91. 91 Jonathan Gruber United States · #10,647 worldwide 729 citations · 82 works
  92. 92 Ronald G. Ehrenberg United States · #10,899 worldwide 857 citations · 127 works
  93. 93 S. Alexander Haslam Australia · #11,018 worldwide 1.3k citations · 120 works
  94. 94 Ann Wolbert Burgess United States · #11,076 worldwide 692 citations · 73 works
  95. 95 John C. Caldwell Australia · #11,341 worldwide 559 citations · 79 works
  96. 96 S. Philip Morgan United States · #11,636 worldwide 522 citations · 62 works
  97. 97 Ruth Wodak United Kingdom · #11,692 worldwide 696 citations · 191 works
  98. 98 Stefan Dercon United Kingdom · #11,987 worldwide 828 citations · 80 works
  99. 99 Rachel R. Kelz United States · #12,006 worldwide 534 citations · 76 works
  100. 100 bell hooks United States · #12,352 worldwide 314 citations · 73 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Gender Studies, 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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