Subfield · General Social Sciences
Top General Social Sciences Researchers
Pierre Bourdıeu ranks first, out of 3,100 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 Pierre Bourdıeu France · #2 worldwide 10k citations · 235 works
- 2 Michel Foucault Poland · #5 worldwide 4.6k citations · 194 works
- 3 Noam Chomsky United States · #7 worldwide 3.7k citations · 239 works
- 4 Bruno Latour France · #46 worldwide 2k citations · 198 works
- 5 Niklas Luhmann Germany · #53 worldwide 2.3k citations · 277 works
- 6 Juan Ramón De La Fuente Mexico · #61 worldwide 1.5k citations · 228 works
- 7 Judith Butler United States · #70 worldwide 6.7k citations · 132 works
- 8 Émile Durkheim United States · #87 worldwide 2.5k citations · 135 works
- 9 Loïc Wacquant United States · #89 worldwide 3.1k citations · 153 works
- 10 Immanuel Wallerstein United States · #111 worldwide 1.7k citations · 232 works
- 11 Johan Galtung Norway · #119 worldwide 2.3k citations · 135 works
- 12 Anthony Giddens United States · #164 worldwide 4.9k citations · 114 works
- 13 Gilles Deleuze France · #166 worldwide 4.6k citations · 114 works
- 14 Karl Marx Denmark · #180 worldwide 1.1k citations · 217 works
- 15 Jean Piaget Switzerland · #208 worldwide 1.6k citations · 144 works
- 16 Anthony S. Fauci United States · #216 worldwide 2.7k citations · 158 works
- 17 Manuel Castells United States · #259 worldwide 1.1k citations · 160 works
- 18 Aaron Wíldavsky United States · #436 worldwide 1.7k citations · 137 works
- 19 Richard Rorty United States · #462 worldwide 1.2k citations · 258 works
- 20 Ulrich Beck Germany · #556 worldwide 2.7k citations · 100 works
- 21 Zygmunt Bauman United Kingdom · #622 worldwide 827 citations · 145 works
- 22 Max Weber United Kingdom · #687 worldwide 960 citations · 119 works
- 23 S. W. Hawking United Kingdom · #774 worldwide 4.5k citations · 101 works
- 24 Fredric Jameson United States · #782 worldwide 1.4k citations · 99 works
- 25 Amartya Sen United States · #799 worldwide 2k citations · 101 works
- 26 Immanuel Kant United States · #896 worldwide 718 citations · 185 works
- 27 Hannah Arendt United States · #1,066 worldwide 1.1k citations · 95 works
- 28 David Hume Australia · #1,397 worldwide 1.9k citations · 378 works
- 29 Gary King United States · #1,672 worldwide 2k citations · 86 works
- 30 Andy Hargreaves United States · #1,791 worldwide 1.3k citations · 91 works
- 31 Umberto Eco Italy · #1,841 worldwide 462 citations · 145 works
- 32 Dan Jurafsky United States · #2,637 worldwide 1.9k citations · 98 works
- 33 Peter F. Drucker United States · #2,740 worldwide 909 citations · 129 works
- 34 Richard H. Popkin United States · #2,754 worldwide 484 citations · 97 works
- 35 Howard S. Becker United States · #2,778 worldwide 915 citations · 171 works
- 36 Boaventura de Sousa Santos Portugal · #3,057 worldwide 404 citations · 102 works
- 37 Ilya Prigogine United States · #3,076 worldwide 1.7k citations · 203 works
- 38 Deb Roy United States · #3,128 worldwide 2.3k citations · 69 works
- 39 Wolfgang Streeck Germany · #3,133 worldwide 838 citations · 198 works
- 40 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Spain · #3,241 worldwide 445 citations · 82 works
- 41 Bob Jessop United Kingdom · #4,009 worldwide 1k citations · 163 works
- 42 David M. Blei United States · #4,796 worldwide 1.9k citations · 95 works
- 43 Octavio Paz Spain · #5,010 worldwide 287 citations · 87 works
- 44 Donald W. Winnicott United Kingdom · #5,508 worldwide 778 citations · 189 works
- 45 Nathan Glazer United States · #6,107 worldwide 476 citations · 89 works
- 46 Maosong Sun China · #6,176 worldwide 3.4k citations · 214 works
- 47 Marisa Salanova Spain · #6,339 worldwide 1.5k citations · 61 works
- 48 Friedrich Engels Brazil · #7,554 worldwide 285 citations · 145 works
- 49 Alain Touraine France · #7,721 worldwide 363 citations · 149 works
- 50 Hilary Putnam United States · #8,127 worldwide 688 citations · 123 works
- 51 F. Stuart Chapin United States · #8,139 worldwide 2.7k citations · 183 works
- 52 Nello Cristianini Brazil · #8,258 worldwide 1.4k citations · 110 works
- 53 Bernard Lahire France · #8,308 worldwide 258 citations · 138 works
- 54 Fernando Henríque Cardoso Brazil · #8,379 worldwide 386 citations · 60 works
- 55 Edgar Morín France · #8,879 worldwide 189 citations · 116 works
- 56 Hans‐Georg Gadamer Germany · #9,009 worldwide 283 citations · 68 works
- 57 Soroush Vosoughi United States · #9,013 worldwide 1.4k citations · 53 works
- 58 Henry A. Giroux Canada · #9,320 worldwide 961 citations · 260 works
- 59 Raymond Boudon France · #9,776 worldwide 401 citations · 105 works
- 60 Michael W. Apple United States · #10,094 worldwide 1.2k citations · 221 works
- 61 Philippe C. Schmitter Italy · #11,003 worldwide 361 citations · 69 works
- 62 Lewis White Beck United States · #11,846 worldwide 911 citations · 46 works
- 63 Mel Ainscow United Kingdom · #12,345 worldwide 642 citations · 96 works
- 64 Edith A. Perez United States · #12,800 worldwide 579 citations · 84 works
- 65 Abraham Edel United States · #13,237 worldwide 323 citations · 73 works
- 66 Chantal Mouffe United Kingdom · #13,344 worldwide 306 citations · 51 works
- 67 I. M. Lewis United Kingdom · #13,915 worldwide 393 citations · 48 works
- 68 Enrique Dussel Mexico · #14,477 worldwide 156 citations · 92 works
- 69 Marc Raeff United States · #14,951 worldwide 161 citations · 96 works
- 70 Bertrand Russell Canada · #15,181 worldwide 1.1k citations · 648 works
- 71 Ignasi Brunet Icart Spain · #16,028 worldwide 202 citations · 72 works
- 72 Miguel Ángel Zabalza Beraza Spain · #16,790 worldwide 202 citations · 66 works
- 73 Adrian Hastings United Kingdom · #16,873 worldwide 186 citations · 62 works
- 74 Douglas Kellner United States · #17,240 worldwide 357 citations · 113 works
- 75 Peter Sloterdijk United Kingdom · #18,110 worldwide 237 citations · 49 works
- 76 Julio Cabero Almenara Spain · #18,475 worldwide 357 citations · 174 works
- 77 Peter F. Drucker United States · #19,039 worldwide 231 citations · 87 works
- 78 Gianni Vattimo Italy · #20,413 worldwide 147 citations · 92 works
- 79 Lorna Richardson United Kingdom · #21,174 worldwide 402 citations · 75 works
- 80 Daniel L. Stufflebeam United States · #21,270 worldwide 329 citations · 45 works
- 81 Jesús Palacios Spain · #21,469 worldwide 138 citations · 67 works
- 82 Sara Delamont United Kingdom · #21,745 worldwide 411 citations · 88 works
- 83 Douglas H. Johnson United States · #23,233 worldwide 1.2k citations · 175 works
- 84 François Dubet France · #23,300 worldwide 131 citations · 120 works
- 85 Viktor E. Frankl Austria · #24,095 worldwide 178 citations · 48 works
- 86 Peter Alheit Germany · #24,730 worldwide 160 citations · 54 works
- 87 Stephen Kemmis Australia · #24,749 worldwide 356 citations · 50 works
- 88 Antonio Bolívar Botía Spain · #25,760 worldwide 211 citations · 126 works
- 89 Néstor García Canclini Mexico · #25,838 worldwide 107 citations · 76 works
- 90 Antony Flew United Kingdom · #25,977 worldwide 337 citations · 101 works
- 91 Martín Heidegger Chile · #26,942 worldwide 203 citations · 169 works
- 92 José García Montalvo Spain · #28,456 worldwide 474 citations · 52 works
- 93 Jacques-Alain Miller France · #30,017 worldwide 105 citations · 127 works
- 94 Bent Flyvbjerg United Kingdom · #31,313 worldwide 518 citations · 133 works
- 95 Ana García de Fanelli Argentina · #31,677 worldwide 388 citations · 35 works
- 96 Michael Ignatieff United States · #33,494 worldwide 156 citations · 46 works
- 97 Davydd J. Greenwood United States · #34,323 worldwide 199 citations · 43 works
- 98 Caiming Xiong United States · #35,263 worldwide 1.8k citations · 187 works
- 99 Ralf Dahrendorf United Kingdom · #35,919 worldwide 182 citations · 96 works
- 100 Gert Biesta Luxembourg · #36,547 worldwide 579 citations · 181 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in General Social Sciences, 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.