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Top Sociology and Political Science Researchers

Pierre Bourdıeu ranks first, out of 1,963 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 Michel Foucault Poland · #5 worldwide 4.6k citations · 194 works
  3. 3 Noam Chomsky United States · #7 worldwide 3.7k citations · 239 works
  4. 4 Charles Tilly United States · #8 worldwide 3.7k citations · 238 works
  5. 5 Norman K. Denzin United States · #16 worldwide 8.6k citations · 169 works
  6. 6 Amartya Sen United States · #28 worldwide 4.9k citations · 190 works
  7. 7 Bruno Latour France · #46 worldwide 2k citations · 198 works
  8. 8 Niklas Luhmann Germany · #53 worldwide 2.3k citations · 277 works
  9. 9 Judith Butler United States · #70 worldwide 6.7k citations · 132 works
  10. 10 Jacques Derrida France · #82 worldwide 1.3k citations · 192 works
  11. 11 Loïc Wacquant United States · #89 worldwide 3.1k citations · 153 works
  12. 12 Immanuel Wallerstein United States · #111 worldwide 1.7k citations · 232 works
  13. 13 Johan Galtung Norway · #119 worldwide 2.3k citations · 135 works
  14. 14 Fritz Stern United States · #126 worldwide 1.2k citations · 183 works
  15. 15 Anthony Giddens United States · #164 worldwide 4.9k citations · 114 works
  16. 16 Karl Marx Denmark · #180 worldwide 1.1k citations · 217 works
  17. 17 Alejandro Portes United States · #247 worldwide 4.7k citations · 108 works
  18. 18 Martha C. Nussbaum United States · #279 worldwide 1.6k citations · 260 works
  19. 19 Bryan S. Turner United States · #337 worldwide 1.9k citations · 273 works
  20. 20 John C. Campbell United States · #555 worldwide 1.3k citations · 341 works
  21. 21 Ulrich Beck Germany · #556 worldwide 2.7k citations · 100 works
  22. 22 Zygmunt Bauman United Kingdom · #622 worldwide 827 citations · 145 works
  23. 23 Max Weber United Kingdom · #687 worldwide 960 citations · 119 works
  24. 24 Lucian W. Pye United States · #809 worldwide 1k citations · 121 works
  25. 25 Gaddis Smith United States · #846 worldwide 886 citations · 130 works
  26. 26 Talcott Parsons United States · #911 worldwide 4.6k citations · 90 works
  27. 27 William B. Quandt United States · #1,126 worldwide 784 citations · 132 works
  28. 28 Richard Swedberg United States · #1,394 worldwide 1.4k citations · 107 works
  29. 29 Donatella della Porta Italy · #1,775 worldwide 1k citations · 157 works
  30. 30 Dimitrios Buhalis United Kingdom · #1,916 worldwide 2k citations · 152 works
  31. 31 Nancy Fraser United States · #1,979 worldwide 824 citations · 91 works
  32. 32 Francis T. Cullen United States · #2,039 worldwide 1.7k citations · 109 works
  33. 33 Susan T. Fiske United States · #2,195 worldwide 3k citations · 120 works
  34. 34 Edward W. Said United States · #2,266 worldwide 528 citations · 101 works
  35. 35 Douglas S. Massey United States · #2,384 worldwide 1.4k citations · 100 works
  36. 36 Ronald Hitzler Germany · #2,407 worldwide 792 citations · 81 works
  37. 37 Lewis A. Coser United States · #2,541 worldwide 763 citations · 87 works
  38. 38 Randall Collins United States · #2,636 worldwide 844 citations · 106 works
  39. 39 Uwe Schimank Germany · #2,694 worldwide 604 citations · 122 works
  40. 40 Barry R. Chiswick United States · #2,719 worldwide 1.1k citations · 114 works
  41. 41 Howard S. Becker United States · #2,778 worldwide 915 citations · 171 works
  42. 42 Keith Tribe United Kingdom · #3,003 worldwide 654 citations · 110 works
  43. 43 Wolfgang Streeck Germany · #3,133 worldwide 838 citations · 198 works
  44. 44 Martin Ravallion United States · #3,172 worldwide 1.7k citations · 132 works
  45. 45 John H. Goldthorpe United Kingdom · #3,539 worldwide 1.1k citations · 76 works
  46. 46 Lorrie Faith Cranor United States · #3,616 worldwide 1.8k citations · 115 works
  47. 47 Seymour Martin Lipset United States · #3,750 worldwide 529 citations · 132 works
  48. 48 Herbert C. Kelman United States · #3,818 worldwide 756 citations · 74 works
  49. 49 Craig Calhoun United States · #3,969 worldwide 645 citations · 138 works
  50. 50 Bob Jessop United Kingdom · #4,009 worldwide 1k citations · 163 works
  51. 51 Cass R. Sunstein United States · #4,061 worldwide 2.5k citations · 336 works
  52. 52 Jürgen Baumert Germany · #4,606 worldwide 1k citations · 160 works
  53. 53 Thomas Piketty France · #5,144 worldwide 768 citations · 167 works
  54. 54 Ian McAllister Australia · #5,245 worldwide 985 citations · 132 works
  55. 55 L. Carl Brown United States · #5,987 worldwide 576 citations · 62 works
  56. 56 Todd Sandler United States · #6,213 worldwide 1k citations · 119 works
  57. 57 Guy Caire France · #6,219 worldwide 342 citations · 112 works
  58. 58 Michael A. Hogg United States · #6,835 worldwide 1.9k citations · 67 works
  59. 59 John Κ. Fairbank United States · #6,986 worldwide 258 citations · 99 works
  60. 60 Andrew M. Greeley United States · #7,322 worldwide 501 citations · 149 works
  61. 61 Mark D. Griffiths United Kingdom · #7,344 worldwide 3.3k citations · 412 works
  62. 62 Muzaffer Uysal United States · #7,404 worldwide 1.1k citations · 85 works
  63. 63 George J. Borjas United States · #7,501 worldwide 1.1k citations · 94 works
  64. 64 Alain Touraine France · #7,721 worldwide 363 citations · 149 works
  65. 65 Robert Wuthnow United States · #7,745 worldwide 417 citations · 104 works
  66. 66 John Braithwaite Australia · #7,853 worldwide 968 citations · 153 works
  67. 67 Ruud Koopmans Germany · #7,965 worldwide 597 citations · 75 works
  68. 68 Bernard Lahire France · #8,308 worldwide 258 citations · 138 works
  69. 69 William Julius Wilson United States · #8,689 worldwide 646 citations · 106 works
  70. 70 Henry A. Giroux Canada · #9,320 worldwide 961 citations · 260 works
  71. 71 Raymond Boudon France · #9,776 worldwide 401 citations · 105 works
  72. 72 Michael W. Apple United States · #10,094 worldwide 1.2k citations · 221 works
  73. 73 Stephen Castles Australia · #10,321 worldwide 498 citations · 68 works
  74. 74 Christian Dustmann United Kingdom · #10,827 worldwide 839 citations · 82 works
  75. 75 John F. Dovidio United States · #10,849 worldwide 1.4k citations · 114 works
  76. 76 Margaret S. Archer United Kingdom · #11,365 worldwide 493 citations · 63 works
  77. 77 Chris Ryan New Zealand · #11,734 worldwide 943 citations · 100 works
  78. 78 Stephen Kalberg United States · #12,334 worldwide 392 citations · 54 works
  79. 79 Raewyn Connell Australia · #12,458 worldwide 505 citations · 109 works
  80. 80 Karl Ulrich Mayer Germany · #12,634 worldwide 417 citations · 115 works
  81. 81 Heesup Han South Korea · #13,175 worldwide 2.1k citations · 145 works
  82. 82 Mark Poster United States · #13,799 worldwide 418 citations · 152 works
  83. 83 Bertrand Russell Canada · #15,181 worldwide 1.1k citations · 648 works
  84. 84 Arie W. Kruglanski United States · #15,261 worldwide 2k citations · 138 works
  85. 85 David P. Farrington United Kingdom · #15,263 worldwide 2.6k citations · 268 works
  86. 86 Pippa Norris United States · #15,695 worldwide 844 citations · 166 works
  87. 87 Arif Dirlik United States · #17,885 worldwide 193 citations · 86 works
  88. 88 Robert W. Hefner United States · #18,324 worldwide 199 citations · 79 works
  89. 89 Garry Rodan Australia · #18,426 worldwide 243 citations · 56 works
  90. 90 John Hagan Canada · #18,787 worldwide 566 citations · 115 works
  91. 91 Michael Mann United States · #19,618 worldwide 1.3k citations · 231 works
  92. 92 Ulrike Gretzel Australia · #19,944 worldwide 1k citations · 107 works
  93. 93 Russell King United Kingdom · #20,380 worldwide 529 citations · 129 works
  94. 94 Ravi Kanbur United States · #20,596 worldwide 1.2k citations · 158 works
  95. 95 David Chandler United Kingdom · #21,494 worldwide 646 citations · 155 works
  96. 96 James F. Short United States · #22,033 worldwide 524 citations · 49 works
  97. 97 Benjamin K. Sovacool Denmark · #22,190 worldwide 2.9k citations · 228 works
  98. 98 Steve Bruce United Kingdom · #22,563 worldwide 257 citations · 98 works
  99. 99 Hillel Rapoport Israel · #22,691 worldwide 704 citations · 80 works
  100. 100 Ravi Sandhu United States · #23,014 worldwide 1.3k citations · 139 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Sociology and Political Science, 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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