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Social Power and Status Dynamics

Social Power and Status Dynamics is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 3.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of social identity theory, social exchange, and perceptual control theory, focusing on topics such as status beliefs, reciprocity, emotion in identity theory, legitimacy, and the use of vignettes in research. It delves into the dynamics of gender, power, and the role of emotions in shaping identity and social interactions.

  • Identity Theory
  • Social Exchange
  • Vignettes
  • Status Beliefs
  • Reciprocity
  • Emotion
  • Legitimacy
  • Perceptual Control Theory
  • Gender
  • Power
Research works
3.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
341
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+90%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Social Power and Status Dynamics

Which countries lead Social Power and Status Dynamics research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (312 and 156 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 312 works
  2. 2 Germany 156 works
  3. 3 China 99 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 57 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 30 works
  6. 6 Italy 30 works
  7. 7 Japan 26 works
  8. 8 Canada 24 works
  9. 9 France 21 works
  10. 10 Russia 21 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 40.2%Germany: 20.1%China: 12.8%United Kingdom: 7.3%6 others listed: 19.6%40%largest
United States312 · 40.2%Germany156 · 20.1%China99 · 12.8%United Kingdom57 · 7.3%6 others listed152 · 19.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Social Power and Status Dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Chicago publishes the most Social Power and Status Dynamics research, followed by University of the Visual & Performing Arts and Sapienza University of Rome.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of ChicagoUnited States 11 works
  2. 2 University of the Visual & Performing ArtsSri Lanka 11 works
  3. 3 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 8 works
  4. 4 Leibniz AssociationGermany 7 works
  5. 5 Cornell UniversityUnited States 6 works
  6. 6 New York UniversityUnited States 6 works
  7. 7 Stanford UniversityUnited States 5 works
  8. 8 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 5 works
  9. 9 Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 5 works
  10. 10 Max Planck SocietyGermany 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Social Power and Status Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Social Power and Status Dynamics include Joshua A. Salomon, Anselm L. Strauss and Michael C. Jensen.

  1. 1 Joshua A. Salomon United States 235k citations
  2. 2 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
  3. 3 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  4. 4 David A. Kenny United States 198k citations
  5. 5 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Social Power and Status Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Social Power and Status Dynamics is "Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks" (Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith‐Lovin, James M. Cook, 2001), with 18,875 citations. Next come "Social Exchange Theory: An Interdisciplinary Review" (9,926) and "Social Identity Theory and the Organization" (7,748).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith‐Lovin, James M. Cook · Annual Review of Sociology Review Aug 2001 18,875
2 Social Exchange Theory: An Interdisciplinary Review Russell Cropanzano, Marie S. Mitchell · Journal of Management Open access 8 Nov 2005 9,926
3 Social Identity Theory and the Organization Blake E. Ashforth, Fred A. Mael · Academy of Management Review 1989 7,748
4 INTERGROUP CONTACT THEORY Thomas Fraser Pettigrew · Annual Review of Psychology Review Feb 1998 5,990
5 Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory Jan E. Stets, Peter J. Burke · Social Psychology Quarterly Sep 2000 4,441
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Where is Social Power and Status Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Social Power and Status Dynamics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), New York (United States) and Chicago (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 16 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 15 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 15 works
  4. 4 ChicagoUnited States 14 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 11 works
  6. 6 ColomboSri Lanka 11 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 11 works
  8. 8 BerlinGermany 11 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 10 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 10 works
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Where is the best place to study Social Power and Status Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chicago and University of the Visual & Performing Arts score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of ChicagoUnited States 50.05.2%14.1×11 +580.7%
2University of the Visual & Performing ArtsSri Lanka 45.08.6%981.5×11 -

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Social Power and Status Dynamics, country by country

Is Social Power and Status Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 90% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Social Power and Status Dynamics.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Social Power and Status Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Social Power and Status Dynamics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Social Power and Status Dynamics11.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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