World Scientist and University Rankings 2023

World Scientist and University Social Sciences / Sociology Rankings 2023

AD Scientific Index analyzes academic studies from 124 countries, 1793 universities/institutions, and 5.503 scientists by using H index, i10 index and citation count criteria to present results to be used for the evaluation of productivity and efficiency by individuals and institutions. In addition to the ranking by "total H-index", you can also see the ranking and analysis by "last 6 years H-index", "total i10 index", "last 6 years i10 index", "total citations", and “last 6 years citations”. Please see the methodology for "Limitations and Possible Reasons for Not Including a Scientist in this List". Click for individual or institutional registration.

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				AD Scientific Index - World Scientist Rankings - 2023				H INDEX			i10 INDEX			CITATION
University / Institution	Country	Region	World	Name	Country	University / Institution	Subject	Total	Last 6 year	Last 6 year/total	Total	Last 6 year	Last 6 year/total	Total	Last 6 year	Last 6 year/total
1	556	597	1282	David Finkelhor	United States	University of New Hampshire	Social Sciences / Sociology child maltreatment \| criminology \| victimology \|	152	88	0.579	363	276	0.760	113346	31285	0.276
8	620	665	1415	Douglas S Massey	United States	Princeton University	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \| Demography \|	148	87	0.588	421	282	0.670	116213	32340	0.278
7	749	801	1668	Glen H Elder Jr	United States	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	Social Sciences / Sociology Life Course \| Sociology \|	142	71	0.500	323	205	0.635	94043	23838	0.253
2	1121	1193	2355	Murray Straus	United States	University of New Hampshire	Social Sciences / Sociology criminology \| family \| measurement \|	131	57	0.435	337	177	0.525	96021	16432	0.171
16	1159	1235	2431	Alejandro Portes	United States	Princeton University	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \| immigration \| development \| migration \| social capital \|	130	74	0.569	398	223	0.560	150003	34636	0.231
37	1244	1330	2606	Loã¯C Wacquant	United States	University of California Berkeley	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| punishment \| social theory \| embodiment \| ethnography \|	128	86	0.672	462	277	0.600	125519	43509	0.347
2	1277	1368	2674	Alex Piquero\|Alexis Piquero	United States	University of Miami	Social Sciences / Sociology criminological theory \| criminal careers \| quantitative research methods \|	128	83	0.648	508	436	0.858	58249	26377	0.453
1	240	1013	2900	Jason Powell	United Kingdom	University of Chester	Social Sciences / Sociology Wellbeing \| Care \| Foucault \| Health and Social Care \| Age \|	125	68	0.544	948	543	0.573	58775	21825	0.371
25	1811	1945	3774	Linda George	United States	Duke University	Social Sciences / Sociology	117	46	0.393	288	145	0.503	60306	8353	0.139
1	16	78	3868	Yosemily Yazmin Garay Partida	Mexico	Universidad Autónoma de Baja California	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociología \| Antropología \| Feminismo \| Teatro \| Danza Folclórica \|	116	77	0.664	382	259	0.678	84012	29024	0.345
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5	404	1624	4817	Bob Jessop	United Kingdom	Lancaster University	Social Sciences / Sociology Political economy \| social theory \| state theory \| governance \|	110	71	0.645	347	226	0.651	71236	21413	0.301
6	416	1664	4951	John Urry	United Kingdom	Lancaster University	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| mobility \|	109	66	0.606	312	189	0.606	132044	39164	0.297
6	2792	3015	5828	Ronald L Simons	United States	University of Georgia	Social Sciences / Sociology medical sociology \| life course \| criminology \| family \| race \|	105	57	0.543	233	196	0.841	43338	12150	0.280
15	3059	3305	6390	Paul R Amato	United States	Pennsylvania State University	Social Sciences / Sociology	102	63	0.618	174	133	0.764	63046	16096	0.255
58	3084	3333	6447	Frank Furstenberg	United States	University of Pennsylvania	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology and Demography of the Family \|	102	47	0.461	215	115	0.535	46893	7063	0.151
11	579	2212	6595	Carl May\|Carl R May	United Kingdom	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \| medical sociology \| implementation science \| science and technology studies \| health services research \|	102	64	0.627	277	196	0.708	33107	15807	0.477
151	3166	3426	6617	John W Meyer	United States	Stanford University	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology of education \| organization theory \| globalization \|	101	58	0.574	228	137	0.601	106753	27178	0.255
44	3316	3592	6950	Sara Mclanahan	United States	Princeton University	Social Sciences / Sociology family \| inequality \| poverty \|	100	49	0.490	246	139	0.565	47270	10805	0.229
3	3372	3655	7045	Christopher Ellison	United States	University of Texas San Antonio	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology of religion \| social psychology of health and illness \| sociology of family \| race and ethnicity \|	100	57	0.570	196	174	0.888	38659	11463	0.297
48	663	2495	7403	Nikolas Rose	United Kingdom	King's College London	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \|	98	66	0.673	235	157	0.668	126965	35563	0.280
38	3544	3842	7417	Howard E Aldrich	United States	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| entrepreneurship \| organizations \| social inequality \| organizational sociology \|	98	55	0.561	197	125	0.635	79359	18946	0.239
23	286	301	7741	Deborah Lupton	Australia	University of New South Wales	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| sociology of health and illness \| digital media \| medical sociology \| risk \|	97	76	0.784	259	209	0.807	50198	22015	0.439
27	4109	4458	8679	Thomas Dietz	United States	Michigan State University	Social Sciences / Sociology climate change \| human ecology \| environmental sociology \| macro energy systems \|	94	67	0.713	212	160	0.755	75269	31224	0.415
115	777	2939	8718	John Goldthorpe	United Kingdom	University of Oxford	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \| Social Inequality \| Social Mobility \|	94	55	0.585	187	127	0.679	53828	13184	0.245
31	4291	4656	9058	George Ritzer	United States	University of Maryland	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociological Theory \| globalization \| consumption \| prosumption \|	93	62	0.667	254	161	0.634	70957	24668	0.348
35	4295	4660	9063	Thomas D Cook	United States	Northwestern University	Social Sciences / Sociology research methods \| evaluation \| social psychology \|	93	49	0.527	299	140	0.468	66897	19995	0.299
74	4298	4663	9068	Gary Gereffi	United States	Duke University	Social Sciences / Sociology global value chains \| industrial governance \| economic and social upgrading \| private governance \|	93	62	0.667	265	170	0.642	64386	23437	0.364
35	4756	5169	10049	Alan Booth	United States	Pennsylvania State University	Social Sciences / Sociology hormones and behavior \| family sociology \|	91	37	0.407	154	98	0.636	32421	5457	0.168
90	4843	5258	10229	Jeffrey C Alexander	United States	Yale University	Social Sciences / Sociology cultural sociology \| politics \| performance \| civil society \| The Strong Program \|	90	55	0.611	272	175	0.643	48565	15151	0.312
62	4942	5369	10467	Phyllis Moen	United States	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	Social Sciences / Sociology work \| retirement \| gendered life course \| health and well-being \|	90	52	0.578	218	136	0.624	29672	8761	0.295
46	5732	6237	12207	Gary Fine	United States	Northwestern University	Social Sciences / Sociology Social Psychology \| Culture \| Ethnographic Methods \| Theory \| Folklore \|	86	50	0.581	251	147	0.586	31343	8732	0.279
2	1140	4343	13003	Kate Hunt	United Kingdom	University of Stirling	Social Sciences / Sociology	85	52	0.612	234	168	0.718	23007	8799	0.382
70	6092	6643	13031	Paul Dimaggio	United States	Princeton University	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology of culture \| economic sociology \| stratification \| organizations \|	84	50	0.595	164	104	0.634	134292	38811	0.289
146	6098	6649	13037	Emanuel Schegloff	United States	University of California Los Angeles	Social Sciences / Sociology Conversation analysis \|	84	57	0.679	121	100	0.826	101943	25450	0.250
63	6388	6966	13655	Edward Laumann	United States	University of Chicago	Social Sciences / Sociology social networks \| sexuality \| organizational analysis \| social stratification \| political sociology \|	83	49	0.590	197	108	0.548	53349	12551	0.235
71	6675	7277	14304	Arne L Kalleberg	United States	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \| Work \| Organizations \| Stratification \| Labor Markets \|	82	52	0.634	173	105	0.607	45287	14828	0.327
2	614	4797	14342	Hans Peter Blossfeld	Italy	European University Institute	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| family \| social stratification \| education \| statistical methods \|	82	45	0.549	298	151	0.507	38395	9420	0.245
12	1272	4809	14374	Mike Savage	United Kingdom	London School of Economics and Political Science	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \| Inequality \| Cultural sociology \|	82	54	0.659	258	147	0.570	34927	12749	0.365
78	6945	7573	14920	Erik Olin Wright	United States	University of Wisconsin Madison	Social Sciences / Sociology Marxism \| class \| political economy \| political sociology \| theory \|	81	49	0.605	205	119	0.580	42878	12420	0.290
19	6982	7612	14991	John Bellamy Foster	United States	University of Oregon	Social Sciences / Sociology Political Economy \| Environmental Sociology \| Marxism \|	81	51	0.630	312	187	0.599	33452	14551	0.435
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2	1369	5204	15554	David Silverman	United Kingdom	Goldsmiths University of London	Social Sciences / Sociology qualitative research \|	80	39	0.488	208	110	0.529	104620	30616	0.293
179	1382	5251	15717	Anthony F Heath	United Kingdom	University of Oxford	Social Sciences / Sociology electoral behaviour \| social inequality \| ethnicity \|	80	45	0.563	244	139	0.570	31789	7827	0.246
306	7520	8195	16248	Walter W Powell	United States	Stanford University	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology of organizations \| economic sociology \| networks \| governance \| institutions \|	79	54	0.684	181	110	0.608	164948	43682	0.265
5	7559	8235	16324	Ofelia Garcia	United States	City University of New York	Social Sciences / Sociology Bilingual Education \| Bilingualism \| Sociology of Language \| US Spanish \|	79	65	0.823	191	159	0.832	41631	27776	0.667
7	7612	8293	16428	Heather Turner	United States	University of New Hampshire	Social Sciences / Sociology	79	58	0.734	132	118	0.894	31170	14859	0.477
134	7634	8317	16492	Samuel Preston	United States	University of Pennsylvania	Social Sciences / Sociology Demography \|	79	41	0.519	197	116	0.589	28857	6774	0.235
11	7813	8518	16951	Dillman Don A	United States	Washington State University Pullman	Social Sciences / Sociology survey methods \| research methods \|	78	41	0.526	194	112	0.577	93933	19977	0.213
70	1525	5746	17173	James Nazroo	United Kingdom	University of Manchester	Social Sciences / Sociology	78	53	0.679	242	188	0.777	28765	11618	0.404
83	8163	8913	17731	Rubén G Rumbaut	United States	University of California Irvine	Social Sciences / Sociology Immigration \| race and ethnicity \| transition to adulthood \| inequality \| sociology \|	77	45	0.584	171	98	0.573	59931	14714	0.246
79	797	850	17741	Stephen Castles	Australia	University of Sydney	Social Sciences / Sociology migration \| citizenship \| race \| ethnciity \|	77	46	0.597	210	118	0.562	52190	16074	0.308
70	560	6048	18118	Siegwart Lindenberg	Netherlands	University of Groningen	Social Sciences / Sociology Microfoundations for the social sciences \| Governance in organizations \| workings of social norms \| self-regulation \|	77	48	0.623	164	108	0.659	23530	8088	0.344
5	52	78	19024	Mark Tomlinson	South Africa	Stellenbosch University	Social Sciences / Sociology Maternal and child health \| life course development \| child and adolescent development \| global mental health \| global health \|	76	58	0.763	254	220	0.866	21559	12927	0.600
119	8765	9591	19279	Jeylan Mortimer	United States	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	Social Sciences / Sociology life course \| social psychology \|	76	35	0.461	149	86	0.577	16973	4477	0.264
213	8787	9615	19320	Peter Evans	United States	University of California Berkeley	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \| Economic Development \| Politics of Globalization \|	75	44	0.587	204	96	0.471	68043	15114	0.222
214	8809	9639	19358	Michael Burawoy	United States	University of California Berkeley	Social Sciences / Sociology Capitalism \| Socialism \| Marxism \| Ethnography \| Public Sociology \|	75	44	0.587	190	119	0.626	44876	12401	0.276
			January 1, 2022 Total 716.979 scientist, 212 country, 14.130 university... January 6, 2023 Total 1.264.669 scientist, 216 country, 19.528 university
89	8831	9664	19400	Kathleen Mullan Harris	United States	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	Social Sciences / Sociology Social Inequality and Health \| Fertility \| Family \|	75	54	0.720	196	151	0.770	35230	15193	0.431
94	9184	10066	20233	David A Snow	United States	University of California Irvine	Social Sciences / Sociology Collective Behavior and Social Movements. Homelessness \| Culture \| Framing Processes \| Qualitative Methods \|	74	45	0.608	166	102	0.614	83102	23717	0.285
20	1802	6839	20294	Naila Kabeer	United Kingdom	London School of Economics and Political Science	Social Sciences / Sociology Gender \| empowerment \| poverty \|	74	50	0.676	200	132	0.660	37514	14705	0.392
233	1809	6869	20387	Sue Ziebland	United Kingdom	University of Oxford	Social Sciences / Sociology Qualitative Research \| Health Experiences \| Internet Use and Health Care \|	74	45	0.608	190	148	0.779	28853	11274	0.391
90	9263	10155	20414	Robert Crosnoe	United States	University of Texas Austin	Social Sciences / Sociology children and youth \| education \| family \| health \| immigration \|	74	55	0.743	151	138	0.914	27534	12454	0.452
85	9317	10212	20540	R Jay Turner	United States	Vanderbilt University	Social Sciences / Sociology mental health \| social support \| stress \| health disparities \|	74	40	0.541	111	85	0.766	24340	5894	0.242
154	9335	10232	20584	Karl Ulrich Mayer	United States	Yale University	Social Sciences / Sociology Social Stratification \| Education \| Life Course \| Social Demography \| Comparative Sociology \|	74	30	0.405	196	69	0.352	23540	4177	0.177
30	1840	6992	20694	Tim Rhodes	United Kingdom	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| HIV \| hepatitis \| drugs \| addiction \|	74	47	0.635	243	153	0.630	21961	7942	0.362
14	1880	7136	21122	C Wright Mills	United Kingdom	University of Sussex	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \| sociological theory \| social theory \| political sociology \| social psychology \|	73	42	0.575	212	103	0.486	124804	30703	0.246
95	9611	10544	21271	John Mirowsky	United States	University of Texas Austin	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| health \| well-being \| aging \|	73	44	0.603	104	75	0.721	30758	7775	0.253
53	671	7339	21731	Theo G Van Tilburg	Netherlands	VU University of Amsterdam	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \| Social Gerontology \| Personal Networks \| Loneliness \| Aging \|	73	47	0.644	166	128	0.771	20266	9689	0.478
86	685	7434	21999	René Veenstra	Netherlands	University of Groningen	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| adolescence \| social networks \| bullying \| peer relations \|	73	56	0.767	178	154	0.865	17321	9078	0.524
234	9986	10963	22178	Leo A Goodman	United States	University of California Berkeley	Social Sciences / Sociology Social statistics \| Goodman and Kruskal's lambda \| Goodman and Kruskal's gamma \|	72	26	0.361	126	52	0.413	38102	6947	0.182
235	9994	10971	22189	Judith Warren Little	United States	University of California Berkeley	Social Sciences / Sociology n \|	72	37	0.514	171	80	0.468	35827	7058	0.197
102	10031	11009	22253	Paula England	United States	New York University	Social Sciences / Sociology Gender \| Family \| Sexuality \| Inequality \|	72	44	0.611	149	101	0.678	30573	10079	0.330
21	10179	11166	22595	Merril Silverstein	United States	Syracuse University	Social Sciences / Sociology gerontology \| families \| intergenerational relations \| China andEast Asia \|	72	47	0.653	163	136	0.834	21269	7841	0.369
202	2024	7705	22770	Mel Bartley	United Kingdom	University College London	Social Sciences / Sociology social determinants of health \|	72	38	0.528	156	101	0.647	19477	5049	0.259
3	989	7839	23162	Gosta Esping Andersen	Italy	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Milano	Social Sciences / Sociology Social demography \| social stratification \| comparative social policy \| family dynamics \|	71	39	0.549	205	98	0.478	96450	23058	0.239
4	10441	11458	23232	Richard Alba	United States	CUNY Graduate Center	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| immigration \| race/ethnicity \| urban sociology \| demography \|	71	42	0.592	141	88	0.624	36310	9981	0.275
3	1082	1153	23252	David Marsh	Australia	University of Canberra	Social Sciences / Sociology Political Sociology \| Governance \| Public Policy \| Political Science. \|	71	41	0.577	183	106	0.579	33542	9292	0.277
8	2068	7895	23318	Clive Seale	United Kingdom	Brunel University	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \| health \| health care \| end-of-life care \| social research methods \|	71	38	0.535	156	100	0.641	29135	8755	0.300
271	2160	8263	24338	Catherine Pope	United Kingdom	University of Oxford	Social Sciences / Sociology medical sociology \| primary care \| health services research \|	70	46	0.657	147	110	0.748	47217	17356	0.368
20	2166	8286	24389	Shove Elizabeth	United Kingdom	Lancaster University	Social Sciences / Sociology social practice \| energy demand \| consumption \| everyday life \|	70	52	0.743	135	92	0.681	34090	16052	0.471
114	10957	12031	24518	Yu Xie	United States	Princeton University	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \| Demography \| Social Statistics \| Research Methods \| China \|	70	52	0.743	180	144	0.800	25885	12853	0.497
5	1053	8345	24566	Martin Kohli	Italy	European University Institute	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| welfare state \| family \| generations \|	70	35	0.500	183	84	0.459	24395	5567	0.228
96	11348	12470	25468	Corey Lm Keyes	United States	Emory University	Social Sciences / Sociology Mental health \| flourishing \| languishing \| happiness \| mental illness \|	69	52	0.754	113	102	0.903	62555	32223	0.515
15	2254	8678	25572	Nigel Gilbert	United Kingdom	University of Surrey	Social Sciences / Sociology social simulation \| agent-based modelling \| computational sociology \| innovation networks \| policy evaluation \|	69	34	0.493	191	90	0.471	31581	7646	0.242
118	11433	12563	25639	Duane Alwin	United States	Pennsylvania State University	Social Sciences / Sociology	69	35	0.507	133	76	0.571	27611	7041	0.255
32	11480	12613	25719	Bernice Pescosolido	United States	Indiana University Bloomington	Social Sciences / Sociology medical sociology \| mental illness \| social networks \| stigma \| suicide \|	69	46	0.667	127	94	0.740	24585	10182	0.414
232	11503	12639	25762	Richard Parker	United States	Columbia University New York	Social Sciences / Sociology Anthropology \| Public Health \| HIV/AIDS \| sexuality \|	69	43	0.623	220	128	0.582	23405	6652	0.284
2	21	337	25880	Jose Joaquin Brunner	Chile	Universidad Diego Portales	Social Sciences / Sociology Higher education \| Political economy of education \| Policy and cultural analysis \|	69	36	0.522	323	128	0.396	21240	5773	0.272
3	11596	12739	25967	Peggy C Giordano	United States	Bowling Green State University	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \| Criminology \| Qualitative Methods \|	69	43	0.623	131	113	0.863	20220	6679	0.330
24	1260	1343	26527	Elizabeth Manias	Australia	Deakin University	Social Sciences / Sociology Medication Safety \| Healthcare Communication \| Patient Participation \| Transitions of Care \|	69	41	0.594	257	203	0.790	15470	7131	0.461
108	2378	9124	26820	Alan Warde	United Kingdom	University of Manchester	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \|	68	41	0.603	141	81	0.574	26532	9491	0.358
63	11990	13185	26963	Kenneth F Ferraro	United States	Purdue University	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| gerontology \| life course epidemiology \| health disparities \| victimization \|	68	40	0.588	141	100	0.709	22229	6954	0.313
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201	12345	13598	27927	Nan Lin	United States	Duke University	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| economic sociology \| social networks \| social capital \| china \|	67	43	0.642	113	76	0.673	59216	16044	0.271
2	12359	13612	27950	James A Holstein	United States	Marquette University	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociology \|	67	40	0.597	120	78	0.650	42291	11377	0.269
96	12370	13623	27965	Joe Feagin	United States	Texas A&M University	Social Sciences / Sociology sociology \| ethnic studies \| race relations \|	67	41	0.612	182	94	0.516	38368	10815	0.282
55	12440	13705	28120	Jonathan H Turner	United States	University of California Riverside	Social Sciences / Sociology Theory \| Evolution \| Emotions \| Institutions \| and Interpersonal Behavior \|	67	42	0.627	193	103	0.534	25029	7193	0.287
256	12857	14167	29223	Herbert Gans	United States	Columbia University New York	Social Sciences / Sociology Urban sociology \| ethnicity \| popular culture \| community studies \| mass media \|	66	36	0.545	183	82	0.448	48324	8642	0.179
140	12865	14175	29240	John D Mccarthy	United States	Pennsylvania State University	Social Sciences / Sociology Social Movements \| Media studies \|	66	37	0.561	113	85	0.752	40592	10374	0.256
9	1383	10060	29421	Thomas Faist	Germany	Universität Bielefeld	Social Sciences / Sociology migration \| transnationalization \| citizenship \| development \|	66	43	0.652	182	110	0.604	24637	8743	0.355
129	13383	14775	30589	Neil Brenner	United States	University of Chicago	Social Sciences / Sociology Critical urban theory \| urbanization \| geopolitical economy \| geopolitical ecologies of planetary urbanization \|	65	56	0.862	102	86	0.843	53683	21996	0.410
25	257	420	30615	Ricardo Antunes	Brazil	Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP	Social Sciences / Sociology Sociologia \| Sociologia do trabalho \|	65	46	0.708	186	129	0.694	39292	14712	0.374
67	13398	14791	30619	Michael Kimmel	United States	Stony Brook University	Social Sciences / Sociology masculinities \| gender \| gender equality \|	65	43	0.662	178	103	0.579	38130	11666	0.306