2026 Alfred Blumstein: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	51	2508	2287	1223	1100	160	19560

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Current World Ranking

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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2287

1223

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160

19560

Social Sciences and Humanities

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Citations

19560

World Ranking

2508

National Ranking

1223

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
2002 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
1971 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Alfred Blumstein is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. The primary field of study for Blumstein is Social Sciences, with a strong focus on several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Clinical Psychology, and General Decision Sciences.

The scientist's work concentrates on multiple research topics, prominently featuring:

Crime Patterns and Interventions
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance

Blumstein has published in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

American Journal of Criminal Justice
Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
Annual Review of Criminology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Blumstein include:

"Crime, Justice & the COVID-19 Pandemic: Toward a National Research Agenda" (2020), American Journal of Criminal Justice
"COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research" (2022), American Journal of Criminal Justice
"The Meaning of "Intermittency" in Criminal Careers" (2020), Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
"Engineer to Operations Research to Criminology: Quite a Trajectory" (2020), Annual Review of Criminology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Blumstein include:

J. Mitchell Miller
McKenzie L. Jossie
David P. Farrington
Arnold Barnett
Robert D. Crutchfield

Regarding recognitions, Blumstein has received the following awards:

Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2002
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1971

Best Publications

Criminal careers and "career criminals"

Alfred Blumstein

2615
Citations
The Criminal Career Paradigm

Alex R. Piquero;David P. Farrington;Alfred Blumstein

1409
Citations
The Crime Drop in America

Alfred Blumstein;Joel Wallman

1102
Citations
Youth Violence, Guns, and the Illicit-Drug Industry

Alfred Blumstein

1101
Citations
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: New Analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development

Alex R. Piquero;David P. Farrington;Alfred Blumstein

953
Citations
CRIMINAL CAREER RESEARCH: ITS VALUE FOR CRIMINOLOGY*

Alfred Blumstein;Jacqueline Cohen;David P. Farrington

916
Citations
Deterrence and incapacitation : estimating the effects of criminal sanctions on crime rates

Incapacitative Effects;Alfred Blumstein

700
Citations
On the Racial Disproportionality of United States' Prison Populations

Alfred Blumstein

682
Citations
Delinquency Careers: Innocents, Desisters, and Persisters

Alfred Blumstein;David P. Farrington;Soumyo Moitra

591
Citations
REDEMPTION IN THE PRESENCE OF WIDESPREAD CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS

Alfred Blumstein;Kiminori Nakamura

523
Citations
Characterizing criminal careers.

Alfred Blumstein;Jacqueline Cohen

519
Citations
Racial Disproportionality in Prison

Alfred Blumstein

477
Citations
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research

Unknown

455
Citations
Theory of the Stability of Punishment, A.

Alfred Blumstein;Jacqueline Cohen

438
Citations
Estimation of Individual Crime Rates from Arrest Records

Alfred Blumstein;Jacqueline Cohen

397
Citations
Assessing the Impact of Exposure Time and Incapacitation on Longitudinal Trajectories of Criminal Offending.

Alex R. Piquero;Alfred Blumstein;Robert Brame;Rudy Haapanen

373
Citations
Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform

Donald J. Harris;Alfred Blumstein;Jacqueline Cohen;Susan Martin

345
Citations
Population growth in U.S. prisons, 1980-1996

Alfred Blumstein;Allen J. Beck

337
Citations
Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals": Vol. 1.

Brian E. Burtch;Alfred Blumstein;Jacqueline Cohen;Jeffrey A. Roth

335
Citations
Sentencing of Convicted Offenders: An Analysis of the Public's View

Alfred Blumstein;Jacqueline Cohen

328
Citations
Explaining recent trends in U.S. homicide rates

Alfred Blumstein;Richard Rosenfeld

324
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. Farrington University of Cambridge

Alex R. Piquero University of Miami

Daniel S. Nagin Carnegie Mellon University

Christy A. Visher University of Delaware

Edward P. Mulvey University of Pittsburgh

Ramayya Krishnan Carnegie Mellon University

Robert Brame University of South Carolina

External Links

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