2026 Amitai Etzioni: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	76	33	18	756	33935

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Political Science

756

33935

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
1994 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
1978 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1968 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Amitai Etzioni was affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their research focused primarily on health professions, with a particular emphasis on emergency medical services and general health professions. The scope of their work also extended into the interdisciplinary intersections of finance, general economics, econometrics, and accounting.

The main topics covered in their publications included disaster response and management, ethics in medical practice, health and conflict studies, housing, finance and neoliberalism, economic theory and policy, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, as well as neuroethics, human enhancement, and biomedical innovations.

Etzioni authored several papers with notable recent contributions such as:

Community and COVID-19: Japan, Sweden and Uruguay (2021) published in Survival
Micro and Macro Ethical Considerations of COVID-19 (2020) published in The Journal of Clinical Ethics
Commentary on "Pandemics and Beyond: Considerations When Personal Risk and Professional Obligations Converge" (2021) published in The Journal of Clinical Ethics
The Global Communitarian Deficit (2020) published in Orbis
Capitalism Needs to Be Re-encapsulated (2021) published in Society

They frequently collaborated with Ruth Etzioni. Their work appeared predominantly in venues including:

SSRN Electronic Journal
The Journal of Clinical Ethics
Survival
Orbis
Society

Over the course of their career, Amitai Etzioni received several honors including election as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 1994, a Fellowship with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1978, and a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1968.

Best Publications

A comparative analysis of complex organizations

Peter Fricke;Amitai Etzioni

2735
Citations
The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics

Amitai Etzioni

2619
Citations
The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities and the Communitarian Agenda

Amitai Etzioni

1377
Citations
The spirit of community

Amitai Etzioni

1147
Citations
Mixed-Scanning: A "Third" Approach to Decision-Making

Amitai Etzioni

1049
Citations
THE NEW GOLDEN RULE Community and Morality in a Democratic Society

Amitai Etzioni

922
Citations
The Active Society

Amitai Etzioni

888
Citations
The semi-professions and their organization

Virginia Olesen;Amitai Etzioni

779
Citations
The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait.

Amitai Etzioni;Morris Janowitz

633
Citations
The spirit of community : the reinvention of American society

Amitai Etzioni

592
Citations
The active society : a theory of societal and political processes

Amitai Etzioni

578
Citations
The Semi-Professions and Their Organization: Teachers, Nurses, Social Workers

Amitai Etzioni

538
Citations
A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organisations

Bridget Pym;Amitai Etzioni

528
Citations
A comparative analysis of complex organizations: On power, involvement, and their correlates

Amitai Etzioni

523
Citations
The limits of privacy

Amitai Etzioni

446
Citations
A020 - Two Approaches to Organizational Analysis: A Critique and a Suggestion

Amitai Etzioni

420
Citations
Entrepreneurship, adaptation and legitimation: A macro-behavioral perspective

Amitai Etzioni

406
Citations
Is Transparency the Best Disinfectant

Amitai Etzioni

357
Citations
Incorporating Ethics into Artificial Intelligence

Amitai Etzioni;Oren Etzioni

353
Citations
Voluntary Simplicity: Characterization, Select Psychological Implications, and Societal Consequences

Amitai Etzioni

335
Citations
The Third Sector and Domestic Missions

Amitai Etzioni

237
Citations
New communitarian thinking : persons, virtues, institutions, and communities

Amitai Etzioni

224
Citations
A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations: On Power, Involvement, and Their Correlates.

Joseph A. Litterer;Amitai Etzioni

213
Citations
The essential communitarian reader

Amitai Etzioni

211
Citations
A sociological reader on complex organizations

Amitai Etzioni

183
Citations
The Good Polity: Can We Design It?

Amitai Etzioni

178
Citations
Political Unification, a Comparative Study of Leaders and Forces.

Amitai Etzioni

164
Citations
A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations.

D. N. Chester;Amitai Etzioni

71
Citations
The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics

Christine Moorman;Amitai Etzioni

42
Citations
The Responsive Community: A Communitarian Perspective

Amitai Etzioni

27
Citations
Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus

Amitai Etzioni

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Oren Etzioni University of Washington

Jean Bethke Elshtain University of Chicago

Lewis A. Coser Brandeis University

Robert D. Putnam Harvard University

Michael Walzer Institute for Advanced Study

Craig Calhoun Arizona State University

Kenneth E. Boulding University of Colorado Boulder

James S. Coleman University of Chicago

Alasdair MacIntyre Boston University

Saskia Sassen Columbia University

External Links

Personal website of Amitai Etzioni

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