2026 Boaventura de Sousa Santos: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	73	610	532	2	2	346	51297

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Portugal Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Portugal Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is affiliated with the University of Coimbra in Portugal and conducts research predominantly in the Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Law, Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations, and Education.

The researcher focuses on a variety of main topics within their field of study such as:

Law in Society and Culture
Judicial and Constitutional Studies
Political Economy and Marxism
Latin American Cultural Politics
Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law
Anthropological Studies and Insights
Australian History and Society

Recent papers authored by Boaventura de Sousa Santos show an active engagement with contemporary social and political issues. These include:

"Estado e sociedade na semiperiferia do sistema mundial: o caso português" (2025), published in Análise Social
"Postcolonialism, Decoloniality, and Epistemologies of the South" (2021), published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
"The epistemologies of the South and the future of the university" (2023), published in Journal of Philosophy of Education
"The Alternative to Utopia Is Myopia" (2020), published in Politics & Society
"Lecciones iniciales de la pandemia de COVID-19" (2020), published in Revista de Economía Institucional

Boaventura de Sousa Santos collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including João Arriscado Nunes, María Paula Meneses, Isabelle Mullet-Blandin, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, and Crain Soudien.

The researcher publishes regularly in venues such as:

Journal of World-Systems Research
Revista de Economía Institucional
Análise Social
Journal of Philosophy of Education
Participations

Regarding book publications, Boaventura de Sousa Santos has multiple titles published by different academic presses. Notable publishers include Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales. CLACSO eBooks, Cambridge University Press, Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology, Stanford University Press eBooks, and Almedina eBooks. Some of these books are:

"Descolonizar la universidad" (2021)
"Poscolonialismo, descolonialidad y epistemologías del sur" (2022)
"Izquierdas del mundo, ¡únanse!" (2020)
"Tesis sobre la descolonización de la historia" (2022)
"Toward a New Legal Common Sense" (2020)
"Law and the Epistemologies of the South" (2023)
"Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation" (2020)
"If God Were a Human Rights Activist" (2020)
"A Cruel Pedagogia do Vírus" (2021)

Best Publications

Crítica de la razón indolente: Contra el desperdicio de la experiencia

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

6340
Citations
Um discurso sobre as ciências

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

6071
Citations
Descolonizar el saber, reinventar el poder

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

2700
Citations
A Universidade no século XXI: Para uma reforma democrática e emancipatória da Universidade

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

2246
Citations
Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

2101
Citations
Para uma sociologia das ausências e uma sociologia das emergências

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

2051
Citations
Uma concepção multicultural de direitos humanos

Boaventura de Souza Santos

1677
Citations
Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

1494
Citations
A globalização e as ciências sociais

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

1485
Citations
Toward a New Legal Common Sense

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

1351
Citations
Introdução: para ampliar o cânone democrático

Boaventura de Sousa Santos;Leonardo Avritzer

1291
Citations
Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre: Toward a Redistributive Democracy

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

1190
Citations
A Cruel Pedagogia do Vírus

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

1164
Citations
Reinventar a Democracia: Entre o Pré-Contratualismo e o Pós-Contratualismo

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

1082
Citations
Para além do Pensamento Abissal: Das linhas globais a uma ecologia de saberes

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

1059
Citations
Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

1050
Citations
Another knowledge is possible : beyond northern epistemologies

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

962
Citations
Law: A Map of Misreading. Toward a Postmodern Conception of Law

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

805
Citations
The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

694
Citations
Reinventar la democracia: ; Reinventar el Estado

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

569
Citations
Democratizar a democracia: os caminhos da democracia participativa

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

277
Citations

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