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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 52 2356 2143 1142 1024 166 23581

Brian T. Pentland publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Brian T. Pentland between 1979 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Brian T. Pentland published across 47 years, from 1979 to 2025, averaging 5.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 12 publications in 2021. 10 of the 258 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1979 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 12. Peak 12 publications in 2021. 1979: 1 publication 1980: 3 publications 1981: 4 publications 1982: 4 publications 1983: 3 publications 1984: 2 publications 1985: 4 publications 1986: 2 publications 1987: 7 publications 1988: 5 publications 1989: 5 publications 1990: 5 publications 1991: 5 publications 1992: 10 publications 1993: 8 publications 1994: 11 publications 1995: 7 publications 1996: 8 publications 1997: 6 publications 1998: 5 publications 1999: 9 publications 2000: 9 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 8 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 6 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 5 publications 2019: 5 publications 2020: 11 publications 2021: 12 publications 2022: 4 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 4 publications
1979 2025

258 publications in total across all disciplines

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Brian T. Pentland: publications per year, 1979 to 2025
Year Publications
1979 1
1980 3
1981 4
1982 4
1983 3
1984 2
1985 4
1986 2
1987 7
1988 5
1989 5
1990 5
1991 5
1992 10
1993 8
1994 11
1995 7
1996 8
1997 6
1998 5
1999 9
2000 9
2001 3
2002 4
2003 8
2004 3
2005 4
2006 3
2007 5
2008 4
2009 6
2010 6
2011 5
2012 8
2013 3
2014 5
2015 4
2016 8
2017 6
2018 5
2019 5
2020 11
2021 12
2022 4
2023 3
2024 6
2025 4
Total 258
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Brian T. Pentland publications per year - data summary

  • Brian T. Pentland, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from Michigan State University, has 258 publications recorded across 47 years, from 1979 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1979 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2021, with 12 publications.
  • The least productive year with any output is 1979, with 1 publication.
  • The rate of publication averages 5.5 papers per year over the whole span, or 5.5 per year counting only the 47 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 29 publications, 11% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1979-1994: 79 publications (4.9 per year); 1995-2010: 90 publications (5.6 per year); 2011-2025: 89 publications (5.9 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is broadly steady.

Brian T. Pentland publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian T. Pentland sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 164–173 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 166 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391 166
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Brian T. Pentland publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 54 ranges running from 44–53 to 570+ publications.
  • Brian T. Pentland, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from Michigan State University, records 166 publications - the 50th percentile of the discipline.
  • 50% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Brian T. Pentland, and about 50% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 164–173 publications range, and Brian T. Pentland falls inside that same range.
  • The most crowded range is 114–123 publications, holding 474 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 57% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 174–183 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 570 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Brian T. Pentland D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian T. Pentland sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 52 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138 52
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Brian T. Pentland D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 71 ranges running from 30 to 100+ D-Index.
  • Brian T. Pentland, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from Michigan State University, records 52 D-Index - the 70th percentile of the discipline.
  • 70% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Brian T. Pentland, and about 30% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 45 D-Index range, and Brian T. Pentland ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 42 D-Index, holding 313 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 59% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 47 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more, 97 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Overview

Brian T. Pentland is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting and Social Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The scholar's work covers a range of topics including Complex Systems and Decision Making, Information Systems Theories and Implementation, Business Process Modeling and Analysis, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Management and Organizational Studies, Business Strategy and Innovation, and Digital Transformation in Industry.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Building a complementary agenda for business process management and digital innovation (2020, European Journal of Information Systems)
  • The Dynamics of Drift in Digitized Processes (2020, MIS Quarterly)
  • Theorizing Process Dynamics with Directed Graphs: A Diachronic Analysis of Digital Trace Data (2021, MIS Quarterly)
  • Bringing Context Inside Process Research with Digital Trace Data (2020, Journal of the Association for Information Systems)
  • Process Multiplicity and Process Dynamics: Weaving the Space of Possible Paths (2020, Organization Theory)

Their research output includes a book titled Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics, published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press.

Frequent co-authors in their work are Martha S. Feldman, Luciana D'Adderio, Katharina Dittrich, Julie Ryan Wolf, and Claus Rerup.

Brian T. Pentland has published extensively in several academic venues, including:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • MIS Quarterly
  • Journal of Investigative Dermatology
  • Organization Science
  • European Journal of Information Systems

Best Publications

  • Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change

    Martha S. Feldman;Brian T. Pentland

  • Building Process Theory with Narrative: from Description to Explanation

    Brian T. Pentland

  • Organizational Routines as Grammars of Action

    Brian T. Pentland;Henry H. Rueter

  • Tools for inventing organizations: toward a handbook of organizational processes

    T.W. Malone;K. Crowston;Jintae Lee;B. Pentland

  • Tools for Inventing Organizations: Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes

    Thomas W. Malone;Kevin Crowston;Jintae Lee;Brian Pentland

  • Organizational routines as a unit of analysis

    Brian T. Pentland;Martha S. Feldman

  • Designing routines: On the folly of designing artifacts, while hoping for patterns of action

    Brian T. Pentland;Martha S. Feldman

  • Information systems and organizational learning: The social epistemology of organizational knowledge systems

    Brian T Pentland

  • Dynamics of Organizational Routines: A Generative Model

    Brian T. Pentland;Martha S. Feldman;Markus C. Becker;Peng Liu

  • Getting comfortable with the numbers: Auditing and the micro-production of macro-order

    Brian T. Pentland

  • Narrative Networks: Patterns of Technology and Organization

    Brian T. Pentland;Martha S. Feldman

  • Beyond routines as things : introduction to the special issue on routine dynamics

    Martha S. Feldman;Brian T. Pentland;Luciana D'Adderio;Nathalie Lazaric

  • Organizing Moves in Software Support Hot Lines

    Brian T. Pentland

  • Grammatical Models of Organizational Processes

    Brian T. Pentland

  • The (N)Ever-Changing World: Stability and Change in Organizational Routines

    Brian T. Pentland;Thorvald Hærem;Derek Hillison

  • Dynamics of Performing and Remembering Organizational Routines

    Kent D. Miller;Brian T. Pentland;Seungho Choi

  • Comparing Organizational Routines as Recurrent Patterns of Action

    Brian T. Pentland;Thorvald Hærem;Derek Hillison

  • Sequential Variety in Work Processes

    Brian T. Pentland

  • Task Complexity: Extending a Core Concept

    Thorvald Hærem;Brian T. Pentland;Kent D. Miller

  • Conceptualizing and Measuring Variety in the Execution of Organizational Work Processes

    Brian T. Pentland

  • Intellectual Teamwork: Social and Technological Foundations of Cooperative Work

    Brian T. Pentland

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha S. Feldman
Martha S. Feldman University of California, Irvine
Kevin Crowston
Kevin Crowston Syracuse University
Chrysanthos Dellarocas
Chrysanthos Dellarocas Boston University
Jan C. Recker
Jan C. Recker Universität Hamburg
Mark S. Ackerman
Mark S. Ackerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jan Mendling
Jan Mendling Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Kent D. Miller
Kent D. Miller Michigan State University
D. Harrison McKnight
D. Harrison McKnight Michigan State University
Kenneth A. Frank
Kenneth A. Frank Michigan State University
Noshir Contractor
Noshir Contractor Northwestern University

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