2026 Brian Wynne: 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	71	714	620	134	118	202	31957

Overview

Brian Wynne is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, contributing to research across multiple intersecting fields including engineering, physics and astronomy, and materials science. Their work focuses primarily on aspects of nuclear and high energy physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and materials chemistry, alongside computational mechanics and mechanics of materials.

The scientist's research is oriented towards topics related to magnetic confinement fusion research and fusion materials and technologies. Additional specialized fields include laser-plasma interactions and diagnostics, ion-surface interactions and analysis, laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma, silicon and solar cell technologies, and superconducting materials and applications.

Wynne's recent published papers include:

Defect engineering of silicon with ion pulses from laser acceleration, 2023, Communications Materials
Magnetohydrodynamics in free surface liquid metal flow relevant to plasma-facing components, 2023, Nuclear Fusion
Divertorlets concept for low-recycling fusion reactor divertor: experimental, analytical and numerical verification, 2022, Nuclear Fusion
Experimental, numerical and analytical evaluation of j × B-thrust for fast-liquid-metal-flow divertor systems of nuclear fusion devices, 2023, Nuclear Fusion
FreeMHD: Validation and verification of the open-source, multi-domain, multi-phase solver for electrically conductive flows, 2025, Physics of Plasmas

These publications reflect a combination of experimental, analytical, and numerical work primarily in the fusion research domain and materials engineering.

Brian Wynne collaborates frequently with a group of researchers, including Francisco Saenz, Egemen Kolemen, Zhen Sun, Changhong Hu, and Jabir Al-Salami. These coauthors have contributed with Wynne on multiple papers, indicating ongoing partnerships in their research areas.

The scientist's work appears consistently in several publication venues, notably:

Nuclear Fusion
Communications Materials
Physics of Plasmas
The Journal of Open Source Software
arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

Misunderstood misunderstanding: social identities and public uptake of science:

Brian Wynne

2795
Citations
Misunderstanding science? : the public reconstruction of science and technology

Alan Irwin;Brian Wynne

1952
Citations
Uncertainty and environmental learning: reconceiving science and policy in the preventive paradigm.

Brian Wynne

1721
Citations
May the sheep safely graze? A reflexive view of the expert-lay knowledge divide.

Brian Wynne

1664
Citations
Public Engagement as a Means of Restoring Public Trust in Science – Hitting the Notes, but Missing the Music?

Brian E. Wynne

1334
Citations
Knowledges in Context

Brian Wynne

1213
Citations
Science and Decisionmaking

S. Jasanoff;B. Wynne;F. Buttel;F. Charvolin

1103
Citations
Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology

Scott Lash;Bronislaw Szerszynski;Brian Wynne

928
Citations
Creating public alienation: expert cultures of risk and ethics on GMOs.

Brian Wynne

804
Citations
Representing Uncertainty in Global Climate Change Science and Policy: Boundary-Ordering Devices and Authority.

Simon Shackley;Brian Wynne

802
Citations
Sheepfarming after Chernobyl: A Case Study in Communicating Scientific Information

Brian Wynne

717
Citations
Changing the intellectual climate

Noel Castree;Noel Castree;William M. Adams;John Barry;Daniel Brockington

640
Citations
Nanotechnology, Governance, and Public Deliberation: What Role for the Social Sciences?

Phil Macnaghten;Matthew B. Kearnes;Brian Wynne

617
Citations
Seasick on the Third Wave? Subverting the Hegemony of Propositionalism: Response to Collins & Evans (2002)

Brian Wynne

588
Citations
The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century : Late Lessons from Early Warnings

Paul Harremoes;David Gee;Malcom MacGarvin;Andy Stirling

493
Citations
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity.

William Leiss;Ulrich Beck;Mark Ritter;Scott Lash

493
Citations
Public uptake of science: a case for institutional reflexivity

Brian Wynne

471
Citations
TAKING EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY SERIOUSLY Report of the Expert Group on Science and Governance to the Science, Economy and Society Directorate, Directorate-General for Research, European Commission

Ulrike Felt;Brian Wynne;Michel Callon;Maria Eduarda Gonçalves

446
Citations
Risk and Environment as Legitimatory Discourses of Technology: reflexivity inside-out.

Brian Wynne

426
Citations
Unruly Technology: Practical Rules, Impractical Discourses and Public Understanding:

Brian Wynne

425
Citations
Science and citizens : globalization and the challenge of engagement

Melissa Leach;Ian Scoones;Brian Wynne

389
Citations
Environmental Sociology: Theory and Practice@@@Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective@@@Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology

Kate Burningham;M. Mehta;E Ouellet;J. Hannigan

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Shackley University of Edinburgh

Andrew Stirling University of Sussex

Jonathan M. Wastling Keele University

Robert M. Christley University of Liverpool

Ian Scoones University of Sussex

Melissa Leach Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI)

Roger W. Pickup Lancaster University

Scott Lash University of Oxford

Philip M. Haygarth Lancaster University

Marcelo Knobel State University of Campinas

External Links

Personal website of Brian Wynne Google Scholar page

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