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714
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134

Brian Wynne 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 Wynne sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 202 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Brian Wynne 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 Wynne sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 71 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Misunderstanding science? : the public reconstruction of science and technology

    Alan Irwin;Brian Wynne

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

    Brian Wynne

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

    Brian Wynne

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

    Brian E. Wynne

  • Knowledges in Context

    Brian Wynne

  • Science and Decisionmaking

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

  • Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology

    Scott Lash;Bronislaw Szerszynski;Brian Wynne

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

    Brian Wynne

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

    Simon Shackley;Brian Wynne

  • Sheepfarming after Chernobyl: A Case Study in Communicating Scientific Information

    Brian Wynne

  • Changing the intellectual climate

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

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

    Phil Macnaghten;Matthew B. Kearnes;Brian Wynne

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

    Brian Wynne

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

    Paul Harremoes;David Gee;Malcom MacGarvin;Andy Stirling

  • Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity.

    William Leiss;Ulrich Beck;Mark Ritter;Scott Lash

  • Public uptake of science: a case for institutional reflexivity

    Brian Wynne

  • 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

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

    Brian Wynne

  • Unruly Technology: Practical Rules, Impractical Discourses and Public Understanding:

    Brian Wynne

  • Science and citizens : globalization and the challenge of engagement

    Melissa Leach;Ian Scoones;Brian Wynne

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Shackley
Simon Shackley University of Edinburgh
Andrew Stirling
Andrew Stirling University of Sussex
Robert M. Christley
Robert M. Christley University of Liverpool
Jonathan M. Wastling
Jonathan M. Wastling Keele University
Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones University of Sussex
Roger W. Pickup
Roger W. Pickup Lancaster University
Melissa Leach
Melissa Leach Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI)
Serge Gutwirth
Serge Gutwirth Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Scott Lash
Scott Lash University of Oxford
Mireille Hildebrandt
Mireille Hildebrandt Radboud University

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