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D-Index
42
Citations
11217
World Ranking
4623
National Ranking
2200

Carlos Alberto Torres 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 Carlos Alberto Torres sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 228 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Carlos Alberto Torres 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 Carlos Alberto Torres sits on this spectrum.

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: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Carlos Alberto Torres is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans the fields of social sciences and medicine, with notable focus areas including education, political science and international relations, sociology and political science, epidemiology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The primary topics of Carlos Alberto Torres's work encompass critical and liberation pedagogy, global educational policies and reforms, global education and multiculturalism, diverse education studies and reforms, tourism, volunteerism, and development, educator training and historical pedagogy, as well as COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Prospects
  • Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology
  • Globalisation Societies and Education
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • PLoS ONE

Some of the recent papers authored by Carlos Alberto Torres are:

  • Global citizenship education at the crossroads: Globalization, global commons, common good, and critical consciousness (2020, Prospects)
  • Riflessioni critiche sul concetto di educazione alla cittadinanza globale. Dialogo con Carlos Alberto Torres sulla formazione universitaria negli Stati Uniti (2020, DOAJ)
  • La universidad pública en América latina. Ensayo en celebración del treinta aniversario de la revista Educación Superior y Sociedad (UNESCO-IESALC) (2021, Revista Educación Superior y Sociedad)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Emiliano Bosio
  • Joaquín Jerez
  • Valentina Goldschmidt
  • María Carolina Guerra
  • José Luis Teruel Briones

Carlos Alberto Torres has contributed to book publications, including a title under Editorial Reus eBooks, titled La necesaria armonización entre turistas y residentes: problemas y soluciones jurídicas, expected in 2025.

Award recognition includes being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011 for contributions under the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Globalization and Education: Critical Perspectives

    Nicholas C. Burbules;Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Comparative education : the dialectic of the global and the local

    Robert F. Arnove;Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Social Theory and Education: A Critique of Theories of Social and Cultural Reproduction

    Carlos Alberto Torres;Raymond Allen Morrow

  • Democracy, Education, and Multiculturalism: Dilemmas of Citizenship in a Global World

    Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Reading Freire and Habermas: Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Social Change

    Raymond Allen Morrow;Carlos Alberto Torres

  • The political economy of higher education in the era of neoliberal globalization: Latin America in comparative perspective

    Carlos A. Torres;Daniel Schugurensky

  • Globalization and Education: An Introduction

    Nicholas C. Burbules;Carlos Alberto Torres

  • The State, Globalization, and Educational Policy

    Nicholas C. Burbules;Carlos Alberto Torres

  • The university, state, and market : the political economy of globalization in the Americas

    Robert A. Rhoads;Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Globalization, Education, and Citizenship: Solidarity Versus Markets?

    Carlos Alberto Torres

  • The Politics of Nonformal Education in Latin America

    Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Globalizations and education : collected essays on class, race, gender, and the state

    Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Critical Global Citizenship Education

    Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Paulo Freire: Education for Development

    Moacir Gadotti;Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Global Citizenship Education and the Crises of Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives

    Carlos Alberto Torres;Massimiliano Tarozzi

  • Emergent issues in education : comparative perspectives

    Carlos Alberto Torres;Robert Arnove;Philip G. Altbach;Gail P. Kelly

  • The State, Privatisation and Educational Policy: a critique of neo-liberalism in Latin America and some ethical and political implications

    Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Sociology of education : emerging perspectives

    Zeus Leonardo;Carlos Alberto Torres;Theodore R. Mitchell

  • Public universities and the neoliberal common sense: seven iconoclastic theses

    Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Global citizenship education at the crossroads: Globalization, global commons, common good, and critical consciousness

    Carlos Alberto Torres;Emiliano Bosio

  • Education And Democracy: Paulo Freire, Social Movements, And Educational Reform In Sao Paulo

    Maria del Pilar O'Cadiz;Pia Lindquist Wong;Carlos Alberto Torres

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas C. Burbules
Nicholas C. Burbules University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire Federal University of Pernambuco
Martin Carnoy
Martin Carnoy Stanford University
Pedro A. Noguera
Pedro A. Noguera University of Southern California
Robert A. Rhoads
Robert A. Rhoads University of California, Los Angeles
Philip G. Altbach
Philip G. Altbach Boston College
Joel Samoff
Joel Samoff Stanford University

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