2026 Charles C. Ragin: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	56	1822	1641	867	768	125	71198

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71198

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1822

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867

Overview

Charles C. Ragin is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research centers primarily on qualitative comparative analysis and the intersection of sociology and political science.

The scientist's work covers the following main topics:

Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research

Within the subfields of study, their contributions have been categorized under:

Sociology and Political Science

Ragin has published multiple papers in notable academic venues. Recent publications include:

"QCA and Fuzzy Set Applications to Social Movement Research", 2022, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
"A set-analytic approach to intersectionality", 2024, Social Science Research
"EPR volume 13 issue 2 Cover and Front matter", 2021, European Political Science Review
"Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State", 2021, UNC Libraries

In addition to articles, Charles C. Ragin has contributed to book publications. One such work published by Schwabe Verlag eBooks is titled Qu'est-ce qu'un cas? - Explorer les fondements de l'enquête en sciences sociales, released in 2021.

The scientist has collaborated with a number of frequent coauthors including:

Peer C. Fiss
Howard S. Becker
Alesia Alexandrovna Sedziaka
Carlos Closa
Matt Qvortrup

Key publication venues where Ragin has contributed include:

Social Science Research
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
European Political Science Review
UNC Libraries

Best Publications

The Comparative Method

Charles C. Ragin

12276
Citations
The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies

Charles C. Ragin

11618
Citations
Redesigning Social Inquiry

Charles C. Ragin

6773
Citations
Fuzzy-Set Social Science

Charles C. Ragin

6212
Citations
Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond

Charles C. Ragin

5557
Citations
Configurational Comparative Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (Qca) and Related Techniques

Benoît Rihoux;Charles C. Ragin

3959
Citations
What Is a Case?: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry

Charles C. Ragin;Howard Saul Becker

3248
Citations
Constructing social research :the unity and diversity of method

Charles C. Ragin;Lisa M. Amoroso

2226
Citations
Set Relations in Social Research: Evaluating Their Consistency and Coverage

Charles C. Ragin

2066
Citations
Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State

Evelyne Huber;Charles Ragin;John D. Stephens

1660
Citations
Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis: Theory, Methods and Practice

Udo Kelle;Gerald Prein;Katherine Bird;Raymond M. Lee

965
Citations
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) As an Approach

Dirk Berg-Schlosser;Gisèle De Meur;Charles Ragin;Benoît Rihoux

791
Citations
Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using Fuzzy Sets (fsQCA)

Charles C. Ragin

764
Citations
Constructing social research

James A. Davis;Charles C. Ragin

668
Citations
The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies.

Herbert L. Smith;Charles C. Ragin

641
Citations
The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods

D. S. Byrne;Charles C. Ragin

567
Citations
Comparative Welfare States Data Set

Evelyne Huber;Charles Ragin;John D. Stephens;David Brady

515
Citations
GLOBAL AND NATIONAL SOURCES OF POLITICAL PROTEST: THIRD WORLD RESPONSES TO THE DEBT CRISIS*

John Walton;Charles Ragin

449
Citations
Between Complexity and Parsimony: Limited Diversity, Counterfactual Cases, and Comparative Analysis.

Charles C. Ragin;John Sonnett

373
Citations
The Comparative Method: Moving beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies.

Michael Timberlake;Charles C. Ragin

273
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard S. Becker University of Washington

Saskia Sassen Columbia University

James Mahoney Northwestern University

Nigel Fielding University of Surrey

Jerald Hage University of Maryland, College Park

Michael T. Hannan Stanford University

Barbara F. Reskin Harvard University

Sharlene Hesse-Biber Boston College

John W. Meyer Stanford University

External Links

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