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46
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3484
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1678

Claude S. Fischer 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 Claude S. Fischer sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 141 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Claude S. Fischer 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 Claude S. Fischer sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Claude S. Fischer is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including health, social psychology, general health professions, and statistical and nonlinear physics. Their research topics emphasize social capital and networks, health disparities and outcomes, social and cultural dynamics, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, contemporary sociological theory and practice, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, and aging and gerontology research.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Of Modernity and Public Sociology: Reflections on a Career So Far (2020) published in Annual Review of Sociology
  • Life course transitions and changes in network ties among younger and older adults (2022) published in Advances in Life Course Research
  • How new is "New"? Who gets added in a panel study of personal networks? (2022) published in Social Networks
  • Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies (2022) published in Journal of Health and Social Behavior
  • Distinct aspects of human connection associated with subjective well-being (2022) published in SSM - Mental Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Claude S. Fischer include:

  • Shira Offer
  • Emily H. Ruppel
  • Stephanie Child
  • Marian Botchway
  • Jordan Weiss

The scientist's publications are often featured in venues such as Social Networks, Annual Review of Sociology, Advances in Life Course Research, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and SSM - Mental Health.

Best Publications

  • To dwell among friends : personal networks in town and city

    Claude S Fischer

  • America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940

    Claude S. Fischer

  • The urban experience

    Claude S. Fischer

  • Toward a Subcultural Theory of Urbanism

    Claude S. Fischer

  • Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth

    Claude S. Fischer;Michael Hout;Martín Sánchez Jankowski;Samuel R. Lucas

  • Inequality by Design

    Claude S. Fischer;Michael Hout;Martín Sánchez Jankowski

  • Networks and Places

    C. S. Fischer;Robert Jackson;C. A. Stueve;Kathleen Gerson

  • Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Politics and Generations

    Michael Hout;Claude S. Fischer

  • To dwell among friends

    Claude S. Fischer

  • A Procedure for Surveying Personal Networks

    Lynne McCallister;Claude S. Fischer

  • Networks and places: social relations in the urban setting

    Claude S. Fischer

  • A Research Note on Friendship, Gender, and the Life Cycle

    Claude S. Fischer;Stacey J. Oliker

  • Century of Difference : How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years

    Claude S. Fischer;Michael Hout

  • The Subcultural Theory of Urbanism: A Twentieth-Year Assessment

    Claude S. Fischer

  • What Do We Mean by 'Friend'? An Inductive Study*

    Claude S. Fischer

  • Explaining why more americans have no religious preference: Political backlash and generational succession, 1987-2012

    Michael Hout;Claude S. Fischer

  • Distinguishing the geographic levels and social dimensions of U.S. metropolitan segregation, 1960–2000

    Claude S. Fischer;Gretchen Stockmayer;Jon Stiles;Michael Hout

  • Attachment to Place

    Kathleen Gerson;Ann Stueve;Claude S. Fischer

  • Bowling Alone: What's the Score?☆

    Claude S. Fischer

  • The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life

    Claude Fischer;Michael Schudson

  • "Urbanism as a Way of Life" A Review and an Agenda

    Claude S. Fischer

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Hout
Michael Hout New York University
Harold H. Kelley
Harold H. Kelley University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen E. Fienberg
Stephen E. Fienberg Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Schudson
Michael Schudson Columbia University
George Ritzer
George Ritzer University of Maryland, College Park
Bernie Devlin
Bernie Devlin University of Pittsburgh
Ann Stueve
Ann Stueve Education Development Center
Kathryn Roeder
Kathryn Roeder Carnegie Mellon University
Melvin L. Kohn
Melvin L. Kohn Johns Hopkins University
Glenn R. Carroll
Glenn R. Carroll Stanford University

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