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Clifford Shearing 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 Clifford Shearing sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 256 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Clifford Shearing 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 Clifford Shearing 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: 37 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Clifford Shearing is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research predominantly spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Strategy and Management, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics addressed in Shearing's work include Disaster Management and Resilience, Policing Practices and Perceptions, Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses, Crime Patterns and Interventions, Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance, Disaster Response and Management, and Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Shearing show a diverse interest across social and environmental challenges. These include:

  • "Adoption rationales and effects of off-grid renewable energy access for African youth: A case study from Tanzania" (2021) published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "Criminology: Some lines of flight" (2021) published in Journal of Criminology
  • "The tensions of cyber-resilience: From sensemaking to practice" (2023) published in Computers & Security
  • "Gated Adaptation during the Cape Town Drought: Mentalities, Transitions and Pathways to Partial Nodes of Water Security" (2020) published in Society & Natural Resources
  • "'Partial functional redundancy': An expression of household level resilience in response to climate risk" (2020) published in Climate Risk Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shearing include Benoît Dupont, Julie Berg, Nicholas P. Simpson, David Sanderson, and Timothy Heffernan.

Shearing's work has been published in several venues, with recurring contributions to CrimRxiv, followed by Policing & Society, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of Criminology.

Best Publications

  • THE FUTURE OF POLICING.

    David H Bayley;Clifford D Shearing

  • Governmentality, criticism, politics

    Pat O'Malley;Lorna Weir;Clifford Shearing

  • Private Security: Implications for Social Control

    Clifford D. Shearing;Philip C. Stenning

  • Nodal Governance, Democracy, and the New ‘Denizens’

    Clifford Shearing;Jennifer Wood

  • Governing Security: Explorations of Policing and Justice

    Les Johnston;Clifford D. Shearing

  • Modern Private Security: Its Growth and Implications

    Clifford D. Shearing;Philip C. Stenning

  • Policing for a New South Africa

    Michael Brogden;Clifford D. Shearing

  • Culture as figurative action.

    Clifford D. Shearing;Richard V. Ericson

  • Changes in Governance: A Cross-Disciplinary Review of Current Scholarship

    Scott Burris;Michael Kempa;Clifford Shearing

  • Punishment and the Changing Face of the Governance

    Clifford Shearing

  • The New Environmental Governance

    Cameron Holley;Neil Gunningham;Clifford D. Shearing;Clifford D. Shearing

  • Reflections of the Evolving Concept of 'Private Policing'

    Michael Kempa;Ryan Carrier;Jennifer Wood;Clifford Shearing

  • The Governance of Security in Weak and Failing States

    Benoît Dupont;Peter Grabosky;Clifford Shearing

  • What enables local governments to mainstream climate change adaptation? Lessons learned from two municipal case studies in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Lorena Pasquini;Gina Ziervogel;Richard M. Cowling;Clifford Shearing

  • The Relation between Public and Private Policing

    Clifford D. Shearing

  • From the Panopticon to Disney World: The Development of Discipline

    Clifford Shearing;Philip Stenning

  • Lengthening the Arm of the Law: Enhancing Police Resources in the Twenty-First Century

    Julie Ayling;Peter Grabosky;Clifford Shearing

  • Municipalities, Politics, and Climate Change: An Example of the Process of Institutionalizing an Environmental Agenda Within Local Government

    Lorena Pasquini;Clifford Shearing

  • Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security: Reflections on the refusal to acknowledge private governments

    Clifford Shearing

  • Governing Security for Common Goods

    Clifford Shearing;Jennifer Wood

  • The Scientification of Police Work

    Richard V. Ericson;Clifford D. Shearing

  • Housing, institutions, money: the failures and promise of human settlements policy and practice in South Africa

    Benjamin Bradlow;Joel Bolnick;Clifford Denning Shearing

  • Reinventing Policing: Policing as Governance

    Clifford Shearing

  • A nodal conception of governance: Thoughts on a policing commission

    Clifford Shearing

  • Who should the police be? Finding a new narrative for community policing in South Africa

    Monique Marks;Clifford Denning Shearing;Jennifer Wood

  • Reforming Police: Opportunities, Drivers and Challenges

    Philip C. Stenning;Clifford D. Shearing

  • Exclusion from public space

    Andrew von Hirsch;Clifford Shearing

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Grabosky
Peter Grabosky Australian National University
Neil Gunningham
Neil Gunningham Australian National University
Gina Ziervogel
Gina Ziervogel University of Cape Town
Scott Burris
Scott Burris Temple University
Pat O'Malley
Pat O'Malley University of Sydney
Andrew von Hirsch
Andrew von Hirsch University of Cambridge
David H. Bayley
David H. Bayley University at Albany, State University of New York
Richard M. Cowling
Richard M. Cowling Nelson Mandela University
Belinda Reyers
Belinda Reyers University of Pretoria
Edward R. Maguire
Edward R. Maguire Arizona State University

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