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D-Index
69
Citations
31531
World Ranking
794
National Ranking
378

Craig Calhoun 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 Craig Calhoun sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 489 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Craig Calhoun 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 Craig Calhoun sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% 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

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Craig Calhoun is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their recent scholarly papers include:

  • For Sociology: May Our Arguments Unite Us (2022) published in Critical Sociology
  • Moishe Postone and the Transcendence of Capitalism (2020) published in Critical Historical Studies
  • Immanuel Wallerstein and the Genesis of World-Systems Analysis (2023) published in Journal of World-Systems Research
  • Democracy, Division, and an Attempted Coup (2021) published in Amerikastudien/American Studies
  • Contents (2022) published in Harvard University Press eBooks

The main topics addressed in their work cover diverse areas such as:

  • Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics
  • German Social Sciences and History
  • World Systems and Global Transformations
  • Economic Theory and Institutions
  • Political Economy and Marxism
  • Political and Economic History of the UK and US

Craig Calhoun has also published books with Harvard University Press, notably two editions of Degenerations of Democracy in 2022, which have received citations in academic literature.

Frequent co-authors collaborating in their research include:

  • Charles Taylor
  • Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
  • Julia Adams
  • Margaret Buckner
  • Chas Camic

Their publications have appeared often in venues such as Critical Sociology, UNC Libraries, Journal of World-Systems Research, Critical Historical Studies, and Amerikastudien/American Studies.

In recognition of scholarly contributions, Craig Calhoun was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Habermas and the Public Sphere.

    Bob Jessop;Craig Calhoun

  • Social theory and the politics of identity

    Craig J. Calhoun

  • Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference

    Craig J. Calhoun

  • The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers: Toward a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism

    Craig J. Calhoun

  • Introduction: Habermas and the public sphere

    Craig Calhoun

  • Nations Matter: Culture, History and the Cosmopolitan Dream

    Craig J. Calhoun

  • Nationalism and ethnicity

    Craig Calhoun

  • Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives

    Craig Calhoun;Edward LiPuma;Moishe Postone

  • Imagining solidarity: cosmopolitanism, constitutional patriotism, and the public sphere

    Craig J. Calhoun

  • Habitus, field and capital: the question of historical specificity

    Craig Calhoun

  • Dictionary of the social sciences

    Craig J. Calhoun

  • New social movements of the early nineteenth century

    Craig Calhoun

  • Community without Propinquity Revisited: Communications Technology and the Transformation of the Urban Public Sphere

    Craig Calhoun

  • 'Belonging' in the cosmopolitan imaginary

    Craig Calhoun;Craig Calhoun

  • The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism During the Industrial Revolution

    Craig J. Calhoun

  • Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China

    Guobin Yang;Craig Calhoun

  • Varieties of secularism in a secular age

    Michael Warner;Jonathan VanAntwerpen;Craig J. Calhoun

  • Indirect Relationships and Imagined Communities: Large-Scale Social Integration and the Transformation of Everyday Life

    Craig Calhoun

  • The University and the Public Good

    Craig Calhoun

  • Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives.

    Richard Jenkins;Craig Calhoun;Edward LiPuma;Moishe Postone

  • Social Theory and the Politics of Identity.@@@New Social Movements: From Ideology to Identity.

    Joshua Gamson;Craig Calhoun;Enrique Larana;Hank Johnston

  • The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England

    Ronald A. Fullerton;Neil McKendrick;John Brewer;J. H. Plumb

Frequent Co-Authors

Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein Yale University
Randall Collins
Randall Collins University of Pennsylvania
Dale Whittington
Dale Whittington University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
W. Richard Scott
W. Richard Scott Stanford University
Loïc Wacquant
Loïc Wacquant University of California, Berkeley
Wolfgang Streeck
Wolfgang Streeck Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu Collège de France
George Ritzer
George Ritzer University of Maryland, College Park
Bryan S. Turner
Bryan S. Turner Australian Catholic University
Richard J. Gelles
Richard J. Gelles University of Pennsylvania

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