2026 David Stark: 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	44	3980	3672	1891	1712	154	19522

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

3980

3672

1891

1712

154

19522

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

19522

World Ranking

3980

National Ranking

1891

Research.com Recognitions

2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

David Stark is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Sociology and Political Science, as well as Safety Research, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Strategy and Management, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Digital Economy and Work Transformation
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Game Theory and Applications
Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena

David Stark has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing in:

British Journal of Sociology
Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick)
arXiv (Cornell University)
British journal of surgery
Journal of Economic Sociology

Some of their recent papers include:

"Put to the test: For a new sociology of testing," 2020, British Journal of Sociology
"Algorithmic Management in the Platform Economy," 2021, Journal of Economic Sociology
"Algorithmic Management in the Platform Economy," 2021, Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick)
"Principles of Algorithmic Management," 2024, Organization Theory
"Underground testing: Name-altering practices as probes in electronic music," 2020, British Journal of Sociology

Their frequent co-authors include Ivana Pais, Sheen S. Levine, Karen L. Masters, Noortje Marres, and Giovanni Formilan.

David Stark was awarded a Fellowship at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2002.

Best Publications

Recombinant property in East European capitalism

David C. Stark

2558
Citations
The Sense of Dissonance

David Stark

2254
Citations
Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe

David Charles Stark;Laszlo Bruszt

2152
Citations
The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life

David Stark;David Stark

1996
Citations
Path Dependence and Privatization Strategies in East Central Europe

David C. Stark

1237
Citations
Organizing Diversity: Evolutionary Theory, Network Analysis and Postsocialism

Gernot Grabher;David Stark

952
Citations
Tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room

Daniel Beunza;David Stark

666
Citations
Structural Folds: Generative Disruption in Overlapping Groups

Balazs Vedres;David C. Stark;David C. Stark

503
Citations
Restructuring networks in post socialism : legacies, linkages, and localities

Gernot Grabher;David Stark

482
Citations
Privatization in Hungary: From Plan to Market or from Plan to Clan?

David C. Stark

392
Citations
Game changer: : The topology of creativity

Mathijs de Vaan;David C. Stark;Balazs Vedres

366
Citations
Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in New-Media Projects:

Monique Girard;David Stark

359
Citations
Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary

David C. Stark;Balazs Vedres

319
Citations
Remaking the economic institutions of socialism : China and Eastern Europe

Victor Nee;David Stark;Mark Selden

307
Citations
Ambiguous Assets for Uncertain Environments: Heterarchy in Postsocialist Firms

David Stark

304
Citations
Rethinking Internal Labor Markets: New Insights from a Comparative Perspective

David Stark

295
Citations
Ethnic diversity deflates price bubbles

Sheen S. Levine;Evan P. Apfelbaum;Mark Bernard;Valerie L. Bartelt

279
Citations
From System Identity to Organizational Diversity: Analyzing Social Change in Eastern Europe

David Stark

259
Citations
Class struggle and the transformation of the labor process

David Stark

253
Citations
One Way or Multiple Paths: For a Comparative Sociology of East European Capitalism1

David C. Stark;László Bruszt

172
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Nee Cornell University

Jon Elster Columbia University

Andrew G. Walder Stanford University

Jean-Pascal Gond City, University of London

Arne L. Kalleberg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

External Links

Personal website of David Stark Google Scholar page

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