2026 Debra Howcroft: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	41	5112	4744	865	804	143	6084

Debra Howcroft 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 Debra Howcroft sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 143 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Debra Howcroft 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 Debra Howcroft sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Debra Howcroft is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and conducts research predominantly within the social sciences. Their work spans several interconnected fields and topics, with a focus on labor movements and unions, digital economy and work transformation, and employment and welfare studies.

Howcroft's main fields of study include:

Social Sciences

The subfields they engage with most frequently are:

Sociology and Political Science
Public Administration
General Health Professions
Marketing
Management Information Systems

The primary topics present across Howcroft's research portfolio include:

Labor Movements and Unions
Digital Economy and Work Transformation
Employment and Welfare Studies
Innovation, Technology, and Society
Emotional Labor in Professions
Sharing Economy and Platforms
FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance

Debra Howcroft has published in multiple venues, including:

Manchester University Press eBooks
New Technology Work and Employment
Revista Española de Sociología
Accounting Forum
International Labour Review

Recent papers authored by Howcroft include:

"Automation and the future of work: A social shaping of technology approach," 2022, New Technology Work and Employment
"Labour and technology: Reflecting on a century of debate in the International Labour Review," 2021, International Labour Review
"Unstable platforms: Uber's business model and the challenge of organisational legitimacy," 2024, Accounting Forum

In addition to journal articles, Howcroft has contributed to book publications. One of these is titled Power, politics and influence at work, published by Winchester University Press in 2020.

Frequent collaborators in Howcroft's research include Miguel Martínez Lucio, Tony Dundon, Arjan Keizer, Roger Walden, and Emma Hughes.

Best Publications

A Typology of Crowdwork Platforms

Debra Howcroft;Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn

526
Citations
Interpreting Information Systems in Organisations

Debra Howcroft

341
Citations
Towards dissolution of the IS research debate: from polarization to polarity

Brian Fitzgerald;Debra Howcroft

292
Citations
Amazon Mechanical Turk and the commodification of labour

Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn;Debra Howcroft

290
Citations
A decade of neglect: reflecting on gender and IS

Alison Adam;Debra Howcroft;Helen Richardson

234
Citations
‘All they lack is a chain’: lean and the new performance management in the British civil service

Bob Carter;Andy Danford;Debra Howcroft;Helen Richardson

209
Citations
Re-conceptualising failure: Social shaping meets IS research

Melanie Wilson;Debra Howcroft

202
Citations
Paradoxes of participatory practices: the Janus role of the systems developer

Debra Howcroft;Melanie Wilson

182
Citations
Competing dichotomies in IS research and possible strategies for resolution

Brian Fitzgerald;Debra Howcroft

165
Citations
‘Stressed out of my box’ : employee experience of lean working and occupational ill-health in clerical work in the UK public sector

Bob Carter;Andy Danford;Debra Howcroft;Helen Richardson

155
Citations
'The future's bright, the future's mobile': A study of Apple and Google mobile application developers

Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn;Debra Howcroft

147
Citations
Reflections on issues of power in packaged software selection

Debra Howcroft;Ben Light

145
Citations
Handbook of critical information systems research: Theory and application

Debra Howcroft;Eileen Moore Trauth

136
Citations
After the Goldrush:: deconstructing the myths of the dot.com market

Debra Howcroft

134
Citations
What We May Learn From the Social Shaping of Technology Approach

Debra Howcroft;N Mitev;M. Wilson

127
Citations
Critical empirical research in IS: an example of gender and the IT workforce

Eileen M. Trauth;Debra Howcroft

114
Citations
Lean and mean in the civil service: the case of processing in HMRC

Bob Carter;Andrew Danford;Debra Howcroft;Helen Richardson

114
Citations
The back office goes global: Exploring connections and contradictions in shared service centres

Debra Howcroft;Helen Richardson

113
Citations
The Choice of Critical Information Systems Research

Debra Howcroft;Eileen M. Trauth

112
Citations
Power, politics and persuasion in IS evaluation: a focus on ‘relevant social groups’

Melanie Wilson;Debra Howcroft

112
Citations
The implications of a critical agenda in gender and IS research

Debra Howcroft;Eileen M. Trauth

110
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony Dundon University of Manchester

Miguel Martinez Lucio University of Manchester

Phil Taylor University of Strathclyde

Jill Rubery University of Manchester

Brian Fitzgerald University of Limerick

Colette Fagan University of Manchester

Francesca Gains University of Manchester

Leslie P. Willcocks London School of Economics and Political Science

Sue Newell University of Warwick

Ruth Lupton University of Manchester

External Links

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