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57
Citations
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1721
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312

Donald MacKenzie 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 Donald MacKenzie sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 214 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Donald MacKenzie 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 Donald MacKenzie 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: 261 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: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% 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

  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Donald MacKenzie is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Finance, Marketing, Mechanics of Materials, and Law.

The scientist's work addresses various topics, notably:

  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
  • Fatigue and fracture mechanics

Donald MacKenzie has published multiple papers in notable academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Economy and Society
  • Journal of Cultural Economy
  • Procedia Structural Integrity
  • Review of International Political Economy
  • Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Recent key papers by MacKenzie include:

  • "The longest second: Header bidding and the material politics of online advertising," 2023, Economy and Society
  • "Spoofing: Law, materiality and boundary work in futures trading," 2021, Economy and Society
  • "Why hasn't high-frequency trading swept the board? Shares, sovereign bonds and the politics of market structure," 2020, Review of International Political Economy
  • "Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms," 2024, Journal of Cultural Economy (co-authored with Koray Çalışkan)
  • "Floating photovoltaic systems: potential implications for Aotearoa New Zealand," 2022, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (co-authored with Alan C. Brent)

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Donald MacKenzie include:

  • Koray Çalışkan
  • Charlotte Rommerskirchen
  • Michel Callon
  • Addie McGowan
  • Tugrul Comlekci

The scientist has also contributed to book publications with different presses. Notable titles include:

  • "Trading at the Speed of Light," 2021, Princeton University Press
  • "The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers," 2025, Association for Computing Machinery

Donald MacKenzie has received distinctions such as:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2001
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets

    Donald A. MacKenzie

  • Constructing a Market, Performing Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange

    Donald MacKenzie;Yuval Millo

  • The Social Shaping of Technology

    Donald A. MacKenzie;Judy Wajcman

  • Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics

    Donald MacKenzie;Fabian Muniesa;Leung Sea Siu

  • Making things the same: Gases, Emission Rights and the Politics of Carbon Markets

    Donald MacKenzie

  • Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

    Donald MacKenzie

  • Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed

    Donald A. MacKenzie

  • The social shaping of technology : how the refrigerator got its hum

    Donald A. MacKenzie;Judy Wajcman

  • An engine, not a camera

    Donald Alexander Mackenzie

  • Is economics performative? Option theory and the construction of derivatives markets

    Donald Mackenzie

  • The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge

    Donald MacKenzie

  • An Equation and its Worlds: Bricolage, Exemplars, Disunity and Performativity in Financial Economics

    Donald MacKenzie

  • A Price is a Social Thing: Towards a Material Sociology of Arbitrage

    Daniel Beunza;Iain Hardie;Donald MacKenzie

  • Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930 : the social construction of scientific knowledge

    M. J. Cullen;Donald A. Mackenzie

  • Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons

    Donald MacKenzie;Graham Spinardi

  • The big, bad wolf and the rational market: portfolio insurance, the 1987 crash and the performativity of economics

    Donald MacKenzie

  • Negotiating a Market, Performing Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange

    Donald MacKenzie;Yuval Millo

  • Long-Term Capital Management and the sociology of arbitrage

    Donald MacKenzie

  • Assembling an economic actor: the agencement of a Hedge Fund

    Iain Hardie;Donald MacKenzie

  • The usefulness of inaccurate models: Towards an understanding of the emergence of financial risk management

    Yuval Millo;Donald MacKenzie

  • Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust

    Donald MacKenzie

  • The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900

    Donald MacKenzie;Stephen M. Stigler

Frequent Co-Authors

Michèle Lamont
Michèle Lamont Harvard University
Steve Woolgar
Steve Woolgar University of Oxford
William H. Dutton
William H. Dutton University of Oxford
Judy Wajcman
Judy Wajcman London School of Economics and Political Science
Steven Shapin
Steven Shapin Harvard University

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