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D-Index
55
Citations
18367
World Ranking
1974
National Ranking
947

Donald N. McCloskey 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 N. McCloskey sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 316 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Donald N. McCloskey 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 N. McCloskey sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% 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

  • 1982 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Donald N. McCloskey is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. The scholar has been recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1982.

There are no records of recent papers, frequent co-authors, or common publication venues associated with this researcher in the available source data.

Similarly, there is no information provided about book publications, main fields of study, subfields, or main topics of work connected to Donald N. McCloskey.

The absence of details on specific research areas or publications limits the ability to precisely map the scientist's academic contributions and collaborations. However, the fellowship awarded in 1982 indicates recognition within the academic community.

Best Publications

  • The Rhetoric of Economics

    Donald Nansen McCloskey

  • The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

    Stephen Thomas Ziliak;Deirdre N. McCloskey

  • Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics

    Deirdre N. McCloskey

  • The Standard Error of Regressions

    Deirdre N. McCloskey;Stephen T. Ziliak

  • Size matters: the standard error of regressions in the American Economic Review

    Stephen T. Ziliak;Deirdre N. McCloskey

  • The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

    Deirdre N. McCloskey

  • Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

    Deirdre N. McCloskey

  • The Economic History of Britain since 1700

    Roderick Floud;Donald N. McCloskey

  • If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise

    Deirdre N. McCloskey

  • The Status and Prospects of the Economics Major

    John J. Siegfried;Robin L. Bartlett;W. Lee Hansen;Allen C. Kelley

  • One Quarter of GDP Is Persuasion

    Deirdre McCloskey;Arjo Klamer

  • Rhetoric Of The Human Sciences: Language And Argument In Scholarship And Public Affairs

    John S. Nelson;Allan Megill;Donald N. McCloskey

  • The Loss Function Has Been Mislaid: The Rhetoric of Significance Tests

    Deirdre McCloskey

  • The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric

    Arjo Klamer;Donald N. McCloskey;Robert Solow

  • The Cult of Statistical Significance

    Stephen T. Ziliak;Deirdre N. McCloskey

  • Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

    Deirdre N. McCloskey

  • The Loss Function Has Been Mislaid: The Rhetoric of Significance Tests

    Donald N. Mccloskey;Edward Ames;Stanley Reiter;Edgar Feige

  • The Standard Error of Regressions

    Deirdre N. McCloskey

  • From damnation to redemption: Judgments on the late victorian entrepreneur☆

    Donald N McCloskey;Lars G Sandberg

  • The Enclosure of Open Fields: Preface to a Study of Its Impact on the Efficiency of English Agriculture in the Eighteenth Century

    Donald N. McCloskey

  • Accounting as the master metaphor of economics

    Arjo Klamer;Donald McCloskey

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Fogel
Robert W. Fogel University of Chicago
John J. Siegfried
John J. Siegfried Vanderbilt University
Nathan Rosenberg
Nathan Rosenberg University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Stanley L. Engerman
Stanley L. Engerman University of Rochester
Edward E. Leamer
Edward E. Leamer University of California, Los Angeles
Richard A. Shweder
Richard A. Shweder University of Chicago
Richard Swedberg
Richard Swedberg Cornell University
Howard S. Becker
Howard S. Becker University of Washington

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