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D-Index
60
Citations
33190
World Ranking
1402
National Ranking
663

Erik Olin Wright 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 Erik Olin Wright sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 204 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Erik Olin Wright 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 Erik Olin Wright sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 60 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Erik Olin Wright was affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their academic work included contributions to sociological research with a focus on inequality and class structures.

Their recent scholarly output includes the paper "Klasse og ulikhet hos Piketty", published in 2021 in the journal Agora.

Throughout their career, Erik Olin Wright collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Bryan Garsten
  • Phil Gorski
  • Laurie R. Santos
  • Steven B. Smith
  • Christopher Udry

Erik Olin Wright's publications appeared in various academic venues; one recorded venue is:

  • Agora

Their work did not have publicly documented awards nor specific fields or subfields detailed in the available data.

The focus of their research can be inferred to be related to social inequality and class analysis based on the known paper and academic context. However, explicit main topics and fields of study were not provided in the source data.

Best Publications

  • The debate on Classes

    Erik Olin Wright

  • Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis

    Erik Olin Wright

  • Envisioning Real Utopias

    Erik Olin Wright

  • Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance

    Archon Fung;Erik Olin Wright;Rebecca Abers

  • Deepening Democracy: Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance

    Archon Fung;Erik Olin Wright

  • Class, crisis and the state

    Erik Olin Wright

  • Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise

    Erik Olin Wright

  • Class structure and income determination

    Erik Olin Wright

  • Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis

    Fiona Devine;Erik Olin Wright

  • Approaches to Class Analysis

    Erik Olin Wright

  • Marxist Class Categories and Income Inequality

    Donald Cressey;Victoria Lynn;Ronald A. Farrell;Herbert Jacob

  • THE GLASS CEILING HYPOTHESIS: A Comparative Study of the United States, Sweden, and Australia

    Janeen Baxter;Erik Olin Wright

  • Class Boundaries in Advanced Capitalist Societies

    Erik Olin Wright

  • The Gender Gap in Workplace Authority: A Cross-National Study.

    Erik Olin Wright;Janeen Baxter;Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund

  • The American Class Structure

    Erik Olin Wright;Cynthia Costello;David Hachen;Joey Sprague

  • The patterns of job expansions in the USA: a comparison of the 1960s and 1990s

    Erik Olin Wright;Rachel E. Dwyer

  • Interrogating Inequality: Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism and Marxism

    Erik Olin Wright

  • The Fall and Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie: Changing Patterns of Self-Employment in the Postwar United States

    George Steinmetz;Erik Olin Wright

  • Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History

    Daniel Little;Erik Olin Wright;Andrew Levine;Elliott Sober

  • Gender equality : transforming family divisions of labor

    Janet C. Gornick;Marcia Meyers;Barbara R. Bergmann;Erik Olin Wright

  • Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Communities, States and Markets

    Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis;Erik Olin Wright

  • Recent Developments in Marxist Theories of the Capitalist State, Part I

    David A. Gold;Y. H. Lo;Erik Olin Wright

  • Varieties of Marxist Conceptions of Class Structure

    Erik Olin Wright

  • Race, Class, and Income Inequality

    Erik Olin Wright

  • The Transformation of the American Class Structure, 1960-1980

    Erik Olin Wright;Bill Martin

  • A General Framework for the Analysis of Class Structure

    Erik Olin Wright

  • The Comparative Project on Class Structure and Class Consciousness: An Overview:

    Erik Olin Wright

  • Coercion and Consent in Contested Exchange

    Michael Burawoy;Erik Olin Wright

  • The Relative Permeability of Class Boundaries to Cross-Class Friendships: A Comparative Study of the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Norway

    Erik Olin Wright;Donmoon Cho

  • Class Structure and Income Determination

    Dominic Strinati;Erik Olin Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel Bowles
Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute
Archon Fung
Archon Fung Harvard University
Herbert Gintis
Herbert Gintis Santa Fe Institute
John E. Roemer
John E. Roemer Yale University
Janeen Baxter
Janeen Baxter University of Queensland
Elliott Sober
Elliott Sober University of Wisconsin–Madison
John Gastil
John Gastil Pennsylvania State University
Joel Rogers
Joel Rogers University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman Yale University
Deborah Carr
Deborah Carr Boston University

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