2026 G. William Domhoff: 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	48	3182	2926	1534	1388	183	8521

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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8521

World Ranking

3182

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1534

Overview

G. William Domhoff is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research contributions primarily span social sciences, focusing on several interdisciplinary subfields including cognitive neuroscience, strategy and management, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and development.

The scientist's research topics emphasize political influence and corporate strategies, elite sociology and global capitalism, the nonprofit sector and volunteering, electoral systems and political participation, international development and aid, sleep and wakefulness research, and neuroscience and music perception.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Domhoff include:

"The policy-planning capacity of the American corporate community: corporations, policy-oriented nonprofits, and the inner circle in 1935-1936 and 2010-2011" (2023), published in Theory and Society
"Corporate political power and US foreign policy, 1981-2002: the role of the policy-planning network" (2022), published in Theory and Society
"Reply to Mageo (2019): Four assertions I did not make about dreams." (2020), published in Dreaming
"From adolescence to young adulthood in two dream series: The consistency and continuity of characters and major personal interests." (2020), published in Dreaming
"Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash over the New Deal" (2020), published in Journal of American History

Frequent coauthors in Domhoff's publications include Michael Webber, Tom Mills, Philip Luther-Davies, Kasia Julia Doniec, and Joseph P. Lavallee.

The scholar's work has appeared repeatedly in several academic venues such as:

Theory and Society
Dreaming
Journal of American History
Stanford University Press eBooks

Best Publications

Who Rules America

G. William Domhoff

991
Citations
The American Corporate Network 1904-1974

Mark S. Mizruchi;G. William Domhoff

686
Citations
Finding Meaning in Dreams: A Quantitative Approach

G. William Domhoff

597
Citations
The scientific study of dreams : neural networks, cognitive development, and content analysis

G. William Domhoff

442
Citations
Dreaming as mind wandering: evidence from functional neuroimaging and first-person content reports

Kieran C. R. Fox;Savannah Nijeboer;Elizaveta Solomonova;Elizaveta Solomonova;G. William Domhoff

369
Citations
Blacks in the White Establishment?: A Study of Race and Class in America

Richard L. Zweigenhaft;G. William Domhoff

333
Citations
Diversity in the Power Elite: Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top?

Richard L. Zweigenhaft;G. William Domhoff

289
Citations
The higher circles : the governing class in America

G. William Domhoff

231
Citations
The power elite and the state

G. William Domhoff

231
Citations
The Powers That Be: Processes of Ruling Class Domination in America

G. William Domhoff

210
Citations
Diversity in the Power Elite: How It Happened, Why It Matters

Richard L. Zweigenhaft;G. William Domhoff

199
Citations
Dreaming and the default network: A review, synthesis, and counterintuitive research proposal.

G. William Domhoff;Kieran C.R. Fox

166
Citations
Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance

G. William Domhoff

143
Citations
The neural substrate for dreaming: Is it a subsystem of the default network?

G. William Domhoff

138
Citations
Power elites and organizations

G. William Domhoff;Thomas R. Dye

132
Citations
Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich

G. William Domhoff

122
Citations
A New Neurocognitive Theory of Dreams

G. William Domhoff

117
Citations
The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies

Richard L. Zweigenhaft;G. William Domhoff

116
Citations
The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America.

Howard Kimeldorf;G. William Domhoff

115
Citations
Who Really Rules?: New Haven and Community Power Reexamined.

Paul Luebke;G. William Domhoff

15
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Schredl Central Institute of Mental Health

Kalina Christoff University of British Columbia

Michael Webber University of Melbourne

Mark S. Mizruchi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Lawrence D. Bobo Harvard University

External Links

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