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46
Citations
57644
World Ranking
3471
National Ranking
1670

H. Russell Bernard 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 H. Russell Bernard sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 126 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

H. Russell Bernard 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 H. Russell Bernard sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% 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

  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

H. Russell Bernard is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to social sciences research, focusing predominantly on sociology, political science, anthropology, education, information systems, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics that include:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Spam and Phishing Detection
  • Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

Recent scholarly publications feature studies on qualitative data analysis, misinformation, platform migration, ethnographic methods, and cultural analysis:

  • Sample Sizes for 10 Types of Qualitative Data Analysis: An Integrative Review, Empirical Guidance, and Next Steps (2024), published in International Journal of Qualitative Methods
  • Characterizing multi-domain false news and underlying user effects on Chinese Weibo (2022), published in Information Processing & Management
  • Exploring Platform Migration Patterns between Twitter and Mastodon: A User Behavior Study (2024), published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Teaching Ethnographic Methods for Cultural Anthropology: Current Practices and Needed Innovation (2022), published in Teaching Anthropology
  • Structural measures of personal networks predict migrants' cultural backgrounds: an explanation from Grid/Group theory (2022), published in PNAS Nexus

Frequent coauthors collaborating on multiple publications include Amber Wutich, Huan Liu, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Melissa Beresford, and Ujun Jeong.

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Practicing Anthropology, Teaching Anthropology, SSRN Electronic Journal, and International Journal of Qualitative Methods.

H. Russell Bernard has been recognized with membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2010.

Best Publications

  • Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

    H. Russell Bernard

  • Techniques to Identify Themes

    Gery W. Ryan;H. Russell Bernard

  • Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

    H. Russell Bernard

  • Data Management and Analysis Methods

    Gery W. Ryan;H. Russell Bernard

  • Analyzing Qualitative Data: Systematic Approaches

    H. Russell Bernard;Gery Wayne Ryan

  • Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology

    H. Russell Bernard

  • Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology

    H. Russell Bernard

  • The Problem of Informant Accuracy: The Validity of Retrospective Data

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  • Open-Ended Interview Questions and Saturation

    Susan C. Weller;Ben Vickers;H. Russell Bernard;Alyssa M. Blackburn

  • Research methods in anthropology : qualitative and quantitative methods

    H. Russell Bernard

  • Informant accuracy in social network data IV: a comparison of clique-level structure in behavioral and cognitive network data

    H.Russell Bernard;Peter D. Killworth;Lee Sailer

  • Comparing Two Methods for Estimating Network Size

    Christopher McCarty;Peter D. Killworth;H. Russell Bernard;Eugene C. Johnsen

  • Informant accuracy in social-network data V. An experimental attempt to predict actual communication from recall data☆

    H.Russell Bernard;Peter D. Killworth;Lee Sailer

  • INFORMANT ACCURACY IN SOCIAL NETWORK DATA II

    H. Russell Bernard;Peter D. Killworth

  • COMPARING FOUR DIFFERENT METHODS FOR MEASURING PERSONAL SOCIAL NETWORKS

    H.Russell Bernard;Eugene C. Johnsen;Peter D. Killworth;Christopher McCarty

  • Estimating the size of personal networks

    Peter D. Killworth;Eugene C. Johnsen;H.Russell Bernard;Gene Ann Shelley

  • The reversal small-world experiment

    Peter D Killworth;H.Russell Bernard

  • Text Analysis: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

    H. Russell Bernard;Gery W. Ryan

  • Informant accuracy in social network data III: A comparison of triadic structure in behavioral and cognitive data

    Peter D Killworth;H.Russell Bernard

  • Eliciting representative samples of personal networks

    C. McCarty;H.R. Bernard;P.D. Killworth;G.A. Shelley

  • The Construction of Primary Data in Cultural Anthropology

    H. Russell Bernard;Pertti J. Pelto;Oswald Werner;James Boster

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter D. Killworth
Peter D. Killworth University of Cambridge
Christopher McCarty
Christopher McCarty University of Florida
Gene A. Shelley
Gene A. Shelley Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Gery W. Ryan
Gery W. Ryan Kaiser Permanente
William R. Leonard
William R. Leonard Northwestern University
Susan C. Weller
Susan C. Weller The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Charles Kadushin
Charles Kadushin Brandeis University
William W. Dressler
William W. Dressler University of Alabama
Stephen P. Borgatti
Stephen P. Borgatti University of Kentucky
Ronald E. Rice
Ronald E. Rice University of California, Santa Barbara

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