2026 H. Russell Bernard: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	46	3471	3198	1670	1514	126	57644

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

19369
Citations
Techniques to Identify Themes

Gery W. Ryan;H. Russell Bernard

9157
Citations
Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

H. Russell Bernard

6756
Citations
Data Management and Analysis Methods

Gery W. Ryan;H. Russell Bernard

4885
Citations
Analyzing Qualitative Data: Systematic Approaches

H. Russell Bernard;Gery Wayne Ryan

4798
Citations
Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology

H. Russell Bernard

1430
Citations
Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology

H. Russell Bernard

945
Citations
The Problem of Informant Accuracy: The Validity of Retrospective Data

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945
Citations
Open-Ended Interview Questions and Saturation

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

722
Citations
Research methods in anthropology : qualitative and quantitative methods

H. Russell Bernard

531
Citations
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

495
Citations
Comparing Two Methods for Estimating Network Size

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

485
Citations
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

424
Citations
INFORMANT ACCURACY IN SOCIAL NETWORK DATA II

H. Russell Bernard;Peter D. Killworth

394
Citations
COMPARING FOUR DIFFERENT METHODS FOR MEASURING PERSONAL SOCIAL NETWORKS

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

346
Citations
Estimating the size of personal networks

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

284
Citations
The reversal small-world experiment

Peter D Killworth;H.Russell Bernard

262
Citations
Text Analysis: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

H. Russell Bernard;Gery W. Ryan

258
Citations
Informant accuracy in social network data III: A comparison of triadic structure in behavioral and cognitive data

Peter D Killworth;H.Russell Bernard

242
Citations
Eliciting representative samples of personal networks

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

237
Citations
The Construction of Primary Data in Cultural Anthropology

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

222
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter D. Killworth University of Cambridge

Christopher McCarty University of Florida

Gery W. Ryan Kaiser Permanente

William R. Leonard Northwestern University

Susan C. Weller The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Charles Kadushin Brandeis University

Stephen P. Borgatti University of Kentucky

Ronald E. Rice University of California, Santa Barbara

William W. Dressler University of Alabama

Carol Padden University of California, San Diego

External Links

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