2026 Jeffrey C. Alexander: 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	70	753	656	356	304	312	32690

Jeffrey C. Alexander 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 Jeffrey C. Alexander sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 312 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.

Jeffrey C. Alexander 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 Jeffrey C. Alexander sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% 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

1979 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jeffrey C. Alexander is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science. Over the course of their career, they have published extensively on topics including social and cultural dynamics, contemporary sociological theory and practice, as well as intersections between religion, society, and psychology.

Their research covers several specialized areas such as:

Sociology and Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Health
Urban Studies
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Key topics in their work address:

Social and Cultural Dynamics
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
Religion and Society Interactions
Religion, Society, and Development
Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Public Spaces through Art
Management and Organizational Studies

Prominent frequent co-authors include Philip Smith, Neil J. Smelser, Willa Sachs, Anna Lund, and Andrea Voyer, indicating collaborative efforts across multiple projects and topics. Their scholarly output appears often in venues such as the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Thesis Eleven, Sociologisk Forskning, Sociology Theory Methods Marketing, and Society.

Recent notable publications comprise:

COVID-19 and symbolic action: global pandemic as code, narrative, and cultural performance (2020) in American Journal of Cultural Sociology
The performativity of objects (2020) in Sociologisk Forskning
Cultural sociology in a secular age (2020) in American Journal of Cultural Sociology
Civil Sphere and Transitions to Peace: Cultural Trauma and Civil Repair (2020) in International Journal of Politics Culture and Society
Recovering the primitive in the modern: The cultural turn and the origins of cultural sociology (2021) in Thesis Eleven

Throughout their academic career, Jeffrey C. Alexander has contributed extensively to the understanding of cultural sociology and the sociopolitical context of contemporary issues.

Recognition of their work includes the award of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1979.

Best Publications

The civil sphere

Jeffrey C. Alexander

2707
Citations
Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma

Jeffrey C. Alexander

2212
Citations
Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

Jeffrey C. Alexander;Ron Eyerman;Bernard Giesen;Neil J. Smelser

2108
Citations
Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance between Ritual and Strategy*:

Jeffrey C. Alexander

1977
Citations
The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology

Jeffrey C. Alexander

1927
Citations
Theoretical logic in sociology

Jeffrey C. Alexander

1382
Citations
The Micro-macro link

Jeffrey C. Alexander

1203
Citations
Fin De Siecle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction, and the Problem of Reason

Jeffrey C. Alexander

1013
Citations
The discourse of American civil society: A new proposal for cultural studies

Jeffrey C. Alexander;Philip Smith

985
Citations
Action and Its Environments: Toward a New Synthesis

Jeffrey C. Alexander

875
Citations
Las teorías sociológicas desde la segunda guerra mundial: análisis multidimensional

Jeffrey C. Alexander

864
Citations
Trauma: A Social Theory

Jeffrey C. Alexander

832
Citations
Social performance : symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual

Jeffrey C. Alexander;Bernhard Giesen;Jason L. Mast

648
Citations
Strong Program in Cultural Sociology

Jeffrey C. Alexander;Philip Smith

534
Citations
Performance and Power

Jeffrey C. Alexander

500
Citations
The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power

Jeffrey C. Alexander

475
Citations
The Strong Program in Cultural Theory: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics

Jeffrey Alexander;Philip Smith

426
Citations
On the Social Construction of Moral Universals The `Holocaust' from War Crime to Trauma Drama

Jeffrey C. Alexander

413
Citations
Durkheimian sociology : cultural studies

Jeffrey C. Alexander

374
Citations
Social Performance: Cultural pragmatics: social performance between ritual and strategy

Unknown

282
Citations
Mass communication, ritual and civil society

Jeffrey C. Alexander;Ronald N. Jacobs

278
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip Smith University of Connecticut

Neil J. Smelser University of California, Berkeley

Steven Seidman University at Albany, State University of New York

Elihu Katz University of Pennsylvania

Jonathan H. Turner University of California, Riverside

Randall Collins University of Pennsylvania

Peter H. Rossi University of Massachusetts Amherst

Richard A. Berk University of Pennsylvania

Peter L. Berger Boston University

Rogers Brubaker University of California, Los Angeles

External Links

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