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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Law 81 11 11 10 10 432 25542

John Hagan publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by John Hagan between 1954 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. John Hagan published across 72 years, from 1954 to 2025, averaging 6.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 36 publications in 2008. 4 of the 499 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1954 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 36. Peak 36 publications in 2008. 1954: 1 publication 1955: 1 publication 1956: 0 publications 1957: 0 publications 1958: 0 publications 1959: 0 publications 1960: 0 publications 1961: 0 publications 1962: 0 publications 1963: 0 publications 1964: 0 publications 1965: 0 publications 1966: 0 publications 1967: 0 publications 1968: 0 publications 1969: 0 publications 1970: 0 publications 1971: 0 publications 1972: 1 publication 1973: 2 publications 1974: 4 publications 1975: 7 publications 1976: 2 publications 1977: 7 publications 1978: 4 publications 1979: 10 publications 1980: 4 publications 1981: 3 publications 1982: 9 publications 1983: 9 publications 1984: 5 publications 1985: 10 publications 1986: 7 publications 1987: 7 publications 1988: 8 publications 1989: 7 publications 1990: 10 publications 1991: 6 publications 1992: 8 publications 1993: 6 publications 1994: 10 publications 1995: 13 publications 1996: 12 publications 1997: 24 publications 1998: 11 publications 1999: 8 publications 2000: 9 publications 2001: 7 publications 2002: 13 publications 2003: 16 publications 2004: 8 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 20 publications 2007: 14 publications 2008: 36 publications 2009: 11 publications 2010: 14 publications 2011: 17 publications 2012: 9 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 20 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 7 publications 2018: 11 publications 2019: 0 publications 2020: 6 publications 2021: 6 publications 2022: 17 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 3 publications
1954 2025

499 publications in total across all disciplines

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John Hagan: publications per year, 1954 to 2025
Year Publications
1954 1
1955 1
1956 0
1957 0
1958 0
1959 0
1960 0
1961 0
1962 0
1963 0
1964 0
1965 0
1966 0
1967 0
1968 0
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0
1972 1
1973 2
1974 4
1975 7
1976 2
1977 7
1978 4
1979 10
1980 4
1981 3
1982 9
1983 9
1984 5
1985 10
1986 7
1987 7
1988 8
1989 7
1990 10
1991 6
1992 8
1993 6
1994 10
1995 13
1996 12
1997 24
1998 11
1999 8
2000 9
2001 7
2002 13
2003 16
2004 8
2005 9
2006 20
2007 14
2008 36
2009 11
2010 14
2011 17
2012 9
2013 10
2014 7
2015 20
2016 9
2017 7
2018 11
2019 0
2020 6
2021 6
2022 17
2023 3
2024 1
2025 3
Total 499
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John Hagan publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Hagan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100
Bar chart with 46 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 37–41 to 262+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 100. Most scientists, 100, have 262+ publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 262+ publications, is where this scientist sits. 37–41 publications: 3 scientists 42–46 publications: 1 scientist 47–51 publications: 0 scientists 52–56 publications: 3 scientists 57–61 publications: 2 scientists 62–66 publications: 1 scientist 67–71 publications: 6 scientists 72–76 publications: 6 scientists 77–81 publications: 10 scientists 82–86 publications: 7 scientists 87–91 publications: 10 scientists 92–96 publications: 18 scientists 97–101 publications: 15 scientists 102–106 publications: 14 scientists 107–111 publications: 12 scientists 112–116 publications: 12 scientists 117–121 publications: 14 scientists 122–126 publications: 10 scientists 127–131 publications: 9 scientists 132–136 publications: 14 scientists 137–141 publications: 12 scientists 142–146 publications: 14 scientists 147–151 publications: 8 scientists 152–156 publications: 14 scientists 157–161 publications: 5 scientists 162–166 publications: 9 scientists 167–171 publications: 15 scientists 172–176 publications: 6 scientists 177–181 publications: 9 scientists 182–186 publications: 8 scientists 187–191 publications: 16 scientists 192–196 publications: 7 scientists 197–201 publications: 6 scientists 202–206 publications: 7 scientists 207–211 publications: 11 scientists 212–216 publications: 0 scientists 217–221 publications: 5 scientists 222–226 publications: 6 scientists 227–231 publications: 10 scientists 232–236 publications: 8 scientists 237–241 publications: 5 scientists 242–246 publications: 4 scientists 247–251 publications: 2 scientists 252–256 publications: 7 scientists 257–261 publications: 5 scientists 262+ publications: 100 scientists
37–41 publications 262+

This scientist: 432 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

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Number of Law scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 466 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
37–41 3
42–46 1
47–51 0
52–56 3
57–61 2
62–66 1
67–71 6
72–76 6
77–81 10
82–86 7
87–91 10
92–96 18
97–101 15
102–106 14
107–111 12
112–116 12
117–121 14
122–126 10
127–131 9
132–136 14
137–141 12
142–146 14
147–151 8
152–156 14
157–161 5
162–166 9
167–171 15
172–176 6
177–181 9
182–186 8
187–191 16
192–196 7
197–201 6
202–206 7
207–211 11
212–216 0
217–221 5
222–226 6
227–231 10
232–236 8
237–241 5
242–246 4
247–251 2
252–256 7
257–261 5
262+ 100 432
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John Hagan D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Hagan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
20 40 60 80
Bar chart with 23 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 20 to 42+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 92. Most scientists, 92, have 42+ D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 42+ D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 81 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

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Number of Law scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 466 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
20 16
21 23
22 11
23 20
24 17
25 23
26 19
27 19
28 22
29 14
30 25
31 25
32 20
33 24
34 23
35 12
36 11
37 15
38 14
39 4
40 8
41 9
42+ 92 81
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
  • 1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1988 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

John Hagan is affiliated with the American Bar Foundation in the United States and specializes in social sciences, with a significant focus on sociology and political science as well as political science and international relations. Their work spans multiple subfields, including general health professions, health, and inorganic chemistry.

The researcher's primary topics of interest include crime patterns and interventions, criminal justice and corrections analysis, policing practices and perceptions, international law and human rights, torture, ethics, and law, homelessness and social issues, and gun ownership and violence research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with John Hagan include Bill McCarthy, Daniel Herda, Ron Levi, Ioana Sendroiu, and Ruth D. Peterson.

John Hagan has published extensively in several venues, with frequent contributions to CrimRxiv, Criminology, Law & Society Review, Inorganic Chemistry, and the New Journal of Chemistry.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Race and policing in the 2016 presidential election: Black lives matter, the police, and dog whistle politics (2020), Criminology
  • Whose lives mattered? How White and Black Americans felt about Black Lives Matter in 2016 (2021), Law & Society Review
  • Neighborhood climates of legal cynicism and complaints about abuse of police power (2020), Criminology
  • Vanadium Chloro-Substituted Schiff Base Catecholate Complexes are Reducible, Lipophilic, Water Stable, and Have Anticancer Activities (2022), Inorganic Chemistry
  • What the Study of Legal Cynicism and Crime Can Tell Us About Reliability, Validity, and Versatility in Law and Social Science Research (2020), Annual Review of Law and Social Science

John Hagan's book publications include titles released by Oxford University Press and New York University Press eBooks. Notably, these include Chicago's Reckoning (2022) and The Many Colors of Crime (2022).

The researcher has received several awards, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2017), fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010), fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1997), the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1997), and fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada (1988) under the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness

    John L Hagan;Bill McCarthy

  • Collateral Consequences of Imprisonment for Children, Communities, and Prisoners

    John Hagan;Ronit Dinovitzer

  • Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide

    Ruth D. Peterson;Lauren J. Krivo;John Hagan

  • New kid in town: Social capital and the life course effects of family migration on children

    John Hagan;John Hagan;Ross MacMillan;Blair Wheaton

  • Extra-Legal Attributes and Criminal Sentencing: An Assessment of a Sociological Viewpoint

    John L. Hagan

  • The Class Structure of Gender and Delinquency: Toward a Power-Control Theory of Common Delinquent Behavior

    John Hagan;A. R. Gillis;John Simpson

  • Class in the Household: A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency.

    John Hagan;John Simpson;A. R. Gillis

  • Race, ethnicity, and youth perceptions of criminal injustice

    John Hagan;Carla Shedd;Monique R. Payne

  • THE SOCIAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF CRIME AND UNEMPLOYMENT

    John Hagan

  • Crime and Inequality

    John Hagan;Ruth D. Peterson

  • Race, Class, and the Perception of Criminal Injustice in America'

    John Hagan;Celesta Albonetti

  • Changing Conceptions of Race: Toward an Account of Anomalous Findings of Sentencing Research

    Ruth D. Peterson;John Hagan

  • Crime and disrepute

    John L Hagan

  • Destiny and Drift: Subcultural, Preferences, Status Attainments, and the Risks and Rewards of Youth

    John L. Hagan

  • Sociological Criminology and the Mythology of Hispanic Immigration and Crime

    John L Hagan;Alberto Palloni

  • Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal

    John L Hagan

  • Incarceration and Intergenerational Social Exclusion

    Holly I. Foster;John Hagan

  • Darfur and the Crime of Genocide

    John L Hagan;Wenona Rymond-Richmond

  • Gender in Practice: A Study of Lawyers' Lives

    Eve Spangler;John Hagan;Fiona Kay

  • Cultural Mechanisms and Killing Fields: A Revised Theory of Community-Level Racial Inequality

    Robert J. Sampson;Lydia Bean;Ruth Peterson;Lauren Krivo

  • Ceremonial Justice: Crime and Punishment in a Loosely Coupled System

    John Hagan;John D. Hewitt;Duane F. Alwin

  • Gender and Crime: Offense Patterns and Criminal Court Sanctions

    Ilene H. Nagel;John Hagan

  • Just des(s)erts? The racial polarization of perceptions of criminal injustice

    Scot Wortley;John Hagan;Ross Macmillan

  • Raising the bar : The gender stratification of law-firm capital

    Fiona M. Kay;John Hagan

  • Uncertainty, Cooperation, and Crime: Understanding the Decision to Co-offend

    Bill McCarthy;John Hagan;Lawrence E. Cohen

  • Private and Public Trouble: Prosecutors and the Allocation of Court Resources

    Martha A. Myers;John Hagan

  • CRIMES AS SOCIAL EVENTS IN THE LIFE COURSE: RECONCEIVING A CRIMINOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY

    John Hagan;Alberto Palloni

  • THE POVERTY OF A CLASSLESS OF CRIMINOLOGY—THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY 1991 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS CRIMINOLOGY

    John Hagan

  • The Social and Legal Construction of Criminal Justice: A Study of the Pre-Sentencing Process

    John Hagan

  • On the Development of Xenophobia in Germany: The Adolescent Years

    Klaus Boehnke;John Hagan;Gerd Hefler

  • The Gender Stratification of Income Inequality Among Lawyers

    John Hagan

  • Criminal Justice in Rural and Urban Communities: A Study of the Bureaucratization of Justice

    John L. Hagan

  • Streetlife and delinquency.

    John Hagan;Bill McCarthy

  • Criminal justice decision making as a stratification process: The role of race and stratification resources in pretrial release

    Celesta A. Albonetti;Robert M. Hauser;John Hagan;Ilene H. Nagel

  • Explaining Official Delinquency: a Spatial Study of Class, Conflict and Control

    John Hagan;A. R. Gillis;Janet Chan

  • The Sentencing of White-Collar Criminals in Federal Courts: A Socio-Legal Exploration of Disparity

    Ilene H. Nagel;John L. Hagan

  • Defiance and Despair: Subcultural and Structural Linkages between Delinquency and Despair in the Life Course

    John Hagan

  • “CLUB FED” AND THE SENTENCING OF WHITE‐COLLAR OFFENDERS BEFORE AND AFTER WATERGATE

    John L. Hagan;Alberto Palloni

Frequent Co-Authors

Bill McCarthy
Bill McCarthy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ruth D. Peterson
Ruth D. Peterson The Ohio State University
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković Michigan State University
Alberto Palloni
Alberto Palloni University of Wisconsin–Madison
Guillermina Jasso
Guillermina Jasso New York University
Robert L. Nelson
Robert L. Nelson Northwestern University
Duane F. Alwin
Duane F. Alwin Pennsylvania State University
Harold G. Grasmick
Harold G. Grasmick University of Oklahoma
Karen S. Cook
Karen S. Cook Stanford University
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University

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