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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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73
Citations
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World Ranking
609
National Ranking
113

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  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

John Law is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions focus on various interdisciplinary topics, notably spanning Indigenous Studies and Ecology, Geographies of human-animal interactions, Culinary Culture and Tourism, Biomedical Ethics and Regulation, Race, Genetics, and Society, South Asian Studies and Conflicts, as well as Romani and Gypsy Studies.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Words to think with: An introduction, 2020, The Sociological Review
  • Thinking differently with Chinese medicine: 'Explanations' and case studies for a postcolonial STS, 2022, Social Studies of Science
  • Verbing meahcci: Living Sámi lands, 2020, The Sociological Review
  • Translating a title: On other terms, 2020, The Sociological Review
  • Afterword: The Infrastructures of Difference, 2020, Nomadic Peoples

John Law frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including:

  • Solveig Joks
  • Liv Østmo
  • Annemarie Mol
  • Wen-yuan Lin
  • Liubov Chernysheva

Their work has been published across several academic venues, primarily:

  • The Sociological Review
  • The MIT Press eBooks
  • Social Studies of Science
  • Nomadic Peoples
  • Studies in health technology and informatics

The subfields covered by John Law include:

  • General Health Professions
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Food Science
  • Physiology
  • Genetics

Best Publications

  • Notes on the theory of the actor-network: ordering, strategy and heterogeneity.

    John Law

  • Shaping technology, building society : studies in sociotechnical change

    Wiebe E. Bijker;John Law

  • Enacting the social

    John Law;John Urry

  • Technology and heterogeneous engineering: the case of Portuguese expansion

    J. Law

  • Actor-network theory and material semiotics

    John Law

  • Regions, Networks and Fluids: Anaemia and Social Topology:

    Annemarie Mol;John Law

  • After Ant: Complexity, Naming and Topology:

    John Law

  • A Sociology of monsters: Essays on power, technology, and domination

    John Law

  • Mapping the Dynamics of Science and Technology

    Michel Callon;John Law;Arie Rip

  • Power, Action and Belief. A New Sociology of Knowledge?

    J Law;G. J Fyfe;M Callon;B Latour

  • Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies. The Example of Hypoglycaemia

    Annemarie Mol;John Law

  • On the Methods of Long-Distance Control: Vessels, Navigation and the Portuguese Route to India:

    John Law

  • Notes on Materiality and Sociality

    John Law;Annemarie Mol

  • Mapping the dynamics of science and technology : sociology of science in the real world

    Susan E. Cozzens;Michel Callon;John Law;Arie Rip

  • Situating Technoscience: An Inquiry into Spatialities

    John Law;Annemarie Mol

  • Introduction: Monsters, Machines and Sociotechnical Relations:

    John Law

  • Reassembling Social Science Methods: The Challenge of Digital Devices:

    Evelyn S. Ruppert;John Law;Mike Savage

  • On Interests and their Transformation: Enrolment and Counter-Enrolment:

    Michel Callon;John Law

  • Complexities: An Introduction

    Annemarie Mol;John Law

  • Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices

    John Law;Annemarie Mol

  • What's wrong with a one-world world?

    John Law

Frequent Co-Authors

Annemarie Mol
Annemarie Mol University of Amsterdam
Michel Callon
Michel Callon Mines ParisTech
Annelies Wilder-Smith
Annelies Wilder-Smith University of Bern
Mike Savage
Mike Savage London School of Economics and Political Science
Wiebe E. Bijker
Wiebe E. Bijker Maastricht University
Arie Rip
Arie Rip University of Twente
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour Sciences Po
Annalee Yassi
Annalee Yassi University of British Columbia
Trevor Pinch
Trevor Pinch Cornell University
Nicholas I. Paton
Nicholas I. Paton National University of Singapore

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