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D-Index
37
Citations
19782
World Ranking
6041
National Ranking
2877

Lee Fleming 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 Lee Fleming sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 87 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lee Fleming 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 Lee Fleming sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Lee Fleming is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research broadly spans the fields of economics, econometrics, finance, business, management, and accounting. Specifically, their work covers multiple subfields including economics and econometrics, management of technology and innovation, accounting, management information systems, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's published work addresses key topics such as firm innovation and growth, fintech, crowdfunding and digital finance, innovation policy and research and development, entrepreneurship studies and influences, economic growth and productivity, private equity and venture capital, as well as microfinance and financial inclusion.

Frequent venues for publishing research include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Research Policy
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • Management Science

Lee Fleming has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Benjamin Balsmeier
  • Matt Marx
  • Gustavo Manso
  • Seungryul Ryan Shin
  • Olav Sorenson

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Innovation Search Strategy and Predictable Returns," 2020, Management Science
  • "Isolating Personal Knowledge Spillovers: Coinventor Deaths and Spatial Citation Differentials," 2023, American Economic Review Insights
  • "Regional crowdfunding and high tech entrepreneurship," 2021, Research Policy
  • "Heterogeneous Innovation over the Business Cycle," 2021, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • "Early Disclosure of Invention and Reduced Duplication: An Empirical Test," 2020, Management Science

Lee Fleming has also contributed to books published by The Berkeley-Haas Case Series at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business eBooks. Titles include:

  • "Aptera: Technology and Manufacturing Choices (B)," 2022
  • "Aptera: The First Time Around (A)," 2022
  • "Aptera: The Future of Financing (C)," 2022

Best Publications

  • Recombinant Uncertainty in Technological Search

    Lee Fleming

  • Science as a map in technological search

    Lee Fleming;Olav Sorenson

  • Technology as a complex adaptive system: evidence from patent data

    Lee Fleming;Olav Sorenson

  • Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success:

    Lee Fleming;Santiago Mingo;David Chen

  • Complexity, networks and knowledge flow

    Olav Sorenson;Jan W. Rivkin;Lee Fleming

  • Small Worlds and Regional Innovation

    Lee Fleming;Charles King;Adam I. Juda

  • Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities

    Lee Fleming;David M. Waguespack

  • Lone Inventors as Sources of Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

    Jasjit Singh;Lee Fleming

  • Independent Boards and Innovation

    Benjamin Balsmeier;Lee Fleming;Gustavo Manso

  • Mobility, Skills, and the Michigan Non-Compete Experiment

    Matt Marx;Deborah Strumsky;Lee Fleming

  • Disambiguation and co-authorship networks of the U.S. patent inventor database (1975-2010)

    Guan-Cheng Li;Ronald Lai;Alexander D’Amour;David M. Doolin

  • Science and the diffusion of knowledge

    Olav Sorenson;Lee Fleming

  • Managing Creativity in Small Worlds

    Lee Fleming;Matt Marx

  • Breakthroughs and the ¿Long Tail¿ of Innovation

    Lee Fleming

  • Time Pressure and Creativity in Organizations: A Longitudinal Field Study

    Teresa M. Amabile;Jennifer S. Mueller;William B. Simpson;Constance N. Hadley

  • Finding the organizational sources of technological breakthroughs: the story of Hewlett‐Packard's thermal ink‐jet

    Lee Fleming

  • THE EVOLUTION OF INVENTOR NETWORKS IN THE SILICON VALLEY AND BOSTON REGIONS

    Lee Fleming;Koen Frenken

  • Expand innovation finance via crowdfunding.

    Olav Sorenson;Valentina Assenova;Guan-Cheng Li;Jason Boada

  • Government-funded research increasingly fuels innovation

    Lee Fleming;Hillary Greene;Guan-Cheng Li;Matt Marx

  • Regional disadvantage? Employee non-compete agreements and brain drain

    Matt Marx;Jasjit Singh;Lee Fleming

  • Lone Inventors as Source of Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

    Jasjit Singh;Lee Fleming

  • Penguins, Camels, and Other Birds of a Feather: Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities

    Lee Fleming;David Waguespack

Frequent Co-Authors

Olav Sorenson
Olav Sorenson University of California, Los Angeles
Ramana Nanda
Ramana Nanda Imperial College London
Koen Frenken
Koen Frenken Utrecht University
Edward L. Glaeser
Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University
Scott P. Johnson
Scott P. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
Teresa M. Amabile
Teresa M. Amabile Harvard University
Zoltan J. Acs
Zoltan J. Acs George Mason University
William C. Strange
William C. Strange University of Toronto
Robert E. Litan
Robert E. Litan Brookings Institution
Steven Klepper
Steven Klepper Carnegie Mellon University

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