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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
123
Citations
71919
World Ranking
20
National Ranking
1

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D-Index
133
Citations
74139
World Ranking
25
National Ranking
2

Loet Leydesdorff 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 Loet Leydesdorff sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 713 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Loet Leydesdorff 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 Loet Leydesdorff 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: 123 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% 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

  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Loet Leydesdorff was affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research focused on various aspects of innovation, scientometrics, and the dynamics of knowledge within social and economic systems.

The main fields of Leydesdorff's work included:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Decision Sciences
  • Social Sciences

Leydesdorff's subfields of study covered topics such as:

  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Strategy and Management
  • Information Systems and Management

Their work addressed key topics including:

  • University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
  • Scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Innovation, Technology, and Society
  • Regional Development and Policy
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition

Leydesdorff authored several papers, notably:

  • The measurement of "interdisciplinarity" and "synergy" in scientific and extra-scientific collaborations (2020, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
  • Triple, Quadruple, and Higher-Order Helices: Historical Phenomena and (Neo-)Evolutionary Models (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Triple, Quadruple, and Higher-Order Helices: Historical Phenomena and (Neo-)Evolutionary Models (2022, Triple Helix Journal)

Frequent co-authors who contributed alongside Leydesdorff included:

  • Lutz Bornmann
  • Lin Zhang
  • Caroline S. Wagner
  • Inga Ivanova
  • Helen Lawton Smith

Their research was published in various venues, with multiple publications in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (20 publications)
  • Scientometrics (8 publications)
  • El Profesional de la Informacion (3 publications)
  • Journal of Data and Information Science (3 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (3 publications)

Leydesdorff also authored books published by Springer International Publishing, including:

  • The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge (2021)
  • Higher Education and Job Employability (2022)
  • Reconfiguring National, Institutional and Human Strategies for the 21st Century (2022)

Best Publications

  • The dynamics of innovation: from national systems and "Mode" 2 to a triple helix of university-industry-government relations.

    Henry Etzkowitz;Loet Leydesdorff

  • Universities and the global knowledge economy

    Henry Etzkowitz;L. A. Leydesdorff

  • Emergence of a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations

    Loet Leydesdorff;Henry Etzkowitz

  • The Knowledge-Based Economy

    Loet Leydesdorff

  • Universities and the global knowledge economy : a triple helix of university-industry-government relations

    Henry Etzkowitz;L. A. Leydesdorff

  • The Triple Helix as a model for innovation studies

    Loet Leydesdorff;Henry Etzkowitz

  • Network structure, self-organization and the growth of international collaboration in science

    Caroline S. Wagner;Loet Leydesdorff

  • The Triple Helix, Quadruple Helix, …, and an N-Tuple of Helices: Explanatory Models for Analyzing the Knowledge-Based Economy?

    Loet Leydesdorff

  • Regional Development in the Knowledge-Based Economy: The Construction of Advantage

    Philip Cooke;Loet Leydesdorff

  • A review of theory and practice in scientometrics

    John Mingers;Loet Leydesdorff

  • The dynamics of innovation: from National Systems and

    Henry Etzkowitz;Loet Leydesdorff

  • The Triple Helix - -University-Industry-Government Relations: A Laboratory for Knowledge Based Economic Development

    H. Etzkowitz;L.A. Leydesdorff

  • The endless transition: A “triple helix” of university–industry–government relations

    Henry Etzkowitz;Loet Leydesdorff

  • The Triple Helix -- University-Industry-Government Relations: A Laboratory for Knowledge Based Economic Development

    Henry Etzkowitz;Loet Leydesdorff

  • A global map of science based on the ISI subject categories

    Loet Leydesdorff;Ismael Rafols

  • The triple helix: an evolutionary model of innovations

    Loet Leydesdorff

  • Betweenness centrality as an indicator of the interdisciplinarity of scientific journals

    Loet Leydesdorff

  • The emergence of China as a leading nation in science

    Ping Zhou;Loet Leydesdorff

  • How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research: A comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management

    Ismael Rafols;Ismael Rafols;Loet Leydesdorff;Alice O'Hare;Paul Nightingale

  • Triple Helix indicators of knowledge-based innovation systems: Introduction to the special issue

    Loet Leydesdorff;Martin S. Meyer

  • A triple Helix of University-industry-government relations

    L.A. Leydesdorff

Frequent Co-Authors

Lutz Bornmann
Lutz Bornmann Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Ismael Rafols
Ismael Rafols Leiden University
Han Woo Park
Han Woo Park Yeungnam University
Henry Etzkowitz
Henry Etzkowitz International triple helix institute
Martin Meyer
Martin Meyer University of Kent
Peter van den Besselaar
Peter van den Besselaar Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Werner Marx
Werner Marx Max Planck Society
Paul Wouters
Paul Wouters Leiden University
Félix de Moya-Anegón
Félix de Moya-Anegón Spanish National Research Council

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