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Lorraine Daston

Lorraine Daston

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
47
Citations
17665
World Ranking
3267
National Ranking
85

Lorraine Daston 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 Lorraine Daston sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 344 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lorraine Daston 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 Lorraine Daston 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: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% 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

  • 2002 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften History of Science and Medicine
  • 1994 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Lorraine Daston is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research intersects various areas within the history and philosophy of science, with a particular focus on topics such as the history of science and medicine, philosophy and history of science, and probability and statistical research.

Their recent scholarly papers include the following publications:

  • Ground-Zero Empiricism, 2020, Critical Inquiry
  • Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene, 2022, Common Knowledge
  • Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), 2020, Public Culture
  • Undead Texts and the Disciplines That Love to Hate Them, 2020, Public Culture
  • On the Value of Collective Work and Studying Practices: An Interview, 2020, Philosophical Literary Journal Logos

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Daston include:

  • Marc Bloch
  • Lucien Febvre Ancien
  • Nicolas Barreyre
  • Chloe Morgan
  • Clémence Peyran

Their work has been published repeatedly in several venues, with notable counts in the following journals:

  • Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales (12 publications)
  • Critical Inquiry (3 publications)
  • Public Culture (2 publications)
  • Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (2 publications)
  • Common Knowledge (1 publication)

Daston's book publications span several publishers and include titles such as:

  • Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition (2023), Princeton University Press
  • Rules (2022), Princeton University Press
  • Contra la naturaleza (2021), Herder eBooks
  • Objectivity (2021), Zone Books

Their research covers multiple main topics including:

  • History of Science and Medicine
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Probability and Statistical Research
  • History of Science and Natural History
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
  • Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

Lorraine Daston's subfields of study comprise:

  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Geography, Planning and Development

Throughout their career, Daston has received several awards including:

  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften) in 2002 for contributions related to History of Science and Medicine
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1994
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993

Best Publications

  • Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150-1750

    Lorraine J. Daston;Katharine Park

  • The Image of Objectivity

    Lorraine Daston;Peter Galison

  • Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

    Lorraine J. Daston

  • Objectivity and the escape from perspective

    Lorraine Daston

  • The moral economy of science

    Lorraine Daston

  • Things that talk : object lessons from art and science

    Lorraine J. Daston

  • Marvelous facts and miraculous evidence in early modern Europe

    Lorraine Daston

  • How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

    Paul Erickson;Judy L. Klein;Lorraine Daston;Rebecca Lemov

  • UNNATURAL CONCEPTIONS: THE STUDY OF MONSTERS IN SIXTEENTH-AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE AND ENGLAND

    Katharine Park;Lorraine J. Daston

  • How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

    Paul Erickson;Judy L. Klein;Lorraine Daston;Rebecca Lemov

  • Biographies of scientific objects

    Lorraine J. Daston

  • Introduction: Scientific personae and their histories

    Lorraine Daston;H. Otto Sibum

  • Thinking with animals : new perspectives on anthropomorphism

    Lorraine J. Daston;Gregg Mitman

  • The Moral Authority of Nature

    Lorraine J. Daston;Fernando Vidal

  • Histories of scientific observation

    Lorraine J. Daston;Elizabeth Lunbeck

  • The Cambridge History of Science

    Katharine Park;Lorraine Daston

  • The Ideal and Reality of the Republic of Letters in the Enlightenment

    Lorraine Daston

  • On Scientific Observation

    Lorraine Daston

  • Introduction: the how and why of thinking with animals

    Lorraine Daston;Gregg Mitman

  • Science Studies and the History of Science

    Lorraine Daston

  • Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750

    Kathryn Brammall;Lorraine Daston;Katharine Park

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Anthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton Princeton University
Judith Butler
Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley
Steven Shapin
Steven Shapin Harvard University
Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking University of Toronto
Peter Sloep
Peter Sloep The Open University
Robert C. Post
Robert C. Post Yale University
Joan B. Silk
Joan B. Silk Arizona State University

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