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Lucy Suchman 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 Lucy Suchman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 131 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lucy Suchman 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 Lucy Suchman 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: 50 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% 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 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute

Overview

Lucy Suchman is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and specializes in the social sciences. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including safety research, cognitive neuroscience, history and philosophy of science, sociology and political science, and human-computer interaction.

The scientist's work focuses on multiple topics, prominently including ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence, embodied and extended cognition, philosophy and history of science, neuroethics, human enhancement, biomedical innovations, space science and extraterrestrial life, cybernetics and technology in society, and digital games and media.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Lucy Suchman demonstrate this diversity of focus:

  • The uncontroversial 'thingness' of AI, 2023, Big Data & Society
  • Algorithmic warfare and the reinvention of accuracy, 2020, Critical Studies on Security
  • Toward a Critique of Algorithmic Violence, 2021, International Political Sociology
  • Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences, 2023, Cognitive Science
  • Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense, 2022, Social Studies of Science

Frequent co-authors include Edwin Hutchins, Rocco Bellanova, Kristina Irion, Katja Lindskov Jacobsen, and Francesco Ragazzi.

Publication venues where Lucy Suchman has appeared include:

  • Big Data & Society
  • Critical Studies on Security
  • International Political Sociology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Studies of Science

The scientist was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication

    Lucy A. Suchman

  • Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions

    Lucy A. Suchman

  • Plans and situated actions

    Lucy Suchman

  • Beyond the chalkboard: computer support for collaboration and problem solving in meetings

    Mark Stefik;Gregg Foster;Daniel G. Bobrow;Kenneth Kahn

  • Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human Machine Communication.

    Steve Woolgar;Lucy A. Suchman

  • Making work visible

    Lucy Suchman

  • Do categories have politics? The language/action perspective reconsidered

    Lucy Suchman

  • Located accountabilities in technology production

    Lucy Suchman

  • Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and situated actions (2nd edition).

    Lucy A. Suchman

  • Interactional Troubles in Face-to-Face Survey Interviews

    Lucy Suchman;Brigitte Jordan

  • Working relations of technology production and use

    Lucy A. Suchman

  • Office procedure as practical action: models of work and system design

    Lucy A. Suchman

  • Understanding practice: video as a medium for reflection and design

    Lucy A. Suchman;Randall H. Trigg

  • Reconstructing Technologies as Social Practice

    Lucy Suchman;Jeanette Blomberg;Julian E. Orr;Randall Trigg

  • Do categories have politics

    Lucy A. Suchman

  • Centers of coordination : a case and some themes.

    Lucy Suchman

  • Human–Machine Reconfigurations: Index

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  • Reflections on a work-oriented design project

    Jeanette Blomberg;Lucy Suchman;Randall H. Trigg

  • Organizing Alignment: A Case of Bridge-Building:

    Lucy Suchman

  • Working artefacts: ethnomethods of the prototype

    Lucy Suchman;Randall Trigg;Jeanette Blomberg

  • Practice-Based Design of Information Systems: Notes from the Hyperdeveloped World

    Lucy A. Suchman

  • Understanding computers and cognition:A new foundation for design. T. Winograd and F. Flores, (Ablex, Norwood, NJ, 1986); 207 pages, $24.95

    Lucy A. Suchman

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Stefik
Mark J. Stefik Palo Alto Research Center
Daniel G. Bobrow
Daniel G. Bobrow Palo Alto Research Center
David J. Hess
David J. Hess Vanderbilt University
Terry Winograd
Terry Winograd Stanford University
Elizabeth F. Churchill
Elizabeth F. Churchill Google (United States)
Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman University of Maryland, College Park
Paul Smolensky
Paul Smolensky Microsoft (United States)
Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch Cornell University
Steve Woolgar
Steve Woolgar University of Oxford
Batya Friedman
Batya Friedman University of Washington

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