2026 Lucy Suchman: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	50	2654	2428	454	410	131	35843

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Current World Ranking

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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454

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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Citations

35843

World Ranking

2654

National Ranking

454

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

8593
Citations
Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions

Lucy A. Suchman

4420
Citations
Plans and situated actions

Lucy Suchman

3136
Citations
Beyond the chalkboard: computer support for collaboration and problem solving in meetings

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

1620
Citations
Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human Machine Communication.

Steve Woolgar;Lucy A. Suchman

1582
Citations
Making work visible

Lucy Suchman

1357
Citations
Do categories have politics? The language/action perspective reconsidered

Lucy Suchman

1104
Citations
Located accountabilities in technology production

Lucy Suchman

927
Citations
Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and situated actions (2nd edition).

Lucy A. Suchman

865
Citations
Interactional Troubles in Face-to-Face Survey Interviews

Lucy Suchman;Brigitte Jordan

809
Citations
Working relations of technology production and use

Lucy A. Suchman

750
Citations
Office procedure as practical action: models of work and system design

Lucy A. Suchman

707
Citations
Understanding practice: video as a medium for reflection and design

Lucy A. Suchman;Randall H. Trigg

611
Citations
Reconstructing Technologies as Social Practice

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

592
Citations
Do categories have politics

Lucy A. Suchman

491
Citations
Centers of coordination : a case and some themes.

Lucy Suchman

474
Citations
Human–Machine Reconfigurations: Index

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407
Citations
Reflections on a work-oriented design project

Jeanette Blomberg;Lucy Suchman;Randall H. Trigg

384
Citations
Organizing Alignment: A Case of Bridge-Building:

Lucy Suchman

370
Citations
Working artefacts: ethnomethods of the prototype

Lucy Suchman;Randall Trigg;Jeanette Blomberg

351
Citations
Practice-Based Design of Information Systems: Notes from the Hyperdeveloped World

Lucy A. Suchman

308
Citations
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

181
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Hess Vanderbilt University

Steve Woolgar University of Oxford

Michael Lynch Cornell University

External Links

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