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D-Index
55
Citations
23187
World Ranking
1961
National Ranking
939

Margaret Mead 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 Margaret Mead sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 454 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Margaret Mead 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 Margaret Mead 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: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% 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

  • 1975 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1934 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Margaret Mead was affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their academic contributions included both book publications and research papers over their career.

One recent paper authored by Margaret Mead in 2023 was titled An examination of the ideas about how to teach adults: do they reflect the best ideas about good teaching? and was published in Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

  • Rhoda Métraux
  • William O Beeman
  • Gregory Bateson

  • Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Margaret Mead published books with notable academic publishers. Their publications included:

  • The Study of Culture at a Distance (2022) published by Éditions de la Sorbonne with 161 citations
  • And Keep Your Powder Dry (2022) published by Berghahn Books with 113 citations

The scientist was recognized with several awards during their career:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1934)

Margaret Mead is deceased. Their work spanned multiple decades, contributing to the academic discourse through both collaborative research and individually authored books and papers.

Best Publications

  • Coming of Age in Samoa

    Margaret Mead

  • Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies

    Margaret Mead

  • Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples

    Margaret Mead

  • Image of the Scientist among High-School Students

    Margaret Mead;Rhoda Métraux

  • Coming of Age in Samoa; a Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization

    Margaret Mead

  • Adolescencia y cultura en Samoa

    Margaret Mead;Elena Dukelski Yoffe

  • The study of culture at a distance

    Margaret Mead;Rhoda Bubundey Métraux;William O. Beeman

  • Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

    Gregory Bateson;Margaret Mead

  • The Human Revolution [and Comments and Reply]

    Charles F. Hockett;Robert Ascher;George A. Agogino;Ray L. Birdwhistell

  • Culture and commitment : a study of the generation gap

    Margaret Mead

  • Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World

    Margaret Mead

  • Growing Up in New Guinea

    Margaret Mead

  • Culture and commitment

    Margaret Mead

  • Childhood in contemporary cultures

    Margaret Mead;Martha Wolfenstein

  • Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words

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  • Co-Operation and Competition among Primitive Peoples

    Margaret Mead

  • An investigation of the thought of primitive children with special reference to animism

    Margaret Mead

  • Cultural Patterns and Technical Change

    Margaret Mead

  • Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years

    Margaret Mead

  • Continuities in cultural evolution

    Margaret Mead

  • Coming of Age in Samoa

    Margaret Mead

Frequent Co-Authors

Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Dobzhansky University of California, Davis
Paul Ekman
Paul Ekman University of California, San Francisco
Abraham H. Maslow
Abraham H. Maslow Brandeis University
Franz Boas
Franz Boas Columbia University
J. Desmond Clark
J. Desmond Clark University of California, Berkeley
Thomas A. Sebeok
Thomas A. Sebeok Indiana University

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