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Mayer N. Zald 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 Mayer N. Zald sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 155 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mayer N. Zald 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 Mayer N. Zald sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 50 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Mayer N. Zald was affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research contributions spanned multiple fields within the broader domain of health and biological sciences.

Their recent scholarly work includes the paper titled Health Movements (United States), published in 2022 in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. This publication focused on the dynamics of health-related social movements within the United States.

Zald collaborated with coauthors such as Verta Taylor during their academic career.

  • Verta Taylor

The venues in which their research appeared notably include:

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

Their work intersected with various academic disciplines, predominantly:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Health Professions

Within these fields, they specialized particularly in the subfields of:

  • Genetics
  • General Health Professions

The main topics covered in their research consisted of:

  • Race, Genetics, and Society
  • Public Health Policies and Education

Best Publications

  • Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory

    John David McCarthy;Mayer N. Zald

  • Comparative perspectives on social movements : political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and cultural framings

    Dough McAdam;John D McCarthy;Mayer N Zald

  • The Trend of Social Movements in America: Professionalization and Resource Mobilization

    John D. McCarthy;Mayer N. Zald

  • Strategies for planned change

    Gerald. Zaltman;Robert Duncan

  • Power Plays: How Social Movements and Collective Action Create New Organizational Forms

    Hayagreeva Rao;Calvin Morrill;Mayer N. Zald

  • Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Introduction: Opportunities, mobilizing structures, and framing processes – toward a synthetic, comparative perspective on social movements

    Doug McAdam;John D. McCarthy;Mayer N. Zald

  • Social Movement Organizations: Growth, Decay and Change

    Mayer N. Zald;Roberta Ash

  • Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements

    Carol M. Mueller;Doug McAdam;John D. McCarthy;Mayer N. Zald

  • Movimientos sociales, perspectivas comparadas: oportunidades políticas, estructuras de movilización y marcos interpretativos culturales

    Doug McAdam;John D. McCarthy;Mayer N. Zald

  • The Power and Functions of Boards of Directors: A Theoretical Synthesis'

    Mayer N. Zald

  • The Enduring Vitality of the Resource Mobilization Theory of Social Movements

    John D. McCarthy;Mayer N. Zald

  • Social Movements in Organizations: Coup d'Etat, Insurgency, and Mass Movements

    Mayer N. Zald;Michael A. Berger

  • The political economy of public organizations

    Gary L. Wamsley;Mayer N. Zald

  • Social Movements in an Organizational Society.

    John Wilson;Mayer N. Zald;John D. McCarthy

  • Social Movement Industries: Competition and Cooperation Among Movement Organizations

    Mayer N. Zald;John D. McCarthy

  • Social Movements in an Organizational Society: Collected Essays

    Mayer N. Zald;John D. McCarthy

  • Globalizations and Social Movements: Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere

    John A. Guidry;Michael D. Kennedy;Mayer N Zald

  • The Wizards of Oz: Towards an Institutional Approach to Elites, Expertise and Command Posts

    Mayer N. Zald;Michael Lounsbury

  • COVERT POLITICAL CONFLICT IN ORGANIZATIONS: Challenges from Below

    Calvin Morrill;Mayer N. Zald;Hayagreeva Rao

  • Ideologically Structured Action: An Enlarged Agenda for Social Movement Research

    Mayer Zald

  • The dynamics of social movements : resource mobilization, social control, and tactics

    Mayer N. Zald;John D. McCarthy

  • Actors and Systems: The Politics of Collective Action.

    Mayer N. Zald;Michel Crozier;Erhard Friedberg

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. McCarthy
John D. McCarthy Pennsylvania State University
Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam Stanford University
Gerald F. Davis
Gerald F. Davis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
W. Richard Scott
W. Richard Scott Stanford University
John D. Kasarda
John D. Kasarda University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter Evans
Peter Evans University of California, Berkeley
Michael Lounsbury
Michael Lounsbury University of Alberta
Jackie Smith
Jackie Smith University of Pittsburgh
David Jacobs
David Jacobs The Ohio State University
Arturo Escobar
Arturo Escobar University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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