2026 Peter Burke: 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	94	134	112	64	56	587	57256

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

Publications

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Social Sciences and Humanities

134

112

587

57256

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

57256

World Ranking

134

National Ranking

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1995 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Peter Burke is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their academic work is primarily situated within the Arts and Humanities, with a focus on History, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics including:

Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
History of Science and Natural History
Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
American Constitutional Law and Politics

Peter Burke has published numerous scholarly articles. Recent papers include:

"Introduction: Histories of Ignorance" (2021) in the Journal for the History of Knowledge
"Response" (2020) in the Journal for the History of Knowledge
"Context in Context" (2022) in Common Knowledge
"The political portrait: leadership, image and power" (2021) in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies
"Cultural History, Ritual and Performance: George L. Mosse in Context" (2021) in the Journal of Contemporary History

Their collaborative work involves frequent co-authors such as:

Tomás Antonio Mantecón Movellán
Lukas M. Verburgt
Jens Boel
Jürgen Kocka
Joyce Appleby

Peter Burke's publications often appear in specific venues. The most frequent of these include:

Common Knowledge
Procesos Revista ecuatoriana de historia
Journal for the History of Knowledge
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
Journal of Contemporary History

Book publications include titles released through Yale University Press and Editorial de la Universidad de Cantabria eBooks. Notable titles published by Yale University Press are:

"The Polymath" (2020)
"Ignorance" (2023)

Another book titled "La construcción del conocimiento en la época ilustrada: la mirada científica de Thaddaeus Haenke" is scheduled for 2025 through Editorial de la Universidad de Cantabria eBooks.

Peter Burke has received recognition in the form of awards such as:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2004
Member of Academia Europaea, 1995

Best Publications

Identity theory and social identity theory

Jan E. Stets;Peter J. Burke

7058
Citations
The Past, Present, and Future of an Identity Theory*

Sheldon Stryker;Peter J. Burke

5567
Citations
IDENTITY PROCESSES AND SOCIAL STRESS

Peter J. Burke

2939
Citations
Visto y no visto: el uso de la imagen como documento histórico

Peter Burke

1949
Citations
A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet

Asha briggs;Peter Burke

1589
Citations
The Link between Identity and Role Performance

Peter J. Burke;Donald C. Reitzes

1514
Citations
Log-Linear Models

David Knoke;Peter Burke

1421
Citations
A Theory of Self-Esteem

Alicia D. Cast;Peter J. Burke

1407
Citations
An Identity Theory Approach to Commitment

Peter J. Burke;Donald C. Reitzes

1365
Citations
The self: Measurement requirements from an interactionist perspective.

Peter J. Burke

1334
Citations
The Measurement of Role Identity

Peter J. Burke;Judy C. Tully

1168
Citations
Popular culture in early modern Europe

Peter Burke

1122
Citations
A sociological approach to self and identity

Jan E. Stets;Peter J. Burke

1033
Citations
Trust and commitment through self-verification.

Peter J. Burke;Jan E. Stets

971
Citations
Varieties of cultural history

Peter J. Burke

725
Citations
Futures past: on the semantics of historical time

Peter Burke

696
Citations
The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy : Essays on Perception and Communication

Peter Burke

662
Citations
Identities and social structure: The 2003 cooley-mead award address

Peter J. Burke

633
Citations
Exploratory and confirmatory tests of the big five and Tellegen's three- and four-dimensional models.

Church At;Burke Pj

629
Citations
CULTURAL TRANSLATION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Peter Burke;R. Po Chia Hsia

608
Citations
The Renaissance sense of the past

Peter Burke

584
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan E. Stets University of California, Riverside

Arthur C. Gossard University of California, Santa Barbara

Robert Schoelkopf Yale University

Henry G. LeDuc Jet Propulsion Lab

John E. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara

Douglas C. Wallace Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Ali Shakouri Purdue University West Lafayette

Elliott R. Brown Wright State University

Ken W. West Princeton University

David Knoke University of Minnesota

External Links

Personal website of Peter Burke Google Scholar page

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