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Peter Weingart

Peter Weingart

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
46
Citations
12785
World Ranking
3521
National Ranking
93

Peter Weingart 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 Peter Weingart sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 339 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Weingart 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 Peter Weingart 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: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Peter Weingart is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and has established a research profile within the social sciences, particularly focusing on sociology and political science, communication, information systems and management, social psychology, and policy-related topics.

Their recent work encompasses several key topics, including climate change communication and perception, public relations and crisis communication, academic publishing and open access, misinformation and its impacts, media influence and health, species distribution and climate change, and animal and plant science education.

Notable publications by Peter Weingart include:

  • Public engagement with science-Origins, motives and impact in academic literature and science policy, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Trust or attention? Medialization of science revisited, 2022, Public Understanding of Science
  • Democratic and expert legitimacy: Science, politics and the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, Science and Public Policy
  • Citizen science in South Africa: Rhetoric and reality, 2021, Public Understanding of Science

Frequent coauthors with whom Peter Weingart has collaborated include Lars Guenther, Anne Reif, Monika Taddicken, Luz María Hernández Nieto, and Marina Joubert.

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Public Understanding of Science
  • Science and Public Policy
  • Journal of Science Communication
  • European Review

Best Publications

  • Risks of communication: discourses on climate change in science, politics, and the mass media

    Peter Weingart;Anita Engels;Petra Pansegrau

  • Rasse, Blut und Gene - Geschichte der Eugenik und Rassenhygiene in Deutschland

    Peter Weingart;Jürgen Kroll;Kurt Bayertz

  • Impact of bibliometrics upon the science system: Inadvertent consequences?

    Peter Weingart

  • Scientific expertise and political accountability: paradoxes of science in politics

    Peter Weingart

  • From “Finalization” to “Mode 2”: old wine in new bottles?

    Peter Weingart

  • Die Stunde der Wahrheit? : zum Verhältnis der Wissenschaft zu Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien in der Wissensgesellschaft

    Peter Weingart

  • Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge

    Sabine Maasen;Peter Weingart

  • Science and the media

    Peter Weingart

  • Die Wissenschaft der Öffentlichkeit

    Peter Weingart

  • Democratization of Expertise?: Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making

    Sabine Maasen;Peter Weingart

  • 2. Interdisciplinarity: The Paradoxical Discourse

    Peter Weingart

  • Von der Hypothese zur Katastrophe. Der anthropogene Klimawandel im Diskurs zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik und Massenmedien

    Peter Weingart;Anita Engels;Petra Pansegrau

  • Verwissenschaftlichung der Gesellschaft - Politisierung der Wissenschaft*

    Peter Weingart

  • A Short History of Knowledge Formations

    Peter Weingart

  • Science communication and the issue of trust

    Peter Weingart;Lars Guenther

  • Of Power Maniacs and Unethical Geniuses: Science and Scientists in Fiction Film:

    Peter Weingart;Claudia Muhl;Petra Pansegrau

  • Perspectives on the Emergence of Scientific Disciplines

    James A. Goldman;Gerard Lemaine;Roy MacLeod;Michael Mulkay

  • Functions and uses of disciplinary histories

    Loren R. Graham;Wolf Lepenies;Peter Weingart

  • The Social production of scientific knowledge

    Everett Mendelsohn;Peter Weingart;Richard Whitley

  • The Sciences’ Media Connection – Public Communication and its Repercussions

    Simone Rödder;Martina Franzen;Peter Weingart

  • Von der Hypothese zur Katastrophe

    Peter Weingart;Anita Engels;Petra Pansegrau

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Whitley
Richard Whitley University of Manchester
Edgar Grande
Edgar Grande Social Science Research Center Berlin
Peter J. Richerson
Peter J. Richerson University of California, Davis
Ortwin Renn
Ortwin Renn University of Stuttgart
Reinhold Kliegl
Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam
Anthony F. J. van Raan
Anthony F. J. van Raan Leiden University
Arie Rip
Arie Rip University of Twente
Wolfgang Prinz
Wolfgang Prinz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Olaf Dössel
Olaf Dössel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Alfred Pühler
Alfred Pühler Bielefeld University

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