2026 Pitirim A. Sorokin: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	42	4751	2251	234	7393

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Research.com Recognitions

1933 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Pitirim A. Sorokin was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their academic work focused on several key areas within sociology, history, and the history and philosophy of science.

Their research and publications addressed topics including:

Communism, Protests, Social Movements
Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

Many of Sorokin's publications appeared in the journal Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya, with nine documented publications. Other venues included Bylye Gody with two publications and the International Journal of Progressive Research in Engineering Management and Science with one publication.

Frequent collaborators in Sorokin's studies included I. Leyman and Samson Oyeranmi.

Key recent papers authored by Sorokin were:

"Experiments in Sociology. On the Degree of Expression of Some Expressions of Solidarity (Altruism) in Deed and in Word in Relation to Social Distance," 2022, published in Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya
"Some of the New Works in the Field of 'Philosophical' and 'Empirical-Inductive' Sociology: Consolidated Review," 2023, published in Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya
"Productivity and Work Incedentives (Experimental Research on 3-4 and 13-14 Year Old Children)," 2022, published in Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya

Other related recent publications included:

"INTERACTION BETWEEN WASTE MANAGEMENT AND ENERGY GENERATION SYSTEMS IN TERMS OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION," 2023, International Journal of Progressive Research in Engineering Management and Science
"The Contribution of Merchants to the Formation of the System of Female Education in the Russian Province (Based on the Materials of Vologda Province in the second third of the 19th century)," 2023, Bylye Gody

In 1933, Sorokin was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

Social and Cultural Dynamics

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

790
Citations
Social-time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis

Pitirim A. Sorokin;Robert K. Merton

772
Citations
Social and cultural mobility

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

567
Citations
The Study of War

Unknown

465
Citations
Contemporary sociological theories

Floyd N. House;Pitirim Sorokin

391
Citations
Principles of Rural-Urban Sociology

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin;Carle Clark Zimmerman

207
Citations
Society, Culture, and Personality

Pitirim A. Sorokin

200
Citations
Fads and foibles in modern sociology and related sciences

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

184
Citations
Social and Cultural Dynamics: A Study of Change in Major Systems of Art, Truth, Ethics, Law and Social Relationships

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

138
Citations
The crisis of our age

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

137
Citations
Social and Cultural Dynamics

Albert S. Foley join(;Pitirim Sorokin

135
Citations
The ways and power of love : types, factors, and techniques of moral transformation

Anita Yourglich;Pitirim A. Sorokin

134
Citations
Time-budgets of human behavior

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin;Clarence Q. Berger

131
Citations
Man and society in calamity

Pitirim A. Sorokin;Irving Louis Horowitz

131
Citations
The sociology of revolution

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

122
Citations
Society, culture, and personality : their structure and dynamics

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

118
Citations
Sociological Theories of Today

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

114
Citations
Class and American Sociology.

Pitirim A. Sorokin;Charles Hunt Page

103
Citations
Social and Cultural Dynamics: Vol. III, Fluctuation of Social Relationships, War and Revolution.

Hans Speier;Pitirim Sorokin

94
Citations
The ways and power of love

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

92
Citations
The reconstruction of humanity

Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

87
Citations
Altruistic Love: A Study of American "Good Neighbors" and Christian Saints.

J. M. Brown;Pitirim A. Sorokin

61
Citations
Social and Cultural Dynamics

Joseph J. Spengler;Pitirim A. Sorokin

33
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert K. Merton Columbia University

Howard S. Becker University of Washington

Karl R. Popper London School of Economics and Political Science

Otis Dudley Duncan University of Arizona

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