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Pitirim A. Sorokin

Pitirim A. Sorokin

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
7393
World Ranking
4750
National Ranking
2251

Pitirim A. Sorokin 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 Pitirim A. Sorokin sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 234 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pitirim A. Sorokin 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 Pitirim A. Sorokin sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% 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

  • 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

  • Social-time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis

    Pitirim A. Sorokin;Robert K. Merton

  • Social and cultural mobility

    Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

  • The Study of War

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  • Contemporary sociological theories

    Floyd N. House;Pitirim Sorokin

  • Principles of Rural-Urban Sociology

    Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin;Carle Clark Zimmerman

  • Society, Culture, and Personality

    Pitirim A. Sorokin

  • Fads and foibles in modern sociology and related sciences

    Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

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

    Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

  • The crisis of our age

    Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

    Albert S. Foley join(;Pitirim Sorokin

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

    Anita Yourglich;Pitirim A. Sorokin

  • Time-budgets of human behavior

    Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin;Clarence Q. Berger

  • Man and society in calamity

    Pitirim A. Sorokin;Irving Louis Horowitz

  • The sociology of revolution

    Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

  • Society, culture, and personality : their structure and dynamics

    Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

  • Sociological Theories of Today

    Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

  • Class and American Sociology.

    Pitirim A. Sorokin;Charles Hunt Page

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

    Hans Speier;Pitirim Sorokin

  • The ways and power of love

    Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

  • The reconstruction of humanity

    Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

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

    J. M. Brown;Pitirim A. Sorokin

  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

    Joseph J. Spengler;Pitirim A. Sorokin

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert K. Merton
Robert K. Merton Columbia University
Howard S. Becker
Howard S. Becker University of Washington
Karl R. Popper
Karl R. Popper London School of Economics and Political Science
Otis Dudley Duncan
Otis Dudley Duncan University of Arizona
Quincy Wright
Quincy Wright University of Chicago

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