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D-Index
53
Citations
21760
World Ranking
2222
National Ranking
396

Richard Breen 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 Richard Breen sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 184 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard Breen 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 Richard Breen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% 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

  • 2002 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1998 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Richard Breen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their academic work is concentrated primarily within the Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Sociology and Political Science. Over their career, the scientist has contributed to a variety of subfields including Statistics and Probability, Health, Political Science and International Relations, and Education.

The topics addressed in Richard Breen's research encompass a diverse spectrum of social science concerns. These include:

  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

The scholar has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Gene-environment dependencies lead to collider bias in models with polygenic scores" (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse" (2021), published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "How Marriage Matters for the Intergenerational Mobility of Family Income: Heterogeneity by Gender, Life Course, and Birth Cohort" (2020), published in American Sociological Review
  • "Earnings and Income Penalties for Motherhood: Estimates for British Women Using the Individual Synthetic Control Method" (2021), published in European Sociological Review
  • "Sibling Models, Categorical Outcomes, and the Intra-Class Correlation" (2020), published in European Sociological Review

Richard Breen regularly collaborates with a group of frequent co-authors, including:

  • Walter Müller
  • John Ermisch
  • Jung In
  • Jan Ö. Jönsson
  • Ruud Luijkx

The researcher's work has appeared in several prominent publication venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • European Sociological Review
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • British Journal of Sociology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Richard Breen has been recognized by membership in notable scholarly organizations, including the Academia Europaea since 2002 and the Royal Irish Academy since 1998.

Best Publications

  • EXPLAINING EDUCATIONAL DIFFERENTIALS: TOWARDS A FORMAL RATIONAL ACTION THEORY

    Richard Breen;John H. Goldthorpe

  • Inequality of opportunity in comparative perspective : Recent research on educational attainment and social mobility

    Richard Breen;Jan O. Jonsson

  • Comparing Regression Coefficients Between Same-sample Nested Models Using Logit and Probit A New Method

    Kristian Bernt Karlson;Anders Holm;Richard Breen

  • Social mobility in Europe

    Richard Breen

  • Nonpersistent inequality in educational attainment: evidence from eight European countries.

    Richard Breen;Ruud Luijkx;Walter Müller;Reinhard Pollak

  • Total, Direct, and Indirect Effects in Logit and Probit Models

    Richard Breen;Kristian Bernt Karlson;Anders Holm

  • Regression Models: Censored, Sample Selected, or Truncated Data

    Richard Breen

  • Explaining Cross-national Variation in Youth Unemployment Market and Institutional Factors

    Richard Breen

  • Analyzing Educational Careers: A Multinomial Transition Model

    Richard Breen;Jan O. Jonsson

  • Long-term Trends in Educational Inequality in Europe: Class Inequalities and Gender Differences

    Richard Breen;Ruud Luijkx;Walter Müller;Reinhard Pollak

  • Class, Mobility and Merit The Experience of Two British Birth Cohorts

    Richard Breen;John H. Goldthorpe

  • Interpreting and Understanding Logits, Probits, and Other Nonlinear Probability Models

    Richard Breen;Kristian Bernt Karlson;Anders Holm

  • Risk, Recommodification and Stratification

    Richard Breen

  • Explaining Change in Social Fluidity: Educational Equalization and Educational Expansion in Twentieth-Century Sweden

    Richard Breen;Jan O. Jonsson

  • The Persistence of the Gendered Division of Domestic Labour

    Richard Breen;Lynn Prince Cooke

  • Educational Expansion and Social Mobility in the 20th Century

    Richard Breen

  • Understanding contemporary Ireland : state, class and development in the Republic of Ireland

    Richard Breen;Damian Hannan;David Rottman;Christopher T Whelan

  • Class inequality and meritocracy: a critique of Saunders and an alternative analysis

    Richard Breen;John H. Goldthorpe

  • A Dynamic Model of Cultural Reproduction

    Mads Meier Jæger;Richard Breen

  • Social Mobility in Europe between 1970 and 2000

    Richard Breen;Ruud Luijkx

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher T. Whelan
Christopher T. Whelan University College Dublin
Walter Müller
Walter Müller University of Mannheim
John Ermisch
John Ermisch University of Oxford
John H. Goldthorpe
John H. Goldthorpe University of Oxford
Melinda Mills
Melinda Mills University of Oxford
Bernadette C. Hayes
Bernadette C. Hayes University of Aberdeen
Herman G. van de Werfhorst
Herman G. van de Werfhorst University of Amsterdam
Mike Savage
Mike Savage London School of Economics and Political Science
Patrick Honohan
Patrick Honohan Trinity College Dublin

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