2026 Richard Breen: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	53	2222	2021	395	358	184	21760

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

3443
Citations
Inequality of opportunity in comparative perspective : Recent research on educational attainment and social mobility

Richard Breen;Jan O. Jonsson

1996
Citations
Comparing Regression Coefficients Between Same-sample Nested Models Using Logit and Probit A New Method

Kristian Bernt Karlson;Anders Holm;Richard Breen

1379
Citations
Social mobility in Europe

Richard Breen

1212
Citations
Nonpersistent inequality in educational attainment: evidence from eight European countries.

Richard Breen;Ruud Luijkx;Walter Müller;Reinhard Pollak

1074
Citations
Total, Direct, and Indirect Effects in Logit and Probit Models

Richard Breen;Kristian Bernt Karlson;Anders Holm

913
Citations
Regression Models: Censored, Sample Selected, or Truncated Data

Richard Breen

807
Citations
Explaining Cross-national Variation in Youth Unemployment Market and Institutional Factors

Richard Breen

646
Citations
Analyzing Educational Careers: A Multinomial Transition Model

Richard Breen;Jan O. Jonsson

578
Citations
Long-term Trends in Educational Inequality in Europe: Class Inequalities and Gender Differences

Richard Breen;Ruud Luijkx;Walter Müller;Reinhard Pollak

525
Citations
Class, Mobility and Merit The Experience of Two British Birth Cohorts

Richard Breen;John H. Goldthorpe

505
Citations
Interpreting and Understanding Logits, Probits, and Other Nonlinear Probability Models

Richard Breen;Kristian Bernt Karlson;Anders Holm

467
Citations
Risk, Recommodification and Stratification

Richard Breen

445
Citations
Explaining Change in Social Fluidity: Educational Equalization and Educational Expansion in Twentieth-Century Sweden

Richard Breen;Jan O. Jonsson

411
Citations
The Persistence of the Gendered Division of Domestic Labour

Richard Breen;Lynn Prince Cooke

408
Citations
Educational Expansion and Social Mobility in the 20th Century

Richard Breen

346
Citations
Understanding contemporary Ireland : state, class and development in the Republic of Ireland

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

313
Citations
Class inequality and meritocracy: a critique of Saunders and an alternative analysis

Richard Breen;John H. Goldthorpe

313
Citations
A Dynamic Model of Cultural Reproduction

Mads Meier Jæger;Richard Breen

274
Citations
Social Mobility in Europe between 1970 and 2000

Richard Breen;Ruud Luijkx

270
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Müller University of Mannheim

John H. Goldthorpe University of Oxford

Melinda Mills University of Oxford

Herman G. van de Werfhorst University of Amsterdam

Mike Savage London School of Economics and Political Science

External Links

Personal website of Richard Breen Google Scholar page

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