2026 Robert D. Putnam: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	61	101	89	60	50	235	162887

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
2011 - Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
2007 - Charles E. Merriam Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
2006 - Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science For his theory of the social capital.
2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1995 - Ithiel de Sola Pool Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
1988 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1980 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1966 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robert D. Putnam is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their scholarly work spans several fields, primarily focusing on Engineering, Environmental Science, and Health Professions. Within these domains, their research touches on specialized subfields such as Biomedical Engineering, Pollution, and Speech and Hearing.

The scientist's research interests encompass Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research, Smart Materials for Construction, and Noise Effects and Management. These topics define the core thematic areas in which their work has contributed.

Among their publications is the paper titled "On the 50th anniversary of ASTM E33, a history of ASTM International standards on building and environmental acoustics", published in 2022 in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Robert D. Putnam has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Noral D. Stewart, Eric P. Wolfram, and Richard J. Peppin.

Their work has appeared in venues such as:

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

The scientist has received multiple awards recognizing their academic contributions. These include:

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association (APSA), 2011
Charles E. Merriam Award, American Political Science Association (APSA), 2007
Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, 2006, for their theory of the social capital
Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2005
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001
Ithiel de Sola Pool Award, American Political Science Association (APSA), 1995
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1988
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1980
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1966

Best Publications

Making Democracy Work

Robert D. Putnam;Robert Leonardi;Raffaella Y. Nanetti

54909
Citations
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Robert D. Putnam

37153
Citations
“Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital”

Robert D. Putnam

15286
Citations
Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games

Robert D. Putnam

13155
Citations
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

Robert D. Putnam;Robert Leonardi;Raffaella Y. Nanetti

10905
Citations
The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life

Robert D. Putnam

10674
Citations
E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty‐first Century The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture

Robert D. Putnam

6869
Citations
Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America

Robert D. Putnam

6700
Citations
The social context of well-being.

John F. Helliwell;Robert D. Putnam

3467
Citations
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

Robert D. Putnam;David E. Campbell;Shaylyn Romney Garrett

3177
Citations
Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society

Robert D. Putnam

2842
Citations
Social Capital: Measurement and Consequences

Robert D. Putnam

2670
Citations
Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries?

Susan J. Pharr;Robert D. Putnam

2517
Citations
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies

Joel D. Aberbach;Robert D. Putnam;Bert A. Rockman

2490
Citations
Better Together: Restoring the American Community

Robert D. Putnam;Lewis M. Feldstein;Don Cohen

2303
Citations
The strange disappearance of civic America

Robert D. Putnam

1943
Citations
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Robert D. Putnam

1863
Citations
Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America

Unknown

1638
Citations
Education and Social Capital

John F. Helliwell;Robert D. Putnam

1545
Citations
Economic Growth and Social Capital in Italy

Robert D. Putnam;John Helliwell

1353
Citations
Religion, Social Networks, and Life Satisfaction

Chaeyoon Lim;Robert David Putnam

1302
Citations
La tradizione civica nelle regioni italiane

Robert D. Putnam;Robert Leonardi;Raffaella Y. Nanetti

1071
Citations
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies

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862
Citations
Double-edged diplomacy : international bargaining and domestic politics

Peter B. Evans;Harold Karan Jacobson;Robert D. Putnam

589
Citations
The beliefs of politicians: ideology, conflict, and democracy in Britain and Italy

Robert D. Putnam

547
Citations
Increasing socioeconomic disparities in adolescent obesity

Carl B. Frederick;Kaisa Snellman;Kaisa Snellman;Robert D. Putnam

438
Citations
Political Attitudes and the Local Community

Robert D. Putnam

400
Citations
A Quarter-Century of Declining Confidence

Susan J. Pharr;Robert D. Putnam;Russell J. Dalton

390
Citations
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

Marvin B. Becker;Robert D. Putnam

307
Citations
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy.

Frederick D. Weil;Robert D. Putnam

235
Citations
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies.

Lewis J. Edinger;Joel D. Aberbach;Robert D. Putnam;Bert A. Rockman

10
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Fieldhouse University of Manchester

David E. Campbell University of Notre Dame

John F. Helliwell University of British Columbia

Bert A. Rockman Purdue University West Lafayette

Theda Skocpol Harvard University

Peter Evans University of California, Berkeley

Amitai Etzioni George Washington University

Samuel P. Huntington Harvard University

Bob Edwards East Carolina University

Russell J. Dalton University of California, Irvine

External Links

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