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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
86
Citations
106310
World Ranking
244
National Ranking
111

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Ronald S. Burt is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with a primary focus on Business, Management and Accounting, where they have contributed 19 publications. Additionally, they have produced significant work in Physics and Astronomy with 16 publications and in Social Sciences with 14 publications.

Their research subfields encompass Statistical and Nonlinear Physics with 16 publications, Strategy and Management (11 publications), Sociology and Political Science (9 publications), Management of Technology and Innovation (4 publications), and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (4 publications).

Burt's contributions engage with several main topics, including Complex Network Analysis Techniques (20 publications), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (12 publications), Innovation and Knowledge Management (10 publications), Social Capital and Networks (8 publications), Business Strategy and Innovation (8 publications), Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (8 publications), and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (6 publications).

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include Academy of Management Proceedings with 7 publications, SSRN Electronic Journal with 6, Social Networks with 4, Academy of Management Journal with 3, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice with 2 publications.

Coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Burt include Sonja Opper, Giuseppe Soda, Ray Reagans, Hagay Volvovsky, and Adam M. Kleinbaum.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Networks, Creativity, and Time: Staying Creative through Brokerage and Network Rejuvenation, 2021, Academy of Management Journal
  • Political Connection and Disconnection: Still a Success Factor for Chinese Entrepreneurs, 2020, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • Network brokerage and the perception of leadership, 2020, Social Networks
  • Social Network and Temporal Myopia, 2020, Academy of Management Journal
  • Network Capabilities: Brokerage as a Bridge Between Network Theory and the Resource-Based View of the Firm, 2021, Journal of Management

Ronald S. Burt was awarded the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993.

Best Publications

  • Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition

    Ronald Stuart Burt

  • Not So Different After All: A Cross-Discipline View Of Trust

    Denise M. Rousseau;Sim B. Sitkin;Ronald S. Burt;Colin F. Camerer

  • Structural Holes and Good Ideas.

    Ronald S. Burt

  • The Network Structure Of Social Capital

    Ronald S. Burt

  • Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital

    Ronald Stuart Burt

  • The contingent value of social capital.

    Ronald S. Burt

  • Social Contagion and Innovation: Cohesion versus Structural Equivalence

    Ronald S. Burt

  • 1 The Social Structure of Competition

    Ronald S. Burt

  • Structural Holes versus Network Closure as Social Capital

    Ronald S. Burt

  • Network items and the general social survey

    Ronald S. Burt

  • Social Capital: Theory and Research

    Nan Lin;Karen S. Cook;Ronald S. Burt

  • Models of Network Structure

    R S Burt

  • THE GENDER OF SOCIAL CAPITAL

    Ronald S. Burt

  • Toward a structural theory of action

    Ronald Stuart Burt

  • Positions in Networks

    Ronald S. Burt

  • A note on social capital and network content

    Ronald S. Burt

  • Toward a structural theory of action : network models of social structure, perception, and action

    Ronald S. Burt

  • The Social Capital of Opinion Leaders

    Ronald S. Burt

  • Social Network Analysis: Foundations and Frontiers on Advantage

    Ronald S. Burt;Martin Kilduff;Stefano Tasselli

  • Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition.

    Steven B. Andrews;Ronald S. Burt

Frequent Co-Authors

Yanjie Bian
Yanjie Bian Xi'an Jiaotong University
David Krackhardt
David Krackhardt Carnegie Mellon University
Barry Wellman
Barry Wellman University of Toronto
David Lazer
David Lazer Northeastern University
Noshir Contractor
Noshir Contractor Northwestern University
Brian Uzzi
Brian Uzzi Northwestern University
Jonathan Michie
Jonathan Michie University of Oxford
James S. Coleman
James S. Coleman University of Chicago
Peter V. Marsden
Peter V. Marsden Harvard University
Robin M. Hogarth
Robin M. Hogarth Pompeu Fabra University

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