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Sheila Jasanoff 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 Sheila Jasanoff sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 235 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.

Sheila Jasanoff 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 Sheila Jasanoff sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% 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

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Holberg Prize, Government of Norway "for her groundbreaking research in science and technology studies"
  • 2010 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Sheila Jasanoff is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research focuses on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Physiology, Sociology and Political Science, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Recent publications by Sheila Jasanoff include the following papers:

  • "The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability," 2021, published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • "Renewing the future: Excluded imaginaries in the global energy transition," 2021, published in Energy Research & Social Science
  • "Humility in the Anthropocene," 2021, published in Globalizations
  • "Constitutionalism at the Nexus of Life and Law," 2020, published in Science Technology & Human Values
  • "Knowledge for a just climate," 2021, published in Climatic Change

The frequent co-authors of Sheila Jasanoff are listed as:

  • J. Benjamin Hurlbut
  • Krishanu Saha
  • Jacob Moses
  • Françoise Βaylis
  • John H. Evans

Common venues for their publications include:

  • Science Technology & Human Values
  • The CRISPR Journal
  • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Globalizations

Sheila Jasanoff has been recognized with several awards, including the Holberg Prize from the Government of Norway in 2022 for their contributions to science and technology studies. Other honors include fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2010 and from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1989.

Best Publications

  • States of Knowledge: The Co-production of Science and the Social Order

    Sheila Jasanoff

  • Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

    Sheila Jasanoff

  • The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers

    Sheila Jasanoff;Joel R. Primack

  • Containing the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in the United States and South Korea

    Sheila Jasanoff;Sang Hyun Kim

  • Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power

    Sheila Jasanoff;Sang-Hyun Kim

  • Handbook of Science and Technology Studies

    Sheila Jasanoff;Gerald E. Markle;James C. Petersen;Trevor Pinch

  • Science and Decisionmaking

    S. Jasanoff;B. Wynne;F. Buttel;F. Charvolin

  • Technologies of Humility: Citizen Participation in Governing Science

    Sheila Jasanoff

  • Contested Boundaries in Policy-Relevant Science

    Sheila S. Jasanoff

  • A New Climate for Society

    Sheila Jasanoff

  • Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity

    Sheila Jasanoff;Sang-Hyun Kim

  • Earthly politics : local and global in environmental governance

    Sheila Jasanoff;Marybeth Long Martello

  • Sociotechnical Imaginaries and National Energy Policies

    Sheila Jasanoff;Sang Hyun Kim

  • Breaking the Waves in Science Studies: Comment on H.M. Collins and Robert Evans, `The Third Wave of Science Studies'

    Sheila Jasanoff

  • TAKING EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY SERIOUSLY Report of the Expert Group on Science and Governance to the Science, Economy and Society Directorate, Directorate-General for Research, European Commission

    Ulrike Felt;Brian Wynne;Michel Callon;Maria Eduarda Gonçalves

  • Controlling Chemicals: The Politics of Regulation in Europe and the United States

    Ronald Brickman;Sheila Jasanoff;Thomas L. Ilgen

  • Science at the bar : law, science, and technology in America

    Sheila Jasanoff

  • Beyond Epistemology: Relativism and Engagement in the Politics of Science

    Sheila Jasanoff

  • Adjudicating the GM Food Wars: Science, Risk, and Democracy in World Trade Law.

    David Winickoff;Sheila Jasanoff;Lawrence Busch;Robin Grove-White

  • Technologies of humility

    Sheila Jasanoff

  • Designs on Nature

    Sheila Jasanoff

  • Science and Public Reason

    Sheila Jasanoff

  • The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers.

    Nelson W. Polsby;Sheila Jasanoff

  • The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers.

    Sanford Lakoff;Sheila Jasanoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D. Truog
Robert D. Truog Harvard University
Brian Wynne
Brian Wynne Lancaster University
George Q. Daley
George Q. Daley Boston Children's Hospital
Marcia C. Linn
Marcia C. Linn University of California, Berkeley
Trevor Pinch
Trevor Pinch Cornell University
Arie Rip
Arie Rip University of Twente
Robert D. Goldman
Robert D. Goldman Northwestern University
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell University of Maryland, College Park
George M. Church
George M. Church Harvard University

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