2026 Sheila Jasanoff: 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	71	711	617	337	287	235	34413

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

3215
Citations
Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

Sheila Jasanoff

2965
Citations
The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers

Sheila Jasanoff;Joel R. Primack

2172
Citations
Containing the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in the United States and South Korea

Sheila Jasanoff;Sang Hyun Kim

1880
Citations
Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power

Sheila Jasanoff;Sang-Hyun Kim

1730
Citations
Handbook of Science and Technology Studies

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

1467
Citations
Science and Decisionmaking

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

1103
Citations
Technologies of Humility: Citizen Participation in Governing Science

Sheila Jasanoff

1080
Citations
Contested Boundaries in Policy-Relevant Science

Sheila S. Jasanoff

1007
Citations
A New Climate for Society

Sheila Jasanoff

963
Citations
Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity

Sheila Jasanoff;Sang-Hyun Kim

940
Citations
Earthly politics : local and global in environmental governance

Sheila Jasanoff;Marybeth Long Martello

696
Citations
Sociotechnical Imaginaries and National Energy Policies

Sheila Jasanoff;Sang Hyun Kim

476
Citations
Breaking the Waves in Science Studies: Comment on H.M. Collins and Robert Evans, `The Third Wave of Science Studies'

Sheila Jasanoff

463
Citations
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

446
Citations
Controlling Chemicals: The Politics of Regulation in Europe and the United States

Ronald Brickman;Sheila Jasanoff;Thomas L. Ilgen

430
Citations
Science at the bar : law, science, and technology in America

Sheila Jasanoff

429
Citations
Beyond Epistemology: Relativism and Engagement in the Politics of Science

Sheila Jasanoff

396
Citations
Adjudicating the GM Food Wars: Science, Risk, and Democracy in World Trade Law.

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

356
Citations
Technologies of humility

Sheila Jasanoff

334
Citations
Designs on Nature

Sheila Jasanoff

325
Citations
Science and Public Reason

Sheila Jasanoff

309
Citations
The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers.

Nelson W. Polsby;Sheila Jasanoff

265
Citations
The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers.

Sanford Lakoff;Sheila Jasanoff

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Wynne Lancaster University

Mildred S. Dresselhaus MIT

Trevor Pinch Cornell University

Arie Rip University of Twente

Marcia C. Linn University of California, Berkeley

Robert D. Goldman Northwestern University

Rita R. Colwell University of Maryland, College Park

George M. Church Harvard University

Andrew Stirling University of Sussex

Lawrence Busch Michigan State University

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