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USA
2023

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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Law D-index 60 Citations 24,752 180 World Ranking 17 National Ranking 15

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

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

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Social science

Sheila Jasanoff mainly focuses on Politics, Environmental ethics, Engineering ethics, Public administration and Social science. Her Politics study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Epistemology, Science policy, Relativism and Public relations. Her Environmental ethics research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Social issues, Political culture, Harm and Agency.

Her Engineering ethics study incorporates themes from Knowledge society, Science, technology and society and Library science. Her Public administration research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Government, Corporate governance, Public institution and Civilization. In her study, Democracy, Index and Sensibility is strongly linked to Social contract, which falls under the umbrella field of Social science.

Her most cited work include:

  • Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States (1645 citations)
  • States of Knowledge: The Co-production of Science and the Social Order (1606 citations)
  • The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers (1257 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Her scientific interests lie mostly in Politics, Law, Public administration, Environmental ethics and Epistemology. Her Politics research focuses on Law and economics and how it relates to Democracy. Her research on Law often connects related topics like Scientific evidence.

Her study in Public administration is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Government and Public policy. Her Environmental ethics study frequently draws connections to adjacent fields such as Social science. Particularly relevant to Science studies is her body of work in Epistemology.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Politics (20.10%)
  • Law (14.35%)
  • Public administration (11.96%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2012-2021)?

  • Sociotechnical system (4.78%)
  • Politics (20.10%)
  • Law (14.35%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Her primary areas of study are Sociotechnical system, Politics, Law, Environmental ethics and Power. Her Sociotechnical system research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Anthropology and Positive economics. Sheila Jasanoff interconnects Corporate governance, Framing, Law and economics, Metropolitan area and Normative in the investigation of issues within Politics.

Her work in the fields of Law, such as Jurisprudence, Common sense and Plaintiff, overlaps with other areas such as Kingdom. Her Environmental ethics research integrates issues from Social science, Development economics, Globalization and Making-of. She has included themes like Constitutionalism, Democracy and State in her Power study.

Between 2012 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power (391 citations)
  • Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity (236 citations)
  • Sociotechnical Imaginaries and National Energy Policies (143 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Social science

Sheila Jasanoff focuses on Epistemology, Sociotechnical system, Democracy, Law and Constitutionalism. Sheila Jasanoff has researched Epistemology in several fields, including Positive economics and Political culture. Her studies in Sociotechnical system integrate themes in fields like Discrete mathematics, Identity, Anthropology and Corporate governance.

Democracy is a primary field of her research addressed under Politics. Her Politics research includes elements of Empire and Metropolitan area. The Constitutionalism study combines topics in areas such as Public administration, Task, Environmental impact assessment and Cosmopolitanism.

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Best Publications

Handbook of Science and Technology Studies

Sheila Jasanoff;Gerald E. Markle;James C. Petersen;Trevor Pinch.
Contemporary Sociology (1995)

1219 Citations

Science and Decisionmaking

S. Jasanoff;B. Wynne;F. Buttel;F. Charvolin.
(1998)

1089 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.
(2007)

435 Citations

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

David Winickoff;Sheila Jasanoff;Lawrence Busch;Robin Grove-White.
(2005)

347 Citations

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