2026 Silvia Gherardi: 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	51	2497	2276	23	21	169	22878

Silvia Gherardi 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 Silvia Gherardi sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 169 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Silvia Gherardi 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 Silvia Gherardi sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Silvia Gherardi is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular focus on several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Cultural Studies, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Geography, Planning and Development.

Their work addresses a variety of topics within management and organizational studies, digital economy and work transformation, information systems theories and implementation, posthumanist ethics and activism, geographies of human-animal interactions, participatory visual research methods, and entrepreneurship studies and influences.

Recent notable papers authored by Silvia Gherardi include:

Responsible Management-as-Practice: Mobilizing a Posthumanist Approach (2021), Journal of Business Ethics
COVID-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices (2020), Gender Work and Organization
The fluid affective space of organizational practices (2023), Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal
A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research: expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship (2023), International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research
Unpacking researchers' embodied sensemaking: A diffractive reading-writing of Mann Gulch disaster (2023), Scandinavian Journal of Management

Silvia Gherardi's collaborations involve frequent coauthors such as Michela Cozza, Marta Β. Calás, Saija Katila, Susan Meriläinen, and Alice Wickström, with multiple joint works reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

The venues where Silvia Gherardi has published most frequently include:

Gender Work and Organization
Management Learning
Journal of Business Ethics
Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research

In addition to journal publications, Silvia Gherardi has contributed to book literature, including the publication titled Organization Studies and Posthumanism Towards a More-than-Human World (2024) released by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Best Publications

Organizational Knowledge: The Texture of Workplace Learning

Silvia Gherardi;Davide Nicolini

1643
Citations
Toward a Social Understanding of How People Learn in Organizations: The Notion of Situated Curriculum

Silvia Gherardi;Davide Nicolini;Francesca Odella

1376
Citations
Practice-Based Theorizing on Learning and Knowing in Organizations:

Silvia Gherardi

1357
Citations
Gender, symbolism and organizational cultures

Silvia Gherardi

1284
Citations
Knowing in organizations : a practice-based approach

Davide Nicolini;Silvia Gherardi;Dvora Yanow

1062
Citations
Doing Gender, Doing Entrepreneurship: An Ethnographic Account of Intertwined Practices

Attila Bruni;Silvia Gherardi;Barbara Poggio

987
Citations
Entrepreneur‐mentality, gender and the study of women entrepreneurs

Attila Bruni;Silvia Gherardi;Barbara Poggio

900
Citations
To Transfer is to Transform: The Circulation of Safety Knowledge

Silvia Gherardi;Davide Nicolini

812
Citations
How to Conduct a Practice-based Study: Problems and Methods

Silvia Gherardi

718
Citations
Through the practice lens: Where is the bandwagon of practice-based studies heading?

Gessica Corradi;Silvia Gherardi;Luca Verzelloni

718
Citations
The Gender We Think, The Gender We Do in Our Everyday Organizational Lives

Silvia Gherardi

708
Citations
From Organizational Learning to Practice-Based Knowing

Silvia Gherardi

643
Citations
Learning In A Constellation of Interconnected Practices: Canon or Dissonance?

Silvia Gherardi;Davide Nicolini

582
Citations
Organizational Learning: Diverging Communities of Practice?

Mark Easterby-Smith;Robin Snell;Silvia Gherardi

580
Citations
The Organizational Learning of Safety in Communities of Practice

Silvia Gherardi;Davide Nicolini

574
Citations
Introduction: The Critical Power of the `Practice Lens':

Silvia Gherardi

573
Citations
Gender and Entrepreneurship: An Ethnographic Approach

Attila Bruni;Silvia Gherardi;Barbara Poggio

457
Citations
Learning as Problem-Driven or Learning in the Face of Mystery?:

Silvia Gherardi

433
Citations
Creating and recreating gender order in organizations

Silvia Gherardi;Barbara Poggio

425
Citations
Learning the Trade: A Culture of Safety in Practice:

Silvia Gherardi;Davide Nicolini

409
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Davide Nicolini University of Warwick

Dvora Yanow Wageningen University & Research

Stephen Richard Billett Griffith University

Yiannis Gabriel University of Bath

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