2026 Steve Rayner: 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	50	2696	2466	462	418	141	16506

Steve Rayner 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 Steve Rayner sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 141 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Steve Rayner 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 Steve Rayner sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% 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

2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Steve Rayner is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within social sciences and business, particularly focusing on the dynamics of innovation, knowledge management, and risk perception and management.

Their recent scholarly contribution includes a paper titled Resources and Technology, published in 2025 in the journal Resources and Technology. This work has accumulated a notable number of citations, reflecting engagement within the academic community.

Steve Rayner frequently collaborates with various researchers, including Michael Thompson, with whom they have coauthored two publications, Elizabeth L. Malone, and Steven Ney.

Their research has appeared primarily in the venue Resources and Technology.

Their main fields of study include:

Business, Management and Accounting
Social Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields of study cover:

Strategy and Management
Sociology and Political Science

Their work addresses key topics such as:

Innovation and Knowledge Management
Risk Perception and Management

In recognition of their professional contributions, Steve Rayner was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003.

Best Publications

Power, Action and Belief. A New Sociology of Knowledge?

J Law;G. J Fyfe;M Callon;B Latour

1510
Citations
Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy [and Comments and Reply]

Christopher Boehm;Harold B. Barclay;Robert Knox Dentan;Marie-Claude Dupre

1027
Citations
Cultural theory and risk analysis

Steve Rayner

734
Citations
Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty

John Shepherd;Steve Rayner

641
Citations
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World. The Case of Climate Change

Marco Verweij;Mary Douglas;Richard Ellis;Christoph Engel

611
Citations
How Fair Is Safe Enough? The Cultural Approach to Societal Technology Choice1

Steve Rayner;Robin Cantor

596
Citations
Human choice and climate change

Steve Rayner;Elizabeth L. Malone

576
Citations
Climate change 2007: Lifting the taboo on adaptation

Roger Pielke;Gwyn Prins;Steve Rayner;Daniel Sarewitz

561
Citations
Uncomfortable knowledge: the social construction of ignorance in science and environmental policy discourses

Steve Rayner

520
Citations
Principles for Sustainable Governance of the Oceans

Robert Costanza;Francisco Andrade;Paula Antunes;Marjan van den Belt

512
Citations
Measuring Culture: A Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Organization

Jonathan L. Gross;Steve Rayner

467
Citations
Weather Forecasts are for Wimps: Why Water Resource Managers Do Not Use Climate Forecasts

Steve Rayner;Denise Lach;Helen Ingram

430
Citations
Time to ditch Kyoto

Gwyn Prins;Steve Rayner

352
Citations
Democracy in the age of assessment: Reflections on the roles of expertise and democracy in public-sector decision making

Steve Rayner

331
Citations
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World

Marco Verweij;Mary Douglas;Richard Ellis;Christoph Engel

303
Citations
The Oxford Principles

Steve Rayner;Clare Heyward;Tim Kruger;Nicholas Frank Pidgeon

293
Citations
How to eat an elephant: a bottom-up approach to climate policy.

Steve Rayner

269
Citations
City networks: breaking gridlocks or forging (new) lock-ins?

Michele Acuto;Steve Rayner

248
Citations
The Hartwell Paper: a new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009

Gwyn Prins;Isabel Galiana;Christopher Green;Reiner Grundmann

231
Citations
Taming the waters: strategies to domesticate the wicked problems of water resource management

Denise Lach;Steve Rayner;Helen Ingram

208
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Thompson International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Helen Ingram University of California, Irvine

Daniel Sarewitz Arizona State University

Mary Douglas University College London

Susanne Lohmann University of California, Los Angeles

Frank Hendriks Tilburg University

Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder

David W. Keith University of Chicago

Donald F. Boesch University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences

Michael A. Young Illinois Institute of Technology

External Links

Personal website of Steve Rayner

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