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43
Citations
45636
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4231
National Ranking
2011

Susan Leigh Star 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 Susan Leigh Star sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 79 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Susan Leigh Star 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 Susan Leigh Star 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: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Susan Leigh Star was affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research contributions were documented through multiple publications across different venues and topics.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • A Etnografia da Infraestrutura, 2021, published in Revista AntHropológicas
  • Index, 2022, published in The MIT Press eBooks

Frequent coauthors included:

  • G. H. COOPER
  • Jakob Mcdougale
  • Jane Mccurley
  • D M GREEN
  • Geof Bowker

Publications appeared in venues such as:

  • Revista AntHropológicas
  • The MIT Press eBooks

The scientist's work involved subfields including Urban Studies.

Main topics covered in their research were focused on Public Spaces through Art.

Best Publications

  • Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39:

    Susan Leigh Star;James R. Griesemer

  • Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

    Geoffery C. Bowker;Susan Leigh Star

  • The Ethnography of Infrastructure

    Susan Leigh Star

  • Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces

    Susan Leigh Star;Karen Ruhleder

  • This is Not a Boundary Object: Reflections on the Origin of a Concept

    Susan Leigh Star

  • The structure of ill-structured solutions: boundary objects and heterogeneous distributed problem solving

    Susan Leigh Star

  • Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice: The Ecology ofVisible and Invisible Work

    Susan Leigh Star;Anselm Strauss

  • Power, technology and the phenomenology of conventions: on being allergic to onions

    Susan Leigh Star

  • Analyzing due process in the workplace

    Elihu M. Gerson;Susan L. Star

  • Standards and their stories : how quantifying, classifying, and formalizing practices shape everyday life

    Martha Lampland;Susan Leigh Star

  • Steps towards an ecology of infrastructure: complex problems in design and access for large-scale collaborative systems

    Susan Leigh Star;Karen Ruhleder

  • How to Infrastructure

    Susan Leigh Star;Geoffrey C. Bowker

  • Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty

    Susan Leigh Star

  • Ecologies of knowledge : work and politics in science and technology

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  • The Cultures of Computing

    Susan Leigh Star

  • Scientific work and uncertainty.

    Susan Leigh Star

  • Simplification in Scientific Work: An Example from Neuroscience Research

    Susan Leigh Star

  • Infrastructure and ethnographic practice: working on the fringes

    Susan Leigh Star

  • Social science, technical systems, and cooperative work: beyond the great divide

    G.C. Bowker;S.L. Star;W. Turner;L. Gasser

  • Infrastructure and Organizational Transformation: Classifying Nurses’ Work

    Geoffrey C. Bowker;Stefan Timmermans;Susan Leigh Star

  • Infrastructure and ethnographic practice

    Susan Leigh Star

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey C. Bowker
Geoffrey C. Bowker University of California, Irvine
Anselm L. Strauss
Anselm L. Strauss University of California, San Francisco
Bruce Bridgeman
Bruce Bridgeman University of California, Santa Cruz
Rob Kling
Rob Kling Indiana University
Harold Maurice Collins
Harold Maurice Collins Cardiff University
Stefan Timmermans
Stefan Timmermans University of California, Los Angeles
John Leslie King
John Leslie King University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Catherine C. Marshall
Catherine C. Marshall Texas A&M University

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