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D-Index
43
Citations
45636
World Ranking
4232
National Ranking
2011

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

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