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Thomas S. Kuhn 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 Thomas S. Kuhn sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 114 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas S. Kuhn 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 Thomas S. Kuhn sits on this spectrum.

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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.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1979 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1954 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Thomas S. Kuhn was affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily centered around the field of engineering with a focus on industrial and manufacturing engineering. They also contributed to subfields such as sociology and political science, civil and structural engineering, management of technology and innovation, and hardware and architecture.

The scientist's main research topics encompassed:

  • Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
  • Digital Transformation in Industry
  • Manufacturing Process and Optimization
  • Civil and Structural Engineering Research
  • Concrete Corrosion and Durability
  • Business Process Modeling and Analysis
  • Consumer behavior in food and health

Among recent publications associated with their research network or frequent collaborations were:

  • Industry 4.0 reference architectures: State of the art and future trends (2021) - Computers & Industrial Engineering
  • A Quality 4.0 Model for architecting industry 4.0 systems (2022) - Advanced Engineering Informatics
  • Continuous Systems and Software Engineering for Industry 4.0: A disruptive view (2021) - Information and Software Technology
  • Towards live decision-making for service-based production: Integrated process planning and scheduling with Digital Twins and Deep-Q-Learning (2023) - Computers in Industry
  • Integrated Planning and Scheduling for Customized Production using Digital Twins and Reinforcement Learning (2021) - IFAC-PapersOnLine

Frequent co-authors who contributed to the scientist's body of work included:

  • Pablo Oliveira Antonino
  • Frank Schnicke
  • Zai Müller-Zhang
  • Kay-Volker Koschel
  • Rafael Capilla

Key publication venues for their research included:

  • 2022 IEEE 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)
  • Bautechnik
  • atp magazin
  • Journal of Psychosocial Studies
  • Computers & Industrial Engineering

In addition to articles, they published a book in the field of Konsumsoziologie und Massenkultur titled Qualitative Markt- und Konsumforschung in 2022.

Throughout their career, Thomas S. Kuhn received notable recognition including becoming a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1979 and being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1954.

Best Publications

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    Thomas Samuel Kuhn

  • The structure of scientific revolutions, 3rd ed.

    Thomas S. Kuhn

  • Genesis and development of a scientific fact

    Ludwik Fleck;Thaddeus J. Trenn;Robert King Merton;Fred Bradley

  • The Essential Tension

    Thomas S. Kuhn;Joseph Epstein

  • The essential tension : selected studies in scientific tradition and change

    Thomas S. Kuhn

  • La estructura de las revoluciones científicas

    Thomas S. Kuhn

  • Die Struktur wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen

    Thomas S. Kuhn

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

    Thomas S. Kuhn

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    Thomas S. Kuhn;David Hawkins

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 2nd edition

    Thomas S. Kuhn

  • A Estrutura das Revoluções Científicas

    Thomas Kuhn;Daniel Durante Pereira Alves

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    Marie Boas Hall;Thomas S. Kuhn

  • The Copernican Revolution

    Thomas S Kuhn

  • The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought

    Herbert Butterfield;Thomas S. Kuhn

  • La structure des révolutions scientifiques

    Thomas S. Kuhn

  • The Road since Structure

    Thomas S. Kuhn

  • The Function of Measurement in Modern Physical Science

    Thomas S. Kuhn

  • Commensurability, Comparability, Communicability

    Thomas S. Kuhn

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

    Thomas S. Kuhn;Ian Hacking

  • World Changes. Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of Science

    Thomas S. Kuhn;Paul Horwich

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago (University of Chicago Press) 1962.

    T. S. Kuhn

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert K. Merton
Robert K. Merton Columbia University
Paul Horwich
Paul Horwich New York University

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