2026 Veena Das: 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	49	2851	2607	1381	1244	194	22946

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2005 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Veena Das is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans social sciences and medicine, with a notable focus on subfields including philosophy, anthropology, political science and international relations, infectious diseases, and applied microbiology and biotechnology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including:

Anthropological Studies and Insights
Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
Antibiotic Use and Resistance
Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

Veena Das has contributed academic work to several publication venues, frequently appearing in:

Sophia
Contributions to Indian Sociology
Social Science & Medicine
BMJ Global Health
The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia

Their recent papers include:

"Simulated patients and their reality: An inquiry into theory and method" (2021), published in Social Science & Medicine
"Tuberculosis diagnosis and management in the public versus private sector: a standardised patients study in Mumbai, India" (2022), published in BMJ Global Health
"Language in Flight: Home and Elsewhere" (2023), published in Sophia
"Do private providers initiate anti-tuberculosis therapy on the basis of chest radiographs? A standardised patient study in urban India" (2023), published in The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia
"Use of standardised patients to assess tuberculosis case management by private pharmacies in Patna, India: A repeat cross-sectional study" (2023), published in PLOS Global Public Health

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers including Benjamin Daniels, Madhukar Pai, Ada Kwan, Ranendra Das, and Jishnu Das, with multiple joint publications.

Veena Das has also published books with Fordham University Press eBooks, including multiple editions of Textures of the Ordinary (2020) and Affliction (2020), which contribute to their body of work.

Recognition for their contributions includes fellowships with several organizations:

Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2009
Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences, 2005
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999

Best Publications

Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

Veena Das

3575
Citations
Life and Words

Veena Das

3320
Citations
Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India

Veena Das

2391
Citations
Anthropology in the Margins of the State

Veena Das;Deborah Poole

1758
Citations
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology

Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Philippe Bourgois;Joseph Conrad;Michael Thomas Taussig

1057
Citations
Violence and Subjectivity

Veena Das

866
Citations
Remaking a World - Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

Sima Aprahamian;Arthur Kleinman;Margaret Lock;Mamphela Ramphele

638
Citations
Mirrors of violence : communities, riots and survivors in South Asia

Veena Das

553
Citations
In Urban And Rural India, A Standardized Patient Study Showed Low Levels Of Provider Training And Huge Quality Gaps

Jishnu Das;Alaka Holla;Veena Das;Manoj Mohanan

545
Citations
O ato de testemunhar: violência, gênero e subjetividade

Veena Das

521
Citations
Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual

Veena Das

488
Citations
WITTGENSTEIN AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Veena Das

425
Citations
Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity

Veena Das

408
Citations
The act of witnessing: violence, poisonous knowledge and subjectivity

Veena Das

377
Citations
Use of standardised patients to assess quality of tuberculosis care: a pilot, cross-sectional study

Jishnu Das;Ada Kwan;Benjamin Daniels;Srinath Satyanarayana

281
Citations
The know-do gap in quality of health care for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia in rural India.

Manoj Mohanan;Marcos Vera-Hernández;Veena Das;Soledad Giardili

234
Citations
8. Ordinary Ethics

Veena Das

226
Citations
Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India.

Sylvia Vatuk;Veena Das

209
Citations
Disability and Domestic Citizenship: Voice, Gender, and the Making of the Subject

Veena Das;Renu Addlakha

203
Citations
Fire-related deaths in India in 2001: a retrospective analysis of data.

Prachi Sanghavi;Kavi S. Bhalla;Veena Das

175
Citations
Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India.

Tanya Luhrmann;Veena Das

56
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret Lock McGill University

Jishnu Das Georgetown University

Paul Farmer Harvard University

Arjun Appadurai New York University

Loïc Wacquant University of California, Berkeley

Hannah Arendt Keele University

Nancy Scheper-Hughes University of California, Berkeley

Philippe Bourgois University of California, Los Angeles

Talal Asad City University of New York

Jean Paul Sartre Université Paris Cité

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