2026 William H. Dutton: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	50	2719	2485	466	421	334	12296

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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466

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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12296

World Ranking

2719

National Ranking

466

Overview

William H. Dutton is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of social sciences, with a focus on several subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, information systems, communication, and media technology.

Their work encompasses a range of topics within social sciences, notably:

Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies
Information and Cyber Security
Social Media and Politics
E-Government and Public Services
Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Social Capital and Networks
ICT Impact and Policies

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Dutton include:

Mobile Phones Will Not Eliminate Digital and Social Divides: How Variation in Internet Activities Mediates the Relationship Between Type of Internet Access and Local Social Capital in Detroit (2020), published in Social Science Computer Review
Cybersecurity capacity-building: cross-national benefits and international divides (2021), published in Journal of Cyber Policy
Cybersecurity education, awareness raising, and training initiatives: National level evidence-based results, challenges, and promise (2022), published in Computers & Security
The social and cultural shaping of cybersecurity capacity building: a comparative study of nations and regions (2021), published in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Cybersecurity Capacity Building: Cross-National Benefits and International Divides (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Dutton frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

Patricia Esteve-González
Sadie Creese
Grant Blank
Michael Goldsmith
Louise Axon

Their work has been published in a variety of venues, with multiple publications in some, including:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Cyber Policy
Social Science Computer Review
Computers & Security
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Best Publications

Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch

William Dutton;Kris Pister;Hal Varian;Rob Bernard

762
Citations
Society on the line

William H. Dutton

693
Citations
Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age

Margaret Bruce;Malcolm Peltu;William H. Dutton

652
Citations
The Fifth Estate Emerging through the Network of Networks

William H. Dutton

510
Citations
The Internet and the Public: Online and Offline Political Participation in the United Kingdom

Corinna di Gennaro;William Dutton

459
Citations
Wired Cities: Shaping the Future of Communications

William H. Dutton;Jay G. Blumler;Kenneth L. Kraemer

340
Citations
Diffusion and Social Impacts of Personal Computers

William H. Dutton;Everett M. Rogers;Suk Ho Jun

323
Citations
Information and Communication Technologies: Visions and Realities

William H. Dutton

314
Citations
Social Media in the Changing Ecology of News: The Fourth and Fifth Estate in Britain

N Newman;W Dutton;G Blank

293
Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

William H. Dutton

273
Citations
Trust in the Internet as an experience technology

William H. Dutton;Adrian Shepherd

253
Citations
The management of information systems

Kenneth L. Kraemer;William H. Dutton;Alana Northrop

217
Citations
The Social Shaping of a Virtual Learning Environment: The Case of a University-Wide Course Management System.

William H. Dutton;Pauline Hope Cheong;Namkee Park

204
Citations
Network rules of order: regulating speech in public electronic fora

William H. Dutton

193
Citations
The Politics of Citizen Access Technology: The Development of Public Information Utilities in Four Cities

K. Kendall Guthrie;William H. Dutton

183
Citations
Society and the Internet : how networks of information and communication are changing our lives

Mark Graham;William H. Dutton;Manuel Castells

174
Citations
Putting things to work: social and policy challenges for the Internet of things

William H. Dutton

155
Citations
Oxford Internet Survey 2007 Report: The Internet in Britain

William H. Dutton;William H. Dutton;Ellen Johanna Helsper

151
Citations
Age and Trust in the Internet: The Centrality of Experience and Attitudes Toward Technology in Britain

Grant Blank;William H. Dutton

150
Citations
Cultural divides and digital inequalities: attitudes shaping Internet and social media divides*

William H. Dutton;Bianca C. Reisdorf

144
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen Helsper London School of Economics and Political Science

Everett M. Rogers University of New Mexico

Sara Kiesler Carnegie Mellon University

Guy M. Goodwin University of Oxford

Mark Graham King's College London

Robert D. Rogers Bangor University

Lee Sproull New York University

Monica T. Whitty Monash University

Michael Batty University College London

Charles Steinfield Michigan State University

External Links

Personal website of William H. Dutton Google Scholar page

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