Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies
if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the
same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average
within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research
topics.
Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration
2004958 citationsBecky Pettit, Bruce Westernprofile →
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market
2009700 citationsDevah Pager, Bruce Western et al.profile →
Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
This map shows the geographic impact of Bruce Western's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Bruce Western with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Bruce Western more than expected).
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Bruce Western. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Bruce Western. The network helps show where Bruce Western may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce Western
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bruce Western.
A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bruce Western based on the total number of
citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges
represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together.
Node borders
signify the number of papers an author published with Bruce Western. Bruce Western is excluded from
the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
Western, Bruce, et al.. (2023). Life During COVID for Court-Involved People. RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 9(3). 232–251.3 indexed citations
Western, Bruce, et al.. (2017). A Longitudinal Survey of Newly-Released Prisoners: Methods and Design of the Boston Reentry Study 1. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 81(1). 32–40.15 indexed citations
Western, Bruce & Jake Rosenfeld. (2012). Workers of the world divide: the decline of the labor and the future of the middle class. Foreign Affairs. 91(3). 88–99.12 indexed citations
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Grusky, David B., Bruce Western, & Christopher Wimer. (2011). The Great Recession.139 indexed citations
14.
Berk, Richard A., Alec C. Campbell, Ruth Klap, & Bruce Western. (2011). The Differential Deterrent Effects of An Arrest in Incidents of Domestic Violence: A Bayesian Analysis of Four Randomized Field Experiments. eScholarship (California Digital Library).
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Wildeman, Christopher & Bruce Western. (2010). Incarceration in Fragile Families. The Future of Children. 20(2). 157–177.156 indexed citations
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Pager, Devah, Bruce Western, & David S. Pedulla. (2009). Employment Discrimination and the Changing Landscape of Low-Wage Labor Markets. The University of Chicago legal forum. 2009(1). 9.4 indexed citations
Western, Bruce & Becky Pettit. (2005). Black-White Earnings Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration. American Journal of Sociology. 111.4 indexed citations
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Western, Bruce. (1997). Between Class and Market. Princeton University Press eBooks.168 indexed citations
Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive
bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global
research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include
incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and
delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in
Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.