Daniel Little

1.7k total citations
64 papers, 888 citations indexed

About

Daniel Little is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, History and Philosophy of Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Little has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 888 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 7 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Daniel Little's work include Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (10 papers), Chinese history and philosophy (8 papers) and Political Economy and Marxism (7 papers). Daniel Little is often cited by papers focused on Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (10 papers), Chinese history and philosophy (8 papers) and Political Economy and Marxism (7 papers). Daniel Little collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Daniel Little's co-authors include David‐Hillel Ruben, Aage B. Sørensen, Jonathan Said, Robert J. Siegel, Michael C. Fishbein, Andrew Levine, Carol C. Gould, Jamie Morgan, Joseph W. Esherick and Alvin Y. So and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Little

60 papers receiving 737 citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Daniel Little 428 191 110 91 55 64 888
Dominique Pestré 388 0.9× 142 0.7× 58 0.5× 208 2.3× 50 0.9× 75 998
David Clarke 366 0.9× 126 0.7× 105 1.0× 14 0.2× 45 0.8× 149 1.5k
Edward Gross 600 1.4× 202 1.1× 140 1.3× 20 0.2× 150 2.7× 61 1.8k
Catherine Hall 1.3k 3.0× 378 2.0× 324 2.9× 68 0.7× 10 0.2× 101 2.5k
William H. Newell 342 0.8× 112 0.6× 66 0.6× 21 0.2× 28 0.5× 61 1.4k
David Carr 525 1.2× 259 1.4× 48 0.4× 56 0.6× 16 0.3× 58 1.4k
David Pontille 420 1.0× 165 0.9× 54 0.5× 89 1.0× 45 0.8× 65 1.2k
J. M. Bernstein 574 1.3× 201 1.1× 71 0.6× 18 0.2× 22 0.4× 56 1.7k
Wendy Dobson 155 0.4× 156 0.8× 206 1.9× 26 0.3× 131 2.4× 60 1.0k
Nicholas Allen 378 0.9× 418 2.2× 36 0.3× 12 0.1× 49 0.9× 115 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Daniel Little

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Little

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Little

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Little, Daniel. (2020). A New Social Ontology of Government. 8 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (2020). The Continuing Need for Unmasking. The American Sociologist. 51(1). 37–46. 1 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (2020). Organizations as Actors: Microfoundations of Organizational Intentionality. Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 50(3). 260–279. 6 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (2015). Guiding and modelling quality improvement in higher education institutions. Quality in Higher Education. 21(3). 312–327. 13 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (2015). Mechanisms and Method. Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 45(4-5). 462–480. 10 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (2012). Responses to Commentators. Sociologia. 0–0. 1 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (2012). Analytical Sociology and the Rest of Sociology. Sociologia. 0–0. 12 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (2012). Explanatory Autonomy and Coleman's Boat. THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science. 27(2). 137–151. 24 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel & Satya P. Mohanty. (2010). The future of diversity : academic leaders reflect on American higher education. Palgrave Macmillan eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (2000). Explaining Large-Scale Historical Change. Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 30(1). 89–112. 23 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (1996). Causal Explanation in the Social Sciences. The Southern Journal of Philosophy. 34(S1). 31–56. 21 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel, Erik Olín Wright, Andrew J. Levine, & Elliott Sober. (1994). Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History.. The Philosophical Review. 103(1). 199–199. 4 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (1992). Commercialization and Agricultural Development: Central and Eastern China, 1870-1937. Loren Brandt. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 40(2). 425–432. 2 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (1991). Marx and the New Individual. Philosophical Books. 32(4). 219–219. 1 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (1989). Understanding Peasant China: Case Studies in the Philosophy of Social Science. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 35 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (1989). Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge. Philosophical Books. 30(1). 29–30. 41 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (1986). The scientific Marx. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 21 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (1984). REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM AND JUSTIFICATION. The Southern Journal of Philosophy. 22(3). 373–387. 11 indexed citations
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Little, Daniel. (1982). ABSTRACTION AND THEORY MARX'S METHOD FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE. The Southern Journal of Philosophy. 20(4). 441–452. 2 indexed citations

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