Harold Garfinkel

29.6k citations

49 papers · 17.6k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 23

Sociology and Political Science top 0.05%
Language and Linguistics top 0.02%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 0.5%
Social Psychology top 0.5%
Literature and Literary Theory top 0.05%

Co-authors: Anthony F. C. Wallace Joan Busfield James S. Coleman John Heritage James V. Spickard Anne Warfield Rawls Harvey Sacks Eric Livingston
Topics: Social Representations and Identity (3 papers)Law in Society and Culture (2 papers)Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 papers)
Cited by: Language and Linguistics Literature and Literary Theory Human-Computer Interaction
Journals: JAMASHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaAdministrative Science Quarterly
Partner nations: United States Australia Germany

In The Last Decade

Harold Garfinkel

45 papers receiving 14.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Studies in Ethnomethodology.

1968 8.1k citations Anthony F. C. Wallace, Harold Garfinkel American Sociological Review profile →
Studies in Ethnomethodology

1968 2.3k citations Harold Garfinkel et al. profile →
Studies in Ethnomethodology.

1968 1.6k citations Harold Garfinkel et al. American Sociological Review profile →
Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology

1987 1.0k citations James V. Spickard, John Heritage et al. Sociological Analysis profile →
Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies

1956 927 citations Harold Garfinkel profile →
Ethnomethodology's Program: Working Out Durkheim's Aphorism

2002 756 citations Harold Garfinkel, Anne Warfield Rawls et al. Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →
Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities

1964 445 citations Harold Garfinkel Social Problems profile →
I.1 The Work of a Discovering Science Construed with Materials from the Optically Discovered Pulsar

1981 406 citations Harold Garfinkel, Eric Livingston et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Condiciones de las ceremonias exitosas de degradación 2016 ·Delito y sociedad. Revista de Ciencias Sociales ·Harold Garfinkel	3
2	Algumas regras de tomada de decisão correta que os jurados respeitam 2014 ·Harold Garfinkel,(unknown),(unknown)	1
3	Algumas regras de tomada de decisão correta que os jurados respeitam 2014 ·Harold Garfinkel,(unknown),(unknown)	0
4	The «Red» as an ideal object 2012 ·Harold Garfinkel	3
5	Parsons’ Primer: “Ad Hoc Uses”. Chapter IV. “Adequate” Descriptions of Social Structures 2011 ·Harold Garfinkel	1
6	The rational properties of scientific and common sense activities 2007 ·Systems Research and Behavioral Science ·Harold Garfinkel	3
7	Ethnomethodology’S Program 2002 ·Harold Garfinkel	1
8	Ethnomethodology's Program: Working Out Durkheim's Aphorismbreakdown → 2002 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·(unknown),(unknown),Harold Garfinkel,Anne Warfield Rawls	756
9	¿Qué es la etnometodología? 2001 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Harold Garfinkel	1
10	El orden temporal en el trabajo de laboratorio 1995 ·Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) ·Michael Lynch,Eric Livingston,Harold Garfinkel	5
11	The Curious Seriousness of Professional Sociology 1990 ·Persée (Ministère de lEnseignement supérieur et de la Recherche) ·Harold Garfinkel	11
12	Evidence for Locally Produced, Naturally Accountable Phenomena of Order, Logic, Reason, Meaning, Method, etc. In and as of the Essential Quiddity of Immortal Ordinary Society, (I of IV): An Announcement of Studies 1988 ·Sociological Theory ·Harold Garfinkel	121
13	Garfinkel and Ethnomethodologybreakdown → 1987 ·Sociological Analysis ·James V. Spickard,John Heritage,Harold Garfinkel	1039
14	Temporal order in laboratory work 1983 ·Michael Lynch,Eric Livingston,Harold Garfinkel	92
15	A massive lipoma in a patient receiving chlorpropamide therapy 1971 ·Postgraduate Medical Journal ·Harold Garfinkel	1
16	Studies in Ethnomethodology.breakdown → 1968 ·American Sociological Review ·Anthony F. C. Wallace,Harold Garfinkel	8149
17	Aspects of the Problem of Common-Sense Knowledge of Social Structures 1968 ·Harold Garfinkel	12
18	Studies in Ethnomethodology. 1968 ·American Sociological Review ·Guy E. Swanson,Harold Garfinkel	77
19	Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activitiesbreakdown → 1964 ·Social Problems ·Harold Garfinkel	445
20	A Consideration of Changes Attributed to Intoxication as Common-Sense Reasons for Getting Drunk 1962 ·Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol ·Craig MacAndrew,Harold Garfinkel	15

About Harold Garfinkel

Harold Garfinkel is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, History and Philosophy of Science and Anthropology, having authored 49 papers that have together received 17.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Social Representations and Identity (3 papers), Law in Society and Culture (2 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Language and Linguistics (4.6k citations), Literature and Literary Theory (2.1k citations) and Human-Computer Interaction (1.0k citations). Harold Garfinkel has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Anthony F. C. Wallace, Joan Busfield, James S. Coleman, John Heritage, James V. Spickard, Anne Warfield Rawls, Harvey Sacks, Eric Livingston, Michael P. Lynch and D. Lawrence Wieder. Their work appears in journals such as JAMA, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Administrative Science Quarterly.

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