Otis Dudley Duncan

21.6k total citations · 9 hit papers
168 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Otis Dudley Duncan is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Otis Dudley Duncan has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 9 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Otis Dudley Duncan's work include Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (16 papers), Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (10 papers) and School Choice and Performance (6 papers). Otis Dudley Duncan is often cited by papers focused on Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (16 papers), Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (10 papers) and School Choice and Performance (6 papers). Otis Dudley Duncan collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Otis Dudley Duncan's co-authors include Beverly Duncan, David L. Sills, Andrew J. Cherlin, Ernest Nagel, Peter M. Blau, Albert J. Reiss, Cecil C. North, Paul K. Hatt, Richard L. Simpson and Robert M. Marsh and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Bulletin and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Otis Dudley Duncan

161 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

International Encyclopedi... 1955 2026 1978 2002 1968 1955 1962 1976 1966 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
    1968 2.3k citations Otis Dudley Duncan et al. American Sociological Review profile →
  2. A Methodological Analysis of Segregation Indexes
    1955 1.8k citations Otis Dudley Duncan, Beverly Duncan American Sociological Review profile →
  3. Occupations and Social Status.
    1962 1.1k citations Otis Dudley Duncan et al. American Sociological Review profile →
  4. Introduction to Structural Equation Models.
    1976 983 citations Otis Dudley Duncan et al. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews profile →
  5. Path Analysis: Sociological Examples
    1966 935 citations Otis Dudley Duncan American Journal of Sociology profile →
  6. Socioeconomic Background and Achievement
    1975 744 citations Otis Dudley Duncan, Beverly Duncan et al. profile →
  7. The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation.
    1961 721 citations Otis Dudley Duncan et al. American Sociological Review profile →
  8. The American Occupational Structure.
    1968 638 citations Peter M. Blau, Otis Dudley Duncan et al. Social Forces profile →
  9. Residential Distribution and Occupational Stratification
    1955 383 citations Otis Dudley Duncan, Beverly Duncan American Journal of Sociology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Otis Dudley Duncan United States 43 6.7k 2.5k 2.1k 1.4k 1.2k 168 14.9k
H. M. Blalock United States 41 7.5k 1.1× 1.5k 0.6× 1.8k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 95 12.7k
Robert M. Hauser United States 61 7.2k 1.1× 1.7k 0.7× 4.0k 1.9× 1.6k 1.2× 1.4k 1.1× 184 14.1k
J. David Singer United States 57 5.9k 0.9× 2.1k 0.9× 3.8k 1.8× 2.3k 1.7× 802 0.7× 192 22.7k
Duane F. Alwin United States 54 6.6k 1.0× 912 0.4× 1.5k 0.7× 1.4k 1.0× 1.6k 1.3× 118 13.4k
J. Scott Long United States 48 3.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.8× 1.2k 0.6× 2.1k 1.6× 1.5k 1.3× 89 15.3k
Christopher Winship United States 35 3.9k 0.6× 1.6k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 1.3k 1.0× 700 0.6× 90 8.8k
Michael E. Sobel United States 26 4.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.4× 1.1k 0.5× 1.4k 1.0× 703 0.6× 63 14.9k
Clifford C. Clogg United States 38 7.4k 1.1× 2.1k 0.8× 2.8k 1.3× 2.8k 2.1× 1.3k 1.1× 84 30.4k
Kenneth C. Land United States 56 7.6k 1.1× 1.4k 0.6× 683 0.3× 3.4k 2.5× 732 0.6× 227 15.7k
Robert Κ. Merton United States 51 15.5k 2.3× 3.7k 1.5× 4.0k 1.9× 3.9k 2.8× 1.9k 1.6× 153 42.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Duncan, Otis Dudley, et al.. (1992). What If?. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 21(5). 667–667. 6 indexed citations
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Petersen, Trond, Peter M. Blau, & Otis Dudley Duncan. (1992). Alternative Ways of Modeling Mobility. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 21(5). 636–636.
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Duncan, Otis Dudley & Magnus Stenbeck. (1988). No Opinion or Not Sure?. Public Opinion Quarterly. 52(4). 513–513. 11 indexed citations
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Hout, Michael, Otis Dudley Duncan, & Michael E. Sobel. (1987). Association and Heterogeneity: Structural Models of Similarities and Differences. Sociological Methodology. 17. 145–145. 38 indexed citations
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Plackett, R. L., Leo A. Goodman, Clifford C. Clogg, & Otis Dudley Duncan. (1985). The Analysis of Cross-Classified Data having Ordered Categories.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 148(2). 168–168. 63 indexed citations
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Duncan, Otis Dudley. (1981). Two Faces of Panel Analysis: Parallels with Comparative Cross-Sectional Analysis and Time-Lagged Association. Sociological Methodology. 12. 281–281. 15 indexed citations
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Duncan, Otis Dudley & Howard Schuman. (1980). Effects of Question Wording and Context: An Experiment with Religious Indicators. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 75(370). 269–275. 14 indexed citations
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Duncan, Otis Dudley. (1979). How Destination Depends on Origin in the Occupational Mobility Table. American Journal of Sociology. 84(4). 793–803. 111 indexed citations
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Duncan, Otis Dudley, John H. Mueller, Karl Schuessler, & Herbert L. Costner. (1979). Statistical Reasoning in Sociology, 3rd Edition.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 74(365). 253–253. 14 indexed citations
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Duncan, Otis Dudley. (1975). Does money buy satisfaction?. Social Indicators Research. 2(3). 267–274. 73 indexed citations
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Duncan, Otis Dudley. (1965). Farm background and differential fertility. Demography. 2(1). 240–249. 39 indexed citations
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Duncan, Otis Dudley. (1965). Social Origins of Salaried and Self-Employed Professional Workers. Social Forces. 44(2). 186–186. 1 indexed citations
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Ogburn, William F. & Otis Dudley Duncan. (1964). On culture and social change : selected papers. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 33 indexed citations
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Dickinson, Gordon, et al.. (1964). Statistical Mapping and the Presentation of Statistics. Population. 19(1). 174–174. 10 indexed citations
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Duncan, Otis Dudley. (1961). Occupational Components of Educational Differences in Income. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 56(296). 783–792. 18 indexed citations
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Halbwachs, Maurice, Otis Dudley Duncan, & Harold W. Pfautz. (1960). Population and Society: Introduction to Social Morphology. Science & Society. 26(2). 9 indexed citations
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Hauser, Philip M. & Otis Dudley Duncan. (1959). The study of population : an inventory and appraisal. 54 indexed citations
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Roberts, G. W., Otis Dudley Duncan, & Beverly Duncan. (1957). The Negro Population of Chicago: A Study of Residential Succession.. American Sociological Review. 22(5). 608–608. 62 indexed citations
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Duncan, Otis Dudley. (1952). Is the Intelligence of the General Population Declining?. American Sociological Review. 17(4). 401–401. 39 indexed citations

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