Wendy Nelson Espeland

9.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
38 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Wendy Nelson Espeland is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Law and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wendy Nelson Espeland has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Law and 5 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Wendy Nelson Espeland's work include Management and Organizational Studies (5 papers), Judicial and Constitutional Studies (4 papers) and Social and Cultural Dynamics (3 papers). Wendy Nelson Espeland is often cited by papers focused on Management and Organizational Studies (5 papers), Judicial and Constitutional Studies (4 papers) and Social and Cultural Dynamics (3 papers). Wendy Nelson Espeland collaborates with scholars based in United States, Philippines and Australia. Wendy Nelson Espeland's co-authors include Michael Sauder, Mitchell L. Stevens, Bruce G. Carruthers, Andrea Mennicken, Paul M. Hirsch, Charles Perrow, Sandra P. Laing, Michael J. O’Sullivan, Terence C. Halliday and Michèle Lamont and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Wendy Nelson Espeland

38 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds

2007 1.3k citations Wendy Nelson Espeland, Michael Sauder profile →
Commensuration as a Social Process

1998 1.1k citations Wendy Nelson Espeland et al. Annual Review of Sociology profile →
The Discipline of Rankings: Tight Coupling and Organizational Change

2009 629 citations Michael Sauder, Wendy Nelson Espeland profile →
A Sociology of Quantification

2008 608 citations Wendy Nelson Espeland et al. profile →
Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability

2016 293 citations Wendy Nelson Espeland, Michael Sauder Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) profile →
What's New with Numbers? Sociological Approaches to the Study of Quantification

2019 204 citations Andrea Mennicken, Wendy Nelson Espeland Annual Review of Sociology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wendy Nelson Espeland United States	20	1.9k	1.1k	992	749	553	38	5.3k
Charles H. Powers United States	8	2.7k 1.4×	755 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	744 1.0×	568 1.0×	15	6.3k
David Strang United States	25	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	1.7k 2.2×	279 0.5×	50	5.9k
Alice O. Andrews United States	11	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.7×	1.8k 2.5×	442 0.8×	20	6.3k
John Hassard United Kingdom	41	2.4k 1.2×	638 0.6×	2.7k 2.7×	1.0k 1.4×	389 0.7×	144	6.9k
Diego Gambetta United Kingdom	28	5.8k 3.0×	1.6k 1.5×	993 1.0×	996 1.3×	391 0.7×	64	10.0k
Jens Beckert Germany	29	1.8k 1.0×	778 0.7×	801 0.8×	690 0.9×	145 0.3×	123	4.6k
Gibson Burrell United Kingdom	20	1.8k 0.9×	415 0.4×	2.5k 2.5×	925 1.2×	459 0.8×	45	6.0k
Helmut K. Anheier Germany	35	3.7k 1.9×	948 0.9×	586 0.6×	816 1.1×	359 0.6×	202	5.5k
Mustafa Emirbayer United States	18	4.4k 2.3×	1.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.6×	753 1.0×	1.0k 1.9×	35	8.0k
Arthur L. Stinchcombe United States	33	3.5k 1.8×	1.3k 1.2×	865 0.9×	972 1.3×	342 0.6×	129	7.4k

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Espeland, Wendy Nelson, et al.. (2022). “Islands of Qualities in an Ocean of Quantification”: A Conversation with Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder. CBS Research Portal (Copenhagen Business School). 8(2). 103–121. 2 indexed citations

Mennicken, Andrea & Wendy Nelson Espeland. (2019). What's New with Numbers? Sociological Approaches to the Study of Quantification. Annual Review of Sociology. 45(1). 223–245. 204 indexed citations breakdown →

Espeland, Wendy Nelson & Michael Sauder. (2016). Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 293 indexed citations breakdown →

Espeland, Wendy Nelson. (2016). Reverse Engineering and Emotional Attachments as Mechanisms Mediating the Effects of Quantification. Historical social research. 41(2). 280–304. 13 indexed citations

Espeland, Wendy Nelson & Michael Sauder. (2016). Engines of Anxiety. 3 indexed citations

Espeland, Wendy Nelson. (2015). Noticing Numbers: How Quantification Changes What We See and What We Don’t. 18–36. 7 indexed citations

Espeland, Wendy Nelson. (2015). Rankled by rankings: how media rankings redefined higher education. 3 indexed citations

Espeland, Wendy Nelson. (2010). Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 39(5). 589–590. 110 indexed citations

Espeland, Wendy Nelson & Michael Sauder. (2009). How Rankings Affect Diversity. 18. 587–608. 11 indexed citations

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Espeland, Wendy Nelson & Michael Sauder. (2009). Rating the Rankings. Contexts. 8(2). 16–21. 22 indexed citations

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Espeland, Wendy Nelson, Michèle Lamont, & Patricia White. (2009). Thinking about standards in qualitative research: Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research. 1 indexed citations

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Espeland, Wendy Nelson, et al.. (2007). Accountability, Quantification, and Law. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Sauder, Michael & Wendy Nelson Espeland. (2005). Strength in Numbers? The Advantages of Multiple Rankings. Indiana law journal. 81(1). 10. 18 indexed citations

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Laing, Sandra P. & Wendy Nelson Espeland. (2004). Low intensity phonological awareness training in a preschool classroom for children with communication impairments. Journal of Communication Disorders. 38(1). 65–82. 40 indexed citations

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Espeland, Wendy Nelson. (2002). Lessons learned from a small native American community. Public Administration and Development. 22(5). 377–388. 1 indexed citations

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Perrow, Charles & Wendy Nelson Espeland. (1999). The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest.. Social Forces. 77(4). 1652–1652. 59 indexed citations

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Espeland, Wendy Nelson. (1998). Review of Braids of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Tribal Life , by Frank Pommersheim: Law and History Review. 2 indexed citations

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Espeland, Wendy Nelson. (1994). Legally Mediated Identity: The National Environmental Policy Act and the Bureaucratic Construction of Interests. Law & Society Review. 28(5). 1149–1179. 26 indexed citations

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Espeland, Wendy Nelson, et al.. (1994). The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 23(5). 694–694. 97 indexed citations

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Espeland, Wendy Nelson & Paul M. Hirsch. (1990). Ownership changes, accounting practice and the redefinition of the corporation. Accounting Organizations and Society. 15(1-2). 77–96. 64 indexed citations

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