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According to Wikipedia, Robert King Merton was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology. He served as the 47th President of the American Sociological Association. He spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University, where he attained the rank of University Professor. In 1994 he was awarded the National Medal of Science for his contributions to the field and for having founded the sociology of science.

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Published Papers

Social Theory and Social Structure (1958) (13881)
The Matthew Effect in Science (1968) (5190)
Social Structure and Anomie (1938) (4661)
The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations (1974) (3590)
Genesis and development of a scientific fact (1979) (2502)
Friendship as Social process: a substantive and methodological analysis (1964) (2176)
The unanticipated consequences of purposive social action (1936) (1962)
The Focused Interview (1946) (1543)
The Normative Structure of Science (1973) (1447)
Priorities in scientific discovery: A chapter in the sociology of science. (1957) (1367)
Insiders and Outsiders: A Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge (1972) (1307)
Bureaucratic Structure and Personality (1940) (1238)
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (1948) (1134)
The Matthew Effect in Science, II: Cumulative Advantage and the Symbolism of Intellectual Property (1988) (1123)
The Focused Interview: A Manual of Problems and Procedures (1990) (1107)
The Role-Set: Problems in Sociological Theory (1957) (829)
Patterns of evaluation in science: Institutionalisation, structure and functions of the referee system (1971) (734)
Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England (1938) (636)
Mass communication popular taste and organized social action. (1948) (635)
The nature of leadership. (1970) (632)
The Matthew effect in science. The reward and communication systems of science are considered. (1968) (610)
The student physician: Introductory studies in the sociology of medical education. (1958) (558)
Non-Contractual Relations in Business : A Preliminary Study (2007) (529)
Three Fragments From a Sociologist's Notebooks: Establishing the Phenomenon, Specified Ignorance, and Strategic Research Materials (1987) (507)
Social Time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis (1937) (504)
Sociological ambivalence and other essays (1976) (490)
Intermarriage and the social structure: fact and theory. (1941) (487)
THE FOCUSSED INTERVIEW AND FOCUS GROUPS CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES (1987) (454)
The Thomas Theorem and The Matthew Effect (1995) (393)
Science and the Social Order (1938) (351)
On social structure and science (1996) (344)
THE STUDENT-PHYSICIAN (1958) (339)
On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript (1966) (336)
On Theoretical Sociology: Five Essays, Old and New (1967) (329)
Contemporary social problems (1971) (316)
Age, aging, and age structure in science (1968) (303)
Éléments de théorie et de méthode sociologique (1997) (256)
Reader in Bureaucracy (1952) (168)
The Sociology of Science: An Episodic Memoir (1979) (162)
Soziologische Theorie und soziale Struktur (1995) (153)
The Literature of Propaganda. (Book Reviews: Mass Persuasion: The Social Psychology of a War Bond Drive) (1971) (151)
Toward a metric of science : the advent of science indicators (1980) (149)
The Bearing of Empirical Research upon the Development of Social Theory (1948) (143)
[Introduction to "Toward A Metric of Science: The Advent of Science Indicators"] (1979) (127)
Social Theory and Social Structure: Toward the Codification of Theory and Research. (1950) (125)
Continuities in Social Research: Studies in the Scope and Method of "The American Solider" (1951) (125)
Behavior Patterns Of Scientists (1970) (125)
Resistance to the Systematic Study of Multiple Discoveries in Science (1963) (123)
Manifest and Latent Functions (1993) (118)
Social theory and social structure : toward the codification of theory and research (1951) (115)
Ambivalence of Scientists. (1963) (99)
Social Conformity, Deviation, and Opportunity Structures: A Comment on the Contributions of Dubin and Cloward (1959) (96)
Contemporary social problems : an introduction to the sociology of deviant behavior and social disorganization (1962) (93)
Durkheim's Division of Labor in Society (1934) (91)
Thematic Analysis in Science: Notes on Holton's Concept. (1975) (87)
The functions of the professional association. (1958) (84)
Entwicklung und Wandel von Forschungsinteressen : Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftssoziologie (1985) (79)
The travels and adventures of serendipity (2004) (77)
The Role of Applied Social Science in the Formation of Policy: A Research Memorandum (1949) (72)
Sociology Today: Problems and Prospects (1962) (68)
Procedures for the sociological study of the values climate of medical schools. (1958) (66)
Continuities in Social Research (1951) (65)
Puritanism, Pietism, and Science (1936) (63)
On Discipline Building: The Paradoxes of George Sarton (1972) (63)
Role of the Intellectual in Public Bureaucracy (1945) (60)
Social research and the practicing professions (1982) (55)
Fact and Factitiousness in Ethnic Opinionnaires (1940) (55)
Fluctuations in the Rate of Industrial Invention (1935) (50)
The social nature of leadership. (1969) (50)
Continuities in Social Research: Studies in the Scope and Method of "The American Soldier." (1951) (48)
Human arrangements: An introduction to sociology (1992) (46)
The Kelvin dictum and social science: an excursion into the history of an idea. (1984) (46)
Continuities in structural inquiry (1984) (44)
The Sociology of Knowledge (1937) (43)
Auf den Schultern von Riesen : ein Lietfaden durch das Labyrinth der Gelehrsamkeit (1983) (42)
The Machine, the Worker, and the Engineer. (1947) (42)
Selected Problems of Field Work in the Planned Community (1947) (41)
Mass Culture : The Popular Arts in America (1957) (40)
The Sociology of Science in Europe (1978) (35)
La sociología de la ciencia: investigaciones teóricas y empíricas (1977) (34)
The Fallacy of the Latest Word: The Case of "Pietism and Science" (1984) (33)
The cultural and social incorporation of sociological knowledge (1995) (31)
George Sarton: Episodic Recollections by an Unruly Apprentice (1985) (27)
SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Studies in Radio and Film Propaganda* (1943) (27)
The Course of Arabian Intellectual Development, 700-1300 A.D. A Study in Method (1935) (26)
Contemporary Social Theory (1942) (26)
ON THE EVOLVING SYNTHESIS OF DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION AND ANOMIE THEORY1: A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE (1997) (25)
Science and social structure: a festschrift for Robert K. Merton. (1980) (24)
Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research: Papers in Honor of Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1979) (23)
Ciencia, tecnología y sociedad en la Inglaterra del siglo XVII (1984) (23)
History, philosophy, and sociology of science. (1972) (23)
Der Matthäus-Effekt in der Wissenschaft, II (2010) (22)
Studie ze sociologické teorie (2000) (21)
CRIME AND THE ANTHROPOLOGIST (1940) (21)
Социальная теория и социальная структура (1992) (21)
Chapter 35 On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range [ 1949 ] (2007) (21)
Sociological Traditions from Generation to Generation: Glimpses of the American Experience. (1980) (21)
Industria Cultural y Sociedad de Masas (1992) (21)
The Focussed Interview: A Manual (1953) (20)
Columbia-Pennsylvania: studies in the sociology of medical education. (1956) (20)
Dear FDR : a study of political letter-writing (1964) (18)
Election Polling Forecasts and Public Images of Social Science A Case Study in the Shaping of Opinion among a Strategic Public (1949) (17)
Criminology/2nd Edition (1992) (17)
Alvin W. Gouldner: Genesis & growth of a friendship (1982) (15)
Ambivalencia sociológica y otros ensayos (1981) (15)
Social policy and social research in housing. (1952) (15)
Recent French Sociology (1934) (14)
Sociological Theory (1945) (14)
Basic Research and Potentials of Relevance (1963) (13)
Sociological Research: A Case Approach. Vol. I. (1964) (12)
Sociology of refereeing (1971) (12)
Los imperativos institucionales de la ciencia (1980) (11)
6. Bürokratische Struktur und Persönlichkeit (1995) (11)
Éléments de méthode sociologique (1953) (11)
LA DIVISIÓN DEL TRABAJO SOCIAL DE DURKHEIM (2002) (11)
An Interview with Robert K. Merton (1984) (10)
The structure of society (1986) (10)
American Social Trends (1991) (10)
Propósitos y criterios de la entrevista focalizada (traducción de Consuelo del Val y Javier Callejo) (2002) (10)
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences: Vol. 19: Social Science Quotations. (1991) (9)
Los colegios invisibles en el desarrollo cognitivo de Kuhn (1998) (8)
Strukturelle Analyse in der Soziologie (1978) (8)
The Freedom to Read: Perspective and Program (1959) (7)
Социальная структура и аномия (1992) (7)
The Sorokin-Merton Correspondence on “Puritanism, Pietism and Science,” 1933–34 (1989) (7)
Status-Orientations in Nursing (1962) (7)
Serendipity and the Rural-Urban Continuum (1951) (7)
Estructura social y anomia: revisión y ampliación (1986) (7)
On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript. (1967) (7)
The Role of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century.@@@Science and Social Welfare in the Age of Newton.@@@Science, Technology, and Society in Seventeenth Century England. (1938) (6)
Dilemmas of democracy in the voluntary associations. (1966) (6)
Prime linee di patologia economica (1936) (6)
Durkheim'sdivision of labor in society (1994) (6)
Florian Znaniecki: A short reminiscence (1983) (6)
Afterword: Autobiographical Reflections on The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity (2011) (6)
Social Stratification: A Comparative Analysis of Structure and Process (1959) (5)
1. Manifeste und latente Funktionen (1995) (4)
La ambivalencia de los científicos (1964) (4)
9. Weiterentwicklungen der Theorie von Bezugsgruppen und Sozialstruktur (1995) (4)
The Whole State of Sociology@@@Sociology Today: Problems and Prospects.@@@Symposium on Sociological Theory.@@@Review of Sociology: Analysis of a Decade.@@@Sociology in the United States of America: A Trend Report. (1959) (4)
Robert K. Merton & contemporary sociology (1998) (4)
The ambivalence of scientists. (1963) (4)
REMARKS ON BECOMING AN HONORAND OF JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY: SOCIAL TIME AND SOCIO-COGNITIVE NETWORKS (1990) (4)
Practical problems and the uses of social science (1964) (4)
“Durkheim'sDivision of Labor in Society”: A sexagenarian postscript (1994) (4)
Brief Bibliography for the Sociology of Science (1952) (3)
Surrogates, Institutes, and the Search for Convergences: The Research Style of Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1981) (3)
The Grammar of Social Relations: The Major Essays of Louis Schneider. (1984) (3)
Book Review:Science and Social Welfare in the Age of Newton G. N. Clark (1938) (3)
The Value of High-School Scholarship on the Labor Market (1944) (3)
Book Review:Mind, Self and Society George H. Mead, Charles W. Morris (1935) (3)
Sociología de la vivienda (1964) (3)
Basic research and its potentials of relevance. (1985) (3)
Robert K. Merton: The Sociology of Science. (1975) (3)
The World of Hesiod: A Study of the Greek Middle Ages. (1938) (3)
Relations Between Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses Status‐Orientations in Nursing (1962) (3)
Social Control: Social Organization and Disorganization in Process.Paul H. LandisFundamental Sociology.E. J. Ross (1940) (3)
Finance Theory and Future Trends: The Shift to Integration (2000) (3)
5. Weiterentwicklungen der Theorie der Sozialstruktur und Anomie (1995) (2)
Dilemmas of Democracy in the Voluntary Association (1966) (2)
Essay Review : The Sociological Study of Scientific Specialties (1978) (2)
Intellectual America. Ideas on the March. (1943) (2)
Varieties of political expression in sociology : an American journal of sociology publication (1972) (2)
Book Review:The Social Function of Science. J. D. Bernal (1941) (2)
The functions of the professional association. (1969) (2)
Nurse-physician collaboration toward improved patient care. Observations. (1965) (2)
CITATION MEASURES OF THE INFLUENCE OF (1983) (2)
Appendix B. Research in Progress (1957) (2)
Dissertations on sociology (1980) (2)
Book Review:Ancients and Moderns: A Study of the Background of the Battle of the Books Richard Foster Jones (1936) (2)
The Dynamics of Interhemispheric Compensatory Processes in Mental Imagery (2005) (2)
Book Review:A History of Mechanical Inventions Abbott Payson Usher (1935) (1)
Essays in Sociological Theory; Pure and Applied@@@Social Theory and Social Structure (1950) (1)
Mass Persuasion: A Technical Problem and a Moral Dilemma (1946) (1)
The Legacy of Anomie Theory: Advances in Criminological Theory, Vol. 6. (1996) (1)
Introducción a un libro de Marías (1975) (1)
Factors Determining Human Behaviour.Authority and the Individual. (1938) (1)
La Sociología francesa reciente (2009) (1)
Crime and the Man. Earnest Albert HootonThe American Criminal: An Anthropological Study. Volume I, The Native White Criminal of Native Parentage. (1940) (1)
PANUNZIO, CONSTANTINE. Major Social Institutions. Pp. xxii, 609. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1939. $3.50 (1940) (1)
Spoof and Serendipity@@@On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript. (1966) (1)
Book Review:Political Arithmetic: A Symposium of Population Studies Lancelot Hogben (1939) (1)
The Sociology of Invention. S. C. Gilfillan (1936) (1)
The Theory and Practice of Science Indicators@@@Toward a Metric of Science: The Advent of Science Indicators.@@@Science Indicators 1976. (1979) (1)
Социальное время: опыт методологического и функционального анализа (2004) (1)
L'amitié Comme Processus Social (1970) (1)
The Search for Understanding. Selected writings of scientists of the Carnegie Institution. Caryl P. Haskins, Ed. Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., 1967 (distributed by Walker, New York). xxiv + 330 pp., illus. $6 (1968) (1)
Book Review:Science and Social Needs Julian Huxley, H. Levy, Thomas D. Barlow, P. M. S. Blackett (1935) (1)
Memoirs of an Otsogoth? (1966) (1)
The Future of the Sociological Classics. (1983) (1)
The Doctrine of "Socially Derived Sin" (1972) (1)
Turner, Stephen (2009) (1)
The 1983 nobel prize in physics. (1983) (1)
Sociological ambivalence : and other essays / by Robert K. Merton (1976) (1)
The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century.@@@Social Ferment in Vermont, 1791-1850. (1940) (0)
Rolle und Gesellschaftliches System (1977) (0)
Социология сегодня : проблемы и перспективы : американская буржуазная социология середины ХХ века (1965) (0)
Appendix A. Socialization: A Terminological Note (1957) (0)
Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable, Michele Hilmes, 1990. University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL. 221 pages. ISBN: 0-252-017-09-9. $24.95 (1993) (0)
Essai sur la formation de la pensee grecque: introduction historique a une etude de la philosophie platonicienne. (1936) (0)
Book Review:Human Nature Writ Large: A Social Psychologic Survey and Western Anthropology. F. Creedy (1941) (0)
An introduction to the study of society (1958) (0)
KELSEN, HANS. Society and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry. Pp. viii, 391. Chi cago: The University of Chicago Press, 1943. $4.00 (1945) (0)
Social Forces , University of North Carolina Press Bureaucratic Structure and Personality (2007) (0)
7. Die Rolle des Intellektuellen in der öffentlichen Bürokratie (1995) (0)
The nature of leadership. (1979) (0)
Social Forces , University of North Carolina Press Bureaucratic Structure and Personality (2007) (0)
The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy. Peter Winch (1961) (0)
Recent developments in evolutionary theory — especially by biologist (0)
COMMENTS ON ROBERT K. MERTON, RECIPIENT OF THE 1995 DEREK DE SOLLA PRICE AWARD (1995) (0)
COMMENTS ON ROBERT K. MERTON, RECIPIENT OF THE 1995 DEREK DE SOLLA PRICE AWARD (1995) (0)
Organizational linkages in nursing. (1969) (0)
Book Review:An Introduction to Pareto: His Sociology George C. Homans, Charles P. Curtis, Jr. (1935) (0)
Robert K. Merton and Anthony F. J. van Raan win the 1995 Derek John de Solla Price award (2005) (0)
Henry E. Sigerist on the Sociology of Medicine.@@@Henry E. Sigerist on the History of Medicine. (1961) (0)
Has Structural Inquiry Any Identity?@@@Continuities in Structural Inquiry. (1983) (0)
ロバート・K・マートン「ハウジングの社会心理学」 (2011) (0)
Discusión del ensayo de Talcott Parsons “La posición de la teoría sociológica" (2010) (0)
The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite, James A. Smith, 1990. Free Press, New York, NY. ISBN: 0-02-929551-3. $24.95 (1993) (0)
1970 Commencement Speech (1970) (0)
2Structure and Social Theory (2004) (0)
Eléments de méthode sociologique@@@Elements de methode sociologique (1953) (0)
DIXON, RUSSELL A., and E. KINGMAN EBERHART. Economics and Cultural Change. Pp. xi, 550. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1938. $3.00 (1939) (0)
Paternal Status and the Economic Adjustment of High School Graduates (1944) (0)
Book Review:The Attitude of Voltaire to Magic and the Sciences Margaret Sherwood Libby (1936) (0)
A Study of History.Arnold J. Toynbee (1941) (0)
8. Beiträge zur Theorie des Bezugsgruppenverhaltens (1995) (0)
Las funciones de las citas en el sistema de recompensas de la ciencia (2002) (0)
The Sociology of Science (1973) (0)
Free Trade in Ideas. (1943) (0)
Social Science Quotations, Volume 19 of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. (1992) (0)
[Transcript of oral history with Joshua Lederberg, Harriet Zuckeman, and Robert K. Merton] (1976) (0)
10. Einflußmuster: Lokale und kosmopolitische Einflußreiche (1995) (0)
Zipf Ranking , Benford s Law , and Ratio Analysis (0)
Book Review:The Development of Social Thought. Emory S. Bogardus (1940) (0)
2. Der Einfluß der soziologischen Theorie auf die empirische Forschung (1995) (0)
3. Der Einfluß der empirischen Forschung auf die soziologische Theorie (1995) (0)
The Scientist in Action. William H. George (1938) (0)
Session III. Postwar Development of Nuclear Physics (1972) (0)
The Freedom to Read (1958) (0)
The Medieval Library.James Westfall Thompson (1941) (0)
Symposium on Sociological Theory.@@@Sociology Today. (1959) (0)
DÉFINITIONS D'UNE SITUATION (1966) (0)
The Age of Reform, 1815-1870.@@@England seit 1815.@@@Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation.@@@Public Order and Popular Disturbances, 1660-1714. (1939) (0)
Fashions in Science: Opinion Leaders and Collective Behavior in the Social Sciences, Irwin Sperber, 1990. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN. 304 pages. $39.50 (hc); $14.94.(pb (1993) (0)
Session V. The nature of science (2004) (0)
Science, Religion, and Boundary Maintenance@@@Robert K. Merton: Consensus and Controversy.@@@Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science: The Merton Thesis.@@@"After Merton": Protestant and Catholic Science in Seventeenth-Century Europe.@@@The Focused Interview: A Manual of Procedures.@@@L'Opera di R. (1991) (0)
Introducció a la segona edició de The Focused Interview de Robert K. Merton (2011) (0)
Cosmogonies of Our Fathers. Katherine Brownell Collier (1935) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2005) (0)
4. National Support for Behavioral Science (1958) (0)
Appendix C. Note on Significance Tests (1957) (0)
Einleitung: Robert Κ. Mertons strukturelle Analyse (1995) (0)
Making Science Our Own, Marcel C. LaFollett, 1990. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 272 pages. ISBN: 0-226-45778-3. $45.00 (1993) (0)
Genesis of the Field of "Science, Technology & Society(STS)" (1994) (0)
Propaganda, Communication, and Public Opinion: A Comprehensive Reference Guide (Book Review) (1948) (0)
The Celebration and Defense of Science (2007) (0)
Reflecktions (1981) (0)
Polemics in Sonata Form@@@Social Research and the Practicing Professions. (1983) (0)
Factors Determining Human Behavior (1974) (0)
El context social i cultural de la persuasió de massa (2012) (0)
The Chronic Crisis and Structural Analysis in Sociology (1975) (0)
Путь интеллектуального развития арабской цивилизации, 700-1300 гг. Опыт изучения одного метода (2005) (0)
Session IV. Evaluation of Initial Work (1972) (0)
SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL ASPECTS OF ANXIETY IN THE TRANQUILIZER DECADE. SOURCES OF STRESS IN SOCIETY. (1964) (0)
[Memorandum from Yehuda Elkana, Joshua Lederberg, Robert K. Merton, Arnold Thackray, Harriet Zuckerman to O. Meredith Wilson, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (on a first inventory of the tangible results of their joint fellowship)] (1974) (0)
LAW PROFESSOR A STATICTICIAN (1992) (0)
Meeting the global Challenge of funding RetiReMent: Next Generation Solutions (2012) (0)
Religion and Learning. Olive M. Griffiths (1936) (0)
11. Die self-fulfilling prophecy (1995) (0)
Social Structur s and Anomie (1959) (0)
The nature of leadership. (1970) (0)
Appendix D. QUESTIONNAIRE ON ATTITUDES AND EXPERIENCES OF MEDICAL STUDENTS (1957) (0)

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