Sharon Traweek | Academic Influence

Sharon Traweek's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Sharon Traweek

Anthropology

#455

World Rank

#642

Historical Rank

#253

USA Rank

anthropology Degrees

Download Badge

Anthropology

Sharon Traweek's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, San Diego
Masters Anthropology University of California, San Diego
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, San Diego

Similar Degrees You Can Earn

Best Online Bachelor's in Anthropology 2025

Why Is Sharon Traweek Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Sharon Jean Traweek is associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies and History at University of California, Los Angeles. Her book Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists, which explores the social world of particle physicists, has been cited in thousands of books and articles relating to the sociology of science and translated into Chinese in 2003.

(See a Problem?)

Sharon Traweek's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists (1988) (1245)
Beamtimes and Lifetimes (1992) (110)
An introduction to cultural and social studies of sciences and technologies (1993) (53)
Data, data use, and scientific inquiry: two case studies of data practices (2012) (38)
DOING SCIENCE + CULTURE (2000) (35)
Knowledge infrastructures in science: data, diversity, and digital libraries (2015) (35)
Unity, dyads, triads, quads, and complexity : Cultural choreographies of science (1996) (28)
Follow the data: How astronomers use and reuse data (2012) (25)
What lies beneath?: Knowledge infrastructures in the subseafloor biosphere and beyond (2015) (22)
The ups and downs of knowledge infrastructures in science: Implications for data management (2014) (21)
When use cases are not useful: data practices, astronomy, and digital libraries (2011) (17)
Closer to the Ground: A Reinterpretation of Walbiri Iconography (1984) (14)
We're Working On It: Transferring the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from Laboratory to Library (2014) (13)
Curators to the stars (2010) (5)
Awash in stardust: data practices in astronomy (2011) (4)
“Feminist Perspectives on Science Studies”: Commentary (1988) (2)
Introduction: Researching Researchers (2000) (2)
Partial Perspectives in Astronomy: Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality and Meshworks in Building Images of the Universe and Social Worlds (2012) (2)
Embodying research methods into fields and tables: a process (2010) (1)
Questing Excellence in Academia (2021) (1)
What Lies Behind NSF Astronomer Demographics? Subjectivities of Women, Minorities and Foreign-born Astronomers within Meshworks of Big Science Astronomy (2011) (1)
Uptime, downtime, spacetime, and power : an ethnography of the particle physics community in Japan and the United States (1982) (1)
What lies beneath?: Knowledge infrastructures in the subseafloor biosphere and beyond (2015) (1)
Technology in use (panel session) (1985) (1)
Let Canons Burn? (2021) (1)
Knowledge infrastructures in science: data, diversity, and digital libraries (2015) (0)
Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban’s remarkable futuristic novel about England after a nuclear holocaust. The strength of Canaday’s book lies in the encapsulated history of modern physics he presents to make his case for a connection between fic- (2001) (0)
Subject Formation and Re-formation Throughout Academic Careers (2021) (0)
Reaching for the Stars Without an Invitation (2018) (0)
Data, Data Use, & Inquiry: A new point of view on data curation (2017) (0)
Conclusion (2021) (0)
“I Prefer the Map” (2021) (0)
Searching for how Epistemic Power is Made, Appropriated, Circulated, and Challenged (2021) (0)
Surf’s Up: Riding the Big Data Wave (Poster) (2012) (0)
Data, data use, and inquiry: A new point of view on data curation (2012) (0)
Disciplining Universities (2021) (0)
The Meshworking University (2021) (0)
Navigating Universities, University Studies, and This Book (2021) (0)
Funding for Research in Astronomy Within and Beyond Japan Since WW II (2012) (0)
Slides for When use cases are not useful: Data practices, astronomy, and digital libraries (2011) (0)
Preface (1994) (0)
In the Shadows of Excellence and Neoliberal Interventions (2021) (0)
Studying Structures of Inequality in Astronomy Through Narrative Analysis and Social Network Visualization (2012) (0)
Data Wrangling Within Different Astronomy Career Trajectories (2012) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Sharon Traweek

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Sharon Traweek?

Sharon Traweek is affiliated with the following schools: