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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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Social Theory and Social Structure (1958) (14005)
The Matthew Effect in Science (1968) (5338)
Social Structure and Anomie (1938) (4732)
The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations (1974) (3658)
Genesis and development of a scientific fact (1979) (2544)
Friendship as Social process: a substantive and methodological analysis (1964) (2223)
The unanticipated consequences of purposive social action (1936) (2002)
The Focused Interview (1946) (1554)
The Normative Structure of Science (1973) (1477)
Priorities in scientific discovery: A chapter in the sociology of science. (1957) (1391)
Insiders and Outsiders: A Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge (1972) (1322)
Bureaucratic Structure and Personality (1940) (1249)
The Matthew Effect in Science, II: Cumulative Advantage and the Symbolism of Intellectual Property (1988) (1142)
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (1948) (1130)
The Focused Interview: A Manual of Problems and Procedures (1990) (1114)
The Role-Set: Problems in Sociological Theory (1957) (844)
Patterns of evaluation in science: Institutionalisation, structure and functions of the referee system (1971) (741)
The Matthew effect in science. The reward and communication systems of science are considered. (1968) (672)
Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England (1938) (642)
The nature of leadership. (1970) (642)
Mass communication popular taste and organized social action. (1948) (639)
The student physician: Introductory studies in the sociology of medical education. (1958) (559)
Non-Contractual Relations in Business : A Preliminary Study (2007) (525)
Three Fragments From a Sociologist's Notebooks: Establishing the Phenomenon, Specified Ignorance, and Strategic Research Materials (1987) (524)
Social Time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis (1937) (517)
Intermarriage and the social structure: fact and theory. (1941) (497)
Sociological ambivalence and other essays (1976) (492)
THE FOCUSSED INTERVIEW AND FOCUS GROUPS CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES (1987) (456)
The Thomas Theorem and The Matthew Effect (1995) (399)
Science and the Social Order (1938) (362)
On social structure and science (1996) (345)
On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript (1966) (343)
THE STUDENT-PHYSICIAN (1958) (337)
On Theoretical Sociology: Five Essays, Old and New (1967) (334)
Contemporary social problems (1971) (316)
Age, aging, and age structure in science (1968) (305)
Éléments de théorie et de méthode sociologique (1997) (257)
Reader in Bureaucracy (1952) (169)
The Sociology of Science: An Episodic Memoir (1979) (164)
Soziologische Theorie und soziale Struktur (1995) (157)
The Literature of Propaganda. (Book Reviews: Mass Persuasion: The Social Psychology of a War Bond Drive) (1971) (154)
Toward a metric of science : the advent of science indicators (1980) (152)
The Bearing of Empirical Research upon the Development of Social Theory (1948) (148)
[Introduction to "Toward A Metric of Science: The Advent of Science Indicators"] (1979) (127)
Behavior Patterns Of Scientists (1970) (126)
Resistance to the Systematic Study of Multiple Discoveries in Science (1963) (125)
Continuities in Social Research: Studies in the Scope and Method of "The American Solider" (1951) (125)
Social Theory and Social Structure: Toward the Codification of Theory and Research. (1950) (125)
Social theory and social structure : toward the codification of theory and research (1951) (120)
Manifest and Latent Functions (1993) (118)
Ambivalence of Scientists. (1963) (100)
Social Conformity, Deviation, and Opportunity Structures: A Comment on the Contributions of Dubin and Cloward (1959) (96)
Durkheim's Division of Labor in Society (1934) (95)
Contemporary social problems : an introduction to the sociology of deviant behavior and social disorganization (1962) (93)
Thematic Analysis in Science: Notes on Holton's Concept. (1975) (89)
The functions of the professional association. (1958) (86)
Entwicklung und Wandel von Forschungsinteressen : Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftssoziologie (1985) (81)
The travels and adventures of serendipity (2004) (78)
The Role of Applied Social Science in the Formation of Policy: A Research Memorandum (1949) (74)
Puritanism, Pietism, and Science (1936) (68)
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)
On Discipline Building: The Paradoxes of George Sarton (1972) (64)
Role of the Intellectual in Public Bureaucracy (1945) (61)
Fact and Factitiousness in Ethnic Opinionnaires (1940) (57)
Social research and the practicing professions (1982) (56)
Fluctuations in the Rate of Industrial Invention (1935) (51)
The social nature of leadership. (1969) (51)
Continuities in Social Research: Studies in the Scope and Method of "The American Soldier." (1951) (50)
Human arrangements: An introduction to sociology (1992) (46)
The Kelvin dictum and social science: an excursion into the history of an idea. (1984) (46)
Auf den Schultern von Riesen : ein Lietfaden durch das Labyrinth der Gelehrsamkeit (1983) (44)
Continuities in structural inquiry (1984) (44)
The Sociology of Knowledge (1937) (43)
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) (34)
The cultural and social incorporation of sociological knowledge (1995) (31)
George Sarton: Episodic Recollections by an Unruly Apprentice (1985) (28)
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) (27)
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)
Ciencia, tecnología y sociedad en la Inglaterra del siglo XVII (1984) (24)
History, philosophy, and sociology of science. (1972) (23)
Der Matthäus-Effekt in der Wissenschaft, II (2010) (23)
Sociological Traditions from Generation to Generation: Glimpses of the American Experience. (1980) (23)
Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research: Papers in Honor of Paul F. Lazarsfeld (1979) (23)
CRIME AND THE ANTHROPOLOGIST (1940) (22)
Industria Cultural y Sociedad de Masas (1992) (22)
Chapter 35 On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range [ 1949 ] (2007) (21)
Studie ze sociologické teorie (2000) (21)
Columbia-Pennsylvania: studies in the sociology of medical education. (1956) (21)
Социальная теория и социальная структура (1992) (21)
The Focussed Interview: A Manual (1953) (20)
Dear FDR : a study of political letter-writing (1964) (18)
Recent French Sociology (1934) (18)
Sociological Theory (1945) (18)
Criminology/2nd Edition (1992) (17)
Election Polling Forecasts and Public Images of Social Science A Case Study in the Shaping of Opinion among a Strategic Public (1949) (17)
Alvin W. Gouldner: Genesis & growth of a friendship (1982) (16)
Social policy and social research in housing. (1952) (15)
Ambivalencia sociológica y otros ensayos (1981) (15)
Basic Research and Potentials of Relevance (1963) (14)
Sociology of refereeing (1971) (12)
Propósitos y criterios de la entrevista focalizada (traducción de Consuelo del Val y Javier Callejo) (2002) (12)
Sociological Research: A Case Approach. Vol. I. (1964) (12)
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) (11)
Los imperativos institucionales de la ciencia (1980) (11)
The Sorokin-Merton Correspondence on “Puritanism, Pietism and Science,” 1933–34 (1989) (10)
American Social Trends (1991) (10)
The structure of society (1986) (10)
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences: Vol. 19: Social Science Quotations. (1991) (9)
Strukturelle Analyse in der Soziologie (1978) (8)
Los colegios invisibles en el desarrollo cognitivo de Kuhn (1998) (8)
Prime linee di patologia economica (1936) (7)
On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript. (1967) (7)
The Freedom to Read: Perspective and Program (1959) (7)
Социальная структура и аномия (1992) (7)
Estructura social y anomia: revisión y ampliación (1986) (7)
Status-Orientations in Nursing (1962) (7)
Serendipity and the Rural-Urban Continuum (1951) (7)
Florian Znaniecki: A short reminiscence (1983) (6)
Durkheim'sdivision of labor in society (1994) (6)
Afterword: Autobiographical Reflections on The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity (2011) (6)
Dilemmas of democracy in the voluntary associations. (1966) (6)
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)
Social Stratification: A Comparative Analysis of Structure and Process (1959) (5)
La ambivalencia de los científicos (1964) (4)
Robert K. Merton & contemporary sociology (1998) (4)
The ambivalence of scientists. (1963) (4)
Practical problems and the uses of social science (1964) (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)
“Durkheim'sDivision of Labor in Society”: A sexagenarian postscript (1994) (4)
REMARKS ON BECOMING AN HONORAND OF JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY: SOCIAL TIME AND SOCIO-COGNITIVE NETWORKS (1990) (4)
1. Manifeste und latente Funktionen (1995) (4)
9. Weiterentwicklungen der Theorie von Bezugsgruppen und Sozialstruktur (1995) (4)
Sociología de la vivienda (1964) (3)
Social Control: Social Organization and Disorganization in Process.Paul H. LandisFundamental Sociology.E. J. Ross (1940) (3)
Relations Between Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses Status‐Orientations in Nursing (1962) (3)
Basic research and its potentials of relevance. (1985) (3)
Finance Theory and Future Trends: The Shift to Integration (2000) (3)
The Grammar of Social Relations: The Major Essays of Louis Schneider. (1984) (3)
Book Review:Mind, Self and Society George H. Mead, Charles W. Morris (1935) (3)
Robert K. Merton: The Sociology of Science. (1975) (3)
Book Review:Science and Social Welfare in the Age of Newton G. N. Clark (1938) (3)
The World of Hesiod: A Study of the Greek Middle Ages. (1938) (3)
The Value of High-School Scholarship on the Labor Market (1944) (3)
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)
Essay Review : The Sociological Study of Scientific Specialties (1978) (2)
Dilemmas of Democracy in the Voluntary Association (1966) (2)
The functions of the professional association. (1969) (2)
Nurse-physician collaboration toward improved patient care. Observations. (1965) (2)
Book Review:Ancients and Moderns: A Study of the Background of the Battle of the Books Richard Foster Jones (1936) (2)
Appendix B. Research in Progress (1957) (2)
Dissertations on sociology (1980) (2)
Intellectual America. Ideas on the March. (1943) (2)
5. Weiterentwicklungen der Theorie der Sozialstruktur und Anomie (1995) (2)
Book Review:The Social Function of Science. J. D. Bernal (1941) (2)
The Dynamics of Interhemispheric Compensatory Processes in Mental Imagery (2005) (2)
Varieties of political expression in sociology : an American journal of sociology publication (1972) (2)
CITATION MEASURES OF THE INFLUENCE OF (1983) (2)
Book Review:Science and Social Needs Julian Huxley, H. Levy, Thomas D. Barlow, P. M. S. Blackett (1935) (1)
The Legacy of Anomie Theory: Advances in Criminological Theory, Vol. 6. (1996) (1)
Mass Persuasion: A Technical Problem and a Moral Dilemma (1946) (1)
Memoirs of an Otsogoth? (1966) (1)
Introducción a un libro de Marías (1975) (1)
Sociological ambivalence : and other essays / by Robert K. Merton (1976) (1)
Crime and the Man. Earnest Albert HootonThe American Criminal: An Anthropological Study. Volume I, The Native White Criminal of Native Parentage. (1940) (1)
L'amitié Comme Processus Social (1970) (1)
The Sociology of Invention. S. C. Gilfillan (1936) (1)
The Doctrine of "Socially Derived Sin" (1972) (1)
Essays in Sociological Theory; Pure and Applied@@@Social Theory and Social Structure (1950) (1)
Factors Determining Human Behaviour.Authority and the Individual. (1938) (1)
Book Review:A History of Mechanical Inventions Abbott Payson Usher (1935) (1)
Социальное время: опыт методологического и функционального анализа (2004) (1)
Turner, Stephen (2009) (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)
The Future of the Sociological Classics. (1983) (1)
The 1983 nobel prize in physics. (1983) (1)
La Sociología francesa reciente (2009) (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 Theory and Practice of Science Indicators@@@Toward a Metric of Science: The Advent of Science Indicators.@@@Science Indicators 1976. (1979) (1)
PANUNZIO, CONSTANTINE. Major Social Institutions. Pp. xxii, 609. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1939. $3.50 (1940) (1)
Discusión del ensayo de Talcott Parsons “La posición de la teoría sociológica" (2010) (0)
Recent developments in evolutionary theory — especially by biologist (0)
The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy. Peter Winch (1961) (0)
Appendix D. QUESTIONNAIRE ON ATTITUDES AND EXPERIENCES OF MEDICAL STUDENTS (1957) (0)
Zipf Ranking , Benford s Law , and Ratio Analysis (0)
Free Trade in Ideas. (1943) (0)
The Chronic Crisis and Structural Analysis in Sociology (1975) (0)
Has Structural Inquiry Any Identity?@@@Continuities in Structural Inquiry. (1983) (0)
2Structure and Social Theory (2004) (0)
Einleitung: Robert Κ. Mertons strukturelle Analyse (1995) (0)
KELSEN, HANS. Society and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry. Pp. viii, 391. Chi cago: The University of Chicago Press, 1943. $4.00 (1945) (0)
Appendix C. Note on Significance Tests (1957) (0)
Genesis of the Field of "Science, Technology & Society(STS)" (1994) (0)
DÉFINITIONS D'UNE SITUATION (1966) (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)
Henry E. Sigerist on the Sociology of Medicine.@@@Henry E. Sigerist on the History of Medicine. (1961) (0)
Book Review:The Attitude of Voltaire to Magic and the Sciences Margaret Sherwood Libby (1936) (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)
Factors Determining Human Behavior (1974) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2005) (0)
Propaganda, Communication, and Public Opinion: A Comprehensive Reference Guide (Book Review) (1948) (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)
Organizational linkages in nursing. (1969) (0)
Symposium on Sociological Theory.@@@Sociology Today. (1959) (0)
ロバート・K・マートン「ハウジングの社会心理学」 (2011) (0)
Las funciones de las citas en el sistema de recompensas de la ciencia (2002) (0)
Robert K. Merton and Anthony F. J. van Raan win the 1995 Derek John de Solla Price award (2005) (0)
11. Die self-fulfilling prophecy (1995) (0)
Eléments de méthode sociologique@@@Elements de methode sociologique (1953) (0)
LAW PROFESSOR A STATICTICIAN (1992) (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)
COMMENTS ON ROBERT K. MERTON, RECIPIENT OF THE 1995 DEREK DE SOLLA PRICE AWARD (1995) (0)
Social Structur s and Anomie (1959) (0)
COMMENTS ON ROBERT K. MERTON, RECIPIENT OF THE 1995 DEREK DE SOLLA PRICE AWARD (1995) (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)
Meeting the global Challenge of funding RetiReMent: Next Generation Solutions (2012) (0)
[Transcript of oral history with Joshua Lederberg, Harriet Zuckeman, and Robert K. Merton] (1976) (0)
Paternal Status and the Economic Adjustment of High School Graduates (1944) (0)
10. Einflußmuster: Lokale und kosmopolitische Einflußreiche (1995) (0)
1970 Commencement Speech (1970) (0)
Book Review:An Introduction to Pareto: His Sociology George C. Homans, Charles P. Curtis, Jr. (1935) (0)
The Celebration and Defense of Science (2007) (0)
Book Review:The Development of Social Thought. Emory S. Bogardus (1940) (0)
Essai sur la formation de la pensee grecque: introduction historique a une etude de la philosophie platonicienne. (1936) (0)
7. Die Rolle des Intellektuellen in der öffentlichen Bürokratie (1995) (0)
Religion and Learning. Olive M. Griffiths (1936) (0)
4. National Support for Behavioral Science (1958) (0)
El context social i cultural de la persuasió de massa (2012) (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)
The nature of leadership. (1970) (0)
The Sociology of Science (1973) (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)
An introduction to the study of society (1958) (0)
Социология сегодня : проблемы и перспективы : американская буржуазная социология середины ХХ века (1965) (0)
The Medieval Library.James Westfall Thompson (1941) (0)
Polemics in Sonata Form@@@Social Research and the Practicing Professions. (1983) (0)
2. Der Einfluß der soziologischen Theorie auf die empirische Forschung (1995) (0)
Social Science Quotations, Volume 19 of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. (1992) (0)
Book Review:Human Nature Writ Large: A Social Psychologic Survey and Western Anthropology. F. Creedy (1941) (0)
Session IV. Evaluation of Initial Work (1972) (0)
A Study of History.Arnold J. Toynbee (1941) (0)
SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL ASPECTS OF ANXIETY IN THE TRANQUILIZER DECADE. SOURCES OF STRESS IN SOCIETY. (1964) (0)
Cosmogonies of Our Fathers. Katherine Brownell Collier (1935) (0)
Rolle und Gesellschaftliches System (1977) (0)
Social Forces , University of North Carolina Press Bureaucratic Structure and Personality (2007) (0)
3. Der Einfluß der empirischen Forschung auf die soziologische Theorie (1995) (0)
Session III. Postwar Development of Nuclear Physics (1972) (0)
Session V. The nature of science (2004) (0)
Social Forces , University of North Carolina Press Bureaucratic Structure and Personality (2007) (0)
The Freedom to Read (1958) (0)
Путь интеллектуального развития арабской цивилизации, 700-1300 гг. Опыт изучения одного метода (2005) (0)
Introducció a la segona edició de The Focused Interview de Robert K. Merton (2011) (0)
Appendix A. Socialization: A Terminological Note (1957) (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)
The nature of leadership. (1979) (0)
8. Beiträge zur Theorie des Bezugsgruppenverhaltens (1995) (0)
Reflecktions (1981) (0)
The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century.@@@Social Ferment in Vermont, 1791-1850. (1940) (0)
The Scientist in Action. William H. George (1938) (0)

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