Career
His scholarly work has been on the development of the sociology of science as an academic field The project was supported by the National Science Foundation for 20 years, and produced a substantial body of both theoretical and empirical work. culminating in their book, Social Stratification in Science (University of Chicago Press, 1973). In this work, they developed the use of citations as a measure of scientific quality and impact, the first social scientists to do southern
Although it met with initial resistance, it is today widely used as a measure of scholarly impact and there is a very substantial literature on lieutenant
He published works dealing with the sociology of education as a profession, with racial discrimination in science, and several widely used textbooks.
