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Susan Leigh Star

University of California, Davis

136

Works

36,558

Citations

51

h-index

77

i10-index

Research Topics

Information Systems Theories and Implementation Usability and User Interface Design Complex Systems and Decision Making

Affiliations

Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources2021–2021

Harvard University1992–1992

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign1992–2002

University of Sussex1993–1993

Santa Clara University2007–2008

Top Works

Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39

Susan Leigh Star,James R. Griesemer

198910,093 citations

Sociology and Education Studies

Qualitative Research Methods and Applications

Sorting Things Out

Geoffrey C. Bowker,Susan Leigh Star

19995,487 citations

The Ethnography of Infrastructure

Susan Leigh Star

19994,021 citations

Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces

Susan Leigh Star,Karen Ruhleder

19962,924 citations

This is Not a Boundary Object: Reflections on the Origin of a Concept

Susan Leigh Star

20102,244 citations

The Structure of Ill-Structured Solutions: Boundary Objects and Heterogeneous Distributed Problem Solving

Susan Leigh Star

19891,459 citations

Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice: The Ecology of Visible and Invisible Work

Susan Leigh Star,Anselm Strauss

19991,358 citations

Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice

Susan Leigh Star,H. M. Collins

19881,287 citations

Power, Technology and the Phenomenology of Conventions: On being Allergic to Onions

Susan Leigh Star

1990834 citations