In the Backrooms of Science

Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts

1979 • 7,441 citations

The Social Construction of Technological Systems

1989 • 3,304 citations

Managing the flow of technology

1977 • 2,624 citations

The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action

1986 • 2,188 citations

Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job

1997 • 2,032 citations

The Bureaucratic Phenomenon

2017 • 1,940 citations

Opening Pandora's Box: A Sociological Analysis of Scientists' Discourse.

1985 • 1,631 citations

A Strategic Contingencies' Theory of Intraorganizational Power

1971 • 1,391 citations

Invisible colleges. Diffusion of knowledge in scientific communities

1974 • 1,271 citations

Purity and Danger: An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo

1967 • 1,034 citations

The Alignment of Technology and Structure through Roles and Networks

1990 • 948 citations

Science Observed: Perspectives on the Social Study of Science.

1984 • 939 citations

Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation

1992 • 901 citations

The Semi-Professions and Their Organization

1970 • 822 citations

Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the 21st Century.

1987 • 771 citations

Scientific Output and Recognition: A Study in the Operation of the Reward System in Science

1967 • 645 citations

The TEA Set: Tacit Knowledge and Scientific Networks

1974 • 593 citations

Successful Industrial Products from Customer Ideas

1978 • 513 citations

An ethnographic perspective on engineering design

1988 • 487 citations

Scientists in organizations—Productive climates for research and development

1978 • 460 citations

Studies in Ethnomethodology

2023 • 420 citations

The Seven Sexes: A Study in the Sociology of a Phenomenon, or the Replication of Experiments in Physics

1975 • 402 citations

Normal Accidents

2000 • 367 citations

The Invisible Technician

1989 • 327 citations

Norms and ideology in science

1976 • 310 citations

Social Stratification: Research and Theory for the 1970s.

1971 • 275 citations

Patterns of Name Ordering Among Authors of Scientific Papers: A Study of Social Symbolism and Its Ambiguity

1968 • 247 citations

The Social System of Science

1968 • 233 citations

Organizations in Action

2017 • 206 citations

Monoclonal Antibodies

1980 • 189 citations

The historical meanings of work

1991 • 120 citations

The Scientist in American Industry

1961 • 103 citations

The concept of work: ancient, medieval, and modern

1993 • 96 citations

"Going Monoclonal": Art, Science, and Magic in the Day-to-Day Use of Hybridoma Technology

1988 • 95 citations

II.2 The Strengths of the Strong Programme

1981 • 88 citations

The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations.

1976 • 77 citations

The manufacture of knowledge. An essay on the constructivist and contextual nature of science

1985 • 70 citations

The professional quest for truth: a social theory of science and knowledge

1992 • 63 citations

The Right tools for the job: at work in twentieth-century life sciences

1993 • 59 citations

Projections of Occupational Employment, 1988-2000.

1989 • 39 citations

Art and Artifact in Laboratory Science: A Study of Shop Work and Shop Talk in A Research Laboratory.

1987 • 35 citations

The Worsening Shortage of College-Graduate Workers

1991 • 28 citations

KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL IMAGERY

2010 • 27 citations

Training the Technical Work Force

1990 • 26 citations

Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop

1989 • 24 citations

The Social Production of Technical Work: The Case of British Engineers.

1988 • 16 citations

The Shortage of Skilled and Technical Workers.

1971 • 15 citations

Social Stratification in Science.

1975 • 15 citations

The Scientist's Role in Society: A Comparative Study

1973 • 9 citations

Mechanics of the Middle Class: Work and Politics among American Engineers

1987 • 7 citations

The New Crafts: On the "Technization" of the Workforce and the "Occupationalization" of Firms

1992 • 6 citations

Status inconsistency and the technician's work adjustment

1977 • 5 citations

Buying Time and Taking Space:

1992 • 1 citations