Review and Analysis of Latour’s Scholarship

The academic contributions of Bruno Latour are significant and must be explored. Today, the contemporary tools, such as bibliometric analysis and systematic review provide great opportunity to do so. Findings, using these tools, help understand, for example, the hotspots and trends in research that translated Latour’s scholarly contributions. Latour’s research publications peaked in 2016, with the highest of twenty-five social sciences publications, spread in twenty-six countries. The three-field plot and co-word occurrence map illustrate his emphasis on Actor-Network Theory (ANT). The diverse applicability of Latourian ANT has an interdisciplinary impact in science and technology studies, ecology, and contemporary global issues. Latour’s oeuvre is also applied in Indian context. In providing counter-arguments on the criticisms of Latour, we delineate that his scholarship has brought a paradigm shift, especially in scientific epistemology. This is why our research will be useful for social scientists across social contexts.