Researchers at Council on Foreign Relations
John C. Campbell, Kenneth Maxwell and William Diebold rank highest among 49 ranked researchers whose main affiliation is Council on Foreign Relations.
The ranking
- 1John C. Campbell
United States · #167 worldwide31k citations · 1,198 works
- 2Kenneth Maxwell
United States · #2,365 worldwide23k citations · 406 works
- 3William Diebold
United States · #7,358 worldwide48k citations · 710 works
- 4Andrew John Pierre
United States · #11,381 worldwide19k citations · 475 works
- 5Robert D. Crassweller
United States · #17,456 worldwide6.1k citations · 199 works
- 6Walter Russell Mead
United States · #46,598 worldwide13k citations · 221 works
- 7Stephen D. Biddle
United States · #148,823 worldwide3.3k citations · 92 works
- 8John C. Campbell
United States · #189,179 worldwide1.6k citations · 140 works
- 9Robert E. Litan
United States · #302,590 worldwide6.4k citations · 378 works
- 10Arthur C. Helton
United States · #393,051 worldwide706 citations · 104 works
- 11Thomas J. Bollyky
United States · #476,037 worldwide1.7k citations · 73 works
- 12Gideon Rose
United States · #764,560 worldwide2.1k citations · 60 works
- 13Joshua Kurlantzick
United States · #772,185 worldwide717 citations · 71 works
- 14Adam M. Segal
United States · #888,387 worldwide709 citations · 57 works
- 15Erica Strecker Downs
United States · #1,020,085 worldwide1.1k citations · 23 works
- 16Elizabeth C. Economy
United States · #1,067,106 worldwide3k citations · 96 works
- 17Laurie Garrett
United States · #1,134,580 worldwide2.9k citations · 84 works
- 18Adam M. Garfinkle
United States · #1,207,020 worldwide205 citations · 89 works
- 19Alton Frye
United States · #1,356,158 worldwide135 citations · 36 works
- 20Ellen J. Hammer
United States · #1,504,445 worldwide129 citations · 27 works
- 21Princeton N. Lyman
United States · #1,639,638 worldwide396 citations · 38 works
- 22Varun Sivaram
United States · #1,648,559 worldwide2.1k citations · 48 works
- 23Daniel S. Markey
United States · #1,925,750 worldwide270 citations · 43 works
- 24Julia E. Sweig
United States · #1,958,074 worldwide297 citations · 21 works
- 25Elliott Abrams
United States · #2,145,234 worldwide119 citations · 64 works
- 26Benn Steil
United States · #2,161,384 worldwide1.2k citations · 106 works
- 27Edward Alden
United States · #2,204,326 worldwide127 citations · 41 works
- 28Kenneth T. Young
United States · #2,263,154 worldwide85 citations · 20 works
- 29A. M. Halpern
United States · #2,364,431 worldwide102 citations · 51 works
- 30John Hillen
United States · #2,411,611 worldwide222 citations · 25 works
- 31Walter H. Mallory
United States · #2,445,497 worldwide117 citations · 34 works
- 32Edgar Packard Dean
United States · #2,538,908 worldwide145 citations · 17 works
- 33Charles D. Ferguson
United States · #2,753,437 worldwide842 citations · 71 works
- 34Rachel Bronson
United States · #2,787,101 worldwide304 citations · 24 works
- 35Sebastian Mallaby
United States · #2,876,656 worldwide536 citations · 36 works
- 36William J. Barnds
United States · #2,963,878 worldwide70 citations · 31 works
- 37Ben Wildavsky
United States · #3,373,084 worldwide292 citations · 15 works
- 38Jack Boureston
United States · #3,505,264 worldwide37 citations · 22 works
- 39Isobel Coleman
United States · #3,516,599 worldwide202 citations · 19 works
- 40Paula J. Dobriansky
United States · #3,542,498 worldwide34 citations · 15 works
- 41Percy Wells Bidwell
United States · #3,618,231 worldwide323 citations · 87 works
- 42Milton S. Goldberg
United States · #3,625,484 worldwide112 citations · 25 works
- 43Piotr Buras
United States · #3,891,834 worldwide119 citations · 31 works
- 44David Kimche
United States · #3,980,219 worldwide141 citations · 16 works
- 45Frank Church
United States · #4,227,688 worldwide46 citations · 15 works
- 46Shannon O'Neil
United States · #4,263,146 worldwide83 citations · 52 works
- 47Almut Möller
United States · #4,528,829 worldwide59 citations · 53 works
- 48François Godement
United States · #6,451,698 worldwide269 citations · 120 works
- 49Carla A. Hills
United States · #6,465,587 worldwide33 citations · 31 works
Output against citations per work
A long record and a heavily-cited one are not the same career, and a list ordered by either buries the other. The upper left is a small body of work that travelled a long way.
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One dot per researcher in the list above.
Ranked on quality: the share of their papers in the world top 10% for their field and year, with output counting too. Affiliation is the institution a researcher publishes from most; identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation.