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Top Political Science and International Relations Researchers

Pierre Bourdıeu ranks first, out of 5,044 ranked researchers.

Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.

The ranking

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France · #2 worldwide 10k citations · 235 works
  2. 2 Noam Chomsky United States · #7 worldwide 3.7k citations · 239 works
  3. 3 Charles Tilly United States · #8 worldwide 3.7k citations · 238 works
  4. 4 Stanley Hoffmann United States · #21 worldwide 2.3k citations · 197 works
  5. 5 Amartya Sen United States · #28 worldwide 4.9k citations · 190 works
  6. 6 Francis Fukuyama United States · #30 worldwide 4.1k citations · 158 works
  7. 7 William Diebold United States · #33 worldwide 3.8k citations · 208 works
  8. 8 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States · #43 worldwide 7.4k citations · 383 works
  9. 9 Niklas Luhmann Germany · #53 worldwide 2.3k citations · 277 works
  10. 10 G. John Ikenberry United States · #57 worldwide 3k citations · 159 works
  11. 11 Juan Ramón De La Fuente Mexico · #61 worldwide 1.5k citations · 228 works
  12. 12 Gordon Tullock United States · #73 worldwide 3.2k citations · 169 works
  13. 13 Richard N. Cooper United States · #109 worldwide 2.7k citations · 185 works
  14. 14 Immanuel Wallerstein United States · #111 worldwide 1.7k citations · 232 works
  15. 15 Johan Galtung Norway · #119 worldwide 2.3k citations · 135 works
  16. 16 Fritz Stern United States · #126 worldwide 1.2k citations · 183 works
  17. 17 Peter Burke United States · #136 worldwide 997 citations · 191 works
  18. 18 Lawrence Freedman United Kingdom · #179 worldwide 1.2k citations · 214 works
  19. 19 Karl Marx Denmark · #180 worldwide 1.1k citations · 217 works
  20. 20 Richard A. Posner United States · #212 worldwide 1.9k citations · 228 works
  21. 21 E. P. Wigner United States · #214 worldwide 2.8k citations · 203 works
  22. 22 Martha C. Nussbaum United States · #279 worldwide 1.6k citations · 260 works
  23. 23 Eliot A. Cohen United States · #297 worldwide 1.1k citations · 147 works
  24. 24 Bryan S. Turner United States · #337 worldwide 1.9k citations · 273 works
  25. 25 Barry Buzan United Kingdom · #391 worldwide 1.6k citations · 116 works
  26. 26 Aaron Wíldavsky United States · #436 worldwide 1.7k citations · 137 works
  27. 27 Robert O. Keohane United States · #454 worldwide 2.7k citations · 103 works
  28. 28 Richard Rorty United States · #462 worldwide 1.2k citations · 258 works
  29. 29 John C. Campbell United States · #555 worldwide 1.3k citations · 341 works
  30. 30 Ulrich Beck Germany · #556 worldwide 2.7k citations · 100 works
  31. 31 Max Weber United Kingdom · #687 worldwide 960 citations · 119 works
  32. 32 Fritz W. Scharpf Germany · #718 worldwide 1.3k citations · 128 works
  33. 33 Ernest Gellner United Kingdom · #740 worldwide 1.8k citations · 98 works
  34. 34 Theda Skocpol United States · #762 worldwide 1.4k citations · 114 works
  35. 35 Kenneth Maxwell Norway · #798 worldwide 1.1k citations · 127 works
  36. 36 Lucian W. Pye United States · #809 worldwide 1k citations · 121 works
  37. 37 Gaddis Smith United States · #846 worldwide 886 citations · 130 works
  38. 38 Andrew J. Pierre United States · #944 worldwide 951 citations · 155 works
  39. 39 Ingeborg Schwenzer Switzerland · #964 worldwide 654 citations · 124 works
  40. 40 Olivier Blanchard United States · #979 worldwide 2.2k citations · 165 works
  41. 41 Hannah Arendt United States · #1,066 worldwide 1.1k citations · 95 works
  42. 42 Donald S. Zagoria United States · #1,072 worldwide 758 citations · 142 works
  43. 43 William B. Quandt United States · #1,126 worldwide 784 citations · 132 works
  44. 44 J. G. A. Pocock United States · #1,156 worldwide 810 citations · 101 works
  45. 45 Harold D. Lasswell United States · #1,281 worldwide 819 citations · 164 works
  46. 46 András Jakab Switzerland · #1,312 worldwide 1.3k citations · 93 works
  47. 47 Robert Jervis United States · #1,378 worldwide 915 citations · 102 works
  48. 48 David Hume Australia · #1,397 worldwide 1.9k citations · 378 works
  49. 49 Jagdish N. Bhagwati United States · #1,407 worldwide 1.5k citations · 176 works
  50. 50 William G. Tierney United States · #1,512 worldwide 2.3k citations · 85 works
  51. 51 John Agnew United States · #1,593 worldwide 1.2k citations · 99 works
  52. 52 Jack Goody United Kingdom · #1,614 worldwide 708 citations · 137 works
  53. 53 Tom R. Tyler United States · #1,668 worldwide 1.8k citations · 102 works
  54. 54 Joseph S. Nye United States · #1,752 worldwide 685 citations · 101 works
  55. 55 Donatella della Porta Italy · #1,775 worldwide 1k citations · 157 works
  56. 56 Jeffrey D. Sachs United States · #1,789 worldwide 1.6k citations · 204 works
  57. 57 Bengt‐Åke Lundvall Denmark · #1,794 worldwide 1.4k citations · 95 works
  58. 58 Gerry Stoker United Kingdom · #1,855 worldwide 1k citations · 108 works
  59. 59 James M. Buchanan United States · #1,865 worldwide 1.6k citations · 151 works
  60. 60 Geoff Eley United States · #1,887 worldwide 1.3k citations · 78 works
  61. 61 Adam Roberts United Kingdom · #1,894 worldwide 640 citations · 103 works
  62. 62 Nancy Fraser United States · #1,979 worldwide 824 citations · 91 works
  63. 63 Gerard Delanty United Kingdom · #2,026 worldwide 933 citations · 82 works
  64. 64 Thomas Pogge United States · #2,108 worldwide 909 citations · 100 works
  65. 65 Geoffrey Brennan Australia · #2,219 worldwide 993 citations · 81 works
  66. 66 Stephen J. Ball United Kingdom · #2,268 worldwide 1.4k citations · 128 works
  67. 67 John Locke United States · #2,559 worldwide 1.3k citations · 285 works
  68. 68 André Gunder Frank United Kingdom · #2,577 worldwide 1.3k citations · 72 works
  69. 69 Barry R. Weingast United States · #2,644 worldwide 1.3k citations · 76 works
  70. 70 Uwe Schimank Germany · #2,694 worldwide 604 citations · 122 works
  71. 71 Morris Janowitz United States · #2,727 worldwide 842 citations · 76 works
  72. 72 John Stephens United States · #2,853 worldwide 810 citations · 88 works
  73. 73 James A. Brundage United States · #2,930 worldwide 361 citations · 99 works
  74. 74 J. David Singer United States · #2,936 worldwide 1.1k citations · 77 works
  75. 75 Keith Tribe United Kingdom · #3,003 worldwide 654 citations · 110 works
  76. 76 Didier Bigo France · #3,025 worldwide 405 citations · 107 works
  77. 77 Abraham F. Lowenthal United States · #3,031 worldwide 532 citations · 79 works
  78. 78 Robert A. Dahl United States · #3,056 worldwide 1.3k citations · 70 works
  79. 79 Bruno Palier France · #3,071 worldwide 457 citations · 131 works
  80. 80 David B. Audretsch United States · #3,109 worldwide 3.7k citations · 222 works
  81. 81 Wolfgang Streeck Germany · #3,133 worldwide 838 citations · 198 works
  82. 82 Frank Schimmelfennig Switzerland · #3,254 worldwide 782 citations · 93 works
  83. 83 Claus Offe Germany · #3,259 worldwide 746 citations · 74 works
  84. 84 Stefan Kuhlmann Germany · #3,360 worldwide 912 citations · 86 works
  85. 85 Thomas Risse Germany · #3,395 worldwide 980 citations · 69 works
  86. 86 Anthony A. Hyman Germany · #3,430 worldwide 1k citations · 78 works
  87. 87 Sidney Tarrow United States · #3,494 worldwide 687 citations · 77 works
  88. 88 R. A. W. Rhodes United Kingdom · #3,559 worldwide 1.1k citations · 67 works
  89. 89 William A. Galston United States · #3,565 worldwide 658 citations · 79 works
  90. 90 Michael Walzer United States · #3,713 worldwide 515 citations · 79 works
  91. 91 Seymour Martin Lipset United States · #3,750 worldwide 529 citations · 132 works
  92. 92 David D. Laitin United States · #3,801 worldwide 1.4k citations · 65 works
  93. 93 Carl Wittke United States · #3,809 worldwide 345 citations · 100 works
  94. 94 Renate Mayntz Germany · #3,903 worldwide 481 citations · 118 works
  95. 95 Craig Calhoun United States · #3,969 worldwide 645 citations · 138 works
  96. 96 Peter Mair Netherlands · #3,996 worldwide 710 citations · 86 works
  97. 97 Bob Jessop United Kingdom · #4,009 worldwide 1k citations · 163 works
  98. 98 Cass R. Sunstein United States · #4,061 worldwide 2.5k citations · 336 works
  99. 99 Alvin Y. So Hong Kong · #4,480 worldwide 586 citations · 73 works
  100. 100 Wolfgang Wagner Germany · #4,700 worldwide 997 citations · 119 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Political Science and International Relations, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.

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