Best Political Science Scientists in Netherlands

The scope of our Political Science research
Research.com’s best scholars ranking is a trustworthy lineup of leading researchers from the field of Political Science, established by means of a thorough study of 166,880 scientists discovered from various bibliometric data sources. For the discipline of Political Science, more than 1698 researchers were analysed.

What is D-index inclusion threshold for Political Science
The D-index threshold for including a scholar to be considered is set to 20 if the majority of of their publications are in the area of Political Science. The approval criteria for scientists to be considered into the ranking of top scholars are based on the D-index, proportion of the contributions made within the selected field of study plus the awards and achievements of the researchers. The D-index threshold for considering leading scholars is set as an increment of 10 depending on the overall number of researchers assessed for each area od study whilst ensuring that the top 1% of leading scientists are added into the ranking. We expect a proximity of 30% or less between a scholar’s general H-index and their D-index.

Extra verification methods
Since our main goal is to ensure that only genuine scientists are listed in our ranking we believe that numbers are never meant to be a full means to quantify the output of scholars. For that reason we manually check every profile and cross-correlate it against publications in a varied range of reliable sources. Even though it’s not a element contributing to a researcher’s position in the ranking, the amount of documents published in major journals and conference proceedings should form a reliable secondary signal of their contribution to research in a selected area of science. Position in the ranking is based on every scholar’s D-index using metrics gathered from OpenAlex and CrossRef, which are the most trustworthy and well-known bibliometric databases of this kind available to the scientific community. A thorough explanation of our research policy can be found on our methodology page.

Our agenda
Our goal is to inspire scientists, entrepreneurs and politicians worldwide to examine where leading experts are heading and to give a way for the whole research community to get to know who the leading experts in specific fields of research, in various countries, or even within research institutions are.
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Key findings for Political Science
With 40 scholars Netherlands ranks in spot 6 globally.

As far as institutions are concerned, the institution with the highest number of leading scientists in Netherlands is University of Amsterdam with 11 researchers affiliated with it being features in the Political Science ranking. It is followed by Erasmus University Rotterdam with 8 scholars. Ranking thirds is Utrecht University with 5 researchers.

Prominent scholars featured in Netherlands are affiliated with University of Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Utrecht University, Leiden University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Radboud University Nijmegen, Wageningen University & Research, University of Twente, African Studies Centre, Maastricht University.

Professor Claes H. de Vreese from University of Amsterdam is featured as the best scholar in Netherlands in our ranking with a D-index of 78. Ranking on spot no. 2 in Netherlands is Erik-Hans Klijn from Erasmus University Rotterdam with a D-index of 51. The third position in Netherlands is taken by Frank Biermann from Utrecht University with a D-index of 50.

The average D-index for the top 5% researchers is 64 in comparison to an average of 31 for all 40 researchers listed in our ranking.

The average number of publications within the field of Political Science for the top 5% of researchers in the ranking is 235 against an average of 126 for all 40 scientists.

The average number of citations for the top 3% scholars is 21238 against an average of 7086 for all 40 scientists.