2026 Ami Pedahzur: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	28	1371	1248	12	11	123	4035

Ami Pedahzur publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ami Pedahzur sits on this spectrum.

36 publications 333+

This scientist: 123 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Ami Pedahzur D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ami Pedahzur sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 28 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ami Pedahzur is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel and conducts research primarily within the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including statistics, probability and uncertainty, artificial intelligence, demography, and general social sciences.

The main topics addressed in Pedahzur's research include terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence; political conflict and governance; Jewish and Middle Eastern studies; qualitative comparative analysis research; scientometrics and bibliometrics research; explainable artificial intelligence (XAI); and German legal, social, and political studies.

Among the notable recent papers associated with Ami Pedahzur are:

"Can We Do Better? Replication and Online Appendices in Political Science" (2020), published in Perspectives on Politics
"Reconstructing the theater of terror" (2020), published in Small Wars and Insurgencies
"Political Science and Big Data: Structured Data, Unstructured Data, and How to Use Them" (2020), published in Political Science Quarterly
"The Munich massacre and the proliferation of counterterrorism special operation forces" (2022), published in Israel Affairs
"The Quantitative Study of Terrorist Events: Challenges and Opportunities" (2020), published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Pedahzur has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, particularly Jonathan Grossman, with whom they have coauthored eight works. Other frequent coauthors include Arie Perliger, Matthew Sweeney, Ronit Berger Hobson, and Orel B. Amano.

Their research has been disseminated in a variety of academic venues, with multiple publications in Harvard Dataverse and Perspectives on Politics. Additional venues of publication include Small Wars and Insurgencies, Political Science Quarterly, and Israel Affairs.

Best Publications

The Challenges of Conceptualizing Terrorism

Leonard Weinberg;Ami Pedahzur;Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler

627
Citations
altruism and fatalism: the characteristics of palestinian suicide terrorists

Ami Pedahzur;Arie Perliger;Leonard Weinberg

262
Citations
Political Parties and Terrorist Groups

Leonard Weinberg;Ami Pedahzur;Arie Perliger

258
Citations
The Changing Nature of Suicide Attacks: A Social Network Perspective

Ami Pedahzur;Arie Perliger

257
Citations
Social Network Analysis in the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence

Arie Perliger;Ami Pedahzur

233
Citations
The Institutionalization of Extreme Right-wing Charismatic Parties: a Paradox?

Ami Pedahzur;Avraham Brichta

164
Citations
Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism : The Globalization of Martyrdom

Ami Pedahzur

157
Citations
Jewish Terrorism in Israel

Ami Pedahzur;Arie Perliger

150
Citations
The Israeli secret services and the struggle against terrorism

Ami Pedahzur

125
Citations
Hatred by Hated People: Xenophobia in Israel

Ami Pedahzur;Yael Yishai

111
Citations
The social and religious characteristics of suicide bombers and their victims

Leonard Weinberg;Ami Pedahzur;Daphna Canetti-Nisim

109
Citations
The Triumph of Israel's Radical Right

Ami Pedahzur

108
Citations
A Tertiary Model for Countering Terrorism in Liberal Democracies: The Case of Israel

Ami Pedahzur;Magnus Ranstorp

97
Citations
Democratic attitudes among high-school pupils: The role played by perceptions of class climate

Arie Perliger;Daphna Canetti-Nisim;Ami Pedahzur

96
Citations
Contributory factors to Political Xenophobia in a multi-cultural society:: the case of Israel

Daphna Canetti-Nisim;Ami Pedahzur

86
Citations
Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism

Leonard Weinberg;Ami Pedahzur

82
Citations
Much ado about religion: Religiosity, resource loss, and support for political violence

Daphna Canetti;Stevan E Hobfoll;Ami Pedahzur;Eran Zaidise;Eran Zaidise

67
Citations
The Uniqueness of Islamic fundamentalism and the fourth wave of international terrorism

Gabriel Ben-Dor;Ami Pedahzur

62
Citations
Religious fundamentalism and the extreme right-wing camp in Israel

Shai Bermanis;Daphna Canetti-Nisim;Ami Pedahzur

57
Citations
Political parties and terrorist groups: Conclusions

Leonard Weinberg;Ami Pedahzur

39
Citations
The Gap Between Participation and Violence: Why We Need to Disaggregate Terrorist ‘Profiles’

Arie Perliger;Gabriel Koehler-Derrick;Ami Pedahzur

35
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stevan E. Hobfoll Rush University Medical Center

Gustavo S. Mesch University of Haifa

External Links

Personal website of Ami Pedahzur

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