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Benedict Kingsbury

Benedict Kingsbury

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Law

D-Index
33
Citations
8865
World Ranking
194
National Ranking
147

Benedict Kingsbury publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benedict Kingsbury sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 262+

This scientist: 107 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

Benedict Kingsbury D-index placement in Law in 2026

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

20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

Overview

Benedict Kingsbury is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on Political Science and International Relations, Law, Economics and Econometrics, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment as subfields.

The topics covered in their work include Climate Change Policy and Economics, Water Governance and Infrastructure, Legal Issues in South Africa, Law in Society and Culture, International Law and Human Rights, and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies.

Recent papers authored by Benedict Kingsbury include:

  • Infrastructures and Laws: Publics and Publicness (2021, Annual Review of Law and Social Science)
  • Introduction to the Symposium on Infrastructuring International Law (2023, AJIL Unbound)
  • Sensoring the Oceans: The Argo Floats Array in the Governance of Science Data Infrastructures (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kingsbury are:

  • Richard B. Stewart
  • Bryce Rudyk
  • Nahuel Maisley
  • Angelina Fisher
  • Thomas Streinz

Their scholarly contributions have appeared in venues such as the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, AJIL Unbound, and the SSRN Electronic Journal.

Kingsbury has also published a book titled Climate Finance in 2020, which was released through New York University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • THE EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

    Benedict Kingsbury;Nico Krisch;Richard B. Stewart

  • The International politics of the environment : actors, interests, and institutions

    Andrew Hurrell;Benedict Kingsbury

  • Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance

    Kevin E. Davis;Benedict Kingsbury;Sally Engle Merry

  • Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Classification and Rankings

    Kevin Davis;Angelina Fisher;Benedict Kingsbury;Sally Engle Merry

  • Introduction: global governance and global administrative law in the international legal order

    Nico Krisch;Benedict Kingsbury

  • “Indigenous Peoples” in International Law: A Constructivist Approach to the Asian Controversy

    Benedict Kingsbury

  • Sovereignty and Inequality

    Benedict Kingsbury

  • The quiet power of indicators: Measuring governance, corruption, and rule of law

    Sally Engle Merry;Kevin E. Davis;Benedict Kingsbury

  • The Concept of ‘Law’ in Global Administrative Law

    Benedict Kingsbury

  • The International Politics of the Environment.

    Richard B. Bilder;Joan E. Donoghue;Andrew Hurrell;Benedict Kingsbury

  • Global administrative law dimensions of international organizations law

    Benedict Kingsbury;Lorenzo Casini

  • Hugo Grotius and international relations

    Hedley Bull;Benedict Kingsbury;Adam Roberts

  • The Concept of Compliance as a Function of Competing Conceptions of International Law

    Benedict Kingsbury

  • Introduction: Global Governance by Indicators

    Kevin E. Davis;Benedict Kingsbury;Benedict Kingsbury;Sally Engle Merry

  • Indigenous Peoples of Asia

    R. H. Barnes;Andrew Gray;Benedict Kingsbury

  • Public Law Concepts to Balance Investors’ Rights with State Regulatory Actions in the Public Interest - The Concept of Proportionality

    Stephan Schill;Benedict Kingsbury

  • Investor-State Arbitration as Governance: Fair and Equitable Treatment, Proportionality and the Emerging Global Administrative Law

    Benedict Kingsbury;Stephan W. Schill

  • Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development

    Richard B. Stewart;Benedict Kingsbury;Bryce Rudyk

  • Claims by Non-State Groups in International Law

    Benedict Kingsbury

  • Introduction: Grotian Thought in International Relations

    Benedict Kingsbury;Adam Roberts

  • Reconciling Five Competing Conceptual Structures of Indigenous Peoples' Claims in International and Comparative law

    Benedict Kingsbury

  • Foreword: Global Governance as Administration - National and Transnational Approaches to Global Administrative Law

    Benedict Kingsbury;Nico Krisch;Richard B. Stewart;Jonathan B. Wiener

  • The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations

    Benedict Kingsbury;Benjamin Straumann

  • United nations, divided world

    John C. Campbell;Adam Roberts;Benedict Kingsbury

  • United Nations, divided world : the UN's roles in international relations

    Adam Roberts;Benedict Kingsbury

Frequent Co-Authors

Sally Engle Merry
Sally Engle Merry New York University
Adam Roberts
Adam Roberts University of Oxford
Andrew Hurrell
Andrew Hurrell University of Oxford
Allen Buchanan
Allen Buchanan University of Arizona
John C. Campbell
John C. Campbell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Daniel L. Rubinfeld
Daniel L. Rubinfeld University of California, Berkeley
Nicholas Economides
Nicholas Economides New York University
Philip Alston
Philip Alston New York University
Joseph H. H. Weiler
Joseph H. H. Weiler New York University
Hedley Bull
Hedley Bull Australian National University

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