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Benedikt Korf 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 Benedikt Korf sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 129 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Benedikt Korf 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 Benedikt Korf sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Benedikt Korf is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in the social sciences, with a focus on sociology, political science, geography, and philosophy. Their research integrates multiple subfields, including sociology and political science, geography, planning and development, political science and international relations, nature and landscape conservation, and philosophy.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
  • Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
  • Sociology and Education Studies
  • Political Theology and Sovereignty
  • German Social Sciences and History
  • European history and politics
  • Data Analysis and Archiving

Korf has published frequently in several academic venues, with the highest number of contributions appearing in:

  • Geographica Helvetica
  • Political Geography
  • Geopolitics
  • Environment and Planning D Society and Space
  • Anthropological Theory

Recent papers by Benedikt Korf include:

  • 'German Theory': Cosmopolitan geographies, counterfactual histories and the (non)travel of a 'German Foucault', 2021, Environment and Planning D Society and Space
  • Tauchgänge zur German Theory, 2022, Geographica Helvetica
  • Arcane geopolitics: Heidegger, Schmitt and the political theology of Gnosticism, 2020, Political Geography
  • The irony of development: Critique, complicity, cynicism, 2022, Anthropological Theory
  • Book review: Handbuch Diskurs und Raum, 2022, Geographica Helvetica

The scientist has also published books, including two editions of Schwierigkeiten mit der kritischen Geographie released in 2022 through Transcript Verlag.

Collaborations form a significant aspect of Korf's research output. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Ute Wardenga
  • Eberhard Rothfuß
  • Julia Verne
  • Matthew G. Hannah
  • Wolf-Dietrich Sahr

Best Publications

  • Determinants of poverty in rural Ethiopia

    Ayalneh Bogale;Konrad Hagedorn;Benedikt Korf

  • Land Tenure in Ethiopia: Continuity and Change, Shifting Rulers, and the Quest for State Control

    Wibke Crewett;Bogale Ayalneh;Benedikt Korf

  • War, Livelihoods and Vulnerability in Sri Lanka

    Benedikt Korf

  • Agamben in the Ogaden: Violence and sovereignty in the Ethiopian–Somali frontier

    Tobias Hagmann;Benedikt Korf

  • Antinomies of generosity: moral geographies and post-tsunami aid in Southeast Asia

    Benedikt Korf

  • Re-spacing African drylands: territorialization, sedentarization and indigenous commodification in the Ethiopian pastoral frontier

    Benedikt Korf;Tobias Hagmann;Rony Emmenegger

  • Property Rights, Collective Action, and Poverty: The Role of Institutions for Poverty Reduction

    Monica di Gregorio;Konrad Hagedorn;Michael Kirk;Benedikt Korf

  • Ethiopia: Reforming Land Tenure

    Wibke Crewett;Benedikt Korf

  • Violence on the Margins: States, Conflict, and Borderlands

    Benedikt Korf;Timothy Raeymaekers

  • Rethinking the Greed–Grievance Nexus: Property Rights and the Political Economy of War in Sri Lanka

    Benedikt Korf

  • Making Concessions: Extractive Enclaves, Entangled Capitalism and Regulative Pluralism at the Gold Mining Frontier in Burkina Faso

    Muriel Côte;Benedikt Korf

  • To share or not to share? (non-)violence, scarcity and resource access in Somali Region, Ethiopia

    Ayalneh Bogale;Benedikt Korf

  • The Geography of Warscape

    Benedikt Korf;Michelle Engeler;Tobias Hagmann

  • The gift of disaster: the commodification of good intentions in post-tsunami Sri Lanka.

    Benedikt Korf;Shahul Habullah;Pia Hollenbach;Bart Klem

  • War and the commons: Assessing the changing politics of violence, access and entitlements in Sri Lanka

    Benedikt Korf;Hartmut Fünfgeld

  • Negotiation and mediation techniques for natural resource management

    A. Engel;B. Korf

  • 'Civilizing' the pastoral frontier: land grabbing, dispossession and coercive agrarian development in Ethiopia.

    Asebe Regassa;Yetebarek Hizekiel;Benedikt Korf

  • Who is the rogue? Discourse, power and spatial politics in post-war Sri Lanka

    Benedikt Korf

  • Book review: The Dialectics of Secularization: on Reason and Religion - By J. Habermas & J. Ratzinger, Ignatius 2006

    Benedikt Korf

  • Resources, violence and the telluric geographies of small wars:

    Benedikt Korf

  • Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace

    Jonathan Spencer;Jonathan Goodhand;Shahul Hasbullah;Bart Klem

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Goodhand
Jonathan Goodhand School of Oriental and African Studies
Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Ruth Meinzen-Dick International Food Policy Research Institute
Brent Swallow
Brent Swallow University of Alberta
Michael Watts
Michael Watts Brunel University London
Samuel Abiven
Samuel Abiven University of Zurich
Stefanie Engel
Stefanie Engel Osnabrück University
Michael E. Schaepman
Michael E. Schaepman University of Zurich
Monica Di Gregorio
Monica Di Gregorio University of Leeds
Kentaro Shimizu
Kentaro Shimizu University of Zurich

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