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73
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607
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112

Bent Flyvbjerg publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bent Flyvbjerg sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 383 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Bent Flyvbjerg D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bent Flyvbjerg sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Bent Flyvbjerg is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans decision sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as management science and operations research, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, strategy and management, and safety research.

Their main research topics cover a range of areas including complex systems and decision making, construction project management and performance, sport and mega-event impacts, sports analytics and performance, experimental behavioral economics studies, disaster management and resilience, and innovation and knowledge management.

Flyvbjerg's recent academic papers include:

  • Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview (2021), published in Project Management Journal
  • The law of regression to the tail: How to survive Covid-19, the climate crisis, and other disasters (2020), published in Environmental Science & Policy
  • The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution (2022), published in Journal of Management Information Systems
  • Governing Large Projects: A Three-Stage Process to Get It Right (2023), published in Academy of Management Perspectives
  • How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies (2022), published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Flyvbjerg frequently collaborates with other researchers, most notably with:

  • Alexander Budzier
  • Jon Aaen
  • Mark Keil
  • Daniel Lunn

Their publications appear regularly in various venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Project Management Journal
  • Academy of Management Perspectives
  • Environmental Science & Policy

Regarding book publications, Flyvbjerg has at least one book published through King's College London titled How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors that Determine the Fate of Every Project from Home Renovations to Space Exploration, and Everything in Between (2023).

Best Publications

  • Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Steven L. Sampson

  • Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Niels Bruzelius;Werner Rothengatter

  • Making Social Science Matter

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie?

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Mette K. Skamris Holm;Soren L. Buhl

  • What You Should Know About Megaprojects and Why: An Overview

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • RATIONALITY AND POWER: DEMOCRACY IN PRACTICE

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development ☆

    Atif Ansar;Bent Flyvbjerg;Alexander Budzier;Daniel Lunn

  • How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Mette K. Skamris Holm;Søren L. Buhl

  • How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Mette K. Skamris Holm;Soren L. Buhl

  • Habermas and Foucault: Thinkers for civil society?

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Phronetic Planning Research: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin

    Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse;Eugenio Y. Arima;Thomas Dunne;Edward Park

  • What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Mette K. Skamris Holm;Soren L. Buhl

  • Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again

    Dan E. Miller;Bent Flyvbjerg;Steven Sampson

  • From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China

    Atif Ansar;Bent Flyvbjerg;Alexander Budzier;Daniel Lunn

  • Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Massimo Garbuio;Dan Lovallo

  • Underskattade kostnader i infrastrukturprojekt: felräkning eller lögn? (Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie?)

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Bent Flyvbjerg;Søren L. Buhl;Mette Skamris Holm

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert van Wee
Bert van Wee Delft University of Technology
Todd Landman
Todd Landman University of Nottingham
Sanford F. Schram
Sanford F. Schram City University of New York
Cass R. Sunstein
Cass R. Sunstein Harvard University
Petter Næss
Petter Næss Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Stewart Clegg
Stewart Clegg University of Sydney
Victor R. Baker
Victor R. Baker University of Arizona
Naziano Filizola
Naziano Filizola Federal University of Amazonas
Thomas Dunne
Thomas Dunne University of California, Santa Barbara
Richard B. Norgaard
Richard B. Norgaard University of California, Berkeley

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