2026 César Ducruet: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	41	5106	4738	56	38	234	6198

César Ducruet 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 César Ducruet sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 234 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

César Ducruet 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 César Ducruet sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

César Ducruet is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences, with a primary focus on the subfields of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Transportation, Building and Construction, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics covered in César Ducruet's work include:

Maritime Ports and Logistics
Economic Zones and Regional Development
Global trade and economics
Cruise Tourism Development and Management
Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency
Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration
Urban and Freight Transport Logistics

Their research output includes publications in a range of scholarly venues, notably:

Journal of Transport Geography
SSRN Electronic Journal
Maritime Policy & Management
Networks and Spatial Economics
International Encyclopedia of Geography

Frequent co-authors in César Ducruet's publications include Hidekazu Itoh, Bárbara Polo Martín, Ling Sun, Justin Berli, and M. Sène, reflecting collaborative work across different aspects of maritime and transport research.

Significant recent papers by César Ducruet are:

The geography of maritime networks: A critical review, 2020, Journal of Transport Geography
Ports and their influence on local air pollution and public health: A global analysis, 2024, The Science of The Total Environment
Port specialization and connectivity in the global maritime network, 2020, Maritime Policy & Management
Urban gravity in the global container shipping network, 2020, Journal of Transport Geography

Additional related work by collaborators includes "Measuring the effect of distance on the network topology of the Global Container Shipping Network," published in 2021 in Scientific Reports.

César Ducruet is also the author of a book published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 2020 titled Global Logistics Network Modelling and Policy. Quantification and Analysis for International Freight.

Best Publications

The worldwide maritime network of container shipping : Spatial structure and regional dynamics

César Ducruet;Theo Notteboom

517
Citations
A tale of Asia’s world ports: The spatial evolution in global hub port cities

Sung-Woo Lee;Dong-Wook Song;César Ducruet

355
Citations
Frontline soldiers of globalisation: Port–city evolution and regional competition

César Ducruet;Sung-Woo Lee

277
Citations
Centrality and vulnerability in liner shipping networks : revisiting the Northeast Asian port hierarchy

César Ducruet;Sung-Woo Lee;Adolf Ng

268
Citations
Integrating world cities into production networks : the case of port cities

Wouter Jacobs;Cesar Ducruet;Peter De Langen

238
Citations
Ports in multi-level maritime networks: Evidence from the Atlantic (1996-2006)

César Ducruet;Céline Rozenblat;Faraz Zaidi

209
Citations
Spatial Science and Network Science: Review and Outcomes of a Complex Relationship

César Ducruet;Laurent Beauguitte

201
Citations
Maritime constellations: a complex network approach to shipping and ports

César Ducruet;Faraz Zaidi

174
Citations
Network diversity and maritime flows

César Ducruet

154
Citations
Port geography at the crossroads with human geography: between flows and spaces

Adolf K.Y. Ng;César Ducruet;Wouter Jacobs;Jason Monios

148
Citations
Multilayer dynamics of complex spatial networks: The case of global maritime flows (1977–2008)

César Ducruet

145
Citations
Ports in Proximity: Competition and Coordination among Adjacent Seaports

T.E. Notteboom;C. Ducruet;P.W. de Langen

132
Citations
New port development and global city making: emergence of the Shanghai-Yangshan multilayered gateway hub

Chengjin Wang;César Ducruet

122
Citations
The geography of maritime networks: A critical review

César Ducruet

119
Citations
Port Regions and Globalization

César Ducruet

109
Citations
Port-city relationships in Europe and Asia

César Ducruet

95
Citations
Maritime networks as systems of cities : the long-term interdependencies between global shipping flows and urban development (1890-2010)

César Ducruet;Sylvain Cuyala;Ali El Hosni

93
Citations
The changing tides of port geography (1950–2012):

Adolf K.Y. Ng;César Ducruet

87
Citations
Spatial Glocalization in Asia-Pacific Hub Port Cities: A Comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore

Sung-Woo Lee;César Ducruet

83
Citations
Going West? Spatial Polarization of the North Korean Port System

César Ducruet;Stanislas Roussin;Jin-Cheol Jo

82
Citations
Transport integration at European ports

César Ducruet;Martijn van der Horst

81
Citations
The polarization of global container flows by interoceanic canals

César Ducruet

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Theo Notteboom Ghent University

Peter W. de Langen Copenhagen Business School

Adolf K.Y. Ng Hong Kong Baptist University

Shlomo Havlin Bar-Ilan University

Jean-Paul Rodrigue Texas A&M University

Alexander Zipf Heidelberg University

Xiaowen Fu Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Jason Monios Kedge Business School

External Links

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