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D-Index
35
Citations
5331
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764
National Ranking
403

Crawford Young 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 Crawford Young sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 124 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Crawford Young 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 Crawford Young sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 76 scientists 21 D-Index: 79 scientists 22 D-Index: 84 scientists 23 D-Index: 68 scientists 24 D-Index: 88 scientists 25 D-Index: 82 scientists 26 D-Index: 76 scientists 27 D-Index: 75 scientists 28 D-Index: 99 scientists 29 D-Index: 96 scientists 30 D-Index: 96 scientists 31 D-Index: 81 scientists 32 D-Index: 86 scientists 33 D-Index: 81 scientists 34 D-Index: 84 scientists 35 D-Index: 72 scientists 36 D-Index: 58 scientists 37 D-Index: 53 scientists 38 D-Index: 48 scientists 39 D-Index: 40 scientists 40 D-Index: 40 scientists 41 D-Index: 32 scientists 42 D-Index: 26 scientists 43 D-Index: 25 scientists 44 D-Index: 33 scientists 45 D-Index: 33 scientists 46 D-Index: 17 scientists 47 D-Index: 21 scientists 48 D-Index: 22 scientists 49 D-Index: 18 scientists 50 D-Index: 19 scientists 51 D-Index: 19 scientists 52 D-Index: 15 scientists 53 D-Index: 14 scientists 54 D-Index: 10 scientists 55 D-Index: 13 scientists 56 D-Index: 9 scientists 57 D-Index: 11 scientists 58 D-Index: 12 scientists 59 D-Index: 10 scientists 60 D-Index: 5 scientists 61 D-Index: 7 scientists 62+ D-Index: 100 scientists
20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Crawford Young was affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research contributions centered primarily within the Arts and Humanities, with a particular focus on Language and Linguistics.

The main areas of study encompassed linguistics and language evolution, covering two publications in this topic. This indicates a focus on the mechanisms, history, and development of languages as well as their evolutionary aspects.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Language and Linguistics

  • Linguistics and language evolution

Best Publications

  • The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective

    Crawford Young

  • The politics of cultural pluralism

    Crawford Young

  • The rise and decline of the Zairian state

    Crawford Young;Thomas Edwin Turner

  • The end of the post-colonial state in Africa? Reflections on changing African political dynamics

    Crawford Young

  • Ideology and development in Africa

    John W. Sewell;Crawford Young

  • Politics in the Congo: Decolonization and Independence

    Richard L. Sklar;Crawford Young

  • Pastoral politics in the northeast periphery in Uganda: AK-47 as change agent

    Mustafa K Mirzeler;Crawford Young

  • Beyond state crisis? : postcolonial Africa and post-Soviet Eurasia in comparative perspective

    Mark R. Beissinger;Crawford Young

  • The rising tide of cultural pluralism : the nation-state at bay?

    Crawford Young

  • The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State

    Jennifer Seymour Whitaker;Crawford Young;Thomas Turner

  • Patterns of Social Conflict: State, Class, and Ethnicity

    Crawford Young

  • The Temple of Ethnicity

    Crawford Young

  • Issues of political development

    Charles W. Anderson;Fred R. Von der Mehden;Crawford Young

  • Zaïre: The Unending Crisis

    Crawford Young

  • Africa: An Interim Balance Sheet

    Unknown

  • Zaire: the Shattered Illusion of the Integral State

    Crawford Young

  • Area studies and social science : strategies for understanding Middle East politics

    Crawford Young;Mark Tessler;Jodie Nachtwey;Anne Banda

  • The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010

    Crawford Young

  • The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective.

    Kinuthia Macharia;Crawford Young

  • The Politics of Cultural Pluralism.

    Aidan Southall;Crawford Young

  • Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant

    Crawford Young;Robert H. Jackson;Carl G. Rosberg

  • The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism: The Nation State at Bay?

    Haggai Erlich;Crawford Young

  • Ideology and Development in Africa

    René Lemarchand;Crawford Young

  • The Politics of Cultural Pluralism.

    Robert Melson;Crawford Young

  • Politics in Congo

    Crawford Young

  • The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money, and U. S. Policy in the Congo Crisis

    Crawford Young;David N. Gibbs

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles W. Anderson
Charles W. Anderson Michigan State University
Robert Jackson
Robert Jackson Boston University
I. William Zartman
I. William Zartman Johns Hopkins University
Gail M. Gerhart
Gail M. Gerhart Columbia University
Mark Tessler
Mark Tessler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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