2026 David Held: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	60	112	18	103	9396

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

David Held was affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research focused on various aspects of agricultural and biological sciences, with a notable emphasis on insect science. The subfields in which they contributed included insect science, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, molecular biology, and general ecology.

Their scholarly output spanned multiple topics, particularly revolving around insect-plant interactions and control, insect and pesticide research, plant and animal studies, insect resistance and genetics, forest insect ecology and management, research on scale insects, and insect pest control strategies.

David Held published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues were:

Arthropod Management Tests
Pest Management Science
Journal of Applied Polymer Science
ACS Omega
Frontiers in Insect Science

The scientist collaborated regularly with several colleagues, including:

Elijah Carroll
Kendra M H Carson
Sandra L Dillard
Erin McGraw
Nitish Kunte

Among their recent papers were:

"Preparation of slow release encapsulated insecticide and fertilizer based on superabsorbent polysaccharide microbeads", 2020, Journal of Applied Polymer Science
"Insight into Cellular Uptake and Transcytosis of Peptide Nanoparticles in Spodoptera frugiperda Cells and Isolated Midgut", 2022, ACS Omega
"Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria: a novel management strategy for Meloidogyne incognita on turfgrass", 2020, Pest Management Science
"Gene silencing in adult Popillia japonica through feeding of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) complexed with branched amphiphilic peptide capsules (BAPCs)", 2023, Frontiers in Insect Science
"Current Pest Status and Management Practices for Systena frontalis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Ornamental Plants in the Eastern United States: An Online Survey", 2021, Journal of Integrated Pest Management

Best Publications

Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance

David Held

7947
Citations
Globalization / Anti-Globalization: Beyond the Great Divide

David Held;Anthony G. McGrew

2186
Citations
Towards fully autonomous driving: Systems and algorithms

Jesse Levinson;Jake Askeland;Jan Becker;Jennifer Dolson

1596
Citations
Learning to Track at 100 FPS with Deep Regression Networks

David Held;Sebastian Thrun;Silvio Savarese

1296
Citations
Constrained Policy Optimization

Unknown

940
Citations
PCN: Point Completion Network

Wentao Yuan;Tejas Khot;David Held;Christoph Mertz

905
Citations
The global transformations reader : an introduction to the globalization debate

David Held;Anthony G. McGrew

678
Citations
Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus

David Held

505
Citations
3D Multi-Object Tracking: A Baseline and New Evaluation Metrics

Xinshuo Weng;Jianren Wang;David Held;Kris Kitani

493
Citations
Governing globalization: power, authority and global governance

A. McGrew;D. Held

470
Citations
Democracy, the nation-state and the global system

David Held

444
Citations
Cosmopolitan democracy : an agenda for a new world order

Daniele Archibugi;David Held

437
Citations
The global transformations reader

David Held;Anthony McGrew

390
Citations
Cosmopolitanism: Ideals and Realities

David Held

375
Citations
Globalization and the Liberal Democratic State

David Held;Anthony McGrew

345
Citations
Social theory of modern societies : Anthony Giddens and his critics

David Held;John B. Thompson

331
Citations
The globalisation of economic activity

Jonathan Perraton;David Goldblatt;David Held;Anthony Mcgrew

321
Citations
Democracy: From City-states to a Cosmopolitan Order?

David Held

308
Citations
Global governance and public accountability

David Held;Mathias Koenig-Archibugi

301
Citations
Automatic Goal Generation for Reinforcement Learning Agents

Carlos Florensa;David Held;Xinyang Geng;Pieter Abbeel

300
Citations
Reverse Curriculum Generation for Reinforcement Learning

Carlos Florensa;David Held;Markus Wulfmeier;Michael Zhang

285
Citations
Modelos de democracia

David Held;Teresa Albero

278
Citations
Political Theory and the Modern State

David Held

274
Citations
LAW OF STATES, LAW OF PEOPLES:

David Held

273
Citations
Globalization Theory: Approaches and Controversies

David Held;Anthony G. McGrew

257
Citations
Taming globalization : frontiers of governance

David Held;Mathias Koenig-Archibugi

226
Citations
Robogen: Towards unleashing infinite data for automated robot learning via generative simulation

Unknown

217
Citations
Rl-vlm-f: Reinforcement learning from vision language foundation model feedback

Unknown

155
Citations
What You See is What You Get: Exploiting Visibility for 3D Object Detection

Peiyun Hu;Jason Ziglar;David Held;Deva Ramanan

142
Citations
Just Go With the Flow: Self-Supervised Scene Flow Estimation

Himangi Mittal;Brian Okorn;David Held

139
Citations
Enabling robots to communicate their objectives

Sandy H. Huang;David Held;Pieter Abbeel;Anca D. Dragan

108
Citations
Combining 3D Shape, Color, and Motion for Robust Anytime Tracking.

David Held;Jesse Levinson;Sebastian Thrun;Silvio Savarese

92
Citations
Toolflownet: Robotic manipulation with tools via predicting tool flow from point clouds

Unknown

89
Citations
Learning to grasp the ungraspable with emergent extrinsic dexterity

Unknown

87
Citations
Precision tracking with sparse 3D and dense color 2D data

David Held;Jesse Levinson;Sebastian Thrun

87
Citations
SoftGym: Benchmarking Deep Reinforcement Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation

Xingyu Lin;Yufei Wang;Jake Olkin;David Held

85
Citations
Tax-pose: Task-specific cross-pose estimation for robot manipulation

Unknown

82
Citations
MVWT-II: the second generation Caltech Multi-Vehicle Wireless Testbed

Z. Jin;S. Waydo;E.B. Wildanger;M. Lammers

79
Citations
Neural grasp distance fields for robot manipulation

Unknown

67
Citations
전지구적 변환 = Global transformations

David Held;Anthony G. McGrew;David Goldblatt;Jonathan Perraton

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel A. Potter University of Kentucky

Pieter Abbeel University of California, Berkeley

Daniele Archibugi Birkbeck, University of London

Sebastian Thrun Stanford University

Silvio Savarese Stanford University

Martial Hebert Carnegie Mellon University

Anthony Giddens London School of Economics and Political Science

Joseph W. Kloepper Auburn University

Thomas Hale University of Oxford

Deva Ramanan Carnegie Mellon University

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