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2023

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D-Index
60
Citations
9396
World Ranking
112
National Ranking
18

David Held 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 David Held sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 103 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Held 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 David Held 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: 60 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Globalization / Anti-Globalization: Beyond the Great Divide

    David Held;Anthony G. McGrew

  • Towards fully autonomous driving: Systems and algorithms

    Jesse Levinson;Jake Askeland;Jan Becker;Jennifer Dolson

  • Learning to Track at 100 FPS with Deep Regression Networks

    David Held;Sebastian Thrun;Silvio Savarese

  • Constrained Policy Optimization

    Unknown

  • PCN: Point Completion Network

    Wentao Yuan;Tejas Khot;David Held;Christoph Mertz

  • The global transformations reader : an introduction to the globalization debate

    David Held;Anthony G. McGrew

  • Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus

    David Held

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

    Xinshuo Weng;Jianren Wang;David Held;Kris Kitani

  • Governing globalization: power, authority and global governance

    A. McGrew;D. Held

  • Democracy, the nation-state and the global system

    David Held

  • Cosmopolitan democracy : an agenda for a new world order

    Daniele Archibugi;David Held

  • The global transformations reader

    David Held;Anthony McGrew

  • Cosmopolitanism: Ideals and Realities

    David Held

  • Globalization and the Liberal Democratic State

    David Held;Anthony McGrew

  • Social theory of modern societies : Anthony Giddens and his critics

    David Held;John B. Thompson

  • The globalisation of economic activity

    Jonathan Perraton;David Goldblatt;David Held;Anthony Mcgrew

  • Democracy: From City-states to a Cosmopolitan Order?

    David Held

  • Global governance and public accountability

    David Held;Mathias Koenig-Archibugi

  • Automatic Goal Generation for Reinforcement Learning Agents

    Carlos Florensa;David Held;Xinyang Geng;Pieter Abbeel

  • Reverse Curriculum Generation for Reinforcement Learning

    Carlos Florensa;David Held;Markus Wulfmeier;Michael Zhang

  • Modelos de democracia

    David Held;Teresa Albero

  • Political Theory and the Modern State

    David Held

  • LAW OF STATES, LAW OF PEOPLES:

    David Held

  • Globalization Theory: Approaches and Controversies

    David Held;Anthony G. McGrew

  • Taming globalization : frontiers of governance

    David Held;Mathias Koenig-Archibugi

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

    Unknown

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

    Unknown

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

    Peiyun Hu;Jason Ziglar;David Held;Deva Ramanan

  • Just Go With the Flow: Self-Supervised Scene Flow Estimation

    Himangi Mittal;Brian Okorn;David Held

  • Enabling robots to communicate their objectives

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

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

    David Held;Jesse Levinson;Sebastian Thrun;Silvio Savarese

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

    Unknown

  • Learning to grasp the ungraspable with emergent extrinsic dexterity

    Unknown

  • Precision tracking with sparse 3D and dense color 2D data

    David Held;Jesse Levinson;Sebastian Thrun

  • SoftGym: Benchmarking Deep Reinforcement Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation

    Xingyu Lin;Yufei Wang;Jake Olkin;David Held

  • Tax-pose: Task-specific cross-pose estimation for robot manipulation

    Unknown

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

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

  • Neural grasp distance fields for robot manipulation

    Unknown

  • 전지구적 변환 = Global transformations

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel A. Potter
Daniel A. Potter University of Kentucky
Pieter Abbeel
Pieter Abbeel University of California, Berkeley
Daniele Archibugi
Daniele Archibugi Birkbeck, University of London
Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun Stanford University
Silvio Savarese
Silvio Savarese Stanford University
Martial Hebert
Martial Hebert Carnegie Mellon University
Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens London School of Economics and Political Science
Joseph W. Kloepper
Joseph W. Kloepper Auburn University
Thomas Hale
Thomas Hale University of Oxford
Deva Ramanan
Deva Ramanan Carnegie Mellon University

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