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Didier Bigo

Didier Bigo

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Political Science
France
2026
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Political Science
UK
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
46
Citations
14662
World Ranking
314
National Ranking
3

Didier Bigo 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 Didier Bigo sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 398 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Didier Bigo 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 Didier Bigo 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: 46 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Didier Bigo is affiliated with Sciences Po in France and specializes in the social sciences with a strong focus on sociology, political science, and international relations. Their scholarly work spans various subfields, including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, clinical psychology, gender studies, and education.

The main topics of Didier Bigo's research include global security and public health, European criminal justice and data protection, psychoanalysis and psychopathology research, multiculturalism with attention to politics, migration and gender, migration and refugee integration, social and cultural dynamics, and theoretical perspectives on Foucault, power, and ethics.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Elspeth Guild, Elif Mendos Kuşkonmaz, Laurent Bonnefoy, Mathias Delori, and Anastassia Tsoukala. These partnerships have contributed to a variety of interdisciplinary research outputs.

Didier Bigo has published extensively in venues such as Political anthropological research on international social sciences, Cultures & conflits/Cultures et conflits, International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Recherches Internationales, and Global Discourse.

Some recent papers authored by Didier Bigo include:

  • Obedience in times of COVID-19 pandemics: a renewed governmentality of unease? (2021), published in Global Discourse
  • The interoperability controversy or how to fail successfully: lessons from Europe (2020), published in International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
  • The socio-genesis of a guild of digital technologies justifying transnational interoperable databases in the name of security and border purposes: a reframing of the field of security professionals (2020), published in International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
  • The socio-genesis of a guild of 'digital technologies' justifying transnational interoperable databases in the name of security and border purposes: a reframing of the field of security professionals (2020), published in International Journal of Migration and Border Studies

Their contributions also extend to edited volumes, including a book published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique titled The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies (2020).

Best Publications

  • Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease:

    Didier Bigo

  • Globalized (in)security: The field and the ban-opticon

    Didier Bigo

  • Polices en réseaux : l'expérience européenne

    Didier Bigo

  • When Two Become One: Internal and External Securitisations in Europe

    Didier Bigo

  • The (in)securitization practices of the three universes of EU border control: Military/Navy – border guards/police – database analysts

    Didier Bigo

  • After Snowden: Rethinking the Impact of Surveillance

    Zygmunt Bauman;Didier Bigo;Paulo Esteves;Elspeth Guild

  • Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations: Power of Practices, Practices of Power

    Didier Bigo

  • Terror, Insecurity and Liberty: Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes after 9/11

    Didier Bigo;Anastassia Tsoukala

  • Security, exception, ban and surveillance

    Didier Bigo

  • The European Internal Security Field: Stakes and Rivalries in a Newly Developing Area of Police Intervention.

    Didier Bigo

  • Data politics

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  • Controlling Frontiers: Free Movement Into and Within Europe

    Didier Bigo;Elspeth Guild

  • Internal and External Aspects of Security

    Didier Bigo

  • Migration and Security

    Didier Bigo

  • Sécurité et immigration : vers une gouvernementalité par l’inquiétude ?

    Didier Bigo

  • Liaison officers in Europe: new officers in the European security field

    Didier Bigo

  • Political sociology and the problem of the international

    Didier Bigo;R.B.J. Walker

  • Mapping the Field of the EU Internal Security Agencies.

    Didier Bigo;Laurent Bonelli;Dario Chi;Christian Olsson

  • Illiberal practices of liberal regimes : the (in)security games

    Didier Bigo;Anastassia Tsoukala

  • Europe's 21st Century Challenge: Delivering Liberty

    Didier Bigo;Sergio Carrera;Elspeth Guild;R. B. J Walker

  • The Transformation Of European Border Controls

    Elspeth Guild;Didier Bigo

  • Policing at a Distance : Schengen Visa Policies

    Didier Bigo;Elspeth Guild

  • Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory's Edge

    Didier Bigo

  • Security Studies. An Introduction

    Didier Bigo

  • International Political Sociology

    Didier Bigo;R. B. J. Walker

  • Theorizing Surveillance. The panopticon and beyond

    Didier Bigo

  • Detention of Foreigners, States of Exception, and the Social Practices of Control of the Banopticton

    Didier Bigo

  • Pierre Bourdieu y las Relaciones Internacionales: el poder de las prácticas, las prácticas del poder | Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations: Power of Practices, Practices of Power

    Didier Bigo

Frequent Co-Authors

Elspeth Guild
Elspeth Guild University of Liverpool
David Lyon
David Lyon Queen's University
Thierry Balzacq
Thierry Balzacq Sciences Po
Valsamis Mitsilegas
Valsamis Mitsilegas University of Liverpool
Paul De Hert
Paul De Hert Tilburg University
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds
Yves Dezalay
Yves Dezalay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Engin F. Isin
Engin F. Isin Queen Mary University of London
Marc Langheinrich
Marc Langheinrich Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Maykel Verkuyten
Maykel Verkuyten Utrecht University

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