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Douglas M. Gibler 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 Douglas M. Gibler sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 65 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Douglas M. Gibler 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 Douglas M. Gibler sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 25 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Douglas M. Gibler is affiliated with the University of Alabama in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the Social Sciences. Their work spans numerous subfields, including Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, as well as intersections with Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The research topics covered by Gibler reflect a broad interest in political and international dynamics. Key areas of study include:

  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Nuclear Issues and Defense
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Data Analysis with R

Gibler has published extensively in various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • International Studies Quarterly
  • Journal of Peace Research
  • Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • The Journal of Politics
  • Conflict Management and Peace Science

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Gibler are:

  • "Latent territorial threat and democratic regime reversals" (2021) published in Journal of Peace Research
  • "The Militarized Interstate Confrontation Dataset, 1816-2014" (2023) published in Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • "The Importance of Correct Measurement: A Response to Palmer, et al" (2020) published in International Studies Quarterly
  • "Peaceful Neighborhoods and Democratic Differences" (2022) published in The Journal of Politics
  • "An Appraisal of Project Mars and the Divided Armies Argument" (2022) published in International Studies Quarterly

Gibler often collaborates with other scholars. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Steven V. Miller
  • Mark David Nieman
  • Johannes Karreth
  • Jaroslav Tir
  • Erin K. Little

Best Publications

  • International Military Alliances, 1648-2008

    Douglas M. Gibler

  • Measuring Alliances: the Correlates of War Formal Interstate Alliance Dataset, 1816–2000

    Douglas M. Gibler;Meredith Reid Sarkees

  • The Territorial Peace: Borders, State Development, and International Conflict

    Douglas M. Gibler

  • Bordering on Peace: Democracy, Territorial Issues, and Conflict

    Douglas M. Gibler

  • The Costs of Reneging: Reputation and Alliance Formation

    Douglas M. Gibler

  • Alliances, Then Democracy: An Examination of the Relationship between Regime Type and Alliance Formation

    Douglas M. Gibler;Scott Wolford

  • Political Tolerance and Territorial Threat: A Cross‐National Study

    Marc L. Hutchison;Douglas M. Gibler

  • Testing the Effects of Independent Judiciaries on the Likelihood of Democratic Backsliding

    Douglas M. Gibler;Kirk A. Randazzo

  • Settled Borders and Regime Type: Democratic Transitions as Consequences of Peaceful Territorial Transfers

    Douglas M. Gibler;Jaroslav Tir

  • Uncovering the Dangerous Alliances, 1495–1980

    Douglas M. Gibler;John A. Vasquez

  • Taking Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: Conventional Arms Races During Periods of Rivalry

    Douglas M. Gibler;Toby J. Rider;Marc L. Hutchison

  • Outside-In: The Effects of External Threat on State Centralization:

    Douglas M. Gibler

  • Alliances That Never Balance: The Territorial Settlement Treaty

    Douglas M. Gibler

  • Individual Identity Attachments and International Conflict The Importance of Territorial Threat

    Douglas M. Gibler;Marc L. Hutchison;Steven V. Miller

  • An Analysis of the Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) Dataset, 1816–2001

    Douglas M. Gibler;Steven V. Miller;Erin K. Little

  • US professional military education and democratization abroad

    Tomislav Z. Ruby;Douglas Gibler

  • Control the issues, control the conflict: The effects of alliances that settle territorial issues on interstate rivalries

    Douglas M. Gibler

  • External territorial threat, state capacity, and civil war

    Douglas M Gibler;Steven V Miller

  • External Threat and Democracy: The Role of NATO Revisited*

    Douglas M. Gibler;Jamil A. Sewell

  • Territorial Peace and Democratic Clustering

    Douglas M. Gibler;Jaroslav Tir

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaroslav Tir
Jaroslav Tir University of Colorado Boulder
John A. Vasquez
John A. Vasquez University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alex Braithwaite
Alex Braithwaite University of Arizona

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