2026 Douglas M. Gibler: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	25	1586	1453	795	704	65	4349

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Current World Ranking

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Political Science

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4349

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

693
Citations
Measuring Alliances: the Correlates of War Formal Interstate Alliance Dataset, 1816–2000

Douglas M. Gibler;Meredith Reid Sarkees

677
Citations
The Territorial Peace: Borders, State Development, and International Conflict

Douglas M. Gibler

304
Citations
Bordering on Peace: Democracy, Territorial Issues, and Conflict

Douglas M. Gibler

304
Citations
The Costs of Reneging: Reputation and Alliance Formation

Douglas M. Gibler

220
Citations
Alliances, Then Democracy: An Examination of the Relationship between Regime Type and Alliance Formation

Douglas M. Gibler;Scott Wolford

173
Citations
Political Tolerance and Territorial Threat: A Cross‐National Study

Marc L. Hutchison;Douglas M. Gibler

171
Citations
Testing the Effects of Independent Judiciaries on the Likelihood of Democratic Backsliding

Douglas M. Gibler;Kirk A. Randazzo

170
Citations
Settled Borders and Regime Type: Democratic Transitions as Consequences of Peaceful Territorial Transfers

Douglas M. Gibler;Jaroslav Tir

163
Citations
Uncovering the Dangerous Alliances, 1495–1980

Douglas M. Gibler;John A. Vasquez

122
Citations
Taking Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: Conventional Arms Races During Periods of Rivalry

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

121
Citations
Outside-In: The Effects of External Threat on State Centralization:

Douglas M. Gibler

120
Citations
Alliances That Never Balance: The Territorial Settlement Treaty

Douglas M. Gibler

113
Citations
Individual Identity Attachments and International Conflict The Importance of Territorial Threat

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

102
Citations
An Analysis of the Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) Dataset, 1816–2001

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

100
Citations
US professional military education and democratization abroad

Tomislav Z. Ruby;Douglas Gibler

89
Citations
Control the issues, control the conflict: The effects of alliances that settle territorial issues on interstate rivalries

Douglas M. Gibler

84
Citations
External territorial threat, state capacity, and civil war

Douglas M Gibler;Steven V Miller

74
Citations
External Threat and Democracy: The Role of NATO Revisited*

Douglas M. Gibler;Jamil A. Sewell

61
Citations
Territorial Peace and Democratic Clustering

Douglas M. Gibler;Jaroslav Tir

41
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaroslav Tir University of Colorado Boulder

John A. Vasquez University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Alex Braithwaite University of Arizona

External Links

Personal website of Douglas M. Gibler

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