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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 84 280 237 50 41 718 42129

Erik Swyngedouw publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Erik Swyngedouw between 1983 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Erik Swyngedouw published across 43 years, from 1983 to 2025, averaging 17.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 44 publications in 2009. 10 of the 765 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1983 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 44. Peak 44 publications in 2009. 1983: 1 publication 1984: 5 publications 1985: 2 publications 1986: 15 publications 1987: 19 publications 1988: 16 publications 1989: 20 publications 1990: 9 publications 1991: 11 publications 1992: 11 publications 1993: 15 publications 1994: 11 publications 1995: 17 publications 1996: 11 publications 1997: 17 publications 1998: 16 publications 1999: 16 publications 2000: 31 publications 2001: 22 publications 2002: 20 publications 2003: 23 publications 2004: 29 publications 2005: 24 publications 2006: 31 publications 2007: 30 publications 2008: 40 publications 2009: 44 publications 2010: 35 publications 2011: 31 publications 2012: 25 publications 2013: 30 publications 2014: 39 publications 2015: 21 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 16 publications 2019: 12 publications 2020: 4 publications 2021: 5 publications 2022: 6 publications 2023: 5 publications 2024: 3 publications 2025: 7 publications
1983 2025

765 publications in total across all disciplines

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Erik Swyngedouw: publications per year, 1983 to 2025
Year Publications
1983 1
1984 5
1985 2
1986 15
1987 19
1988 16
1989 20
1990 9
1991 11
1992 11
1993 15
1994 11
1995 17
1996 11
1997 17
1998 16
1999 16
2000 31
2001 22
2002 20
2003 23
2004 29
2005 24
2006 31
2007 30
2008 40
2009 44
2010 35
2011 31
2012 25
2013 30
2014 39
2015 21
2016 7
2017 13
2018 16
2019 12
2020 4
2021 5
2022 6
2023 5
2024 3
2025 7
Total 765
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Erik Swyngedouw publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Erik Swyngedouw sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 570+ publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 718 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100 718
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Erik Swyngedouw D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Erik Swyngedouw sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 84 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15 84
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Erik Swyngedouw is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and focuses primarily on research within the social sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, geography, planning and development, clinical psychology, and literature and literary theory.

The main topics covered in Swyngedouw's research include water governance and infrastructure, geographies of human-animal interactions, psychoanalysis, philosophy and politics, populism and right-wing movements, housing, finance and neoliberalism, hydropower, displacement and environmental impact, and contemporary literature and criticism.

Recent publications highlight a diverse range of themes and venues:

  • Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice, 2022, The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • The unbearable lightness of climate populism, 2022, Environmental Politics
  • Illiberalism and the democratic paradox: The infernal dialectic of neoliberal emancipation, 2021, European Journal of Social Theory
  • From Disruption to Transformation: Politicisation at a Distance from the State, 2020, Antipode
  • Enjoying climate change: Jouissance as a political factor, 2023, Political Geography

Frequent collaboration is noted with several co-authors, including Lucas Pohl, Rutgerd Boelens, Lena Hommes, Jeroen Vos, and Jaime Hoogesteger.

The scholar has contributed multiple publications to well-known academic journals, with repeated appearances in Environmental Politics and European Journal of Social Theory, as well as contributions to The Journal of Peasant Studies, Antipode, and Political Geography.

In addition to articles, Swyngedouw has published books with Johns Hopkins University and the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Notable titles include Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post-Political Environment (2020) and Water Territorialities. Knowledge and Action to Build the Future that we Want [in Spanish and Portuguese] (2nd edition) (2020).

Their research interests and outputs integrate interdisciplinary approaches toward understanding the political, social, and environmental dimensions of contemporary issues, with significant attention to water governance and urban political ecology.

Erik Swyngedouw has been recognized as a member of Academia Europaea since 2015.

Best Publications

  • Governance Innovation and the Citizen: The Janus Face of Governance-beyond-the-State:

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Social Power and the Urbanization of Water: Flows of Power

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Neoliberal Urbanization in Europe: Large–Scale Urban Development Projects and the New Urban Policy

    Erik Swyngedouw;Frank Moulaert;Arantxa Rodriguez

  • Globalisation or Glocalisation? Networks, Territories and Rescaling

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Modernity and Hybridity: Nature, Regeneracionismo, and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890–1930

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism

    Nik Heynen;Maria Kaika;E. Swyngedouw;Gary Bridge

  • Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale

    Erik Swyngedouw;Nikolas C Heynen

  • Neither Global Nor Local: ?Glocalization' and the Politics of Scale

    E. Swyngedouw

  • Apocalypse Forever? Post-political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Towards alternative model(s) of local innovation

    Frank Moulaert;Flavia Martinelli;Erik Swyngedouw;Sara Gonzalez

  • The Antinomies of the Postpolitical City: In Search of a Democratic Politics of Environmental Production

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Impossible Sustainability and the Post-political Condition

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Authoritarian Governance, Power and the Politics of Rescaling

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • The Political Economy and Political Ecology of the Hydro-Social Cycle

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Fetishizing the modern city: the phantasmagoria of urban technological networks

    Maria Kaika;Erik Swyngedouw

  • Hydrosocial territories: a political ecology perspective

    Rutgerd Boelens;Jaime Hoogesteger;Erik Swyngedouw;Jeroen Vos

  • The Mammon Quest: 'Glocalization', Interspatial Competition and the Monetary Order: The Construction of New Scales

    E Swyngedouw;M Dunford;G Kafkalis

  • The City as a Hybrid -- On Nature, Society and Cyborg Urbanisation

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Interrogating post-democratization: Reclaiming egalitarian political spaces

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Circulations and metabolisms: (Hybrid) Natures and (Cyborg) cities

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale (Reprint)

    E Swyngedouw;N Heynen;G Bridge;S Watson

Frequent Co-Authors

Rutgerd Boelens
Rutgerd Boelens University of Amsterdam
Gary Bridge
Gary Bridge Cardiff University
Stefan Bouzarovski
Stefan Bouzarovski University of Manchester
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen Columbia University
Heather Viles
Heather Viles University of Oxford
Andrew Goudie
Andrew Goudie University of Oxford
David Wilson
David Wilson Binghamton University
Philippus Wester
Philippus Wester International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Thomas E. Downing
Thomas E. Downing Stockholm Environment Institute

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