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Ernesto Laclau 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 Ernesto Laclau sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 96 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ernesto Laclau 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 Ernesto Laclau sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1988 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Ernesto Laclau was affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Their academic focus was predominantly in the Social Sciences, with specific attention to the subfields of Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, and General Social Sciences.

Their research covered topics including:

  • International Relations in Latin America
  • Politics and Society in Latin America
  • Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
  • Philosophical Thought and Analysis
  • Critical Theory and Philosophy

Laclau contributed to multiple publications across several venues. Frequent publication outlets included:

  • Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie
  • Journal of Language and Politics
  • Revista de Estudios Sociales
  • Revista Novos Rumos

The following papers represent key contributions from Laclau's recent work:

  • Politics as construction of the unthinkable, 2020, Journal of Language and Politics
  • Política, hegemonía y populismo: diálogos con Ernesto Laclau, 2020, Revista de Estudios Sociales
  • UNIVERSALISMO, PARTICULARISMO E QUESTÃO DE IDENTIDADE, 2020, Revista Novos Rumos
  • Contents, 2021, Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie
  • Von den Namen Gottes, 2021, Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie

Collaborations featured several frequent coauthors including Marianne Høi Liisberg, Arthur Borriello, Benjamin De Cleen, Agata Bielek-Robson, and Michael Mayer.

During their career, Laclau was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1988.

Best Publications

  • Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics

    Chantal Mouffe;Ernesto Laclau

  • Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

    Chantal Mouffe;Ernesto Laclau

  • On Populist Reason

    Ernesto Laclau

  • New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time

    Ernesto Laclau

  • Contingency, hegemony, universality : contemporary dialogues on the left

    Judith P. Butler;Ernesto Laclau;Slavoj Žižek

  • Politics and ideology in Marxist theory

    Ernesto Laclau

  • Hegemonía y estrategia socialista: hacia una radicalización de la democracia

    Ernesto Laclau;Chantal Mouffe

  • Politics and ideology in Marxist theory : capitalism, fascism, populism

    Ernesto Laclau

  • Hegemonie und radikale Demokratie: zur Dekonstruktion des Marxismus

    Ernesto Laclau;Chantal Mouffe;Michael Hintz;Gerd Vorwallner

  • La Razon Populista

    Ernesto Laclau

  • The making of political identities

    Ernesto Laclau

  • The Death and Resurrection of the Theory of Ideology

    Ernesto Laclau

  • Politics and the Limits of Modernity

    Ernesto Laclau

  • Deconstruction and Pragmatism

    Simon Critchley;Jacques Derrida;Ernesto Laclau;Richard Rorty

  • Contingency, Hegemony, Universality

    Judith P. Butler;Ernesto Laclau;Slavoj Žižek

  • The Rhetorical Foundations Of Society

    Ernesto Laclau

  • Democracy and the Question of Power

    Ernesto Laclau

  • Deconstruction, Pragmatism, Hegemony

    Ernesto Laclau

  • Universalism, Particularism, and the Question of Identity

    Ernesto Laclau

  • La deriva populista y la centroizquierda latinoamericana

    Ernesto Laclau

  • Why Constructing a People Is the Main Task of Radical Politics

    Ernesto Laclau

  • 6 POST-MARXISM WITHOUT APOLOGIES

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Chantal Mouffe
Chantal Mouffe University of Westminster
Judith Butler
Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek University of Ljubljana
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida École Normale Supérieure
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty Stanford University

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