2026 Gabrielle Lynch: 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	24	1706	1564	273	256	65	2517

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Overview

Gabrielle Lynch is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, general health professions, communication, health, and political science and international relations.

Their research covers a range of topics, with a focus on media influence and politics, social media and politics, homelessness and social issues, health disparities and outcomes, geriatric care and nursing homes, African studies and sociopolitical issues, and political conflict and governance.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Gabrielle Lynch are:

"Hybrid rallies and a rally-centric campaign: the case of Kenya's 2022 elections" (2023), published in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
"Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana" (2022), published in African Affairs
"Network measures of advice-seeking and resource sharing are related to well-being in recovery homes" (2020), published in International Journal of Drug Policy
"Dynamic interdependence of advice seeking, loaning, and recovery characteristics in recovery homes" (2021), published in Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
"Advice seeking and loaning of money related to relapse in recovery homes" (2020), published in Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gabrielle Lynch include:

Justin Willis
Nic Cheeseman
Leonard A. Jason
John M. Light
Elena Gadjanova

Their work appears in various publication venues, with multiple contributions to the Journal of Eastern African Studies and Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. Other publication venues include African Affairs, International Journal of Drug Policy, and Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment.

Gabrielle Lynch has also published a book titled The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa, released in 2020 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

Democratization in Africa 1990–2010: an assessment

Gabrielle Lynch;Gordon Crawford

236
Citations
I Say to You: Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya

Gabrielle Lynch

183
Citations
Democracy and its discontents: understanding Kenya's 2013 elections

Nicholas Cheeseman;Gabrielle Lynch;Justin Willis

178
Citations
Decentralisation in Kenya : the governance of governors

Nicholas Cheeseman;Gabrielle Lynch;Justin Willis

176
Citations
Negotiating Ethnicity: Identity Politics in Contemporary Kenya

Gabrielle Lynch

146
Citations
Electing the ‘alliance of the accused’: the success of the Jubilee Alliance in Kenya's Rift Valley

Gabrielle Lynch

135
Citations
Courting the Kalenjin: The failure of dynasticism and the strength of the ODM wave in Kenya's Rift Valley province

Gabrielle Lynch

129
Citations
Digital dilemmas: the unintended consequences of election technology

Nic Cheeseman;Gabrielle Lynch;Justin Willis

118
Citations
The Fruits of Perception: ‘Ethnic Politics’ and the Case of Kenya's Constitutional Referendum

Gabrielle Lynch

89
Citations
Kenya's 2017 elections : winner-takes-all politics as usual?

Nicholas Cheeseman;Karuti Kanyinga;Gabrielle Lynch;Mutuma Ruteere

67
Citations
The Oxford handbook of Kenyan politics

Nicholas Cheeseman;Gabrielle Lynch;Karuti Kanyinga

59
Citations
Becoming indigenous in the pursuit of justice: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Endorois

Gabrielle Lynch

50
Citations
Allowing Satan in? Moving toward a political economy of Neo-Pentecostalism in Kenya

Gregory Deacon;Gabrielle Lynch

39
Citations
Ghana: The Ebbing Power of Incumbency

Nic Cheeseman;Gabrielle Lynch;Justin Willis

28
Citations
From Protest to Parties: Party-building and democratization in Africa

Gabrielle Lynch

28
Citations
The Wars of Who Belongs Where: The Unstable Politics of Autochthony on Kenya's Mt Elgon

Gabrielle Lynch

25
Citations
Kenya’s Search for Truth and Justice: The Role of Civil Society

Lydiah Kemunto Bosire;Gabrielle Lynch

25
Citations
What's in a name? : the politics of naming ethnic groups in Kenya's Cherangany Hills

Gabrielle Lynch

23
Citations
Kenya's new indigenes: negotiating local identities in a global context

Gabrielle Lynch

23
Citations
Moi: The Making of an African ‘Big-Man’

Gabrielle Lynch

17
Citations
The political economy of Kenya

Nic Cheeseman;Karuti Kanyinga;Gabrielle Lynch

8
Citations
Performances of Injustice: The Politics of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Kenya

Gabrielle Lynch

5
Citations
“A valid electoral exercise”? Uganda's 1980 Elections and the Observers’ Dilemma

Justin Willis;Gabrielle Lynch;Nicholas Cheeseman

5
Citations
The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa

Nicholas Cheeseman;Gabrielle Lynch;Justin Willis

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nic Cheeseman University of Birmingham

Gordon Crawford Coventry University

External Links

Personal website of Gabrielle Lynch

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