2026 Gary Goertz: 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	38	554	504	305	264	120	15887

Overview

Gary Goertz is a researcher affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the social sciences, with an emphasis on political science, international relations, and related interdisciplinary fields.

Their research covers several main fields of study, including:

Social Sciences

More specifically, their subfields of study include:

Sociology and Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Development
History and Philosophy of Science
Management Science and Operations Research

The core topics addressed in their work span:

Peacebuilding and International Security
Political Conflict and Governance
International Relations and Foreign Policy
Global Peace and Security Dynamics
Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
International Development and Aid
Philosophy and History of Science

Gary Goertz has contributed papers published in various academic journals and venues. Notable recent papers include:

"Settling Resistant Territorial Disputes: The Territorial Boundary Peace in Latin America" (2020), published in International Studies Quarterly
"Managing International - Civil Militarized Conflicts (I-CMC): Empirical Patterns" (2021), published in Civil Wars
"The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to Eliminate War in the Americas" (2024), published in International Studies Quarterly
"Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA): Causal Generalization in Case Study and Multimethod Research" (2023), published in Perspectives on Politics
"Peace: The Elusive Dependent Variable and Policy Goal" (2020), published in Perspectives on Politics

The frequent publication venues where this researcher's work appears include:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Harvard Dataverse
International Studies Quarterly
Perspectives on Politics
Civil Wars

Collaborations have been an important part of Gary Goertz's academic contributions. Frequent coauthors include:

Paul F. Diehl
Andrew P. Owsiak
Stephan Haggard
Luis L. Schenoni
Joshua Lee Monogan Jackson

Best Publications

Social Science Concepts

Gary Goertz

2070
Citations
Social Science Concepts: A User's Guide

Gary Goertz

2053
Citations
A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research

James Mahoney;Gary Goertz

1586
Citations
A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences

Gary Goertz;James Mahoney

1251
Citations
A Tale of Two Cultures

Gary Goertz;James Mahoney

1233
Citations
War and peace in international rivalry

Paul F. Diehl;Gary Goertz

901
Citations
The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research

James Mahoney;Gary Goertz

831
Citations
Territorial changes and international conflict

Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl

627
Citations
Enduring Rivalries: Theoretical Constructs and Empirical Patterns

Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl

543
Citations
The New Rivalry Dataset: Procedures and Patterns

James P. Klein;Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl

480
Citations
The Methodology of Necessary Conditions

Bear F. Braumoeller;Gary Goertz

423
Citations
The Initiation and Termination of Enduring Rivalries: The Impact of Political Shocks

Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl

350
Citations
Toward a Theory of International Norms Some Conceptual and Measurement Issues

Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl

313
Citations
The empirical importance of enduring rivalries

Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl

274
Citations
Contexts of international politics

Gary Goertz

272
Citations
Multimethod Research, Causal Mechanisms, and Case Studies: An Integrated Approach

Gary Goertz

225
Citations
The Puzzle of Peace: The Evolution of Peace in the International System

Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl;Alexandru Balas

223
Citations
Factors of Urbanisation in the Nineteenth Century Developed Countries: A Descriptive and Econometric Analysis

Paul Bairoch;Gary David Goertz

223
Citations
Assessing the Trivialness, Relevance, and Relative Importance of Necessary or Sufficient Conditions in Social Science

Gary Goertz

197
Citations
Two-Level Theories and Fuzzy-Set Analysis

Gary Goertz;James Mahoney

197
Citations
Territorial Changes, 1816–1996: Procedures and Data

Jaroslav Tir;Philip Schafer;Paul F. Diehl;Gary Goertz

171
Citations
Necessary conditions : theory, methodology, and applications

Gary Goertz;Harvey Starr

169
Citations
International norms and decision making : a punctuated equilibrium model

Gary Goertz

163
Citations
The Democratic Peace and Rivalries

Paul R. Hensel;Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl

157
Citations
Maintenance Processes in International Rivalries

Gary Goertz;Bradford Jones;Paul F. Diehl

130
Citations
Politics, gender, and concepts : theory and methodology

Gary Goertz;Amy G. Mazur

102
Citations
Territorial Changes and Militarized Conflict

Paul F. Diehl;Gary Goertz

102
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul F. Diehl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

James Mahoney Northwestern University

Jack S. Levy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Christopher A. Voss University of Warwick

Stephan Haggard University of California, San Diego

Barbara Vis Utrecht University

Charles C. Ragin University of California, Irvine

Jacob Bercovitch University of Canterbury

J. David Singer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Harvey Starr University of South Carolina

External Links

Personal website of Gary Goertz

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