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Citations
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World Ranking
554
National Ranking
305

Gary Goertz publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gary Goertz sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 120 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Gary Goertz D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gary Goertz sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

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

  • Social Science Concepts: A User's Guide

    Gary Goertz

  • A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research

    James Mahoney;Gary Goertz

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

    Gary Goertz;James Mahoney

  • A Tale of Two Cultures

    Gary Goertz;James Mahoney

  • War and peace in international rivalry

    Paul F. Diehl;Gary Goertz

  • The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research

    James Mahoney;Gary Goertz

  • Territorial changes and international conflict

    Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl

  • Enduring Rivalries: Theoretical Constructs and Empirical Patterns

    Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl

  • The New Rivalry Dataset: Procedures and Patterns

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

  • The Methodology of Necessary Conditions

    Bear F. Braumoeller;Gary Goertz

  • The Initiation and Termination of Enduring Rivalries: The Impact of Political Shocks

    Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl

  • Toward a Theory of International Norms Some Conceptual and Measurement Issues

    Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl

  • The empirical importance of enduring rivalries

    Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl

  • Contexts of international politics

    Gary Goertz

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

    Gary Goertz

  • The Puzzle of Peace: The Evolution of Peace in the International System

    Gary Goertz;Paul F. Diehl;Alexandru Balas

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

    Paul Bairoch;Gary David Goertz

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

    Gary Goertz

  • Two-Level Theories and Fuzzy-Set Analysis

    Gary Goertz;James Mahoney

  • Territorial Changes, 1816–1996: Procedures and Data

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

  • Necessary conditions : theory, methodology, and applications

    Gary Goertz;Harvey Starr

  • International norms and decision making : a punctuated equilibrium model

    Gary Goertz

  • The Democratic Peace and Rivalries

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

  • Maintenance Processes in International Rivalries

    Gary Goertz;Bradford Jones;Paul F. Diehl

  • Politics, gender, and concepts : theory and methodology

    Gary Goertz;Amy G. Mazur

  • Territorial Changes and Militarized Conflict

    Paul F. Diehl;Gary Goertz

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul F. Diehl
Paul F. Diehl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James Mahoney
James Mahoney Northwestern University
Jack S. Levy
Jack S. Levy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Christopher A. Voss
Christopher A. Voss University of Warwick
Stephan Haggard
Stephan Haggard University of California, San Diego
Barbara Vis
Barbara Vis Utrecht University
Charles C. Ragin
Charles C. Ragin University of California, Irvine
Jacob Bercovitch
Jacob Bercovitch University of Canterbury
J. David Singer
J. David Singer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Harvey Starr
Harvey Starr University of South Carolina

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