2026 Gert Tinggaard Svendsen: 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	32	999	903	18	18	199	5173

Overview

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their research spans several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Accounting, and Law.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics such as Climate Change Policy and Economics, Corporate Taxation and Avoidance, EU Law and Policy Analysis, International Relations and Foreign Policy, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with them include:

Urs Steiner Brandt
N. Leila Trapp
Poul Erik Flyvholm Jørgensen
Line Skov
Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen

Their publications appear repeatedly in specific academic venues, highlighting consistent contributions over time. These venues are:

European Politics and Society
Journal of Historical Sociology
International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business
SSRN Electronic Journal
International Journal for Equity in Health

Selected recent papers published by Svendsen include:

"Does higher health literacy lead to higher trust in public hospitals?" (2021), International Journal for Equity in Health
"Is the annual UNFCCC COP the only game in town?" (2022), Technological Forecasting and Social Change
"Social trust and public digitalization" (2022), AI & Society
"The EEAS navigating foreign policy paradigms" (2020), European Politics and Society
"Relationship Quality Between Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Partners During Threatening Times: The Role of Contact Frequency and Social Exchanges" (2023), Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing

The author has also published books with various academic publishers:

"Kontrol eller tillid?: Hard-riding og easy-riding i velfærdssamfundet" (2021), University of Southern Denmark
"Trust" (2023), Johns Hopkins University Press
"Trust:Brief Books about Big Ideas" (2025), King's College London

Best Publications

An essay on social capital: looking for the fire behind the smoke

Martin Paldam;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

495
Citations
Missing social capital and the transition in Eastern Europe

Martin Paldam;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

363
Citations
The Creation And Destruction of Social Capital: Entrepreneurship, Co-operative Movements And Institutions

Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

321
Citations
Industry lobbying and the political economy of GHG trade in the European Union

Peter Markussen;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

283
Citations
Building and destroying social capital: The case of cooperative movements in Denmark and Poland

Jarka Chloupkova;Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

265
Citations
Bridge Over Troubled Water? Migration and Social Capital

Peter Nannestad;Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

259
Citations
Are large and complex agricultural cooperatives losing their social capital

Jerker Nilsson;Gunnar L.H. Svendsen;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

226
Citations
Does social trust determine the size of the welfare state? Evidence using historical identification

Christian Bjørnskov;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

175
Citations
Do Institutions or Culture Determine the Level of Social Trust? The Natural Experiment of Migration from Non-western to Western Countries

Peter Nannestad;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen;Peter Thisted Dinesen;Kim Mannemar Sønderskov

159
Citations
Trust and corruption: The influence of positive and negative social capital on the economic development in the European Union

Peter Graeff;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

130
Citations
Public choice and environmental regulation

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

129
Citations
The political economy of the European Union : institutions, policy and economic growth

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

124
Citations
Measuring Social Capital: The Danish Co‐operative Dairy Movement

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107
Citations
On the wealth of nations: Bourdieuconomics and social capital

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106
Citations
U.S. interest groups prefer emission trading: A new perspective

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

91
Citations
Green Taxation in Question: Politics and Economic Efficiency in Environmental Regulation

Carsten Daugbjerg;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

89
Citations
Consumers, industrialists and the political economy of green taxation: CO2 taxation in OECD

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen;Carsten Daugbjerg;Lene Hjøllund;Anders Branth Pedersen

89
Citations
Rational Bandits: Plunder, Public Goods, and the Vikings

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

88
Citations
Measuring social capital – Is there a single underlying explanation?

Christian Bjørnskov;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

75
Citations
The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital

Gunnar L.H Svendsen;Gert Svendsen

74
Citations
Public choice and environmental regulation : tradable permit systems in the United States and CO2 taxation in Europe

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

63
Citations
How to design greenhouse gas trading in the EU

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen;Morten Vesterdal

56
Citations
Do Corruption and Social Trust Affect Economic Growth? A Review

Søren Serritzlew;Kim Mannemar Sønderskov;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

50
Citations
How should greenhouse gas permits be allocated in the EU

Morten Vesterdal;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

33
Citations
Social Capital and Endogenous Preferences

Anders U. Poulsen;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

32
Citations
Social Capital: A Standard Method of Measurement

Lene Hjøllund;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

29
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten Daugbjerg University of Copenhagen

Christian Bjørnskov Aarhus University

Martin Paldam Aarhus University

Søren Serritzlew Aarhus University

Toke S. Aidt University of Cambridge

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