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Jan Selby 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 Jan Selby sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 49 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jan Selby 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 Jan Selby sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 76 scientists 21 D-Index: 79 scientists 22 D-Index: 84 scientists 23 D-Index: 68 scientists 24 D-Index: 88 scientists 25 D-Index: 82 scientists 26 D-Index: 76 scientists 27 D-Index: 75 scientists 28 D-Index: 99 scientists 29 D-Index: 96 scientists 30 D-Index: 96 scientists 31 D-Index: 81 scientists 32 D-Index: 86 scientists 33 D-Index: 81 scientists 34 D-Index: 84 scientists 35 D-Index: 72 scientists 36 D-Index: 58 scientists 37 D-Index: 53 scientists 38 D-Index: 48 scientists 39 D-Index: 40 scientists 40 D-Index: 40 scientists 41 D-Index: 32 scientists 42 D-Index: 26 scientists 43 D-Index: 25 scientists 44 D-Index: 33 scientists 45 D-Index: 33 scientists 46 D-Index: 17 scientists 47 D-Index: 21 scientists 48 D-Index: 22 scientists 49 D-Index: 18 scientists 50 D-Index: 19 scientists 51 D-Index: 19 scientists 52 D-Index: 15 scientists 53 D-Index: 14 scientists 54 D-Index: 10 scientists 55 D-Index: 13 scientists 56 D-Index: 9 scientists 57 D-Index: 11 scientists 58 D-Index: 12 scientists 59 D-Index: 10 scientists 60 D-Index: 5 scientists 61 D-Index: 7 scientists 62+ D-Index: 100 scientists
20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 25 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jan Selby is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and primarily conducts research in the fields of social sciences and environmental science. Their work is concentrated in subfields including sociology and political science, global and planetary change, general health professions, health toxicology and mutagenesis, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their research explores several key topics, such as transboundary water resource management, climate change adaptation and migration, climate variability and models, health and conflict studies, climate change and health impacts, sustainability and climate change governance, and global energy security and policy.

Jan Selby's publication record includes recent papers in diverse prominent journals. These include:

  • "Climate change and conflict," 2023, published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin," 2022, published in Geopolitics
  • "Climate change and migration: A review and new framework for analysis," 2024, published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • "There is no human climate niche," 2024, published in One Earth
  • "The Many Faces of Environmental Security," 2024, published in Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Coauthorship is a significant aspect of Jan Selby's research, with frequent collaborations including:

  • Gabrielle Daoust
  • Clemens Hoffmann
  • Ayesha Siddiqi
  • Mike Hulme
  • Sarah Royston

These collaborations have contributed to publications in several recurrent venues such as Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, Geopolitics, One Earth, and Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

Jan Selby has also contributed to academic book literature, with a publication titled Divided Environments released in 2022 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited

    Jan Selby;Omar Dahi;Christiane Frohlich;Michael Hulme

  • Engaging Foucault: discourse, liberal governance and the limits of Foucauldian IR

    Jan Selby

  • The myth of liberal peace-building

    Jan Selby

  • Water, Power and Politics in the Middle East: The Other Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    Jan Selby

  • Dressing up domination as ‘cooperation’: the case of Israeli-Palestinian water relations

    Jan Selby

  • Cooperation, domination and colonisation: the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee

    Jan Selby

  • The Geopolitics of Water in the Middle East: fantasies and realities

    Jan Selby

  • Beyond scarcity: Rethinking water, climate change and conflict in the Sudans

    Jan Selby;Clemens Hoffmann

  • Positivist Climate Conflict Research: A Critique

    Jan Selby

  • Invisible energy policies: a new agenda for energy demand reduction

    Sarah Royston;Jan Selby;Elizabeth Anne Shove

  • Militarism and International Relations: Political Economy, Security, Theory

    Anna Stavrianakis;Jan Selby

  • Militarism and international relations in the twenty- first century

    Anna Stavrianakis;Jan Selby

  • Climate change and the Syrian civil war, Part II: The Jazira's agrarian crisis.

    Jan Selby

  • The Trump presidency, climate change, and the prospect of a disorderly energy transition

    Jan Selby

  • The Political Economy of Peace Processes

    Jan Selby

  • Oil and Water: The Contrasting Anatomies of Resource Conflicts

    Jan Selby

  • Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security

    Jan Selby;Clemens Hoffmann

  • Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited: A rejoinder

    Jan Selby;Omar Dahi;Christiane Fröhlich;Mike Hulme

  • Modelling energy demand from higher education institutions: A case study of the UK

    Zia Wadud;Sarah Royston;Jan Selby

  • From exports to exercise: how non-energy policies affect energy systems

    Emily Cox;Sarah Royston;Jan Selby

  • Water Scarcity, Conflict, and Migration: A Comparative Analysis and Reappraisal:

    Jan Selby;Clemens Hoffmann

  • What’s the point of international relations

    Synne L Dyvik;Jan Selby;Rorden Wilkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Hulme
Mike Hulme University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Shove
Elizabeth Shove Lancaster University
Rorden Wilkinson
Rorden Wilkinson Macquarie University
Rosaleen Duffy
Rosaleen Duffy University of Sheffield

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