2026 Jef Huysmans: 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	29	1214	1100	205	190	86	11890

Overview

Jef Huysmans is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with significant contributions to Sociology and Political Science as well as Political Science and International Relations.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics including:

Global Security and Public Health
Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Social Policy and Reform Studies
Peacebuilding and International Security
Foucault, Power, and Ethics
Political and Economic history of UK and US
Migration and Labor Dynamics

Frequent publication venues for Jef Huysmans include:

International Political Sociology
Relaciones Internacionales
Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
Security Dialogue
European Journal of International Relations

Recent papers by Huysmans demonstrate a focus on political theory and security issues. Selected examples include:

"Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint" (2021) published in Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
"International Political Sociology as a Mode of Critique: Fracturing Totalities" (2020) published in International Political Sociology
"Motioning the politics of security: The primacy of movement and the subject of security" (2021) published in Security Dialogue
"Fear and insecurity in the politics of austerity" (2021) published in European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
"Against 'resistance'? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology" (2023) published in European Journal of International Relations

Collaborations have been established with several researchers, with notable frequent coauthors including:

João Pontes Nogueira
Nicholas De Genova
Martina Tazzioli
Peter Nyers
Claudia Aradau

These collaborations reflect an engagement with diverse approaches and perspectives within the fields of political sociology and international relations. Huysmans has contributed substantially to discussions on security, migration, and political critique.

Best Publications

The Politics of Insecurity: Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU

Jef Huysmans

2757
Citations
The European Union and the Securitization of Migration

Jef Huysmans

2438
Citations
The Politics of Insecurity

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1060
Citations
Security! What Do You Mean?: From Concept to Thick Signifier

Jef Huysmans

957
Citations
What's in an act? On security speech acts and little security nothings

Jef Huysmans

570
Citations
Revisiting Copenhagen: Or, On the Creative Development of a Security Studies Agenda in Europe

Jef Huysmans

484
Citations
Defining Social Constructivism in Security Studies: The Normative Dilemma of Writing Security:

Jef Huysmans

384
Citations
The jargon of exception—on Schmitt, Agamben and the absence of political society

Jef Huysmans

362
Citations
Critical methods in International Relations: The politics of techniques, devices and acts

Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans

361
Citations
The Question of the Limit: Desecuritisation and the Aesthetics of Horror in Political Realism:

Jef Huysmans

346
Citations
Politics of Exception and Unease: Immigration, Asylum and Terrorism in Parliamentary Debates in the UK

Jef Huysmans;Alessandra Buonfino

274
Citations
Minding Exceptions: The Politics of Insecurity and Liberal Democracy

Jef Huysmans

264
Citations
Security Unbound: Enacting Democratic Limits

Jef Huysmans

234
Citations
Migration and Security

Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

197
Citations
Critical Security Methods : New Frameworks for Analysis

Nadine Voelkner;Jef Huysmans;Aradau Claudia;Andrew Neal

179
Citations
Acts of European citizenship: a political sociology of mobility

Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

163
Citations
Acts of European Citizenship: A Political Sociology of Mobility

Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

161
Citations
The politics of protection : sites of insecurity and political agency

Jef Huysmans;Andrew Dobson;Raia Prokhovnik

109
Citations
A Foucaultian view on spill-over: freedom and security in the EU

Jef Huysmans

82
Citations
International Politics of Insecurity: Normativity, Inwardness and the Exception

Jef Huysmans

78
Citations
European citizenship unbound : sex work, mobility, mobilisation

Rutvica Andrijasevic;Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

60
Citations
The concept of ‘the everyday’: Ephemeral politics and the abundance of life:

Xavier Guillaume;Jef Huysmans

53
Citations
Shape-shifting NATO: humanitarian action and the Kosovo refugee crisis

Jef Huysmans

40
Citations
Assembling credibility: Knowledge, method and critique in times of ‘post-truth’:

Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans

37
Citations
The culture of national security: Norms and identity in world politics

Jef Huysmans

24
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia Aradau King's College London

Vicki Squire University of Warwick

Ole Wæver University of Copenhagen

William Walters Carleton University

Mark B. Salter University of Ottawa

Marieke de Goede University of Amsterdam

Martina Tazzioli University of Bologna

External Links

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