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Jef Huysmans 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 Jef Huysmans sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 86 publications — 23rd percentile

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

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

Jef Huysmans 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 Jef Huysmans 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: 29 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • The European Union and the Securitization of Migration

    Jef Huysmans

  • The Politics of Insecurity

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

    Jef Huysmans

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

    Jef Huysmans

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

    Jef Huysmans

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

    Jef Huysmans

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

    Jef Huysmans

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

    Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans

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

    Jef Huysmans

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

    Jef Huysmans;Alessandra Buonfino

  • Minding Exceptions: The Politics of Insecurity and Liberal Democracy

    Jef Huysmans

  • Security Unbound: Enacting Democratic Limits

    Jef Huysmans

  • Migration and Security

    Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

  • Critical Security Methods : New Frameworks for Analysis

    Nadine Voelkner;Jef Huysmans;Aradau Claudia;Andrew Neal

  • Acts of European citizenship: a political sociology of mobility

    Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

  • Acts of European Citizenship: A Political Sociology of Mobility

    Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

  • The politics of protection : sites of insecurity and political agency

    Jef Huysmans;Andrew Dobson;Raia Prokhovnik

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

    Jef Huysmans

  • International Politics of Insecurity: Normativity, Inwardness and the Exception

    Jef Huysmans

  • European citizenship unbound : sex work, mobility, mobilisation

    Rutvica Andrijasevic;Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

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

    Xavier Guillaume;Jef Huysmans

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

    Jef Huysmans

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

    Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans

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

    Jef Huysmans

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia Aradau
Claudia Aradau King's College London
Vicki Squire
Vicki Squire University of Warwick
Ole Wæver
Ole Wæver University of Copenhagen
William Walters
William Walters Carleton University
Mark B. Salter
Mark B. Salter University of Ottawa
Marieke de Goede
Marieke de Goede University of Amsterdam
Martina Tazzioli
Martina Tazzioli University of Bologna

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