2026 Jeff D. Colgan: 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	27	1467	1339	734	648	56	2965

Overview

Jeff D. Colgan is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersections of energy, economics, and global security, with a particular emphasis on energy security and policy, natural resources, and climate change economics.

The major fields of study in Colgan's work include:

Energy
Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these fields, subfields of particular interest include:

General Energy
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Main topics addressed by Colgan cover a range of issues surrounding energy and environmental policy:

Global Energy Security and Policy
Natural Resources and Economic Development
Global Energy and Sustainability Research
Climate Change Policy and Economics
Market Dynamics and Volatility
Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
Air Quality and Health Impacts

Colgan has contributed articles to several scholarly venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

Energy Research & Social Science
International Organization
Journal of Global Security Studies
Annual Review of Political Science
Review of International Political Economy

Notable recent papers authored by Colgan are:

"Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change," 2020, International Organization
"Quantifying the value of energy security: How Russia's invasion of Ukraine exploded Europe's fossil fuel costs," 2023, Energy Research & Social Science
"Oil and Security: The Necessity of Political Economy," 2020, Journal of Global Security Studies
"International Energy Politics in an Age of Climate Change," 2022, Annual Review of Political Science
"Oil and power: the effectiveness of state threats on markets," 2021, Review of International Political Economy

Frequent collaborators in Colgan's research include:

Miriam Hinthorn
Victor McFarland
Thijs Van de Graaf
Jessica Green
Thomas Hale

Best Publications

Punctuated equilibrium in the energy regime complex

Jeff D. Colgan;Robert O. Keohane;Thijs Van de Graaf

315
Citations
Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War

Jeff D. Colgan

264
Citations
Domestic Revolutionary Leaders and International Conflict

Jeff D. Colgan

193
Citations
Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change

Jeff D. Colgan;Jessica F. Green;Thomas N. Hale

189
Citations
The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Limits of OPEC in the Global Oil Market

Jeff D. Colgan

185
Citations
Oil and Revolutionary Governments: Fuel for International Conflict

Jeff D. Colgan

185
Citations
Global energy governance: a review and research agenda

Thijs Van de Graaf;Jeff D. Colgan

165
Citations
Oil, Domestic Politics, and International Conflict

Jeff D. Colgan

137
Citations
Russian gas games or well-oiled conflict? Energy security and the 2014 Ukraine crisis

Thijs Van de Graaf;Jeff D. Colgan

134
Citations
Fueling the Fire: Pathways from Oil to War

Jeff D. Colgan

115
Citations
Revolution, Personalist Dictatorships, and International Conflict

Jeff D. Colgan;Jessica L.P. Weeks

113
Citations
Oil, domestic conflict, and opportunities for democratization

Jeff D Colgan

94
Citations
Gender Bias in International Relations Graduate Education? New Evidence from Syllabi

Jeff Colgan

89
Citations
The abandoned ice sheet base at Camp Century, Greenland, in a warming climate

William Colgan;William Colgan;Horst Machguth;Horst Machguth;Mike MacFerrin;Jeff D. Colgan

76
Citations
Where Is International Relations Going? Evidence from Graduate Training

Jeff D. Colgan

75
Citations
Measuring Revolution

Unknown

68
Citations
Climate Change and the Politics of Military Bases

Jeff D. Colgan

36
Citations
Oil and resource-backed aggression

Jeff Colgan

35
Citations
American Perspectives and Blind Spots on World Politics

Jeff D Colgan

32
Citations
What Drives Norm Success? Evidence from Anti–Fossil Fuel Campaigns

Mathieu Blondeel;Jeff Colgan;Thijs Van de Graaf

31
Citations
Protecting Sovereignty, Protecting the Planet: State Delegation to International Organizations and Private Actors in Environmental Politics

Jessica F. Green;Jeff Colgan

29
Citations
Rival Hierarchies and the Origins of Nuclear Technology Sharing

Jeff D Colgan;Nicholas L Miller

28
Citations
Mechanisms of informal governance: evidence from the IEA

Jeff D Colgan;Thijs Van de Graaf

25
Citations
The Liberal Order Is Rigged

Jeff D. Colgan;Robert O. Keohane

24
Citations
Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change

Jeff Colgan;Jessica F. Green;Thomas Hale

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Thijs Van de Graaf Ghent University

Robert O. Keohane Princeton University

Horst Machguth University of Fribourg

William Colgan Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Thomas Hale University of Oxford

Dirk van As Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

External Links

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