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Jeroen van der Heijden 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 Jeroen van der Heijden sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 141 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jeroen van der Heijden 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 Jeroen van der Heijden 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: 36 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jeroen van der Heijden is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research spans multiple fields, focusing predominantly on social sciences and medicine. Within these broad areas, they specialize in subfields such as cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, strategy and management, global and planetary change, sociology and political science, and public administration.

Their work covers a range of topics including regulation and compliance studies, sustainability and climate change governance, public policy and administration research, cardiac arrhythmias and treatments, atrial fibrillation management and outcomes, qualitative comparative analysis research, and land use and ecosystem services.

Jeroen van der Heijden has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Construction 4.0 in a narrow and broad sense: A systematic and comprehensive literature review, 2023, Building and Environment
  • Towards a Science of Scaling for Urban Climate Action and Governance, 2022, European Journal of Risk Regulation
  • Compound urban crises, 2022, AMBIO
  • The jugular approach for leadless pacing: A novel and safe alternative, 2022, Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
  • Unpacking the heterogeneity of climate city networks, 2021, Cities

Frequent coauthors in their research include Hemanth Ramanna, Sayel Cortes, Marco Guglielmo, Sophie Rier, and Giulia De Zan.

Their publications appear in several venues, with repeated contributions to journals such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Regulation & Governance
  • Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
  • Cities
  • SAGE Open

Best Publications

  • Institutional Layering: A Review of the Use of the Concept

    Jeroen van der Heijden

  • From mechanism to virtue: Evaluating Nudge theory

    Mark Kosters;Jeroen Van der Heijden

  • New directions in earth system governance research

    Sarah Burch;Aarti Gupta;Cristina Y.A. Inoue;Agni Kalfagianni

  • A C1173T Dimorphism in the VKORC1 Gene Determines Coumarin Sensitivity and Bleeding Risk

    Pieter H Reitsma;Jeroen F. van der Heijden;Angelique P Groot;Frits R Rosendaal

  • Studying urban climate governance: Where to begin, what to look for, and how to make a meaningful contribution to scholarship and practice

    Jeroen van der Heijden;Jeroen van der Heijden

  • Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience: Responding to Climate Change and the Relevance of the Built Environment

    Jeroen van der Heijden

  • A short history of studying incremental institutional change: Does Explaining Institutional Change provide any new explanations?

    Jeroen Van Der Heijden

  • Studying Incremental Institutional Change: A Systematic and Critical Meta‐Review of the Literature from 2005 to 2015

    Jeroen van der Heijden;Johanna Kuhlmann

  • Learning in urban climate governance: concepts, key issues and challenges

    Marc Wolfram;Jeroen van der Heijden;Sirkku Kaarina Juhola;James Patterson

  • Voluntary environmental governance arrangements

    Jeroen van der Heijden

  • Experimental governance for low-carbon buildings and cities: Value and limits of local action networks

    Jeroen van der Heijden;Jeroen van der Heijden

  • The city politics of an urban age: urban resilience conceptualisations and policies

    Adriana X. Sanchez;Jeroen Van der Heijden;Paul W. Osmond

  • The Mechanics of Virtue: Lessons on Public Participation from Implementing the Water Framework Directive in the Netherlands

    Jeroen van der Heijden;Jeroen van der Heijden;Ernst ten Heuvelhof

  • Special section: advancing the role of cities in climate governance – promise, limits, politics

    Jeroen van der Heijden;Jeroen van der Heijden;James Patterson;James Patterson;Sirkku Juhola;Marc Wolfram

  • For the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism: are all low-molecular-weight heparin compounds the same?

    Jeroen F van der Heijden;Martin H Prins;Harry R Büller

  • Brighter and Darker Sides of Intermediation: Target-Oriented and Self-Interested Intermediaries in the Regulatory Governance of Buildings

    Jeroen van der Heijden

  • On the potential of voluntary environmental programmes for the built environment: a critical analysis of LEED

    Jeroen van der Heijden;Jeroen van der Heijden

  • Contradictory but also complementary: National and local imaginaries in Japan and Fukushima around transitions to hydrogen and renewables

    Gregory Trencher;Jeroen van der Heijden

  • THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN VOLUNTARY ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMMES: A FUZZY SET QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

    Jeroen Van Der Heijden

  • Towards a Better Understanding of Building Regulation

    Jeroen van der Heijden;Jitske de Jong

  • Have policy process scholars embraced causal mechanisms? A review of five popular frameworks:

    Jeroen van der Heijden;Johanna Kuhlmann;Evert Lindquist;Adam Wellstead

  • Instrument interactions and relationships in policy mixes: Achieving complementarity in building energy efficiency policies in New York, Sydney and Tokyo

    Gregory Trencher;Jeroen van der Heijden;Jeroen van der Heijden

  • The new governance for low-carbon buildings: mapping, exploring, interrogating

    Jeroen Van der Heijden

  • Eco-financing for low-carbon buildings and cities: Value and limits

    Jeroen van der Heijden

  • Experimentation in policy design: Insights from the building sector

    Jeroen van der Heijden;Jeroen van der Heijden

  • From leaders to majority: a frontrunner paradox in built-environment climate governance experimentation

    Jeroen van der Heijden

  • Does the knowledge economy advance the green economy? An evaluation of green jobs in the 100 largest metropolitan regions in the United States

    Taedong Lee;Jeroen van der Heijden;Jeroen van der Heijden

  • Different but equally plausible narratives of policy transformation: A plea for theoretical pluralism:

    Jeroen van der Heijden

  • Opportunities and Risks of the “New Urban Governance” in India: To What Extent Can It Help Addressing Pressing Environmental Problems?

    Jeroen van der Heijden

  • What ‘Works’ in Environmental Policy-Design? Lessons from Experiments in the Australian and Dutch Building Sectors

    Jeroen Van der Heijden

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin van Rooij
Benjamin van Rooij University of Amsterdam
Victor Galaz
Victor Galaz Stockholm University
Sirkku Juhola
Sirkku Juhola University of Helsinki
Pieter H. Reitsma
Pieter H. Reitsma Leiden University
Andrea K. Gerlak
Andrea K. Gerlak University of Arizona
John S. Dryzek
John S. Dryzek University of Canberra
Harry R. Büller
Harry R. Büller University of Amsterdam
Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson Lund University
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Graeme A. Hodge
Graeme A. Hodge Monash University

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