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Karen Celis 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 Karen Celis sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 245 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Karen Celis 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 Karen Celis sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 28 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Karen Celis is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and focuses their academic research primarily in the social sciences. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including political science and international relations, gender studies, sociology and political science, social psychology, and history.

Their research covers a range of topics, with emphasis on gender politics and representation, electoral systems and political participation, social policy and reform studies, historical gender and feminism studies, migration, refugees, and integration, political systems and governance, as well as gender, feminism, and media.

The scientist has contributed publications to various academic venues, frequently appearing in the European Journal of Politics and Gender. Other notable publication venues include Acta Politica, Genero časopis za feminističku teoriju i studije kulture, Politics and Governance, and Politics of the Low Countries.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Karen Celis include:

  • From women's presence to feminist representation: second-generation design for women's group representation (2023), European Journal of Politics and Gender
  • Women's Good Political Representation (2023), Genero časopis za feminističku teoriju i studije kulture
  • Resentment and Coping With the Democratic Dilemma (2021), Politics and Governance
  • Intersectional candidate nomination: how district and party factors shape the inclusion of ethnic minority men and women in Brussels (2020), Acta Politica

The scholar has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Virginie Van Ingelgom, Sarah Childs, Louise Knops, Soetkin Verhaegen, and Kenza Amara-Hammou.

Best Publications

  • RETHINKING WOMEN'S SUBSTANTIVE REPRESENTATION

    Karen Celis;Sarah Childs;Johanna Kantola;Mona Lena Krook

  • The Substantive Representation of Women: What to Do with Conservative Claims?

    Karen Celis;Sarah Childs

  • Introduction: The Descriptive and Substantive Representation of Women: New Directions

    Karen Celis;Sarah Childs

  • Substantive representation of women: the representation of women's interests and the impact of descriptive representation in the Belgian parliament (1900-1979)

    Karen Celis

  • Constituting women's interests through representative claims

    Karen Celis;Sarah Childs;Johanna Kantola;Mona Lena Krook

  • Quotas and intersectionality: Ethnicity and gender in candidate selection:

    Karen Celis;Silvia Erzeel;Liza Mügge;Alyt Damstra

  • Sowing the Seeds of Its Own Failure: Implementing the Concept of Gender Mainstreaming

    Petra Meier;Karen Celis

  • Substantive Representation of Women (and Improving it): What it is and should be About?

    Karen Celis

  • The Rise of Gender Quota Laws: Expanding the Spectrum of Determinants for Electoral Reform

    Karen Celis;Mona Lena Krook;Petra Meier

  • Beyond the Usual Suspects: Non-Left, Male and Non-Feminist MPs and the Substantive Representation of Women

    Karen Celis;Silvia Erzeel

  • Politics, gender, and concepts : theory and methodology

    Gary Goertz;Amy G. Mazur

  • STUDYING WOMEN'S SUBSTANTIVE REPRESENTATION IN LEGISLATURES: WHEN REPRESENTATIVE ACTS, CONTEXTS AND WOMEN'S INTERESTS BECOME IMPORTANT

    Karen Celis

  • Feminist Democratic Representation

    Karen Celis;Sarah Childs

  • Gender, Conservatism and Political Representation

    Sarah L Childs;Karen Celis

  • Introduction: Gender and Politics: A Gendered World, a Gendered Discipline

    Karen Celis;Johanna Kantola;Georgina Waylen;S. Laurel Weldon

  • Political parties, ideology and the substantive representation of women

    Silvia Erzeel;Karen Celis

  • The Complementarity Advantage: Parties, Representativeness and Newcomers’ Access to Power

    Karen Celis;Silvia Erzeel

  • Power struggles: gender equality in political representation.

    Karen Celis;Joni Lovenduski

  • Power, privilege and disadvantage: Intersectionality theory and political representation:

    Eline Severs;Karen Celis;Silvia Erzeel

  • Conservatism and Women's Political Representation

    Karen Celis;Sarah Childs

  • On Substantive Representation, Diversity, and Responsiveness

    Karen Celis

  • Whose equality? Measuring group representation:

    Karen Celis;Liza M Mügge

  • Representativity in times of diversity: The political representation of women

    Karen Celis

  • Pinning the Butterfly: Women, Blue-Collar and Ethnic Minority MPs vis-à-vis Parliamentary Norms and the Parliamentary Role of the Group Representative

    Karen Celis;Bram Wauters

  • The rise of gender quotas laws : expanding the spectrum of determinants for electoral reform

    Karen Celis;Mona Lena Krook;Petra Meier

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah Childs
Sarah Childs University of Edinburgh
Bram Wauters
Bram Wauters Ghent University
Johanna Kantola
Johanna Kantola University of Helsinki
Mona Lena Krook
Mona Lena Krook Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Liza Mügge
Liza Mügge University of Amsterdam
Georgina Waylen
Georgina Waylen University of Manchester
Stefaan Walgrave
Stefaan Walgrave University of Antwerp
Sofie Marien
Sofie Marien KU Leuven
S. Laurel Weldon
S. Laurel Weldon Simon Fraser University
Mark A. Pollack
Mark A. Pollack Temple University

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