2026 Kevin H. O'Rourke: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	55	1047	928	22	21	293	16007

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
2009 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Kevin H. O'Rourke is affiliated with Sciences Po in France. Their work spans multiple fields, with a focus on economics, political science, and related social sciences. The scientist's research spans topics including global trade and economics, tree root and stability studies, hydrology and sediment transport processes, Canadian identity and history, monetary policy and economic impact, plant surface properties and treatments, and Irish and British studies.

The researcher has contributed to a variety of journals and publication venues. Frequent venues include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
The Economic History Review
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Journal of Global History

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors such as Markus Lampe, Vellore Arthi, Ashwin Nair, Alan de Bromhead, and Lorenz Reiter.

Recent published papers by O'Rourke and their collaborators include:

Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars, 2024, Journal of Economic Literature
The Irish economy during the century after partition, 2021, The Economic History Review (by Cormac Ó Gráda)
Should history change the way we think about populism?, 2023, The Economic History Review (by Alan de Bromhead)
The Empire project: Trade policy in interwar Canada, 2024, Journal of International Economics (by Markus Lampe)
Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection, 2023, The Economic Journal (by Vellore Arthi)

The scientist has been recognized with several awards including being named a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2009 and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. These reflect honors within the academic and social sciences communities.

Best Publications

Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy

Kevin O'Rourke;Jeffrey Williamson

2288
Citations
Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium

Ronald Findlay;Kevin H. O'Rourke

1489
Citations
Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy

Kevin H. O'Rourke;Jeffrey G. Williamson

1273
Citations
The determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration

Kevin H. O'Rourke;Kevin H. O'Rourke;Richard Sinnott

875
Citations
From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons

Miguel Almunia;Agustín Bénétrix;Barry Eichengreen;Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke;Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke;Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

549
Citations
The European Grain Invasion 1870-1913

Kevin O'Rourke

471
Citations
The European grain invasion, 1870-1913

Kevin H. O'Rourke

470
Citations
Tariffs and Growth in the Late 19th Century

Kevin H. O'Rourke

466
Citations
When did globalisation begin

Kevin H. O'Rourke;Jeffrey G. Williamson

450
Citations
Globalization and History

Kevin H. O'Rourke;Jeffrey G. Williamson

438
Citations
COMMODITY PRICE VOLATILITY AND WORLD MARKET INTEGRATION SINCE 1700

David S. Jacks;David S. Jacks;Kevin H. O'Rourke;Jeffrey G. Williamson;Jeffrey G. Williamson

419
Citations
Globalization and Inequality: Historical Trends

Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

355
Citations
Factor price convergence in the late nineteenth century

Kevin H. O'Rourke;Alan M. Taylor;Jeffrey G. Williamson

320
Citations
The Determinants of Individual Trade Policy Preferences: International Survey Evidence

Kevin O'Rourke;R. Sinnott

308
Citations
The Determinants of Individual Trade Policy Preferences: International Survey Evidence

Kevin H. O'Rourke;Richard Sinnott

308
Citations
Commodity Market Integration, 1500-2000

Ronald Findlay;Kevin H. O'Rourke

291
Citations
Late Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Factor-Price Convergence: Were Heckscher and Ohlin Right?

Kevin O'Rourke;Jeffrey G. Williamson

273
Citations
The Cambridge economic history of modern Europe

Stephen Broadberry;Kevin H. ORourke

232
Citations
When Did Globalization Begin

Kevin H. O'Rourke;Jeffrey G. Williamson

230
Citations
Around the European periphery 1870-1913: Globalization, schooling and growth

Kevin H. O'Rourke;Jeffrey G. Williamson

218
Citations
Democracy and Protectionism

Kevin H. O'Rourke;Alan M. Taylor

216
Citations
When Did Globalization Begin

Kevin O'Rourke;Jeffrey Williamson

209
Citations
Coal and the European Industrial Revolution

Alan Fernihough;Kevin Hjorstshøj O’Rourke

203
Citations
Cross of Euros

Kevin H. O'Rourke;Alan M. Taylor

189
Citations
From Malthus to Ohlin: Trade, Industrialisation and Distribution Since 1500

Kevin H. O’rourke;Jeffrey G. Williamson

133
Citations
After Columbus: Explaining Europe's overseas trade boom, 1500-1800

Kevin H. O'Rourke;Jeffrey G. Williamson;Jeffrey G. Williamson

129
Citations
Irish economic growth, 1945-1988

Cormac Ó Gráda;Kevin H. O'Rourke

120
Citations
Political Extremism in the 1920s and 1930s: Do German Lessons Generalize?

Alan de Bromhead;Barry Eichengreen;Kevin H. O'Rourke

113
Citations
The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century

Sibylle H. Lehmann;Kevin H. O'Rourke

102
Citations
Once more: When did globalisation begin?

Kevin H. O'Rourke;Jeffrey G. Williamson

89
Citations
Luddites, the industrial revolution, and the demographic transition

Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke;Ahmed S. Rahman;Alan M. Taylor

78
Citations
Culture, Conflict and Cooperation: Irish Dairying Before the Great War

Kevin H. O'Rourke

77
Citations
The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870–2007

Agustín S. Bénétrix;Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke;Jeffrey G. Williamson

68
Citations
The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson

Timothy J Hatton;Kevin H O'Rourke;Alan M Taylor

58
Citations
The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871

Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke;Jeffrey Gale Williamson

41
Citations
Burn Everything British but Their Coal: The Anglo-Irish Economic War of the 1930s

Kevin O'Rourke

37
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey G. Williamson Harvard University

Alan M. Taylor University of California, Davis

Ronald Findlay Columbia University

Barry Eichengreen University of California, Berkeley

Stephen Broadberry University of Oxford

Cormac Ó Gráda University College Dublin

Timothy J. Hatton University of Essex

Nicholas Crafts University of Sussex

Douglas A. Irwin Dartmouth College

Paul Seabright Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

External Links

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