World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Lars-Erik Cederman

Lars-Erik Cederman

Award Badge
Political Science
Switzerland
2026
Award Badge
Law and Political Science
Switzerland
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Political Science 50 232 206 5 5 114 16460

Lars-Erik Cederman publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Lars-Erik Cederman between 1994 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Lars-Erik Cederman published across 32 years, from 1994 to 2025, averaging 4.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 13 publications in 2013. 8 of the 134 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1994 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 13. Peak 13 publications in 2013. 1994: 3 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 0 publications 1997: 4 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 7 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 13 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 7 publications 2016: 5 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 3 publications 2019: 3 publications 2020: 2 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 5 publications 2024: 4 publications 2025: 4 publications
1994 2025

134 publications in total across all disciplines

View publications per year as a table
Lars-Erik Cederman: publications per year, 1994 to 2025
Year Publications
1994 3
1995 1
1996 0
1997 4
1998 0
1999 0
2000 0
2001 5
2002 2
2003 2
2004 2
2005 3
2006 4
2007 3
2008 4
2009 7
2010 5
2011 5
2012 8
2013 13
2014 6
2015 7
2016 5
2017 6
2018 3
2019 3
2020 2
2021 7
2022 11
2023 5
2024 4
2025 4
Total 134
Download as CSV

Lars-Erik Cederman publications per year - data summary

  • Lars-Erik Cederman, a Political Science scholar from ETH Zurich, has 134 publications recorded across 32 years, from 1994 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1994 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2013, with 13 publications.
  • The least productive year with any output is 1995, with 1 publication.
  • 4 of the 32 years in the span carry no publications at all (1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000).
  • The rate of publication averages 4.2 papers per year over the whole span, or 4.8 per year counting only the 28 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 31 publications, 23% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1994-2004: 19 publications (1.7 per year); 2005-2015: 65 publications (5.9 per year); 2016-2025: 50 publications (5.0 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Lars-Erik Cederman 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 Lars-Erik Cederman sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
20 40 60 80
Bar chart with 61 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 36–40 to 333+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 97. Most scientists, 97, have 333+ publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 111–115 publications, is where this scientist sits. 36–40 publications: 10 scientists 41–45 publications: 11 scientists 46–50 publications: 25 scientists 51–55 publications: 27 scientists 56–60 publications: 44 scientists 61–65 publications: 52 scientists 66–70 publications: 62 scientists 71–75 publications: 62 scientists 76–80 publications: 79 scientists 81–85 publications: 71 scientists 86–90 publications: 82 scientists 91–95 publications: 65 scientists 96–100 publications: 85 scientists 101–105 publications: 76 scientists 106–110 publications: 66 scientists 111–115 publications: 78 scientists 116–120 publications: 67 scientists 121–125 publications: 73 scientists 126–130 publications: 73 scientists 131–135 publications: 64 scientists 136–140 publications: 45 scientists 141–145 publications: 53 scientists 146–150 publications: 44 scientists 151–155 publications: 45 scientists 156–160 publications: 33 scientists 161–165 publications: 32 scientists 166–170 publications: 28 scientists 171–175 publications: 31 scientists 176–180 publications: 29 scientists 181–185 publications: 27 scientists 186–190 publications: 36 scientists 191–195 publications: 27 scientists 196–200 publications: 24 scientists 201–205 publications: 16 scientists 206–210 publications: 16 scientists 211–215 publications: 19 scientists 216–220 publications: 16 scientists 221–225 publications: 17 scientists 226–230 publications: 18 scientists 231–235 publications: 23 scientists 236–240 publications: 17 scientists 241–245 publications: 13 scientists 246–250 publications: 17 scientists 251–255 publications: 9 scientists 256–260 publications: 13 scientists 261–265 publications: 8 scientists 266–270 publications: 12 scientists 271–275 publications: 8 scientists 276–280 publications: 10 scientists 281–285 publications: 13 scientists 286–290 publications: 13 scientists 291–295 publications: 5 scientists 296–300 publications: 6 scientists 301–305 publications: 11 scientists 306–310 publications: 9 scientists 311–315 publications: 6 scientists 316–320 publications: 4 scientists 321–325 publications: 4 scientists 326–330 publications: 2 scientists 331–332 publications: 5 scientists 333+ publications: 97 scientists
36–40 publications 333+

This scientist: 114 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

View publications distribution as a table
Number of Political Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 2,033 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
36–40 10
41–45 11
46–50 25
51–55 27
56–60 44
61–65 52
66–70 62
71–75 62
76–80 79
81–85 71
86–90 82
91–95 65
96–100 85
101–105 76
106–110 66
111–115 78 114
116–120 67
121–125 73
126–130 73
131–135 64
136–140 45
141–145 53
146–150 44
151–155 45
156–160 33
161–165 32
166–170 28
171–175 31
176–180 29
181–185 27
186–190 36
191–195 27
196–200 24
201–205 16
206–210 16
211–215 19
216–220 16
221–225 17
226–230 18
231–235 23
236–240 17
241–245 13
246–250 17
251–255 9
256–260 13
261–265 8
266–270 12
271–275 8
276–280 10
281–285 13
286–290 13
291–295 5
296–300 6
301–305 11
306–310 9
311–315 6
316–320 4
321–325 4
326–330 2
331–332 5
333+ 97
Download as CSV

Lars-Erik Cederman publication distribution in Political Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 2,033 Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 61 ranges running from 36–40 to 333+ publications.
  • Lars-Erik Cederman, a Political Science scholar from ETH Zurich, records 114 publications - the 43rd percentile of the discipline.
  • 43% of ranked Political Science scientists score the same or lower than Lars-Erik Cederman, and about 57% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 121–125 publications range, and Lars-Erik Cederman ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 333+ publications, holding 97 scientists (5% of the field).
  • 44% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 111–115 publications), so the distribution leans towards the lower end of the scale.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 333 publications or more, 97 scientists in all (5% of the field).

Lars-Erik Cederman 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 Lars-Erik Cederman sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100
Bar chart with 43 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 20 to 62+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 100. Most scientists, 100, have 62+ D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 50 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 50 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Political Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 2,033 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
20 76
21 79
22 84
23 68
24 88
25 82
26 76
27 75
28 99
29 96
30 96
31 81
32 86
33 81
34 84
35 72
36 58
37 53
38 48
39 40
40 40
41 32
42 26
43 25
44 33
45 33
46 17
47 21
48 22
49 18
50 19 50
51 19
52 15
53 14
54 10
55 13
56 9
57 11
58 12
59 10
60 5
61 7
62+ 100
Download as CSV

Lars-Erik Cederman D-index placement in Political Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 2,033 Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 43 ranges running from 20 to 62+ D-Index.
  • Lars-Erik Cederman, a Political Science scholar from ETH Zurich, records 50 D-Index - the 89th percentile of the discipline.
  • 89% of ranked Political Science scientists score the same or lower than Lars-Erik Cederman, and about 11% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 32 D-Index range, and Lars-Erik Cederman ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 62+ D-Index, holding 100 scientists (5% of the field).
  • 45% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 30 D-Index), so the distribution leans towards the lower end of the scale.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more, 100 scientists in all (5% of the field).

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2019 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Economics and Empirical Social Sciences
  • 2002 - Heinz I. Eulau Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

Lars-Erik Cederman is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and conducts research primarily in the social sciences. Their academic work encompasses a broad range of topics within sociology, political science, and international relations.

The principal fields of study for Cederman include:

  • Social Sciences

Within these, they focus on specific subfields such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Demography
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Development
  • Gender Studies

The main research topics explored in Cederman's work cover areas including:

  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • International Development and Aid
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Religion, Society, and Development

Cederman's recent papers include the following:

  • "Roads to Rule, Roads to Rebel: Relational State Capacity and Conflict in Africa" (2020, Journal of Conflict Resolution)
  • "From Claims to Violence: Signaling, Outbidding, and Escalation in Ethnic Conflict" (2021, Journal of Conflict Resolution)
  • "Mapping the International System, 1886-2019: The CShapes 2.0 Dataset" (2021, Journal of Conflict Resolution)
  • "War Did Make States: Revisiting the Bellicist Paradigm in Early Modern Europe" (2023, International Organization)
  • "Redemption through Rebellion: Border Change, Lost Unity, and Nationalist Conflict" (2021, American Journal of Political Science)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cederman include:

  • Luc Girardin
  • Carl Müller-Crepon
  • Guy Schvitz
  • Yannick Pengl
  • Barbara F. Walter

Cederman's scholarly contributions have been published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • International Organization
  • Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • American Journal of Political Science
  • World Politics

The scholar has authored books published by prestigious academic presses, including:

  • Cambridge University Press: "Sharing Power, Securing Peace?" (2022) and "Nationalism and the Transformation of the State" (2025)
  • Princeton University Press: "Emergent Actors in World Politics" (2020)

Awards received by Cederman include:

  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (2019) for Economics and Empirical Social Sciences
  • Heinz I. Eulau Award from the American Political Science Association (2002)

Best Publications

  • Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel?: New Data and Analysis

    Lars Erik Cederman;Andreas Wimmer;Brian Min

  • Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict: A Configurational Analysis of a New Global Data Set

    Andreas Wimmer;Lars Erik Cederman;Brian Min

  • Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Nils B. Weidmann;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

  • Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch;Halvard Buhaug

  • Emergent actors in world politics

    Lars-Erik Cederman

  • Beyond Fractionalization: Mapping Ethnicity onto Nationalist Insurgencies

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Luc Girardin

  • Emergent actors in world politics : how states and nations develop and dissolve

    Lars-Erik Cederman

  • Modeling the Size of Wars: From Billiard Balls to Sandpiles

    Lars-Erik Cederman

  • Integrating Data on Ethnicity, Geography, and Conflict

    Manuel Vogt;Nils-Christian Bormann;Seraina Rüegger;Lars-Erik Cederman

  • Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time : Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset

    Julian Wucherpfennig;Nils B. Weidmann;Luc Girardin;Lars-Erik Cederman

  • Representing Ethnic Groups in Space: A New Dataset

    Nils B. Weidmann;Jan Ketil Rød;Lars-Erik Cederman

  • Ethnicity, the State, and the Duration of Civil War

    Julian Wucherpfennig;Nils W. Metternich;Lars-Erik Cederman;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

  • Nationalism and Bounded Integration: What It Would Take to Construct a European Demos

    Lars-Erik Cederman

  • Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace as a Macrohistorical Learning Process

    Lars-Erik Cederman

  • Ethnonationalist Triads: Assessing the Influence of Kin Groups on Civil Wars

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Luc Girardin;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

  • Disaggregating Ethno-Nationalist Civil Wars: A Dyadic Test of Exclusion Theory

    Halvard Buhaug;Lars-Erik Cederman;Jan Ketil Rød

  • Democratization and Civil War: Empirical evidence

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Simon Hug;Simon Hug;Lutz F. Krebs

  • The change of Tide in Political Cooperation : a limited information model of European integration

    Gerald Schneider;Lars-Erik Cederman

  • Ethno-Nationalist Dyads and Civil War A GIS-Based Analysis

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Halvard Buhaug;Jan Ketil Rød

  • Introduction to Special Issue on “Disaggregating Civil War”:

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

  • Square Pegs in Round Holes: Inequalities, Grievances, and Civil War

    Halvard Buhaug;Lars-Erik Cederman;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

  • Territorial Autonomy in the Shadow of Conflict: Too Little, Too Late?

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Simon Hug;Andreas Schädel;Julian Wucherpfennig

  • Constructing Europe's identity : the external dimension

    Lars-Erik Cederman

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch University of Essex
Halvard Buhaug
Halvard Buhaug Peace Research Institute
Nils B. Weidmann
Nils B. Weidmann University of Konstanz
Simon Hug
Simon Hug University of Geneva
Andreas Wimmer
Andreas Wimmer Columbia University
Scott Gates
Scott Gates Peace Research Institute
Idean Salehyan
Idean Salehyan University of North Texas
Kaare Strøm
Kaare Strøm University of California, San Diego
David Lazer
David Lazer Northeastern University

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Related Online Degrees & Career Pathways

If you’re considering a political science degree, exploring fastest masters degree options online can be a smart choice—these accelerated programs allow you to gain advanced credentials quickly and enter the workforce faster. For students who are budget-conscious, cheap online college classes provide an excellent way to achieve your educational goals without taking on excessive debt.

Political science also intersects with many other disciplines. For example, graduates often pursue roles in government, law, education, or advocacy—much like those with qualifications in social or environmental sectors. If you’re interested in diverse career outcomes, explore what’s possible with jobs with elementary education and environmental science degree salary us to understand how interdisciplinary studies can expand your opportunities.

For those interested in developing strong analytical and quantitative skills alongside politics, the best online math degrees can complement a political science foundation and open doors in research, policy analysis, and data-driven careers.

Best Scientists Citing Lars-Erik Cederman

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles