2026 Lars-Erik Cederman: 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	50	232	206	5	5	114	16460

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

1804
Citations
Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict: A Configurational Analysis of a New Global Data Set

Andreas Wimmer;Lars Erik Cederman;Brian Min

1327
Citations
Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison

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

1282
Citations
Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War

Lars-Erik Cederman;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch;Halvard Buhaug

1002
Citations
Emergent actors in world politics

Lars-Erik Cederman

671
Citations
Beyond Fractionalization: Mapping Ethnicity onto Nationalist Insurgencies

Lars-Erik Cederman;Luc Girardin

658
Citations
Emergent actors in world politics : how states and nations develop and dissolve

Lars-Erik Cederman

655
Citations
Modeling the Size of Wars: From Billiard Balls to Sandpiles

Lars-Erik Cederman

512
Citations
Integrating Data on Ethnicity, Geography, and Conflict

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

507
Citations
Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time : Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset

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

417
Citations
Representing Ethnic Groups in Space: A New Dataset

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

394
Citations
Ethnicity, the State, and the Duration of Civil War

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

387
Citations
Nationalism and Bounded Integration: What It Would Take to Construct a European Demos

Lars-Erik Cederman

369
Citations
Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace as a Macrohistorical Learning Process

Lars-Erik Cederman

305
Citations
Ethnonationalist Triads: Assessing the Influence of Kin Groups on Civil Wars

Lars-Erik Cederman;Luc Girardin;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

303
Citations
Disaggregating Ethno-Nationalist Civil Wars: A Dyadic Test of Exclusion Theory

Halvard Buhaug;Lars-Erik Cederman;Jan Ketil Rød

296
Citations
Democratization and Civil War: Empirical evidence

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

289
Citations
The change of Tide in Political Cooperation : a limited information model of European integration

Gerald Schneider;Lars-Erik Cederman

280
Citations
Ethno-Nationalist Dyads and Civil War A GIS-Based Analysis

Lars-Erik Cederman;Halvard Buhaug;Jan Ketil Rød

259
Citations
Introduction to Special Issue on “Disaggregating Civil War”:

Lars-Erik Cederman;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

256
Citations
Square Pegs in Round Holes: Inequalities, Grievances, and Civil War

Halvard Buhaug;Lars-Erik Cederman;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

237
Citations
Territorial Autonomy in the Shadow of Conflict: Too Little, Too Late?

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

232
Citations
Constructing Europe's identity : the external dimension

Lars-Erik Cederman

204
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristian Skrede Gleditsch University of Essex

Halvard Buhaug Peace Research Institute

Nils B. Weidmann University of Konstanz

Simon Hug University of Geneva

Andreas Wimmer Columbia University

Scott Gates Peace Research Institute

Idean Salehyan University of North Texas

Kaare Strøm University of California, San Diego

Didier Sornette ETH Zurich

David Lazer Northeastern University

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