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Mark Beeson 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 Mark Beeson sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 311 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark Beeson 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 Mark Beeson 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: 40 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mark Beeson is a researcher affiliated with the University of Western Australia specializing in the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations. Their work encompasses various subfields such as development, sociology and political science, economics, econometrics, finance, and demography.

Their research addresses topics including international development and aid, international relations and foreign policy, island studies and Pacific affairs, Asian industrial and economic development, peacebuilding and international security, China's socioeconomic reforms and governance, and Asian geopolitics and ethnography.

Beeson has published multiple papers in leading academic journals. Notable recent works include:

  • Putting the BRI in Perspective: History, Hegemony and Geoeconomics (2022) in Chinese Political Science Review
  • The G20 and International Relations Theory: Perspectives of Global Summitry (2020) in Australian Journal of Politics & History
  • Decentered? ASEAN's Struggle to Accommodate Great Power Competition (2021) in Global Studies Quarterly
  • Regionalism for Realists? The Evolution of the Indo-Pacific (2021) in Chinese Political Science Review
  • Unlikely allies? Australia, Indonesia and the strategic cultures of middle powers (2020) in Asian Security

Frequent co-authors include Shahar Hameiri, with whom Beeson has collaborated on multiple occasions, as well as Corey Crawford, Troy Lee-Brown, Alan Bloomfield, and Wahyu Wicaksana.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in publication venues such as the Chinese Political Science Review, Global Policy, The Developing Economies, Australian Journal of Politics & History, and Global Studies Quarterly.

Mark Beeson is also an author of books published by Bristol University Press eBooks and Policy Press, with multiple editions of the book Environmental Anarchy? released in 2021.

Best Publications

  • The coming of environmental authoritarianism

    Mark Beeson

  • Developmental States in East Asia: A Comparison of the Japanese and Chinese Experiences

    Mark Beeson

  • Rethinking regionalism: Europe and East Asia in comparative historical perspective

    Mark Beeson

  • Institutions of the Asia-Pacific: ASEAN, APEC and beyond

    Mark Beeson

  • Neoliberalism as a political rationality: Australian public policy since the 1980s

    Mark Beeson;Ann Firth

  • The G-20 and International Economic Governance: Hegemony, Collectivism, or Both?

    Mark Beeson;Stephen Bell

  • ASEAN Plus Three and the Rise of Reactionary Regionalism

    Mark Beeson

  • The Rise and Fall (?) of the Developmental State: The Vicissitudes and Implications of East Asian Interventionism

    Mark Beeson

  • Neo-liberalism and East Asia: Resisting the Washington Consensus

    Mark Beeson;Iyanatul Islam

  • Hegemonic transition in East Asia? The dynamics of Chinese and American power

    Mark Beeson

  • Politics and Markets in the Wake of the Asian Crisis

    Mark Kingsley Beeson;Richard. Robison;Kanishka. Jayasuriya;Hyuk-Rae. Kim

  • Regionalism and globalization in East Asia: Politics, security and economic development

    Mark Beeson

  • Lineages of liberalism and miracles of modernisation: The World Bank, the East Asian trajectory and the international development debate

    Mark T Berger;Mark Beeson

  • Globalization, Governance, and the Political‐Economy of Public Policy Reform in East Asia

    Mark Beeson

  • China's Place in Regional and Global Governance: A New World Comes Into View

    Mark Beeson;Fujian Li

  • Mahathir and the Markets: Globalisation and the Pursuit of Economic Autonomy in Malaysia

    Mark Kingsley Beeson

  • Sovereignty under siege: Globalisation and the state in Southeast Asia

    Mark Beeson

  • Routledge handbook of Asian regionalism

    Mark Beeson;Richard Stubbs

  • Geoeconomics with Chinese characteristics: the BRI and China’s evolving grand strategy

    Mark Beeson

  • Securing Southeast Asia: The Politics of Security Sector Reform

    Mark Beeson;Alex J. Bellamy

  • American Hegemony and Regionalism: The Rise of East Asia and the End of the Asia-Pacific

    Mark Beeson

  • The political rationalities of regionalism: APEC and the EU in comparative perspective

    Mark Beeson;Kanishka Jayasuriya

  • Hegemony, institutionalism and US foreign policy: theory and practice in comparative historical perspective

    Mark Beeson;Richard Higgott

Frequent Co-Authors

Diane Stone
Diane Stone European University Institute
Alex J. Bellamy
Alex J. Bellamy University of Queensland
Kanishka Jayasuriya
Kanishka Jayasuriya Murdoch University
Richard Higgott
Richard Higgott Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Shahar Hameiri
Shahar Hameiri University of Queensland
Thomas Diez
Thomas Diez University of Tübingen
Shaun Breslin
Shaun Breslin University of Warwick

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