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Michael Freeden 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 Michael Freeden sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 183 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Freeden 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 Michael Freeden 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: 31 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 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
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Michael Freeden is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several intersecting fields including communication, literature and literary theory, philosophy, and political science and international relations.

The primary topics addressed in their work include:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Rhetoric and Communication Studies
  • Political and Economic History of the UK and US

Freeden has published in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Political Quarterly
  • Journal of Political Ideologies
  • Journal of Language and Politics
  • Historia y Política Ideas Procesos y Movimientos Sociales
  • Comparative Political Theory

Among recent papers authored by Freeden are:

  • 'Discourse, concepts, ideologies' (2020), published in Journal of Language and Politics
  • 'Comparative Political Thought: What Are We Looking At?' (2021), published in Comparative Political Theory
  • 'Ideología: ¿Uniendo las piezas?' (2023), published in Historia y Política Ideas Procesos y Movimientos Sociales
  • 'Democracy dis-integrated: the current conceptual confusion' (2020), published in Journal of Political Ideologies

Collaborations with other scholars form part of Freeden's research profile. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Willibald Steinmetz
  • Mathew Humphrey
  • Javiér Fernández Sebastián
  • Luke Lavender
  • Mónica Brito Vieira

Michael Freeden has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Ideologies and political theory : a conceptual approach

    Michael Freeden

  • Is Nationalism a Distinct Ideology

    Michael Freeden

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies

    Michael Freeden;Lyman Tower Sargent;Marc Stears

  • Ideology: A Very Short Introduction

    Michael Freeden

  • After the Brexit referendum: revisiting populism as an ideology

    Michael Freeden

  • The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform

    Paul Barton Johnson;Michael Freeden

  • Ideology and political theory

    Michael Freeden

  • Ideologies and Political Theory

    Michael Freeden

  • Eugenics and progressive thought: a study in ideological affinity.

    Michael Freeden

  • The Ideology of New Labour

    Michael Freeden

  • The Morphological Analysis of Ideology

    Michael Freeden

  • Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction

    Michael Freeden

  • Political concepts and ideological morphology

    Michael Freeden

  • The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform

    Michael Freeden

  • Liberalism Divided: A Study in British Political Thought, 1914-1939

    Michael Freeden

  • The Political Theory of Political Thinking: The Anatomy of a Practice

    Michael Freeden

  • What Should the ‘Political’ in Political Theory Explore?*

    Michael Freeden

  • Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth-Century Progressive Thought

    Michael Freeden

  • Editorial: Thinking politically and thinking ideologically

    Michael Freeden

  • The new liberalism

    Michael Freeden

  • Interpretative realism and prescriptive realism

    Michael Freeden

  • Confronting the chimera of a ‘post‐ideological’ age

    Michael Freeden

  • Ideology, Political Theory and Political Philosophy

    Michael Freeden

  • Comparative political thought : theorizing practices

    Michael Freeden;Andrew Vincent

  • Practising Ideology and Ideological Practices

    Michael Freeden

  • The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform

    Henry S. Kariel;Michael Freeden

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Burke
Peter Burke University of California, Riverside

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