2026 Patrick Bond: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	39	5534	5135	42	41	270	10149

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Social Sciences and Humanities

5534

5135

270

10149

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

10149

World Ranking

5534

National Ranking

Overview

Patrick Bond is affiliated with the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences with a specialization in sociology and political science, development, building and construction, finance, and global and planetary change.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

International Development and Aid
Mining and Resource Management
South African History and Culture
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Natural Resources and Economic Development
Global Energy and Sustainability Research
Global Energy Security and Policy

Patrick Bond's recent scholarly publications are as follows:

Capitalist crisis and uneven development applied in Southern Africa, 2021, Human Geography
South Africa's Shrinking Sovereignty: Economic Crises, Ecological Damage, Sub-Imperialism and Social Resistances, 2020, Vestnik RUDN International Relations
The Case for Ecosocialism in the Face of the Worsening Climate Crisis, 2022, Science & Society
Climate, violence, resource extraction and ecological debt: global implications of an assassination on South Africa's coal mining belt, 2022, Globalizations
Leaning on the BRICS as a Geopolitical Counterweight Leads Only to Faux-Polyarchic, Subimperial "Spalling", 2022, Journal of World-Systems Research

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Patrick Bond include:

Trevor Ngwane
Arthur Rempel
Vishwas Satgar
Ferrial Adam
Samir Amin

Their work is published in several academic venues, particularly:

Alternation Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa
Human Geography
Vestnik RUDN International Relations
Science & Society
Journal of World-Systems Research

Patrick Bond has also authored a book titled BRICS and the New American Imperialism: Global rivalry and resistance, published by OAPAN in 2020.

Best Publications

Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa

Patrick Bond

2204
Citations
Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation

Patrick Bond

547
Citations
Against Global Apartheid: South Africa Meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance

Patrick Bond

513
Citations
Unsustainable South Africa: Environment, Development and Social Protest

Patrick Bond

456
Citations
Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal: Essays on South Africa's New Urban Crisis

Patrick Bond

409
Citations
Between activism and science: Grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations

Joan Martinez-Alier;Isabelle Anguelovski;Patrick Bond;Daniela Del Bene

377
Citations
Energy and climate change

Sun-Jin Yun;John Byrne;Lucy Baker;Patrick Bond

356
Citations
Uneven Zimbabwe: A Study of Finance, Development and Underdevelopment

Patrick Bond

274
Citations
Fanon's warning : a civil society reader on the new partnership for Africa's development

Patrick Bond

225
Citations
The failure of housing policy in post-apartheid South Africa

Patrick Bond;Angela Tait

166
Citations
Movements, protests and a massacre in South Africa

Patrick Bond;Shauna Mottiar

162
Citations
Globalization, pharmaceutical pricing, and South African health policy: managing confrontation with U.S. firms and politicians.

Patrick Bond

158
Citations
Township politics : civic struggles for a new South Africa

Mzwanele Mayekiso;Patrick Bond;Mel King

155
Citations
Global Governance Campaigning and mdgs: from top-down to bottom-up anti-poverty work

Patrick Bond

151
Citations
Sub-imperialism as Lubricant of Neoliberalism: South African ‘deputy sheriff’ duty within brics

Patrick Bond

141
Citations
South Africa - The Present as History: From Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana

John S. Saul;Patrick Bond

135
Citations
Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa's Frustrated Global Reforms

Patrick Bond;Zapiro

133
Citations
Politics of Climate Justice: Paralysis Above, Movement Below

Patrick Bond

131
Citations
Basic infrastructure for socio-economic development, environmental protection and geographical desegregation: South Africa's unmet challenge

Patrick Bond

126
Citations
BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique

Patrick Bond;Ana Garcia

116
Citations
Water, Human Rights and Social Conflict: South African Experiences

P. Bond;J. Dugard

114
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Lund Aalto University

Sarah A. Radcliffe University of Cambridge

Sarah Elwood University of Washington

Isabelle Anguelovski Autonomous University of Barcelona

John Byrne University of Delaware

External Links

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