2026 Pinar Bilgin: 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	24	1663	1523	4	4	115	3951

Pinar Bilgin 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 Pinar Bilgin sits on this spectrum.

36 publications 333+

This scientist: 115 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pinar Bilgin 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 Pinar Bilgin sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 24 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Pinar Bilgin is affiliated with Bilkent University in Turkey and has contributed extensively to the field of Social Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Gender Studies, History, and Development. Their academic work encompasses various aspects of international relations and geopolitical analysis.

Their recent publications include:

How not to Globalise IR: 'Centre' and 'Periphery' as Constitutive of 'the International' (2021), published in Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi
The 'Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean' as a Threat to Women's Security in the EU? A Contrapuntal Reading (2020), published in Geopolitics
Against Eurocentric narratives on militarism (2023), published in Critical Military Studies
A case for re-thinking geo-cultural pluralism in International Relations (2021), published in International Politics Reviews
IPR forum on Chih-yu Shih's intervention on the relational turn in IR (2024), published in International Politics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bilgin include:

Beatrix Futák-Campbell
Mônica Herz

Their research has appeared in a variety of publication venues, including:

Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi
Critical Military Studies
Geopolitics
International Politics Reviews
International Politics

Main research topics addressed by Bilgin are:

International Relations and Foreign Policy
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Peacebuilding and International Security
Global Peace and Security Dynamics
Turkey's Politics and Society
Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
Middle East Politics and Society

Pinar Bilgin's work reflects a multidisciplinary approach within social sciences, focusing on power dynamics, security issues, and geopolitical narratives, particularly in the contexts of the Mediterranean, Europe, and the Middle East. The body of work includes critical examinations of Eurocentrism, geo-cultural pluralism in international relations, and women's security in migration contexts.

Best Publications

Thinking past ‘Western’ IR?

Pinar Bilgin

497
Citations
Historicising representations of 'failed states': beyond the cold-war annexation of the social sciences?

Pinar Bilgin;Adam David Morton

396
Citations
Individual and Societal Dimensions of Security

Pinar Bilgin

229
Citations
Turkey's changing security discourses: The challenge of globalisation

Pinar Bilgin

203
Citations
“Only Strong States Can Survive in Turkey's Geography”: The uses of “geopolitical truths” in Turkey

Pinar Bilgin

176
Citations
Whose ‘Middle East’? Geopolitical Inventions and Practices of Security

Pinar Bilgin

170
Citations
Regional Security in the Middle East: A Critical Perspective

Pinar Bilgin

169
Citations
The ‘Western-Centrism’ of Security Studies: ‘Blind Spot’ or Constitutive Practice?:

Pinar Bilgin

168
Citations
From ‘Rogue’ to ‘Failed’ States? The Fallacy of Short-termism†

Pinar Bilgin;Adam David Morton

167
Citations
Turkey's "New" Foreign Policy toward Eurasia

Pinar Bilgin;Ali Bilgiç

141
Citations
The Return of Geopolitics in Europe?

Unknown

139
Citations
A Return to ‘Civilisational Geopolitics’ in the Mediterranean? Changing Geopolitical Images of the European Union and Turkey in the Post-Cold War Era

Pinar Bilgin

134
Citations
The politics of studying securitization? The Copenhagen School in Turkey

Pinar Bilgin

121
Citations
The International in Security, Security in the International

Pinar Bilgin

114
Citations
Hard Power, Soft Power: Toward a More Realistic Power Analysis

Pinar Bilgin;Berivan Elis

106
Citations
Securing Turkey through western-oriented foreign policy

Pınar Bilgin

106
Citations
Constructing Turkey's "Western" Identity during the Cold War: Discourses of the Intellectuals of Statecraft

Eylem Yilmaz;Pinar Bilgin

87
Citations
The Securityness of Secularism? The Case of Turkey

Pinar Bilgin

80
Citations
Making Turkey’s Transformation Possible: Claiming ‘Security‐ speak’—not Desecuritization!

Pınar Bilgin

75
Citations
“Contrapuntal Reading” as a Method, an Ethos, and a Metaphor for Global IR

Pinar Bilgin

70
Citations
Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology

Xavier Guillaume;Pinar Bilgin

26
Citations
The 'Peculiarity' of Turkey's Position on EU-NATO Military/Security Cooperation: A Rejoinder to Missiroli:

Pinar Bilgin

14
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam David Morton University of Sydney

Barry Buzan London School of Economics and Political Science

Ann Towns University of Gothenburg

External Links

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