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2026

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D-Index
35
Citations
5867
World Ranking
753
National Ranking
10

Richard Higgott 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 Richard Higgott sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 158 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard Higgott 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 Richard Higgott 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: 35 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Richard Higgott is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and has contributed to several areas within the social sciences, particularly focusing on political science and international relations, development, general economics, econometrics, finance, and policy-related fields.

Their recent scholarly work includes publications on international relations, global policy design, and geopolitics. Notable papers include:

  • The age of fuzzy bifurcation: Lessons from the pandemic and the Ukraine War (2022, Global Policy)
  • The role of culture in EU Foreign Policy: Between International Cultural Relations and Cultural Diplomacy (2022, Økonomi & Politik)
  • Strongman leadership and the limits to international cooperation (2023, Global Policy)
  • The demand for IPE and public policy in the governance of global policy design (2021, Policy and Society)
  • From geo-economics of the "Asia-Pacific" to geo-politics of the "Indo-Pacific" (2024, JANUS NET e-journal of International Relation)

Richard Higgott's research covers several main topics, including:

  • International Development and Aid
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Economic Issues in Ukraine
  • Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones
  • History, Medicine, and Leadership
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Nancy Viviani, Simon Reich, T. Reid, J. J. Woo, and Tim Legrand.

Most of Higgott's publications appear in academic venues such as:

  • Global Policy
  • Økonomi & Politik
  • Policy and Society
  • JANUS NET e-journal of International Relation

In addition to journal articles, Higgott has contributed to book publications, with a recent work published by Cambridge University Press titled Australia in World Affairs 1976-1980 (2024).

Best Publications

  • Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order

    Andrew Fenton Cooper;Richard A. Higgott;Kim Richard Nossal

  • The Asian economic crisis: A study in the politics of resentment

    Richard Higgott

  • Studying Regions: Learning from the Old, Constructing the New

    Shaun Breslin;Richard Higgott

  • Middle power leadership and coalition building: Australia, the Cairns Group, and the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations

    Richard A. Higgott;Andrew Fenton Cooper

  • Competing conceptions of economic regionalism: APEC versus EAEC in the Asia pacific

    Richard Higgott;Richard Stubbs

  • Relocating Middle Powers

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  • Exploring alternative theories of economic regionalism: from trade to finance in Asian co-operation?

    Heribert Dieter;Richard A. Higgott

  • Political Development Theory: The Contemporary Debate

    Richard A. Higgott

  • Regions in comparative perspective

    Shaun Breslin;Richard A. Higgott;Ben Rosamond

  • Bound to Follow? Leadership and Followership in the Gulf Conflict

    Andrew Fenton Cooper;Richard A. Higgot;Kim Richard Nossal

  • Justice Unbound? Globalization, States and the Transformation of the Social Bond

    Richard Devetak;Richard A. Higgott

  • Contested globalization: the changing context and normative challenges

    Richard Higgott

  • American unilateralism, foreign economic policy and the 'securitisation' of globalisation

    Richard A. Higgott

  • Towards a global polity

    Morten Ougaard;Richard A. Higgott

  • Southeast Asia: Essays in the political economy of structural change

    R. Higgott;R. Robison

  • The International Political Economy of Regionalism: The Asia-Pacific and Europe Compared

    Richard Higgott

  • The International Politics of Liminality: Relocating Australia in the Asia Pacific

    Richard A. Higgott;Kim Richard Nossal

  • Challenging triumphalism and convergence: the limits of global liberalization in Asia and Latin America

    Richard Higgott;Nicola Phillips

  • Ideas, identity and policy coordination in the Asia‐Pacific

    Richard Higgott

  • Deliberative global governance and the question of legitimacy: what can we learn from the WTO?

    Richard A. Higgott;Eva Erman

  • GATS in context: development, an evolving lex mercatoria and the Doha Agenda

    Richard Higgott;Heloise Weber

  • All at sea in a barbed wire canoe: Professor Cohen's transatlantic voyage in IPE

    Richard Higgott;Matthew Watson

  • International relations of the Asia-Pacific

    Shaun Breslin;Richard A. Higgott

  • Pacific economic relations in the 1990s : cooperation or conflict?

    Richard A. Higgott;Richard Leaver;John Ravenhill

  • Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order

    Annette Baker Fox;Andrew F. Cooper;Richard A. Higgott;Kim Richard Nossal

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun Breslin
Shaun Breslin University of Warwick
Andrew F. Cooper
Andrew F. Cooper University of Waterloo
Nicola Phillips
Nicola Phillips University of Adelaide
Kevin Hewison
Kevin Hewison University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mark Beeson
Mark Beeson University of Technology Sydney
Diane Stone
Diane Stone European University Institute
Ben Rosamond
Ben Rosamond University of Edinburgh
Garry Rodan
Garry Rodan Murdoch University
Jan Aart Scholte
Jan Aart Scholte Leiden University
Eva Erman
Eva Erman Stockholm University

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