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Rita Abrahamsen

Rita Abrahamsen

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
21
Citations
3984
World Ranking
1886
National Ranking
64

Rita Abrahamsen publications per year

1997: 3 publications 1998: 1 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 1 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 1 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 9 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 3 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 1 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 3 publications 2018: 4 publications 2019: 4 publications 2020: 4 publications 2021: 1 publications 2022: 0 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 0 publications 2026: 1 publications
1997 2026

92 publications in total across all disciplines

Rita Abrahamsen 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 Rita Abrahamsen sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 71 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rita Abrahamsen 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 Rita Abrahamsen 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: 21 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • Security Beyond the State: Private Security in International Politics

    Rita Abrahamsen;Michael C. Williams

  • The Power of Partnerships in Global Governance

    Rita Abrahamsen

  • Security Beyond the State: Global Security Assemblages in International Politics

    Rita Abrahamsen;Michael C. Williams

  • Blair's Africa: The Politics of Securitization and Fear:

    Rita Abrahamsen

  • African Studies and the Postcolonial Challenge

    Rita Abrahamsen

  • Securing the City: Private Security Companies and Non-State Authority in Global Governance:

    Rita Abrahamsen;Michael C. Williams

  • A breeding ground for terrorists? Africa & Britain's ‘war on terrorism’

    Rita Abrahamsen

  • The Victory of Popular Forces or Passive Revolution? A Neo-Gramscian Perspective on Democratisation

    Rita Abrahamsen

  • Introduction: The Privatisation and Globalisation of Security in Africa

    Rita Abrahamsen;Michael C. Williams

  • Africa and international relations: assembling Africa, studying the world

    Rita Abrahamsen

  • Security sector reform: bringing the private in

    Rita Abrahamsen;Michael C. Williams

  • Ethics and Foreign Policy: the Antinomies of New Labour's 'Third Way' in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Rita Abrahamsen;Paul Williams

  • Internationalists, sovereigntists, nativists: Contending visions of world order in Pan-Africanism

    Unknown

  • Uganda's 2016 elections: Not even faking it anymore

    Rita Abrahamsen;Gerald Bareebe

  • Return of the generals? Global militarism in Africa from the Cold War to the present:

    Rita Abrahamsen

  • Confronting the International Political Sociology of the New Right

    Rita Abrahamsen;Jean-François Drolet;Alexandra Gheciu;Karin Narita

  • World of the Right

    Unknown

  • Security Beyond the State

    Rita Abrahamsen;Michael C. Williams

  • Public/Private, Global/Local: The Changing Contours of Africa's Security Governance

    Rita Abrahamsen;Michael C. Williams

  • South Sudan’s civil war: Violence, insurgency and failed peacemaking

    Rita Abrahamsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Williams
Paul D. Williams George Washington University
Richard Sandbrook
Richard Sandbrook University of Toronto
Nic Cheeseman
Nic Cheeseman University of Birmingham
Ole Jacob Sending
Ole Jacob Sending Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

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