2026 Robert H. Bates: 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	54	169	147	105	88	254	25171
Economics and Finance	52	1220	1084	733	635	197	23152

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2000 - William H. Riker Prize for Political Science For advancing the scientific study of politics through research on the political economy of developing nations in Africa.
1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Robert H. Bates is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their primary research fields include Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to the subfields of Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Pharmacology, Oncology, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research focuses on several key topics, including:

Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
Cancer Therapeutics and Mechanisms
Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis
Biochemical and Molecular Research
Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy

Robert H. Bates has published multiple papers in notable venues. Selected recent papers include:

"The Tuberculosis Drug Accelerator at year 10: what have we learned?", 2021, Nature Medicine
"Exploring the SAR of the β-Ketoacyl-ACP Synthase Inhibitor GSK3011724A and Optimization around a Genotoxic Metabolite", 2020, ACS Infectious Diseases
"High-throughput screen with the l,d-transpeptidase Ldt_Mt2 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals novel classes of covalently reacting inhibitors", 2023, Chemical Science
"GSK2556286 is a novel antitubercular drug candidate effective in vivo with the potential to shorten tuberculosis treatment", 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
"A service evaluation of passive remote monitoring technology for patients in a high-secure forensic psychiatric hospital: a qualitative study", 2023, BMC Psychiatry

Their frequent co-authors are:

Helena I. Boshoff
David Barros-Aguirre
Dirk Schnappinger
Paul G. Wyatt
Eva María López-Román

Robert H. Bates has also published books, including:

Open-Economy Politics, 2020, Princeton University Press
Analytic Narratives, 2020, Princeton University Press
The Political Economy of Development, 2020, Cambridge University Press

Frequent publication venues where Robert H. Bates has contributed include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Medicine
ACS Infectious Diseases
Chemical Science
BMC Psychiatry

Among the awards received by Robert H. Bates are:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015
William H. Riker Prize for Political Science, 2000, awarded for advancing the scientific study of politics through research on the political economy of developing nations in Africa
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1985

Best Publications

Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies

Robert H. Bates

4847
Citations
Analytic Narratives Revisited

Robert H. Bates;Avner Greif;Margaret Levi;Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

1606
Citations
A Global Model for Forecasting Political Instability

Jack A. Goldstone;Robert H. Bates;David L. Epstein;Ted Robert Gurr

1330
Citations
A Note on Taxation, Development and Representative Government

Robert H. Bates;Da-Hsiang Donald. Lien

1305
Citations
Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development

Robert H. Bates

1182
Citations
Beyond the Miracle of the Market: The Political Economy of Agrarian Development in Kenya

Robert H. Bates

1009
Citations
Essays on the political economy of rural Africa

Robert H. Bates

906
Citations
Modernization, Ethnic Competition, and the Rationality of Politics in Contemporary Africa

Robert H. Bates

735
Citations
When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa

Robert H. Bates

644
Citations
Ethnic Competition and Modernization in Contemporary Africa

Robert H. Bates

632
Citations
Contra Contractarianism: Some Reflections on the New Institutionalism:

Robert H. Bates

556
Citations
Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade

Robert H. Bates

552
Citations
Democratic Transitions

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536
Citations
Making Aid Work

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee;Alice H. Amsden;Robert Bates;Jagdish Bhagwati

374
Citations
Toward a Political Economy of Development

Robert H. Bates

360
Citations
The Political Economy Of Economic Growth In Africa, 1960-2000

Benno J. Ndulu;Stephen A. O'Connell;Robert H. Bates;Paul Collier

342
Citations
The Politics of Interpretation: Rationality, Culture, and Transition:

Robert H. Bates;Rui J. P. de Figueiredo;Barry R. Weingast

309
Citations
Organizing Violence

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243
Citations
Cooperation by Design: Leadership, Structure, and Collective Dilemmas

William T. Bianco;Robert H. Bates

215
Citations
Governments and Agricultural Markets in Africa

Robert H. Bates

191
Citations
Political and economic interactions in economic policy reform : evidence from eight countries

Robert H. Bates;Anne O. Krueger

179
Citations
Africa and the disciplines : the contributions of research in Africa to the social sciences and humanities

Gail Gerhart;Robert H. Bates;V. Y. Mudimbe;Jean O'Barr

170
Citations
Area Studies and the Discipline: A Useful Controversy?

Robert H. Bates

169
Citations
The Analytic Narrative Project

Robert H. Bates;Avner Greif;Margaret Levi;Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

168
Citations
Lost Decades: Postindependence Performance in Latin America and Africa

Robert H. Bates;John H. Coatsworth;Jeffrey G. Williamson

163
Citations
Ethnicity and Development in Africa: A Reappraisal

Robert H Bates

142
Citations
Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics

Gerardo L. Munck;Richard Snyder;Gabriel Abraham Almond;Barrington Moore

115
Citations
Markets and States in Tropical Africa. The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies

Gérard Ghersi;Robert H. Bates

57
Citations
Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa

Howard Stein;Robert H. Bates

28
Citations
Beyond the Miracle of the Market: The Political Economy of Agrarian Development in Kenya.

Frank Holmquist;Robert H. Bates

11
Citations
Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study.@@@The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia: Struggles of@@@Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau 1905-63.

Robert Bates;Terence Ranger;Leon Zamosc;Tabitha Kanogo

2
Citations
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

Robert H Bates

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anke Hoeffler University of Konstanz

Paul Collier University of Oxford

Augustin Kwasi Fosu University of Ghana

Jeffrey G. Williamson Harvard University

Barry R. Weingast Stanford University

Avner Greif Stanford University

Jack Andrew Goldstone George Mason University

Margaret Levi Stanford University

Bruno Biais Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris

Jan Willem Gunning Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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