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Robert Muggah

Robert Muggah

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
35
Citations
5336
World Ranking
763
National Ranking
33

Robert Muggah 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 Robert Muggah sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 121 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert Muggah 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 Robert Muggah sits on this spectrum.

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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.

Overview

Robert Muggah is affiliated with the Secdev Group in Canada. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on several specific subfields, including sociology and political science, general health professions, political science and international relations, nature and landscape conservation, and organizational behavior and human resource management.

Their work covers a wide range of topics illustrating intersections between crime, governance, and public health. Key research topics include:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert Muggah are:

  • "Community policing does not build citizen trust in police or reduce crime in the Global South" (2021, Science)
  • "Homicide concentration and retaliatory homicide near repeats: An examination in a Latin American urban setting" (2020, The Police Journal Theory Practice and Principles)
  • "Reflections on the Evolution of Conflict Early Warning" (2022, Stability International Journal of Security and Development)
  • "Homicide as a function of city block layout: Mexico City as case study" (2020, Global Crime)
  • "Organized Crime in Armed Conflicts and Other Situations of Violence" (2023, International Review of the Red Cross)

Muggah frequently publishes in venues including BMJ, Science, The Police Journal Theory Practice and Principles, Stability International Journal of Security and Development, and the International Review of the Red Cross.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, notably Katherine Aguirre, Mark A Bellis, Lisa Jones, Jennifer Tucker, and Karen Hughes, each with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Transforming Our World: Implementing the 2030 Agenda Through Sustainable Development Goal Indicators

    Bandy X. Lee;Finn Kjaerulf;Shannon Turner;Larry Cohen

  • Gangs, Urban Violence, and Security Interventions in Central America:

    Oliver Jütersonke;Robert Muggah;Dennis Rodgers

  • Researching the Urban Dilemma: Urbanization, Poverty and Violence

    Robert Muggah

  • Security and post-conflict reconstruction : dealing with fighters in the aftermath of war

    Robert Muggah

  • No Magic Bullet: A Critical Perspective on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) and Weapons Reduction in Post-conflict Contexts

    Robert Muggah

  • Mortality, crime and access to basic needs before and after the Haiti earthquake: a random survey of Port-au-Prince households

    Athena R. Kolbe;Royce A. Hutson;Harry Shannon;Eileen Trzcinski

  • Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction

    Robert Muggah

  • Citizen security in Latin America: Facts and Figures

    Robert Muggah;Katherine Aguirre Tobon

  • Deconstructing the fragile city: exploring insecurity, violence and resilience

    Robert Muggah

  • Gangs as Non-State Armed Groups: The Central American Case

    Dennis Rodgers;Robert Muggah

  • States of fragility: stabilisation and its implications for humanitarian action

    Sarah Collinson;Samir Elhawary;Robert Muggah

  • Next Generation Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration

    Robert Muggah;Chris O'Donnell

  • Conflict and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Assessment of the Issues and Evidence

    Robin Luckham;Ismail Ahmed;Robert Muggah;Sarah White

  • A Tale of Two Solitudes: Comparing Conflict and Development-induced Internal Displacement and Involuntary Resettlement

    Robert Muggah

  • Context matters: interim stabilisation and second generation approaches to security promotion

    Nat J. Colletta;Robert Muggah

  • No Refuge: The Crisis of Refugee Militarization in Africa

    Robert Muggah

  • Through the Developmentalist's Looking Glass: Conflict-Induced Displacement and Involuntary Resettlement in Colombia1

    Robert Muggah

  • Digitally Enhanced Violence Prevention in the Americas

    Robert Muggah;Gustavo Diniz

  • Closing the Gap Between Peace Operations and Post-Conflict Insecurity: Towards a Violence Reduction Agenda

    Robert Muggah;Keith Krause

  • Gangs of Central America: Causes, Costs, and Interventions

    Dennis Rodgers;Robert Muggah;Chris Stevenson

  • Relocation Failures in Sri Lanka: A Short History of Internal Displacement and Resettlement

    Robert Muggah

  • Community policing does not build citizen trust in police or reduce crime in the Global South

    Graeme Blair;Jeremy M Weinstein;Fotini Christia;Eric Arias

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis Rodgers
Dennis Rodgers Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Peter Donnelly
Peter Donnelly University of Toronto
Keith Krause
Keith Krause Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Grace M. Lee
Grace M. Lee Stanford University

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