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Samuel M. Makinda

Samuel M. Makinda

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
20
Citations
1936
World Ranking
2002
National Ranking
70

Samuel M. Makinda 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 Samuel M. Makinda sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 147 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Samuel M. Makinda 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 Samuel M. Makinda 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: 20 D-Index — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • The African Union: Challenges of globalization, security, and governance

    Samuel M. Makinda;F. Wafula Okumu

  • Book review: Humanitarian intervention: ethical, legal and political dilemmas. Edited by J.L. Holzgrefe and Robert O. Keohane. Cambridge University Press

    S.M. Makinda

  • Democracy and Multi-Party Politics in Africa

    Samuel M. Makinda

  • Book review: Stewart Firth, Australia in International Politics: An Introduction to Australian Foreign Policy (St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1999),

    S.M. Makinda

  • Book Review: Ethan B. Kapstein and Michael Mastanduno (eds), Unipolar Politics: Realism and State Strategies After The Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press

    S.M. Makinda

  • Sovereignty and Global Security

    Samuel M. Makinda

  • Sovereignty and international security: Challenges for the United Nations

    Samuel M. Makinda

  • Book Review: Tim Dunne, Inventing International Society: A History of the English School (London: Macmillan, 1998)

    S.M. Makinda

  • The United Nations and State Sovereignty: Mechanism for Managing International Security

    Samuel M. Makinda

  • Clarke, Walter, and Jeffrey Herbst, eds., Learning from Somalia: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997.

    Samuel M. Makinda

  • The African Union

    Unknown

  • The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith

    Samuel M. Makinda;Ian Smith

  • Seeking Peace from Chaos: Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia

    Samuel M. Makinda

  • Book review: Africa and the international system: The politics of state survival by Christopher Clapham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

    S.M. Makinda

  • How Africa can benefit from knowledge

    Samuel M. Makinda

  • International Society and Eclecticism in International Relations Theory

    Samuel M. Makinda

  • Conflict and the superpowers in the Horn of Africa

    Samuel M Makinda

  • From quiet diplomacy to cold war politics: Kenya's foreign policy

    Samuel M Makinda

  • Hedley Bull and international security

    Samuel M Makinda

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Gilbert
Alan Gilbert University College London
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen Harvard University
Sanjaya Lall
Sanjaya Lall University of Oxford
Ali A. Mazrui
Ali A. Mazrui Binghamton University
Gail M. Gerhart
Gail M. Gerhart Columbia University
Goran Hyden
Goran Hyden University of Florida
David D. Laitin
David D. Laitin Stanford University
Ian Miles
Ian Miles University of Manchester

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