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Scott Straus 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 Scott Straus sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 95 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Scott Straus 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 Scott Straus sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 27 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Scott Straus is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, history, gender studies, and anthropology. Straus's scholarly output consists notably of work on global peace and security dynamics, Cambodian history and society, historical and contemporary political dynamics, political conflict and governance, gender, security, and conflict, Middle East and Rwanda conflicts, and gender roles and identity studies.

Their frequent publication venues reflect a focus on violence and conflict studies, with the majority of publications appearing in Violence An International Journal. Other venues include Genocide Studies and Prevention, American Journal of Sociology, Perspectives on Politics, and Journal of Perpetrator Research.

Scott Straus has collaborated with several coauthors across their research career, including Stathis N. Kalyvas, Michel Wieviorka, Fiona Terry, Helen M. Kinsella, and Jo Ractliffe.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Straus cover topics related to political violence and the intersection of research and humanitarianism. These include:

  • "Stathis Kalyvas on 20 years of studying political violence," 2020, Violence An International Journal
  • "Ukraine and the politics of political violence," 2022, Violence An International Journal
  • "Introducing a new journal: Violence," 2020, Violence An International Journal
  • "Fiona Terry of the International Committee of the Red Cross talks about The Roots of Restraint in War and the intersection of research and humanitarianism," 2020, Violence An International Journal
  • "Introduction to the Special Section on Lee Ann Fujii's Show Time," 2022, Violence An International Journal

Best Publications

  • The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

    Scott Straus

  • What Is the Relationship between Hate Radio and Violence? Rethinking Rwanda's “Radio Machete”:

    Scott Straus

  • Darfur and the Genocide Debate

    Scott Straus

  • Wars do end! Changing patterns of political violence in sub-Saharan Africa

    Scott Straus

  • Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence

    Scott Straus;Lars Waldorf

  • Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures

    David K. Leonard;Scott Straus

  • Order, conflict, and violence

    Stathis N. Kalyvas;Ian Shapiro;Tarek E. Masoud

  • How many perpetrators were there in the Rwandan genocide? An estimate

    Scott Straus

  • The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History

    David Schoenbrun;Jean-Pierre Chretien;Scott Straus

  • Contested meanings and conflicting imperatives: A conceptual analysis of genocide

    Scott Straus

  • Retreating from the Brink: Theorizing Mass Violence and the Dynamics of Restraint

    Scott Straus

  • Second-Generation Comparative Research on Genocide

    Scott Straus

  • “Destroy Them to Save Us”: Theories of Genocide and the Logics of Political Violence

    Scott Straus

  • WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2011

    Scott Straus

  • ‘IT'S SHEER HORROR HERE’: PATTERNS OF VIOLENCE DURING THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF CÔTE D'IVOIRE'S POST-ELECTORAL CRISIS

    Scott Straus

  • Perils of pluralism: Electoral violence and incumbency in sub-Saharan Africa:

    Charles Fernandes Taylor;Jon Cw Pevehouse;Scott Straus

  • The Road to Hell? Third-Party Intervention to Prevent Atrocities

    Andrew H. Kydd;Scott Straus

  • Democratization and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990-2007

    Scott Straus;Charlie Taylor

  • Macro, Meso, and Micro Research on Genocide: Gains, Shortcomings, and Future Areas of Inquiry

    Evgeny Finkel;Scott Straus

  • The Limits of a Genocide Lens: Violence Against Rwandans in the 1990s*

    Scott Straus

  • From War to Genocide: Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990–1994

    André Guichaoua;Don E. Webster;Scott Straus

  • Who Pursues the Perpetrators?: State Cooperation with the ICC

    Courtney Hillebrecht;Scott Straus

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail M. Gerhart
Gail M. Gerhart Columbia University
Jon C. Pevehouse
Jon C. Pevehouse University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stathis N. Kalyvas
Stathis N. Kalyvas University of Oxford

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