2026 Sheilagh Ogilvie: 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	33	943	855	154	143	127	4065
Economics and Finance	34	3137	2848	363	335	136	4138

Research.com Recognitions

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Sheilagh Ogilvie is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and focuses on research at the intersection of economics, history, and social sciences. Their academic work covers fields such as Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences, with subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Demography, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, and History.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

Historical Economic and Social Studies
Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
Religion and Society Interactions
Social Policy and Reform Studies
Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Natural Resources and Economic Development
Economic Growth and Productivity

Ogilvie has published several papers in a range of academic venues. Recent publications include:

STATE CAPACITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: CAUTIONARY TALES FROM HISTORY (2022), published in National Institute Economic Review
Thinking carefully about inclusiveness: evidence from European guilds (2020), Journal of Institutional Economics
Guilds and the Economy (2020), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
Economically relevant human capital or multi-purpose consumption good? Book ownership in pre-modern Württemberg (2021), Explorations in Economic History
Did the Black Death cause economic development by 'inventing' fertility restriction? (2021), Oxford Economic Papers

They have frequently published in the National Institute Economic Review and have contributed to the Journal of Institutional Economics, Explorations in Economic History, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, and Oxford Economic Papers.

Co-authors who have frequently collaborated with Ogilvie include:

Richard Bourke
Jeremy Edwards
Sigrid Hirbodian
R. Johanna Regnath
Michael Lobban

In addition to journal articles, Ogilvie has authored book publications, notably with Cambridge University Press. One such book is History in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2022).

The scholar is recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

‘Whatever is, is right’? Economic institutions in pre‐industrial Europe1

Sheilagh Ogilvie

247
Citations
Guilds, Efficiency, and Social Capital: Evidence from German Proto-Industry

Sheilagh Ogilvie

223
Citations
Contract enforcement, institutions, and social capital: the Maghribi traders reappraised

Jeremy Edwards;Sheilagh Ogilvie

220
Citations
The Economics of Guilds

Sheilagh Ogilvie

189
Citations
Rehabilitating the guilds: a reply

Sheilagh Ogilvie

175
Citations
A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany

Sheilagh C. Ogilvie

162
Citations
Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth

Tracy Dennison;Sheilagh Ogilvie

148
Citations
Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800

Sheilagh C. Ogilvie

143
Citations
Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective

Sheilagh Ogilvie;A.W. Carus

139
Citations
A Bitter Living

Sheilagh Ogilvie

139
Citations
The Use and Abuse of Trust: Social Capital and its Deployment by Early Modern Guilds

Sheilagh Ogilvie

130
Citations
The Economic World of the Bohemian Serf: Economic Concepts, Preferences, and Constraints on the Estate of Friedland, 1583–1692

Sheilagh Ogilvie

127
Citations
The Use and Abuse of Trust: Social Capital and its Deployment by Early Modern Guilds

Sheilagh Ogilvie;Sheilagh Ogilvie

115
Citations
Universal banks and German industrialization: a reappraisal'

Jeremy Edwards;Sheilagh Ogilvie

100
Citations
Institutions and European Trade

Sheilagh Ogilvie

89
Citations
How Does Social Capital Affect Women? Guilds and Communities in Early Modern Germany

Sheilagh Ogilvie

88
Citations
European Proto-Industrialization

Sheilagh Ogilvie;Markus Cerman

87
Citations
State Corporatism and Proto-Industry

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77
Citations
State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797

Sheilagh C. Ogilvie

75
Citations
Contract Enforcement, Institutions and Social Capital: the Maghribi Traders Reappraised

Jeremy Edwards;Sheilagh Ogilvie

70
Citations
Consumption, Social Capital, and the “Industrious Revolution” in Early Modern Germany

Sheilagh Ogilvie

69
Citations
Social Capital and Collusion: The Case of Merchant Guilds

Sheilagh Ogilvie;Sheilagh Ogilvie;Roberta Dessi

67
Citations
Germany and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis *

Sheilagh C. Ogilvie

64
Citations
Germany : a new social and economic history

Sheilagh C. Ogilvie;Robert W. Scribner;R. J. Overy

62
Citations
Retail development in the consumer revolution: The Netherlands, c. 1670-c. 1815

Danielle van den Heuvel;Sheilagh Ogilvie

56
Citations
Women and the “Second Serfdom”: Evidence from Early Modern Bohemia

Sheilagh Ogilvie;Jeremy Edwards

31
Citations
Communities and the ‘Second Serfdom’ in Early Modern Bohemia

Sheilagh Ogilvie

29
Citations
Serfdom and social capital in Bohemia and Russia

T. K. Dennison;Sheilagh Ogilvie

28
Citations
Institutions, Demography, and Economic Growth

Tracy K. Dennison;Sheilagh Ogilvie

27
Citations
Guilds, efficiency, and social capital: evidence from German

Sheilagh Ogilvie

3
Citations
Universal Banks and German Industrialization: A Reappraisal

Jeremy Edwards;Sheilagh C. Ogilvie

3
Citations
The European Guilds

Sheilagh Ogilvie

1
Citations
Institutions and European Trade: Merchant guilds, efficiency and social capital

Sheilagh Ogilvie

0
Citations

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