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Simon Otjes 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 Simon Otjes sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 191 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simon Otjes 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 Simon Otjes sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 26 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Simon Otjes is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and specializes in social sciences with a focus on political science and international relations. Their research encompasses numerous aspects of political systems, party dynamics, and governance, paying particular attention to electoral systems, political participation, and political influence.

The main fields of study covered by Otjes include Social Sciences with a strong emphasis on:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Strategy and Management
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Communication
  • Public Administration

Otjes's work mainly addresses topics related to:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Political Systems and Governance

Their publication record demonstrates contributions to a number of respected academic journals. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Party Politics
  • European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook
  • Electoral Studies
  • Acta Politica
  • Journal of European Public Policy

Among recent papers authored by Simon Otjes are:

  • The fight on the right: what drives voting for the Dutch Freedom Party and for the Forum for Democracy?, 2020, Acta Politica
  • What explains the size of parliamentary staff?, 2022, West European Politics
  • Scrutiny and policymaking in local councils: how parties use council tools, 2022, Local Government Studies

Frequent collaborators in Otjes's research include:

  • Elin Haugsgjerd Allern
  • David Marshall
  • Anne Rasmussen
  • David M. Willumsen
  • Léonie de Jonge

Best Publications

  • Populists in Parliament: Comparing Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism in the Netherlands:

    Simon Otjes;Tom Louwerse

  • It's not Economic Interventionism, Stupid! Reassessing the Political Economy of Radical Right‐wing Populist Parties

    Simon Otjes;Gilles Ivaldi;Anders Ravik Jupskås;Oscar Mazzoleni

  • Beyond Kriesiland : EU integration as a super issue after the Eurocrisis

    Simon Otjes;Alexia Katsanidou

  • Interest organizations across economic sectors: explaining interest group density in the European Union

    Joost Berkhout;Brendan J. Carroll;Caelesta Braun;Adam W. Chalmers

  • A hot topic? Immigration on the agenda in Western Europe:

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Simon Otjes

  • How the European debt crisis reshaped national political space: The case of Greece:

    Alexia Katsanidou;Simon Otjes

  • The collaboration between interest groups and political parties in multi-party democracies : Party system dynamics and the effect of power and ideology

    Simon Otjes;Anne Rasmussen

  • The Eurozone crisis and the European Parliament's changing lines of conflict

    Simon Otjes;Harmen van der Veer

  • Parliamentary questions as strategic party tools

    Simon Otjes;Tom Louwerse

  • The Netherlands: The Netherlands

    Simon Otjes;Gerrit Voerman

  • Weapon of the Weak? The Social Media Landscape of Interest Groups

    van der Graaf A;Simon Otjes;A. Rasmussen

  • Personalised parliamentary behaviour without electoral incentives: the case of the Netherlands

    Tom Louwerse;Simon Otjes

  • Distinguishing welfare state reform and income redistribution. A two-dimensional approach to the Dutch voter space on economic issues

    Simon Otjes

  • How Populists Wage Opposition: Parliamentary Opposition Behaviour and Populism in Netherlands:

    Tom Louwerse;Simon Otjes

  • The Consequences of Collective Discontent: A New Measure of Zeitgeist Predicts Voting for Extreme Parties

    Anne Marthe van der Bles;Tom Postmes;Babet LeKander-Kanis;Simon Otjes

  • Explaining the size of assemblies. A longitudinal analysis of the design and reform of assembly sizes in democracies around the world

    Kristof Jacobs;Simon Otjes

  • Reaching across the aisle: Explaining government-opposition voting in parliament

    Tom Louwerse;Simon Otjes;David M Willumsen;Patrick Öhberg

  • Spatial models in voting advice applications

    Simon Otjes;Tom Louwerse

  • Unpacking LogM: toward a more general theory of party system density

    David Lowery;Simon Otjes;Sergiu Gherghina;Arjen Van Witteloostuijn

  • The financial crisis and the European Parliament: An analysis of the Two-Pack legislation.

    L. Roger;Simon Otjes;H. van der Veer

  • Policy agendas and births and deaths of political parties

    David Lowery;Arjen van Witteloostuijn;Gábor Péli;Holly Brasher

  • Pushed by national politics or pulled by localism? Voting for independent local parties in the Netherlands

    Simon Otjes

  • Party competition between unequals: Strategies and electoral fortunes in Western Europe

    Simon Otjes

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Rasmussen
Anne Rasmussen King's College London
André Krouwel
André Krouwel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christopher Witko
Christopher Witko University of California, Davis
Tom Postmes
Tom Postmes University of Groningen
Tim Bale
Tim Bale Queen Mary University of London
David Lowery
David Lowery Pennsylvania State University
Heike Klüver
Heike Klüver Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Arjen van Witteloostuijn
Arjen van Witteloostuijn Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sergiu Gherghina
Sergiu Gherghina University of Glasgow

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