2026 Svend-Erik Skaaning: 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	43	410	366	9	9	186	7757

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Political Science in Denmark Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Political Science in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Svend-Erik Skaaning is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations. Their research encompasses various subfields including sociology and political science, development, law, and demography.

Their recent scholarly output includes papers such as "Waves of autocratization and democratization: a critical note on conceptualization and measurement" published in 2020 in Democratization. Additionally, Skaaning is closely associated with the V-Dem project, a comprehensive initiative for measuring democracy, which has produced several key publications in the SSRN Electronic Journal including:

"V-Dem Codebook v11" (2021)
"V-Dem Dataset v11.1" (2021)
"V-Dem Codebook v14" (2024)
"V-Dem Codebook V10" (2020)

Skaaning collaborates frequently with scholars such as John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Jan Teorell, Staffan I. Lindberg, and Michael Coppedge. Their partnerships reflect sustained efforts in the analysis of democracy and governance.

Key publication venues where Skaaning's work appears include:

Harvard Dataverse
SSRN Electronic Journal
Democratization
Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
PS Political Science & Politics

Their book publications are distributed through respected academic presses and reflect a broad thematic interest. Notable titles include:

Syv myter om demokrati (2022, Aarhus University Press)
Dansk demokrati i perspektiv (2025, Aarhus University Press)
Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis (2020, Oxford University Press)
V-Dem [Country-year/country-date]:Dataset V11. 1 (2020, University of East Anglia)
Democracy (2022, Johns Hopkins University Press)

The main areas of study and research topics that characterize Skaaning's work include:

Political Conflict and Governance
Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
Religion and Society Interactions
International Development and Aid
Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Social Policy and Reform Studies

Best Publications

Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach

Michael Coppedge;Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;David Altman;Michael Bernhard

1115
Citations
V-Dem Dataset V6.2

Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Staffan I. I. Lindberg;Svend-Erik Skaaning

625
Citations
V-Dem Codebook V8

Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Carl Henrik Knutsen;Staffan I. Lindberg

552
Citations
Assessing the Robustness of Crisp-set and Fuzzy-set QCA Results

Svend-Erik Skaaning

384
Citations
V-Dem Codebook v11

Unknown

276
Citations
Measuring High Level Democratic Principles using the V-Dem Data

Michael Coppedge;Staffan I. Lindberg;Svend-Erik Skaaning;Jan Teorell

220
Citations
A Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy

Svend-Erik Skaaning;John Gerring;Henrikas Bartusevičius

210
Citations
V-Dem Codebook V10

Unknown

193
Citations
Measuring Polyarchy Across the Globe, 1900–2017

Jan Teorell;Michael Coppedge;Staffan Lindberg;Svend Erik Skaaning

178
Citations
V-Dem Dataset v7

Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Carl Henrik Knutsen;Staffan I. Lindberg

170
Citations
V-Dem Dataset v11.1

Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Carl Henrik Knutsen;Staffan I. Lindberg

165
Citations
Measuring the Rule of Law

Svend-Erik Skaaning

155
Citations
Beyond the Radial Delusion: Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy and Non-democracy

Jørgen Møller;Svend-Erik Skaaning

149
Citations
Party Strength and Economic Growth

Fernando Bizzarro;John Gerring;Carl Henrik Knutsen;Allen Hicken

136
Citations
The Third Wave: Inside the Numbers

Jørgen Møller;Svend-Erik Skaaning

121
Citations
State capacity and political regime stability

David Andersen;Jørgen Møller;Lasse Lykke Rørbæk;Svend-Erik Skaaning

113
Citations
Democracy and Democratization in Comparative Perspective: Conceptions, Conjunctures, Causes, and Consequences

Jørgen Møller;Svend-Erik Skaaning

105
Citations
Measuring Electoral Democracy with V-Dem Data: Introducing a New Polyarchy Index

Jan Teorell;Michael Coppedge;Staffan I. Lindberg;Svend-Erik Skaaning

101
Citations
V-Dem Methodology V6

Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Staffan I. I. Lindberg;Svend-Erik Skaaning

100
Citations
The Rule of Law : Definitions, Measures, Patterns and Causes

Jørgen Møller;Svend-Erik Skaaning

98
Citations
Regime Types and Democratic Sequencing

Jørgen Møller;Svend-Erik Skaaning

92
Citations
The Methodology of “Varieties of Democracy” (V-Dem)1:

Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Carl Henrik Knutsen;Joshua Krusell

83
Citations
Autocracies, democracies, and the violation of civil liberties

Jørgen Møller;Svend-Erik Skaaning

83
Citations
The State-Democracy Nexus: Conceptual Distinctions, Theoretical Perspectives, and Comparative Approaches

David Andersen;Jørgen Møller;Svend-Erik Skaaning

76
Citations
Requisites of Democracy: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Explanation

Jørgen Møller;Svend-Erik Skaaning

74
Citations
V-Dem Comparisons and Contrasts with Other Measurement Projects

Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Staffan I. Lindberg;Svend-Erik Skaaning

64
Citations
Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change

Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Adam Glynn;Carl Henrik Knutsen

30
Citations
Party Strength and Economic Growth

Fernando Bizzarro Neto;John Gerring;Allen Hicken;Carl Henrik Knutsen

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John Gerring The University of Texas at Austin

Staffan I. Lindberg University of Gothenburg

Jan Teorell Stockholm University

Jeffrey K. Staton Emory University

David Altman Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

M. Steven Fish University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Ziblatt Harvard University

Pamela Paxton The University of Texas at Austin

Aksel Sundström University of Gothenburg

Anna Lührmann Federal Foreign Office

External Links

Personal website of Svend-Erik Skaaning

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