2026 Victor Asal: 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	34	844	762	451	386	214	5503

Victor Asal 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 Victor Asal sits on this spectrum.

36 publications 333+

This scientist: 214 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Victor Asal 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 Victor Asal sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

Victor Asal is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a strong concentration in sociology and political science, and political science and international relations as key subfields.

Their scholarly work explores themes centered around political conflict and governance, terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence, as well as regional focuses on politics and conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East. Additional topics covered include innovative teaching methodologies in social sciences, educator training and historical pedagogy, gender, security, and conflict, and nuclear issues and defense.

Asal has contributed to a range of publications, notably in venues such as Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Harvard Dataverse, Terrorism and Political Violence, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, and PS Political Science & Politics. Among their frequently published venues, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism hosts the largest number of their publications.

Frequent collaborators include Charmaine N. Willis, Nakissa Jahanbani, Kyle Beardsley, Daniel J. Gustafson, and Peter Krause.

Representative recent papers by Victor Asal include:

Control over Bodies and Territories: Insurgent Territorial Control and Sexual Violence (2021, Security Studies)
Doing Good while Killing: Why Some Insurgent Groups Provide Community Services (2020, Terrorism and Political Violence)
Why Some Rebel Organizations Attack Americans (2021, Defence and Peace Economics)
Counter-Insurgency Strategies and Transnational Attacks by Rebel Groups (2021, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism)
Maritime Insurgency (2020, Terrorism and Political Violence)

Victor Asal received the CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation from the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2015.

Best Publications

The Nature of the Beast: Organizational Structures and the Lethality of Terrorist Attacks

Victor Asal;R. Karl Rethemeyer

642
Citations
Playing Games with International Relations

Victor Asal

316
Citations
Creating Simulations for Political Science Education

Victor Asal;Elizabeth L. Blake

302
Citations
Mediating International Crises Cross-National and Experimental Perspectives

Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Kathleen Young;Victor Asal;David Quinn

214
Citations
Gender ideologies and forms of contentious mobilization in the Middle East

Victor Asal;Richard Legault;Ora Szekely;Jonathan Wilkenfeld

189
Citations
What is driving global obesity trends? Globalization or “modernization”?

Ashley Fox;Wenhui Feng;Victor Asal

189
Citations
Winning with the Bomb

Kyle Beardsley;Victor Asal

158
Citations
Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior

Victor Asal;Kyle Beardsley

137
Citations
The Softest of Targets: A Study on Terrorist Target Selection

Victor H. Asal;R. Karl Rethemeyer;Irina Anderson;Alfred Stein

137
Citations
Why Split? Organizational Splits among Ethnopolitical Organizations in the Middle East:

Victor Asal;Mitchell Brown;Angela Dalton

136
Citations
Original Sin: A Cross-National Study of the Legality of Homosexual Acts

Victor Asal;Udi Sommer;Paul G. Harwood

134
Citations
Mediating International Crises

Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Kathleen J. Young;David M. Quinn;Victor Asal

126
Citations
Constructing International Relations Simulations: Examining the Pedagogy of IR Simulations through a Constructivist Learning Theory Lens.

Victor Asal;Jayson Kratoville

123
Citations
Political Exclusion, Oil, and Ethnic Armed Conflict

Victor Asal;Michael Findley;James A. Piazza;James Igoe Walsh

119
Citations
Close Cousins or Distant Relatives? The Relationship Between Terrorism and Hate Crime:

Kathleen Deloughery;Ryan D. King;Victor Asal

119
Citations
Power Play: Mediation in Symmetric and Asymmetric International Crises

David Quinn;Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Kathleen Smarick;Victor Asal

105
Citations
Consenting to a Child's Decision to Join a Jihad: Insights from a Survey of Militant Families in Pakistan

Victor Asal;C. Christine Fair;Stephen Shellman

100
Citations
Billiard Balls or Snowflakes? Major Power Prestige and the International Diffusion of Institutions and Practices

Benjamin O. Fordham;Victor Asal

93
Citations
Dilettantes, Ideologues, and the Weak: Terrorists Who Don't Kill

Victor Asal;R. Karl Rethemeyer

91
Citations
Killing Range: Explaining Lethality Variance within a Terrorist Organization.

Victor Asal;Paul Gill;R. Karl Rethemeyer;John Horgan

84
Citations
Terrorism as Transnational Advocacy: An Organizational and Tactical Examination

Victor Asal;Brian Nussbaum;D. William Harrington

69
Citations
Nuclear Weapons as Shields

Kyle Beardsley;Victor Asal

63
Citations
I Want You! The Determinants of Military Conscription

Victor Asal;Justin Conrad;Nathan Toronto

61
Citations
Human Rights, NGO Shaming and the Exports of Abusive States

Timothy M. Peterson;Amanda Murdie;Victor Asal

53
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Wilkenfeld University of Maryland, College Park

Amanda Murdie Georgia Institute of Technology

Joseph K. Young University of Kentucky

Kyle Beardsley Duke University

Krishna R. Pattipati University of Connecticut

Michael G. Findley The University of Texas at Austin

Paul Gill University College London

C. Christine Fair Georgetown University

Christopher M. Federico University of Minnesota

H. Brinton Milward University of Arizona

External Links

Personal website of Victor Asal

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