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Wolfgang Merkel 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 Wolfgang Merkel sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 196 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolfgang Merkel 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 Wolfgang Merkel sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 76 scientists 21 D-Index: 79 scientists 22 D-Index: 84 scientists 23 D-Index: 68 scientists 24 D-Index: 88 scientists 25 D-Index: 82 scientists 26 D-Index: 76 scientists 27 D-Index: 75 scientists 28 D-Index: 99 scientists 29 D-Index: 96 scientists 30 D-Index: 96 scientists 31 D-Index: 81 scientists 32 D-Index: 86 scientists 33 D-Index: 81 scientists 34 D-Index: 84 scientists 35 D-Index: 72 scientists 36 D-Index: 58 scientists 37 D-Index: 53 scientists 38 D-Index: 48 scientists 39 D-Index: 40 scientists 40 D-Index: 40 scientists 41 D-Index: 32 scientists 42 D-Index: 26 scientists 43 D-Index: 25 scientists 44 D-Index: 33 scientists 45 D-Index: 33 scientists 46 D-Index: 17 scientists 47 D-Index: 21 scientists 48 D-Index: 22 scientists 49 D-Index: 18 scientists 50 D-Index: 19 scientists 51 D-Index: 19 scientists 52 D-Index: 15 scientists 53 D-Index: 14 scientists 54 D-Index: 10 scientists 55 D-Index: 13 scientists 56 D-Index: 9 scientists 57 D-Index: 11 scientists 58 D-Index: 12 scientists 59 D-Index: 10 scientists 60 D-Index: 5 scientists 61 D-Index: 7 scientists 62+ D-Index: 100 scientists
20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • Embedded and defective democracies

    Wolfgang Merkel

  • The Democracy Barometer: A New Instrument to Measure the Quality of Democracy and its Potential for Comparative Research

    Marc Bühlmann;Wolfgang Merkel;Lisa Müller;Bernhard Weßels

  • Formale und informale Institutionen in defekten Demokratien

    Wolfgang Merkel;Aurel Croissant

  • Theorien der Transformation: Die demokratische Konsolidierung postautoritärer Gesellschaften

    Wolfgang Merkel

  • Von der Diktatur zur Demokratie

    Wolfgang Merkel;Hans-Jürgen Puhle

  • The Quality of Democracy Democracy Barometer for Established Democracies

    Marc Bühlmann;Wolfgang Merkel;Bernhard Wessels;Lisa Müller

  • Soziale Gerechtigkeit und die drei Welten des Wohlfahrtskapitalismus

    Wolfgang Merkel

  • Die Reformfähigkeit der Sozialdemokratie : Herausforderungen und Bilanz der Regierungspolitik in Westeuropa

    Wolfgang Merkel

  • Is There a Crisis of Democracy

    Wolfgang Merkel

  • Social Democracy in Power: The Capacity to Reform

    Wolfgang Merkel;Alexander Petring;Christian Henkes;Christoph Egle

  • Kosmopolitismus versus Kommunitarismus: Ein neuer Konflikt in der Demokratie

    Unknown

  • Wer regiert in der Krise? Demokratie in Zeiten der Pandemie

    Wolfgang Merkel

  • Politische Partizipation und demokratische Inklusion

    Wolfgang Merkel;Alexander Petring

  • Introduction: democratization in the early twenty-first century

    Aurel Croissant;Wolfgang Merkel

  • Institutionalisierung und Konsolidierung der Demokratie in Ostmitteleuropa

    Wolfgang Merkel

  • Is capitalism compatible with democracy

    Wolfgang Merkel

  • Are dictatorships returning? Revisiting the ‘democratic rollback’ hypothesis

    Wolfgang Merkel

  • Demokratie als universalistisches Analysekonzept

    Wolfgang Merkel;Hans-Jürgen Puhle;Aurel Croissant;Claudia Eicher

  • Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges

    Wolfgang Merkel;Anna Lührmann

  • Hard times and regime failure: autocratic responses to economic downturns

    Dag Tanneberg;Christoph Stefes;Wolfgang Merkel

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Aurel Croissant
Aurel Croissant Heidelberg University

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