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Ziya Öniş

Ziya Öniş

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Political Science
Turkey
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
51
Citations
8730
World Ranking
224
National Ranking
1

Ziya Öniş 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 Ziya Öniş sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 120 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ziya Öniş 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 Ziya Öniş sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Turkey Leader Award

Overview

Ziya Öniş is affiliated with Koç University in Turkey and has a scholarly focus within the broad field of Social Sciences, producing a total of 33 publications. Their research primarily spans Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Development, Finance, and Strategy and Management. This cross-disciplinary engagement reflects an interest in understanding complex social and political phenomena from varied analytical perspectives.

Their work concentrates on several main topics including Turkey's Politics and Society, Political Conflict and Governance, International Development and Aid, International Relations and Foreign Policy, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Islamic Studies and History, and Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts. These topics underline a focus on both regional and thematic areas relevant to contemporary political dynamics and governance issues.

The scientist has published recent papers featuring research on Turkish foreign policy, economic crises, global governance, China-Turkey relations, and middle power activism. Sample recent publications include:

  • "Turkish foreign policy in a post-western order: strategic autonomy or new forms of dependence?" (2021, International Affairs)
  • "The anatomy of Turkey's new heterodox crisis: the interplay of domestic politics and global dynamics" (2020, Turkish Studies)
  • "The New Age of Hybridity and Clash of Norms: China, BRICS, and Challenges of Global Governance in a Postliberal International Order" (2020, Alternatives Global Local Political)
  • "Emerging partnership in a post-Western world? The political economy of China-Turkey relations" (2021, Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies)
  • "Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism" (2021, Third World Quarterly)

Ziya Öniş frequently collaborates with other scholars, notably Mustafa Kutlay, with whom they have at least eight joint publications. Other coauthors include Maimaiti Yalikun, Yalkun Uluyol, and Fikret Şenses, indicating a network of colleagues engaged in similar areas of research.

Their research appears in a variety of academic journals, with multiple contributions to Turkish Studies, Alternatives Global Local Political, and Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, as well as publications in International Affairs and Third World Quarterly. This distribution across respected venues shows an engagement with academic platforms focused on regional and international political and social studies.

Best Publications

  • Between Europeanization and Euro‐Asianism: Foreign Policy Activism in Turkey during the AKP Era

    Ziya Öniş;Şuhnaz Yilmaz

  • The political economy of Islamic resurgence in Turkey: The rise of the Welfare Party in perspective

    Ziya Onis

  • Turgut Özal and his Economic Legacy: Turkish Neo-Liberalism in Critical Perspective

    Ziya Öniş

  • The Logic of the Developmental State@@@Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization@@@The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism@@@MITI and the Japanese Miracle@@@Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization

    Ziya Onis;Alice H. Amsden;Frederic C. Deyo;Chalmers Johnson

  • Multiple Faces of the "New" Turkish Foreign Policy: Underlying Dynamics and a Critique

    Ziya Onis

  • Domestic Politics, International Norms and Challenges to the State: Turkey-EU Relations in the post-Helsinki Era

    Ziya Öniş

  • The Triumph of Conservative Globalism: The Political Economy of the AKP Era

    Ziya Öniş

  • Rethinking the Emerging Post‐Washington Consensus

    Ziya Onis;Fikret Senses

  • Conservative globalists versus defensive nationalists: political parties and paradoxes of Europeanization in Turkey

    Ziya Öniş

  • Turkey and the Arab Spring: Between Ethics and Self-Interest

    Ziya Onis

  • Monopolising the Centre: The AKP and the Uncertain Path of Turkish Democracy

    Ziya Öniş

  • Beyond the 2001 financial crisis: The political economy of the new phase of neo-liberal restructuring in Turkey

    Ziya Öniş

  • Varieties of Populism in a Changing Global Context: The Divergent Paths of Erdoğan and Kirchnerismo

    S. Erdem Aytaç;Ziya Öniş

  • A New Path Emerges

    Ziya Onis;Emin Fuat Keyman

  • Turkey and Russia in a shifting global order: cooperation, conflict and asymmetric interdependence in a turbulent region

    Ziya Öniş;Şuhnaz Yılmaz

  • Rising Powers in a Changing Global Order: the political economy of Turkey in the age of brics

    Ziya Öniş;Mustafa Kutlay

  • Turkey and the Arab Revolutions: Boundaries of Regional Power Influence in a Turbulent Middle East

    Ziya Öniş

  • Neoliberal globalisation, the nation-state and financial crises in the semi-periphery: A comparative analysis

    Ziya Onis;Ahmet Faruk Aysan

  • Luxembourg, Helsinki and Beyond: Towards an Interpretation of Recent Turkey‐EU Relations

    Ziya Öniş

  • Entrepreneurs, Democracy, and Citizenship in Turkey

    Ziya Onis;Umut Turem

  • Business, Globalization and Democracy: A Comparative Analysis of Turkish Business Associations

    Z. Önis;U. Türem

  • Political Islam at the crossroads: From hegemony to co-existence

    Ziya Öniş

  • Turkey under the challenge of state capitalism: the political economy of the late AKP era

    Ziya Öniş

  • The Regulatory State and Turkish Banking Reforms in the Age of Post-Washington Consensus

    Caner Bakir;Ziya Öniş

  • Turkey's Political Economy in the Age of Financial Globalization: The Significance of the EU Anchor

    Ziya Öniş;Caner Bakır

  • Turkish foreign policy in a post-western order: strategic autonomy or new forms of dependence?

    Mustafa Kutlay;Ziya Öniş

  • Varieties of Populism in a Changing Global Context: The Divergent Paths of Erdogan and Kirchnerismo

    S. Aytaç;Ziya Öniş

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Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Johnson University of California, San Diego

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