An interview with:
Professor Michael Ross
April 2007 |
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Special Topics talks with
Professor Michael Ross of UCLA about his research on
armed conflict. Professor Ross has two papers on our
list of the 20 most-cited papers on armed conflict
published in the past two years: "What do we know about
natural resources and civil war?" (J. Peace Res.
41: 337-56, 2004) with 25 citations, and "How do natural
resources influence civil war? Evidence from thirteen
cases," (Int. Org. 58: 35-67, 2004) with 15
citations. Professor Ross has been a member of the UCLA
Political Science Department since 2001.
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An interview with:
Professor John R. Oneal
March
2007 |
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According to our analysis
of armed conflict research over the past decade, the
work of Professor John R. Oneal ranks at #2, with 14
papers cited a total of 537 times to date. Three of
these papers are included on our list of the top 20
papers on armed conflict published in the past decade.
In
Essential
Science IndicatorsSM, Professor Oneal’s
record includes 19 papers cited a total of 661 times to
date in the field of Social Sciences. Professor Oneal is
a professor emeritus in the Department of Political
Science at the University of Alabama.
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An interview with:
Prof. Nils Petter Gleditsch
February
2007 |
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This
month Special Topics talks with Nils Petter Gleditsch,
who is ranked at #7, with 12 papers cited a total of
294 times, in our analysis of armed conflict research
over the past decade. Professor Gleditsch’s record
in
Essential
Science IndicatorsSM
includes 16 papers cited a total of 316 times to date.
Professor Gleditsch, a research professor at the
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) in
Norway, is also the leader of the Working Group on
Environmental Factors in Civil War at PRIO’s Centre
for the Study of Civil War and the Editor of the Journal
of Peace Research.
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An interview with:
Prof.
Allan Stam
January
2007 |
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Special
Topics talks with Professor Allan Stam about his
highly cited research on armed conflict. In our
analysis of the field, Professor Stam’s work ranks
at #3, with 13 papers cited a total of 345 times. His
paper, "EUGene: a conceptual model,"
(Bennett DS and Stam AC, Int. Interact. 26[2]:
179-204, 2000), ranks at #8 among armed conflict
papers published in the past decade, with 100 cites at
the time of the analysis. Professor Stam is the Daniel
Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College
in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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An interview with:
Dr. Bruce Russett
December
2006 |
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According
to our Special Topics analysis on armed conflict research
over the past decade, the #1 slot belongs to Dr. Bruce
Russett, with 15 papers cited a total of 537 times, and
three of these papers appear on the list of the 20
most-cited papers in the topic over the past decade. In
Essential
Science IndicatorsSM,
Dr. Russett’s record includes 23 papers cited a total of
653 times over the past 10 years in the field of Social
Sciences.
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