With a greater number of publications in the leading political science journals than any other political scientist globally, James L. Gibson, the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, heads a new list of active political scientists across North America and the globe. The “Global Ranking of Research Productivity of Political Science Departments” has been released by the American Political Science Association.

Furthermore, the Department of Political Science at WashU secured the No. 2 position in North America for faculty research output over the past five years. This category assesses the mean number of academic articles published in prestigious journals for each faculty member in the department. The department also attained the No. 10 rank for recent research influence, which is based on the significance of the journals where research papers are published.

The study cites that the analysis is grounded on a comprehensive review of 115,427 articles and 12,696 books authored by 5,586 faculty across 178 departments spanning North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, and Africa.

The authors remarked that the research “offers one of the initial sets of objective rankings for departments, both within and outside of the United States, to assess their research accomplishment in relation to others.”

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