David Ronfeldt

3.8k citations
82 papers · 1.9k · 1 hit paper · h-index 20

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David Ronfeldt

71 papers receiving 1.4k citations

David Ronfeldt's Hit Papers

Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy 2002 · 373 citations
3730+8+16Years since publication100200300

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David Ronfeldt
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  • Communication 283
  • Political Science and International Relations 772
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.0k
  • Information Systems 247
  • General Social Sciences 34
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Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy
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2002373
2 1993167
3
In Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age
1997132
4
COUNTERING NEW TERRORISM
1995125
5 2001119
6 1999100
7
The advent of netwar
199698
8 199983
9
Networks and Netwars
200076
10
Swarming and the Future of Conflict
200074
11
Networks, netwar, and information-age terrorism
199965
12 200153
13 199228
14 199127
15
Numbered Lives: Some Statistical Observations From 77 International Hostage Episodes
197725
16 197324
17
The Advent of Netwar (Revisited)
200122
18 199220
19 199920
20 199620

About David Ronfeldt

David Ronfeldt is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Economics and Econometrics and Computer Networks and Communications, having authored 82 papers that have together received 1.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (14 papers), European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (8 papers), Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (7 papers), Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (7 papers), Defense, Military, and Policy Studies (4 papers), Military History and Strategy (4 papers), Information and Cyber Security (4 papers) and International Relations and Foreign Policy (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Communication (283 citations), Political Science and International Relations (772 citations), Sociology and Political Science (1.0k citations), Information Systems (247 citations) and General Social Sciences (34 citations). David Ronfeldt has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include John Arquilla, Eliot A. Cohen, Bruce Hoffman, Graham E. Fuller, Ian O. Lesser, Peter Reuter, Georges Vernez, Brian Michael Jenkins, Danielle Varda and Michael Quinn. Their work appears in journals such as First Monday, Information Communication & Society, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Hispanic American Historical Review and The Information Society.

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