Kasper Hoffmann

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 509 citations indexed

About

Kasper Hoffmann is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kasper Hoffmann has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 509 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 5 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Kasper Hoffmann's work include Peacebuilding and International Security (7 papers), Political Conflict and Governance (6 papers) and Global Peace and Security Dynamics (4 papers). Kasper Hoffmann is often cited by papers focused on Peacebuilding and International Security (7 papers), Political Conflict and Governance (6 papers) and Global Peace and Security Dynamics (4 papers). Kasper Hoffmann collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Belgium and United States. Kasper Hoffmann's co-authors include Ana Arjona, Koen Vlassenroot, Judith Verweijen, William Reno, Timothy P. Wickham‐Crowley, Bert Suykens, Till Förster, Stathis N. Kalyvas, Zachariah Mampilly and Bridget Coggins and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology and Society, Land Use Policy and Geoforum.

In The Last Decade

Kasper Hoffmann

17 papers receiving 458 citations

Hit Papers

Rebel Governance in Civil... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150 200 250
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Rebel Governance in Civil War
    2015 298 citations Ana Arjona, Ana Arjona et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Kasper Hoffmann 413 213 66 43 31 20 509
Bert Suykens 357 0.9× 282 1.3× 57 0.9× 31 0.7× 18 0.6× 27 490
Ibrahim Abdullah 324 0.8× 97 0.5× 88 1.3× 47 1.1× 59 1.9× 19 447
Helene Maria Kyed 302 0.7× 171 0.8× 94 1.4× 15 0.3× 41 1.3× 41 417
Daniel Branch 221 0.5× 110 0.5× 92 1.4× 19 0.4× 44 1.4× 26 358
Stef Vandeginste 250 0.6× 124 0.6× 29 0.4× 18 0.4× 54 1.7× 39 331
Didier Péclard 266 0.6× 146 0.7× 94 1.4× 10 0.2× 54 1.7× 27 392
John F. Clark 297 0.7× 161 0.8× 49 0.7× 16 0.4× 116 3.7× 50 419
Gilbert M. Khadiagala 258 0.6× 175 0.8× 45 0.7× 22 0.5× 75 2.4× 46 384
Bert Ingelaere 323 0.8× 99 0.5× 35 0.5× 36 0.8× 45 1.5× 39 430
Leo Zeilig 204 0.5× 67 0.3× 59 0.9× 13 0.3× 29 0.9× 33 306

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kasper Hoffmann

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kasper Hoffmann

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kasper Hoffmann. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kasper Hoffmann based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kasper Hoffmann. Kasper Hoffmann is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hoffmann, Kasper, et al.. (2025). Everyday property-making: Negotiating land rights, precarity and public authority in urban Congo. Land Use Policy. 158. 107734–107734.
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Verweijen, Judith & Kasper Hoffmann. (2024). Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects. Ecology and Society. 29(3). 1 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper, et al.. (2020). Violent conflict and ethnicity in the Congo: beyond materialism, primordialism and symbolism. Conflict Security and Development. 20(5). 539–560. 3 indexed citations
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Kaldor, Mary, et al.. (2020). Evidence from the Conflict Research Programme: submission to the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper, et al.. (2020). Courses au pouvoir: the struggle over customary capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Journal of Eastern African Studies. 14(1). 125–144. 9 indexed citations
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Anthias, Penelope & Kasper Hoffmann. (2020). The making of ethnic territories: Governmentality and counter-conducts. Geoforum. 119. 218–226. 20 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper. (2019). Ethnogovernmentality: The making of ethnic territories and subjects in Eastern DR Congo. Geoforum. 119. 251–267. 20 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper & Judith Verweijen. (2018). Rethinking rebel rule: how Mai-Mai groups in eastern Congo govern. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper, Koen Vlassenroot, & Karen Büscher. (2018). Competition, Patronage and Fragmentation: The Limits of Bottom-Up Approaches to Security Governance in Ituri. Stability International Journal of Security and Development. 7(1). 1 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper & Judith Verweijen. (2018). Rebel rule: A governmentality perspective. African Affairs. 118(471). 352–374. 37 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper, et al.. (2018). Competing networks and political order in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a literature review on the logics of public authority and international intervention. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 5 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper, et al.. (2016). Taxation, Stateness and Armed Groups: Public Authority and Resource Extraction in Eastern Congo. Development and Change. 47(6). 1434–1456. 35 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper, et al.. (2016). JSRP paper: multi-layered security governance as a quick fix? The challenges of donor-supported bottom-up security provision in Ituri (DR Congo). London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 1–27. 1 indexed citations
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Arjona, Ana, Ana Arjona, Ana Arjona, et al.. (2015). Rebel Governance in Civil War. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 298 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hoffmann, Kasper. (2014). Ethnogovernmentality:the making of ethnic territories and subjects in Eastern Congo. RUCforsk (Roskilde University). 4 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper & Koen Vlassenroot. (2014). Armed groups and the exercise of public authority: the cases of the Mayi-Mayi and Raya Mutomboki in Kalehe, South Kivu. Peacebuilding. 2(2). 202–220. 30 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper & Thomas Kirk. (2013). Public Authority and the Provision of Public Goods in Conflict-Affected and Transitioning Regions. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1–58. 36 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper. (2012). Anna Maerker, Model Experts: Wax Anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775-1815. Social History of Medicine. 25(2). 542–543. 2 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper. (2010). The ethics of child-soldiering in the Congo. Young. 18(3). 339–358. 3 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kasper. (2009). Civil-military relations in Iraq 2003-7: The Danish experience. Econstor (Econstor). 1 indexed citations

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