Lars‐Erik Cederman

11.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
79 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Lars‐Erik Cederman is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars‐Erik Cederman has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 26 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 21 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Lars‐Erik Cederman's work include Political Conflict and Governance (51 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (21 papers) and Peacebuilding and International Security (14 papers). Lars‐Erik Cederman is often cited by papers focused on Political Conflict and Governance (51 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (21 papers) and Peacebuilding and International Security (14 papers). Lars‐Erik Cederman collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Lars‐Erik Cederman's co-authors include Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Nils B. Weidmann, Luc Girardin, Halvard Buhaug, Anthony D. Smith, Julian Wucherpfennig, Jan Ketil Rød, Manuel Vogt, Philipp Hunziker and Nils‐Christian Bormann and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Lars‐Erik Cederman

76 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison
    2011 544 citations Lars‐Erik Cederman, Nils B. Weidmann et al. American Political Science Review profile →
  2. Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era
    1996 485 citations Lars‐Erik Cederman et al. profile →
  3. Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War
    2013 410 citations Lars‐Erik Cederman, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
  4. Integrating Data on Ethnicity, Geography, and Conflict
    2015 361 citations Manuel Vogt, Nils‐Christian Bormann et al. Journal of Conflict Resolution profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Lars‐Erik Cederman 4.4k 2.2k 984 571 404 79 5.7k
Andreas Wimmer 6.5k 1.5× 2.6k 1.2× 1.9k 1.9× 360 0.6× 239 0.6× 65 8.1k
Barbara F. Walter 4.2k 1.0× 2.2k 1.0× 474 0.5× 787 1.4× 323 0.8× 40 5.1k
Nicholas Sambanis 4.6k 1.0× 2.2k 1.0× 857 0.9× 1.1k 1.9× 396 1.0× 70 5.5k
Ted Robert Gurr 6.8k 1.6× 3.8k 1.7× 866 0.9× 899 1.6× 869 2.2× 112 9.0k
Daniel Posner 3.6k 0.8× 2.0k 0.9× 1.6k 1.6× 634 1.1× 668 1.7× 47 5.1k
Mitchell A. Seligson 3.7k 0.8× 2.7k 1.3× 381 0.4× 377 0.7× 676 1.7× 130 5.3k
Larry Diamond 7.3k 1.6× 6.4k 2.9× 513 0.5× 1.2k 2.1× 764 1.9× 207 10.7k
Jeremy M. Weinstein 3.0k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 690 0.7× 485 0.8× 437 1.1× 78 4.1k
Jack Snyder 4.6k 1.0× 4.6k 2.1× 408 0.4× 987 1.7× 596 1.5× 106 6.5k
Susan C. Stokes 3.7k 0.8× 4.8k 2.2× 359 0.4× 420 0.7× 1.1k 2.8× 57 6.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lars‐Erik Cederman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik, et al.. (2025). The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe. American Political Science Review. 120(1). 37–54.
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik, et al.. (2025). Nationalism and the Transformation of the State. Cambridge University Press eBooks.
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik, et al.. (2024). Shaping states into nations: The effects of ethnic geography on state borders. American Journal of Political Science. 69(1). 132–147. 5 indexed citations
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik, et al.. (2024). The Future Is History: Restorative Nationalism and Conflict in Post-Napoleonic Europe. International Organization. 78(2). 259–292. 4 indexed citations
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik, et al.. (2023). War Did Make States: Revisiting the Bellicist Paradigm in Early Modern Europe. International Organization. 77(2). 324–362. 13 indexed citations
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik & Luc Girardin. (2023). Computational approaches to conflict research from modeling and data to computational diplomacy. Journal of Computational Science. 72. 102112–102112. 4 indexed citations
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Vogt, Manuel, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, & Lars‐Erik Cederman. (2021). From Claims to Violence: Signaling, Outbidding, and Escalation in Ethnic Conflict. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 65(7-8). 1278–1307. 28 indexed citations
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik. (2020). Emergent Actors in World Politics. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik. (2019). Blood for Soil: The Fatal Temptations of Ethnic Politics. Foreign Affairs. 98(2). 61–68. 5 indexed citations
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Hunziker, Philipp & Lars‐Erik Cederman. (2017). No extraction without representation: The ethno-regional oil curse and secessionist conflict. Journal of Peace Research. 54(3). 365–381. 25 indexed citations
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, & Julian Wucherpfennig. (2017). Predicting the decline of ethnic civil war. Journal of Peace Research. 54(2). 262–274. 41 indexed citations
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik, Nils B. Weidmann, & Nils‐Christian Bormann. (2015). Triangulating horizontal inequality. Journal of Peace Research. 52(6). 806–821. 45 indexed citations
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik, et al.. (2012). Inequality and conflict in federations. Journal of Peace Research. 49(2). 289–304. 66 indexed citations
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Johnson, Dominic, Nils B. Weidmann, & Lars‐Erik Cederman. (2011). Fortune Favours the Bold: An Agent-Based Model Reveals Adaptive Advantages of Overconfidence in War. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e20851–e20851. 26 indexed citations
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Weidmann, Nils B., Jan Ketil Rød, & Lars‐Erik Cederman. (2010). Representing ethnic groups in space: A new dataset. Journal of Peace Research. 47(4). 491–499. 162 indexed citations
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik, et al.. (2010). Democratization and civil war: Empirical evidence. Journal of Peace Research. 47(4). 377–394. 101 indexed citations
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Kalyvas, Stathis N., Stathis N. Kalyvas, Stathis N. Kalyvas, et al.. (2008). Order, Conflict, and Violence. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 136 indexed citations
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik, Jan Ketil Rød, & Nils B. Weidmann. (2006). Geo-referencing of ethnic groups: Creating a new dataset. 14 indexed citations
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Albert, Mathias, Lars‐Erik Cederman, & Alexander Wendt. (2005). New Systems Theories of World Politics. PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University). 61 indexed citations
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Cederman, Lars‐Erik. (2001). Constructing Europe's identity : the external dimension. 56 indexed citations

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