Sarah Léonard

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sarah Léonard is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Léonard has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Sarah Léonard's work include European Criminal Justice and Data Protection (13 papers), European Union Policy and Governance (13 papers) and Global Security and Public Health (11 papers). Sarah Léonard is often cited by papers focused on European Criminal Justice and Data Protection (13 papers), European Union Policy and Governance (13 papers) and Global Security and Public Health (11 papers). Sarah Léonard collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Belgium and Italy. Sarah Léonard's co-authors include Christian Kaunert, Thierry Balzacq, Jan Ruzicka, P. Bruyndonckx, S. Tavernier, Cédric Lemaître, Marnix C. Maas, D.J. van der Laan, Dennis R. Schaart and O. Devroede and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment and IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Léonard

50 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

‘Securitization’ revisited: theory and cases 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150 200
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. ‘Securitization’ revisited: theory and cases
    2015 234 citations Sarah Léonard et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sarah Léonard United Kingdom 15 581 364 322 309 119 50 1.1k
Félix Bühlmann Switzerland 16 392 0.7× 148 0.4× 78 0.2× 30 0.1× 8 0.1× 53 915
Stephen D. Webb United States 11 109 0.2× 31 0.1× 84 0.3× 61 0.2× 21 0.2× 44 396
John C. Courtney United States 12 113 0.2× 139 0.4× 48 0.1× 13 0.0× 21 0.2× 39 390
Gabriel Sheffer Israel 16 521 0.9× 173 0.5× 87 0.3× 7 0.0× 8 0.1× 67 853
Yoshitaka Ishikawa Japan 18 201 0.3× 19 0.1× 439 1.4× 240 0.8× 2 0.0× 81 927
M. Charles Switzerland 4 54 0.1× 30 0.1× 62 0.2× 153 0.5× 3 0.0× 7 363
R. L. Cooper United States 10 112 0.2× 94 0.3× 54 0.2× 33 0.1× 1 0.0× 16 1.1k
Steven H. Lee United States 13 267 0.5× 208 0.6× 7 0.0× 24 0.1× 13 0.1× 22 559
P. Lewis United States 17 326 0.6× 147 0.4× 39 0.1× 3 0.0× 5 0.0× 72 877
Robert Griffith United States 18 174 0.3× 184 0.5× 1 0.0× 89 0.3× 9 0.1× 67 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Léonard

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Léonard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sarah Léonard. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sarah Léonard. The network helps show where Sarah Léonard may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Léonard

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Léonard. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Léonard 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 Sarah Léonard. Sarah Léonard 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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Léonard, Sarah. (2024). The Impact of Government Subsidies on Entrepreneurial Activities. 4(2). 27–39. 1 indexed citations
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Kaunert, Christian, et al.. (2023). Far-right foreign fighters and Ukraine: A blind spot for the European Union?. New Journal of European Criminal Law. 14(2). 247–266. 8 indexed citations
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Kaunert, Christian, et al.. (2022). Securitization of COVID-19 as a Security Norm: WHO Norm Entrepreneurship and Norm Cascading. Social Sciences. 11(7). 266–266. 6 indexed citations
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Kaunert, Christian & Sarah Léonard. (2021). Collective securitization and crisification of EU policy change: two decades of EU counterterrorism policy. Global Affairs. 7(5). 687–693. 5 indexed citations
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Léonard, Sarah & Christian Kaunert. (2021). De-centring the Securitisation of Asylum and Migration in the European Union: Securitisation, Vulnerability and the Role of Turkey. Geopolitics. 27(3). 729–751. 26 indexed citations
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Léonard, Sarah & Christian Kaunert. (2021). The development of Europol’s external relations: Towards supranationalism?. Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law. 28(2). 229–244. 2 indexed citations
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Kaunert, Christian, et al.. (2014). Introduction: supranational governance in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice after the Stockholm Programme. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. 27(1). 39–47. 7 indexed citations
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Kaunert, Christian, et al.. (2014). The European Parliament in the External Dimension of EU Counter-terrorism: More Actorness, Accountability and Oversight 10 Years on?. Intelligence & National Security. 30(2-3). 357–376. 9 indexed citations
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Kaunert, Christian & Sarah Léonard. (2013). European security, terrorism and intelligence : tackling new security challenges in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Bureš, Oldřich, et al.. (2013). The European Union Counter-terrorism Coordinator and the External Dimension of the European Union Counter-terrorism Policy. Perspectives on European Politics and Society. 14(3). 325–338. 3 indexed citations
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Kaunert, Christian & Sarah Léonard. (2013). European Security, Terrorism and Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Kaunert, Christian, et al.. (2013). EU Counterterrorism and the Southern Mediterranean Countries after the Arab Spring: New Potential for Cooperation?. Democracy and Security. 9(1-2). 137–156. 7 indexed citations
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Léonard, Sarah. (2012). Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry. Dissent. 59(2). 42–47. 3 indexed citations
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Léonard, Sarah & Christian Kaunert. (2012). ‘Between a rock and a hard place?’: The European Union’s financial sanctions against suspected terrorists, multilateralism and human rights. Cooperation and Conflict. 47(4). 473–494. 5 indexed citations
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Léonard, Sarah, Fiona Spotswood, & Alan Tapp. (2012). Overcoming the self‐image incongruency of non‐cyclists. Journal of Social Marketing. 2(1). 23–36. 9 indexed citations
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Tapp, Alan, et al.. (2012). Socio-cultural forces that impact on cycling behaviour in car-dominant societies: A survey of the UK population. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 15. S273–S273. 1 indexed citations
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Kaunert, Christian & Sarah Léonard. (2011). The European Union and refugees: towards more restrictive asylum policies in the European Union?. Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 3 indexed citations
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Léonard, Sarah. (2010). The use and effectiveness of migration controls as a counter-terrorism instrument in the European Union. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5 indexed citations
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Bruyndonckx, P., Sarah Léonard, Cédric Lemaître, S. Tavernier, & Yue Wu. (2006). Performance Study of a PET Detector Module Based on a Continuous Scintillator. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 53(5). 2536–2542. 14 indexed citations
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Laan, D.J. van der, Marnix C. Maas, Dennis R. Schaart, et al.. (2006). Using Cramer-Rao theory combined with Monte Carlo simulations for the optimization of monolithic scintillator PET detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 53(3). 1063–1070. 41 indexed citations

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