Seraina Rüegger

922 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 515 citations indexed

About

Seraina Rüegger is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Seraina Rüegger has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 515 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 3 papers in Clinical Psychology and 2 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Seraina Rüegger's work include Political Conflict and Governance (4 papers), Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 papers) and Migration, Health and Trauma (3 papers). Seraina Rüegger is often cited by papers focused on Political Conflict and Governance (4 papers), Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 papers) and Migration, Health and Trauma (3 papers). Seraina Rüegger collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Ukraine and Austria. Seraina Rüegger's co-authors include Lars‐Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Manuel Vogt, Nils‐Christian Bormann, Philipp Hunziker, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Nils B. Weidmann, Erich Seifritz, Susi Kriemler and Anja Frei and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution and Journal of Peace Research.

In The Last Decade

Seraina Rüegger

9 papers receiving 487 citations

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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.

Integrating Data on Ethnicity, Geography, and Conflict

2015 361 citations Manuel Vogt, Nils‐Christian Bormann et al. Journal of Conflict Resolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Seraina Rüegger Switzerland	6	414	150	85	76	52	9	515
Lotta Harbom Sweden	7	574 1.4×	255 1.7×	56 0.7×	133 1.8×	44 0.8×	12	703
Manuel Vogt United Kingdom	8	501 1.2×	194 1.3×	106 1.2×	76 1.0×	8 0.2×	14	615
Madhav Joshi United States	17	562 1.4×	275 1.8×	50 0.6×	155 2.0×	12 0.2×	46	658
Peter Kagwanja South Africa	10	332 0.8×	158 1.1×	18 0.2×	51 0.7×	23 0.4×	21	437
Lakshmi Iyer United States	5	247 0.6×	90 0.6×	126 1.5×	20 0.3×	11 0.2×	8	391
Cyanne E. Loyle United States	13	452 1.1×	223 1.5×	17 0.2×	28 0.4×	21 0.4×	34	538
Markus Virgil Hoehne Germany	9	306 0.7×	222 1.5×	43 0.5×	31 0.4×	18 0.3×	48	416
Marc L. Hutchison United States	11	391 0.9×	234 1.6×	68 0.8×	32 0.4×	6 0.1×	19	472
Giulia Sinatti Netherlands	11	446 1.1×	65 0.4×	233 2.7×	34 0.4×	54 1.0×	26	517
Daniel W Hill United States	11	542 1.3×	365 2.4×	20 0.2×	81 1.1×	16 0.3×	18	678

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Seraina Rüegger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Seraina Rüegger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Seraina Rüegger 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 Seraina Rüegger. Seraina Rüegger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Kaufmann, Marco, Anja Frei, Seraina Rüegger, et al.. (2025). Mental health burden of persons living in Ukraine and Ukrainians displaced to Switzerland: the mental health assessment of the Ukrainian population (MAP) studies. BMJ Global Health. 10(8). e019557–e019557. 2 indexed citations

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Rüegger, Seraina, Tala Ballouz, Marco Kaufmann, et al.. (2025). Mental Health Assessment of the Population: Study Protocol of the MAP Research Program in Ukraine (MAP-U) and in Zurich (MAP-Z). International Journal of Public Health. 69. 1607271–1607271. 2 indexed citations

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Cederman, Lars‐Erik, et al.. (2021). Redemption through Rebellion: Border Change, Lost Unity, and Nationalist Conflict. American Journal of Political Science. 66(1). 24–42. 13 indexed citations

4.

Rüegger, Seraina, et al.. (2021). Refugees and Covid‐19: Beyond Health Risks to Insecurity. Swiss Political Science Review. 27(2). 353–368. 13 indexed citations

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Girardin, Luc, et al.. (2021). Mapping the International System, 1886-2019: The CShapes 2.0 Dataset. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 66(1). 144–161. 21 indexed citations

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Rüegger, Seraina, et al.. (2019). Refugees and violence: Introducing the Refugee-Related Security Incidence Dataset (RRSID). 8(2). 261–287. 2 indexed citations

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Rüegger, Seraina. (2018). Refugees, ethnic power relations, and civil conflict in the country of asylum. Journal of Peace Research. 56(1). 42–57. 52 indexed citations

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Vogt, Manuel, Nils‐Christian Bormann, Seraina Rüegger, et al.. (2015). Integrating Data on Ethnicity, Geography, and Conflict. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 59(7). 1327–1342. 361 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rüegger, Seraina, et al.. (2015). The Ethnicity of Refugees (ER): A new dataset for understanding flight patterns. Conflict Management and Peace Science. 35(1). 65–88. 49 indexed citations

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