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Nils Petter Gleditsch: A Lifetime Achiever

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The Lewis Fry Richardson Lifetime Achievement Award is a triennial prize to honour scholars, who have made exemplary contributions to the scientific study of militarised conflict. This essay presents the third winner of the award – Nils Petter Gleditsch – and commemorates on his scholarly achievements over the last four decades.

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  1. A common misunderstanding, particularly in his own country, is that Gleditsch is oriented exclusively towards quantitative empirical work. That is not the case, as this review will show.

  2. Citation statistics as of 1 September 2007.

  3. http://esi-topics.com/armed-conflict/.

  4. We might say ‘Gleditsch are’ because the Social Science Citation Index-automated Author Recognition system identifies ten different authors named Nils Petter Gleditsch, reflecting the diversity of his production. In addition, Gleditsch is the author of numerous publications not listed in the ISI database.

  5. As of 1 September 2007.

  6. In the spirit of Nils Petter Gleditsch, replication data will be available at http://new.prio.no/CSCW-Datasets/uponpublication.

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    Halvard Buhaug, Scott Gates, Håvard Hegre, Håvard Strand & Henrik Urdal

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Buhaug, H., Gates, S., Hegre, H. et al. Nils Petter Gleditsch: A Lifetime Achiever. Eur Polit Sci 8, 79–89 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2008.54

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