The Academic Rankings of Research.com

Dr. Jorge I. Domínguez served as a professor of comparative and international political science, with a specialty on Latin America, at Harvard University from 1972 until he chose to retire in 2018.

In 2022, Research.com, a prominent academic platform for scientists, ranked him among the top 1000 scientists in the United States in the area of Law and Political Science. He ranked #876 in the United States as well as #1588 in the world ranking. This was noteworthy because specialists on the politics of a region rarely rank as high as Domínguez has done.

Domínguez’s most often cited works were Cuba: Order and Revolution, Democratizing Mexico: Public Opinion and Electoral Choices, and “Mexicans React to Electoral Fraud and Political Corruption: an Assessment of Public Opinion and Voting Behavior”. Domínguez has also published many other scholarly books and articles in English and in Spanish.

The Research.com ranking is constructed using the H-index data that Microsoft Academic gathers. The ranking includes only prominent scientists with an H-index of at least 20 for scientific papers published in the field of Law and Political Sciences.

The full rankings may be found at https://research.com/scientists-rankings/law-and-political-science and https://research.com/scientists-rankings/law-and-political-science/us

Scholarly Books Detailing Cuba’s Economy, Society, and Relations with the United States

Jorge I. Domínguez was a professor at Harvard University from 1972 until his retirement in 2018. He was also affiliated with Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS).

He researched and taught about Cuba and its relations with the United States. He believed that the study of Cuba and its U.S. relations should be a joint effort between scholars in Cuba, the United States, and elsewhere. Through DRCLAS, he and Dr. Lorena Barberia co-edited six collective projects during this century.

Four projects, jointly with Cuba’s Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva as co-editor, focused on Cuba’s economy. Three of these were books produced under DRCLAS auspices and published by Harvard University Press; the fourth was a special issue of the Cuban Studies journal, also hosted at DRCLAS. Another book, produced by DRCLAS and published by Harvard University Pres, focused on social policies and decentralization in Cuba, co-edited with María del Carmen Zabala, Mayra Espina. The sixth book, on U.S.-Cuban relations, co-edited with Rafael M. Hernández and published by Routledge. Routledge also published a revised second edition.

Altogether these six projects published 50 Cuban scholar chapter authors and co-authors, 20 others were U.S. scholars, and another 9 were based in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Spain. The mutual respect, the shared accomplishments, and the many talents set a good example and produced splendid books.