Citing International Relations: Beyond the Boundaries of Disciplinary IR

Using citation data from Google Scholar (GS), this article situates IR within a much larger field of scholarship. This article compares Google Scholar citations numbers from influential publications within the traditional boundaries of disciplinary IR to publications which have influenced disciplinary IR using literature from outside its theoretical heartland. These citation numbers reveal a disciplinary geography in which the theoretical centre of the discipline is occupied by rationalist, neoliberal, realist, and increasingly, constructivist texts