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Papers

(The median citation count of Political Analysis is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring Distances in High Dimensional Spaces	324
Accessibility and Equity in the Research Process: Gender Bias in Elite Interview Recruitment	84
Integrating Data Across Misaligned Spatial Units	76
Creating and Comparing Dictionary, Word Embedding, and Transformer-Based Models to Measure Discrete Emotions in German Political Text	54
Measuring Closeness in Proportional Representation Systems	51
A Statistical Model of Bipartite Networks: Application to Cosponsorship in the United States Senate	51
Ends Against the Middle: Measuring Latent Traits when Opposites Respond the Same Way for Antithetical Reasons	48
Synthetically generated text for supervised text analysis	36
When Correlation Is Not Enough: Validating Populism Scores from Supervised Machine-Learning Models	23
Parameterizing Spatial Weight Matrices in Spatial Econometric Models	22
Less Annotating, More Classifying: Addressing the Data Scarcity Issue of Supervised Machine Learning with Deep Transfer Learning and BERT-NLI	22
Relatio: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives – ERRATUM	20
A Nonparametric Bayesian Model for Detecting Differential Item Functioning: An Application to Political Representation in the US	20
Detecting and Correcting for Separation in Strategic Choice Models	18
Choosing Imputation Models	16
PAN volume 30 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	16
Validating the Applicability of Bayesian Inference with Surname and Geocoding to Congressional Redistricting	16
On Finetuning Large Language Models	16
Using Multiple Pretreatment Periods to Improve Difference-in-Differences and Staggered Adoption Designs	15
Generative AI and Topological Data Analysis of Longitudinal Panel Data	14
Estimating the Local Average Treatment Effect Without the Exclusion Restriction	13
Rejoinder: Concluding Remarks on Scholarly Communications	12
Contagion, Confounding, and Causality: Confronting the Three C’s of Observational Political Networks Research	11
Bin-Conditional Conformal Prediction of Fatalities from Armed Conflict	10
Selecting More Informative Training Sets with Fewer Observations	10

A Framework for the Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Analysis of Visual Frames	10
How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies	10
Proportionally Less Difficult?: Reevaluating Keele’s “Proportionally Difficult”	9
Quantifying Bias from Measurable and Unmeasurable Confounders Across Three Domains of Individual Determinants of Political Preferences	9
Categorizing Topics Versus Inferring Attitudes: A Theory and Method for Analyzing Open-ended Survey Responses	9
PAN volume 30 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	8
Priming Bias Versus Post-Treatment Bias in Experimental Designs	8
Exponential Random Graph Models for Dynamic Signed Networks: An Application to International Relations	8
Hierarchically Regularized Entropy Balancing	8
The Probability of Casting a Pivotal Vote in an Instant Runoff Voting Election	7
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging - CORRIGENDUM	7
Cross-Lingual Classification of Political Texts Using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings	7
Identification of Preferences in Forced-Choice Conjoint Experiments: Reassessing the Quantity of Interest	7
Countering Non-Ignorable Nonresponse in Survey Models with Randomized Response Instruments and Doubly Robust Estimation	7
Generalized Kernel Regularized Least Squares	7
Attention and Political Choice: A Foundation for Eye Tracking in Political Science	6
Ordered Beta Regression: A Parsimonious, Well-Fitting Model for Continuous Data with Lower and Upper Bounds	6
The Essential Role of Statistical Inference in Evaluating Electoral Systems: A Response to DeFord et al.	6
Measuring Media Criticism with ALC Word Embeddings	5
When Can We Trust Regression Discontinuity Design Estimates from Close Elections? Evidence from Experimental Benchmarks	5
Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples	4
Meaning Beyond Numbers: Introducing the Plot Staircase to Measure Graphical Preferences	4
Geographic Boundaries and Local Economic Conditions Matter for Views of the Economy	4
Learning from Null Effects: A Bottom-Up Approach	4
PAN volume 31 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Conjoint Analysis	4
Balance as a Pre-Estimation Test for Time Series Analysis	4
Introduction to the Special Issue: Innovations and Current Challenges in Experimental Methods	4
Odd Profiles in Conjoint Experimental Designs: Effects on Survey-Taking Attention and Behavior	4
Sentiment is Not Stance: Target-Aware Opinion Classification for Political Text Analysis	4
Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content - ERRATUM	3
Contents	3
Polls, Context, and Time: A Dynamic Hierarchical Bayesian Forecasting Model for US Senate Elections	3
An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology	3
Nonrandom Tweet Mortality and Data Access Restrictions: Compromising the Replication of Sensitive Twitter Studies	3
Synthetic Replacements for Human Survey Data? The Perils of Large Language Models	3
Recalibration of Predicted Probabilities Using the “Logit Shift”: Why Does It Work, and When Can It Be Expected to Work Well?	3
PopBERT. Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag	3
An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology - ERRATUM	3
Explaining Recruitment to Extremism: A Bayesian Hierarchical Case–Control Approach	3
PAN volume 30 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Using Machine Learning to Test Causal Hypotheses in Conjoint Analysis	3
Acquiescence Bias Inflates Estimates of Conspiratorial Beliefs and Political Misperceptions - CORRIGENDUM	3
PAN volume 30 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Trading Liberties: Estimating COVID-19 Policy Preferences from Conjoint Data – CORRIGENDUM	3
The Ideologies of Organized Interests and Amicus Curiae Briefs: Large-Scale, Social Network Imputation of Ideal Points	2
Fixed Effects, Lagged Dependent Variables, and Bracketing: Cautionary Remarks	2
PAN volume 30 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
Improving Computer Vision Interpretability: Transparent Two-Level Classification for Complex Scenes	2
Seeing Like a District: Understanding What Close-Election Designs for Leader Characteristics Can and Cannot Tell Us	2

Automated Coding of Political Campaign Advertisement Videos: An Empirical Validation Study	2
Codebook LLMs: Evaluating LLMs as Measurement Tools for Political Science Concepts	2
Probabilistic Record Linkage Using Pretrained Text Embeddings	2
Bridging the Grade Gap: Reducing Assessment Bias in a Multi-Grader Class	2
Nationally Representative, Locally Misaligned: The Biases of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Neighborhood Perception	2
Audit Experiments of Racial Discrimination and the Importance of Symmetry in Exposure to Cues	2