OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Political Analysis is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
On the Use of Two-Way Fixed Effects Regression Models for Causal Inference with Panel Data	268
Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples	98
Does Conjoint Analysis Mitigate Social Desirability Bias?	95
Achieving Statistical Significance with Control Variables and Without Transparency	73
Improving the External Validity of Conjoint Analysis: The Essential Role of Profile Distribution	57
Measuring the Rural Continuum in Political Science	40
Learning to See: Convolutional Neural Networks for the Analysis of Social Science Data	31
The MIDAS Touch: Accurate and Scalable Missing-Data Imputation with Deep Learning	29
Reducing Model Misspecification and Bias in the Estimation of Interactions	26
Less Annotating, More Classifying: Addressing the Data Scarcity Issue of Supervised Machine Learning with Deep Transfer Learning and BERT-NLI	26
Using Conjoint Experiments to Analyze Election Outcomes: The Essential Role of the Average Marginal Component Effect	25
Accounting for Skewed or One-Sided Measurement Error in the Dependent Variable	25
Topics, Concepts, and Measurement: A Crowdsourced Procedure for Validating Topics as Measures	24
Ordered Beta Regression: A Parsimonious, Well-Fitting Model for Continuous Data with Lower and Upper Bounds	24
A Bayesian Alternative to Synthetic Control for Comparative Case Studies	23
Do Name-Based Treatments Violate Information Equivalence? Evidence from a Correspondence Audit Experiment	23
How Populist are Parties? Measuring Degrees of Populism in Party Manifestos Using Supervised Machine Learning	22
Assessing Data Quality: An Approach and An Application	22
The Multiclass Classification of Newspaper Articles with Machine Learning: The Hybrid Binary Snowball Approach	21
Cross-Domain Topic Classification for Political Texts	19
Identification of Preferences in Forced-Choice Conjoint Experiments: Reassessing the Quantity of Interest	18
Understanding, Choosing, and Unifying Multilevel and Fixed Effect Approaches	18
Gerrymandering and Compactness: Implementation Flexibility and Abuse	17
Sentiment is Not Stance: Target-Aware Opinion Classification for Political Text Analysis	16
Creating and Comparing Dictionary, Word Embedding, and Transformer-Based Models to Measure Discrete Emotions in German Political Text	15

Racing the Clock: Using Response Time as a Proxy for Attentiveness on Self-Administered Surveys	15
Generalized Full Matching	14
Machine Learning Predictions as Regression Covariates	14
Optimizing the Measurement of Sexism in Political Surveys	14
Using Motion Detection to Measure Social Polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives	13
Estimating and Using Individual Marginal Component Effects from Conjoint Experiments	13
How Much Does the Cardinal Treatment of Ordinal Variables Matter? An Empirical Investigation	12
An Improved Method of Automated Nonparametric Content Analysis for Social Science	11
Implementing Partisan Symmetry: Problems and Paradoxes	11
Spikes and Variance: Using Google Trends to Detect and Forecast Protests	11
Placebo Selection in Survey Experiments: An Agnostic Approach	11
Party Positions from Wikipedia Classifications of Party Ideology	10
Equivalence Testing for Regression Discontinuity Designs	10
Generative Dynamics of Supreme Court Citations: Analysis with a New Statistical Network Model	10
Eliciting Beliefs as Distributions in Online Surveys	9
A General Approach to Measuring Electoral Competitiveness for Parties and Governments	9
Learning from Null Effects: A Bottom-Up Approach	9
Combining Outcome-Based and Preference-Based Matching: A Constrained Priority Mechanism	8
A Bias-Corrected Estimator for the Crosswise Model with Inattentive Respondents	8
Mapping Political Communities: A Statistical Analysis of Lobbying Networks in Legislative Politics	8
Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Conjoint Analysis	7
Acquiescence Bias Inflates Estimates of Conspiratorial Beliefs and Political Misperceptions	7
Balance as a Pre-Estimation Test for Time Series Analysis	7
How to Get Better Survey Data More Efficiently	7
Statistically Valid Inferences from Differentially Private Data Releases, with Application to the Facebook URLs Dataset	7
The Misreporting Trade-Off Between List Experiments and Direct Questions in Practice: Partition Validation Evidence from Two Countries	7
Partisan Dislocation: A Precinct-Level Measure of Representation and Gerrymandering	6
Automated Coding of Political Campaign Advertisement Videos: An Empirical Validation Study	6
The Consequences of Model Misspecification for the Estimation of Nonlinear Interaction Effects	6
Adaptive Fuzzy String Matching: How to Merge Datasets with Only One (Messy) Identifying Field	6
Getting Time Right: Using Cox Models and Probabilities to Interpret Binary Panel Data	6
Predicted Probabilities and Inference with Multinomial Logit	6
Why We Should Use the Gini Coefficient to Assess Punctuated Equilibrium Theory	6
The Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior during COVID-19	5
The Causal Effect of Polls on Turnout Intention: A Local Randomization Regression Discontinuity Approach	5
Minmaxing of Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding and Geography Level Ups in Predicting Race	5
Lagged Outcomes, Lagged Predictors, and Lagged Errors: A Clarification on Common Factors	5
Cross-Lingual Classification of Political Texts Using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings	5
Multilevel Calibration Weighting for Survey Data	5
What Makes Party Systems Different? A Principal Component Analysis of 17 Advanced Democracies 1970–2013	5
Measuring Ethnic Bias: Can Misattribution-Based Tools from Social Psychology Reveal Group Biases that Economics Games Cannot?	5
Multi-Label Prediction for Political Text-as-Data	5
Spillover Effects in the Presence of Unobserved Networks	5
The Wald Test of Common Factors in Spatial Model Specification Search Strategies	4
Sensitivity Analysis for Survey Weights	4
When Correlation Is Not Enough: Validating Populism Scores from Supervised Machine-Learning Models	4
Synthetic Replacements for Human Survey Data? The Perils of Large Language Models	4
It’s All in the Name: A Character-Based Approach to Infer Religion	4
Measuring Swing Voters with a Supervised Machine Learning Ensemble	4
Ends Against the Middle: Measuring Latent Traits when Opposites Respond the Same Way for Antithetical Reasons	4

A Text-As-Data Approach for Using Open-Ended Responses as Manipulation Checks	4
Relatio: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives	4
On Finetuning Large Language Models	4
Using Multiple Pretreatment Periods to Improve Difference-in-Differences and Staggered Adoption Designs	4
Multiple Ideal Points: Revealed Preferences in Different Domains	4
Topic Classification for Political Texts with Pretrained Language Models	4
Quantifying Bias from Measurable and Unmeasurable Confounders Across Three Domains of Individual Determinants of Political Preferences	4
Introducing an Interpretable Deep Learning Approach to Domain-Specific Dictionary Creation: A Use Case for Conflict Prediction	4
Generalized Kernel Regularized Least Squares	3
Human Rights Violations in Space: Assessing the External Validity of Machine-Geocoded versus Human-Geocoded Data	3
Blocks as Geographic Discontinuities: The Effect of Polling-Place Assignment on Voting	3
Publication Biases in Replication Studies	3
Hierarchically Regularized Entropy Balancing	3
How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies	3
Trading Liberties: Estimating COVID-19 Policy Preferences from Conjoint Data	3
Polls, Context, and Time: A Dynamic Hierarchical Bayesian Forecasting Model for US Senate Elections	3
A Fast Estimator for Binary Choice Models with Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Interdependence	3
The Ideologies of Organized Interests and Amicus Curiae Briefs: Large-Scale, Social Network Imputation of Ideal Points	3
Diplomatic Relations in a Virtual World	3