OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring Distances in High Dimensional Spaces	374
Integrating Data Across Misaligned Spatial Units	98
Creating and Comparing Dictionary, Word Embedding, and Transformer-Based Models to Measure Discrete Emotions in German Political Text	90
Accessibility and Equity in the Research Process: Gender Bias in Elite Interview Recruitment	59
Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding in Causal Panel Data Models	59
Parameterizing Spatial Weight Matrices in Spatial Econometric Models	58
A Statistical Model of Bipartite Networks: Application to Cosponsorship in the United States Senate	58
Synthetically generated text for supervised text analysis	29
When Correlation Is Not Enough: Validating Populism Scores from Supervised Machine-Learning Models	26
Measuring Closeness in Proportional Representation Systems	23
Less Annotating, More Classifying: Addressing the Data Scarcity Issue of Supervised Machine Learning with Deep Transfer Learning and BERT-NLI	21
Ends Against the Middle: Measuring Latent Traits when Opposites Respond the Same Way for Antithetical Reasons	21
Relatio: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives – ERRATUM	20
Detecting and Correcting for Separation in Strategic Choice Models	19
A Nonparametric Bayesian Model for Detecting Differential Item Functioning: An Application to Political Representation in the US	19
PAN volume 30 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	16
Using Multiple Pretreatment Periods to Improve Difference-in-Differences and Staggered Adoption Designs	16
Validating the Applicability of Bayesian Inference with Surname and Geocoding to Congressional Redistricting	15
On Finetuning Large Language Models	15
Contagion, Confounding, and Causality: Confronting the Three C’s of Observational Political Networks Research	14
Selecting More Informative Training Sets with Fewer Observations	13
How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies	12
A Framework for the Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Analysis of Visual Frames	10
Generative AI and Topological Data Analysis of Longitudinal Panel Data	10
Estimating the Local Average Treatment Effect Without the Exclusion Restriction	10

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
Proportionally Less Difficult?: Reevaluating Keele’s “Proportionally Difficult”	9
Priming Bias Versus Post-Treatment Bias in Experimental Designs	9
Hierarchically Regularized Entropy Balancing	9
Bin-Conditional Conformal Prediction of Fatalities from Armed Conflict	9
The Probability of Casting a Pivotal Vote in an Instant Runoff Voting Election	8
Attention and Political Choice: A Foundation for Eye Tracking in Political Science	7
Countering Non-Ignorable Nonresponse in Survey Models with Randomized Response Instruments and Doubly Robust Estimation	7
Cross-Lingual Classification of Political Texts Using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings	7
Generalized Kernel Regularized Least Squares	7
Exponential Random Graph Models for Dynamic Signed Networks: An Application to International Relations	7
Ordered Beta Regression: A Parsimonious, Well-Fitting Model for Continuous Data with Lower and Upper Bounds	6
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging - CORRIGENDUM	6
Analyzing Political Text at Scale with Online Tensor LDA	5
Measuring Media Criticism with ALC Word Embeddings	5
Introduction to the Special Issue: Innovations and Current Challenges in Experimental Methods	5
Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples	5
When Can We Trust Regression Discontinuity Design Estimates from Close Elections? Evidence from Experimental Benchmarks	5
Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Conjoint Analysis	4
Odd Profiles in Conjoint Experimental Designs: Effects on Survey-Taking Attention and Behavior	4
Geographic Boundaries and Local Economic Conditions Matter for Views of the Economy	4
PAN volume 31 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Learning from Null Effects: A Bottom-Up Approach	4
Meaning Beyond Numbers: Introducing the Plot Staircase to Measure Graphical Preferences	4
Balance as a Pre-Estimation Test for Time Series Analysis	4
Sentiment is Not Stance: Target-Aware Opinion Classification for Political Text Analysis	4
Survey Professionalism: New Evidence from Web Browsing Data – ERRATUM	4
Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content - ERRATUM	3
Contents	3
An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology - ERRATUM	3
Explaining Recruitment to Extremism: A Bayesian Hierarchical Case–Control Approach	3
Polls, Context, and Time: A Dynamic Hierarchical Bayesian Forecasting Model for US Senate Elections	3
Synthetic Replacements for Human Survey Data? The Perils of Large Language Models	3
Using Machine Learning to Test Causal Hypotheses in Conjoint Analysis	3
Nonrandom Tweet Mortality and Data Access Restrictions: Compromising the Replication of Sensitive Twitter Studies	3
PopBERT. Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag	3
Trading Liberties: Estimating COVID-19 Policy Preferences from Conjoint Data – CORRIGENDUM	3
PAN volume 30 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Acquiescence Bias Inflates Estimates of Conspiratorial Beliefs and Political Misperceptions - CORRIGENDUM	3
Recalibration of Predicted Probabilities Using the “Logit Shift”: Why Does It Work, and When Can It Be Expected to Work Well?	3
An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology	3
Automated Coding of Political Campaign Advertisement Videos: An Empirical Validation Study	3
Analyzing Ballot Order Effects When Voters Rank Candidates	2
Seeing Like a District: Understanding What Close-Election Designs for Leader Characteristics Can and Cannot Tell Us	2
PAN volume 30 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
Audit Experiments of Racial Discrimination and the Importance of Symmetry in Exposure to Cues	2
What Would You Say? Estimating Causal Effects of Social Context on Political Expression	2
Probabilistic Record Linkage Using Pretrained Text Embeddings	2
Fixed Effects, Lagged Dependent Variables, and Bracketing: Cautionary Remarks	2

Trading Liberties: Estimating COVID-19 Policy Preferences from Conjoint Data	2
Improving Computer Vision Interpretability: Transparent Two-Level Classification for Complex Scenes	2
Statistically Valid Inferences from Differentially Private Data Releases, with Application to the Facebook URLs Dataset	2
Nationally Representative, Locally Misaligned: The Biases of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Neighborhood Perception	2
Bridging the Grade Gap: Reducing Assessment Bias in a Multi-Grader Class	2
Codebook LLMs: Evaluating LLMs as Measurement Tools for Political Science Concepts	2
The Ideologies of Organized Interests and Amicus Curiae Briefs: Large-Scale, Social Network Imputation of Ideal Points	2