American Political Science Review

Papers
(The H4-Index of American Political Science Review is 32. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric103
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States72
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis70
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest70
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet68
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing66
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM65
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM57
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification56
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism54
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates49
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom47
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior46
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China46
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election44
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements43
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors42
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites42
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes38
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America37
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act36
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension36
Notes from the Editors: #APSR36
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative36
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India35
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination35
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia34
Structural Responsibility34
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice33
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa33
Representative Democracy and Social Equality33
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability33
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings32
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions32
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach32
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