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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring Distances in High Dimensional Spaces Why Average Group Vector Comparisons Exhibit Bias, And What to Do about it	228
Integrating Data Across Misaligned Spatial Units	142
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	53
Synthetically generated text for supervised text analysis	43
When Correlation Is Not Enough: Validating Populism Scores from Supervised Machine-Learning Models	42
Less Annotating, More Classifying: Addressing the Data Scarcity Issue of Supervised Machine Learning with Deep Transfer Learning and BERT-NLI	41
Parameterizing Spatial Weight Matrices in Spatial Econometric Models	39
Ends Against the Middle: Measuring Latent Traits when Opposites Respond the Same Way for Antithetical Reasons	33
Relatio: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives – ERRATUM	31
On Finetuning Large Language Models	29
A Nonparametric Bayesian Model for Detecting Differential Item Functioning: An Application to Political Representation in the US	28
Validating the Applicability of Bayesian Inference with Surname and Geocoding to Congressional Redistricting	28
Detecting and Correcting for Separation in Strategic Choice Models	27
PAN volume 30 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	26
Choosing Imputation Models	25
Using Multiple Pretreatment Periods to Improve Difference-in-Differences and Staggered Adoption Designs	19
Rejoinder: Concluding Remarks on Scholarly Communications	17
Party Positions from Wikipedia Classifications of Party Ideology	17
Contagion, Confounding, and Causality: Confronting the Three C’s of Observational Political Networks Research	16
Selecting More Informative Training Sets with Fewer Observations	16
How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies	15
Categorizing Topics Versus Inferring Attitudes: A Theory and Method for Analyzing Open-ended Survey Responses	14
Quantifying Bias from Measurable and Unmeasurable Confounders Across Three Domains of Individual Determinants of Political Preferences	14
Priming Bias Versus Post-Treatment Bias in Experimental Designs	14

Hierarchically Regularized Entropy Balancing	13
A Framework for the Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Analysis of Visual Frames	13
PAN volume 30 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	13
Proportionally Less Difficult?: Reevaluating Keele’s “Proportionally Difficult”	13
Exponential Random Graph Models for Dynamic Signed Networks: An Application to International Relations	12
The Probability of Casting a Pivotal Vote in an Instant Runoff Voting Election	12
Countering Non-Ignorable Nonresponse in Survey Models with Randomized Response Instruments and Doubly Robust Estimation	10
Cross-Lingual Classification of Political Texts Using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings	9
Generalized Kernel Regularized Least Squares	9
Identification of Preferences in Forced-Choice Conjoint Experiments: Reassessing the Quantity of Interest	9
The Essential Role of Statistical Inference in Evaluating Electoral Systems: A Response to DeFord et al.	8
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging - CORRIGENDUM	8
When Can We Trust Regression Discontinuity Design Estimates from Close Elections? Evidence from Experimental Benchmarks	7
PAN volume 31 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	7
Sentiment is Not Stance: Target-Aware Opinion Classification for Political Text Analysis	7
Introduction to the Special Issue: Innovations and Current Challenges in Experimental Methods	7
Ordered Beta Regression: A Parsimonious, Well-Fitting Model for Continuous Data with Lower and Upper Bounds	7
What Makes Party Systems Different? A Principal Component Analysis of 17 Advanced Democracies 1970–2013	7
Attention and Political Choice: A Foundation for Eye Tracking in Political Science	7
Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples	7
Balance as a Pre-Estimation Test for Time Series Analysis	7
Odd Profiles in Conjoint Experimental Designs: Effects on Survey-Taking Attention and Behavior	7
Synthetic Replacements for Human Survey Data? The Perils of Large Language Models	6
Learning from Null Effects: A Bottom-Up Approach	6
PAN volume 30 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	6
Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Conjoint Analysis	6
Geographic Boundaries and Local Economic Conditions Matter for Views of the Economy	6
Placebo Selection in Survey Experiments: An Agnostic Approach	6
PAN volume 29 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content - ERRATUM	5
Using Machine Learning to Test Causal Hypotheses in Conjoint Analysis	4
Nonrandom Tweet Mortality and Data Access Restrictions: Compromising the Replication of Sensitive Twitter Studies	4
Racing the Clock: Using Response Time as a Proxy for Attentiveness on Self-Administered Surveys	4
Contents	4
PopBERT. Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag	4
PAN volume 30 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
Recalibration of Predicted Probabilities Using the “Logit Shift”: Why Does It Work, and When Can It Be Expected to Work Well?	4
Acquiescence Bias Inflates Estimates of Conspiratorial Beliefs and Political Misperceptions - CORRIGENDUM	4
Polls, Context, and Time: A Dynamic Hierarchical Bayesian Forecasting Model for US Senate Elections	4
Bridging the Grade Gap: Reducing Assessment Bias in a Multi-Grader Class	3
Trading Liberties: Estimating COVID-19 Policy Preferences from Conjoint Data – CORRIGENDUM	3
Automated Coding of Political Campaign Advertisement Videos: An Empirical Validation Study	3
Explaining Recruitment to Extremism: A Bayesian Hierarchical Case–Control Approach	3
PAN volume 30 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
Seeing Like a District: Understanding What Close-Election Designs for Leader Characteristics Can and Cannot Tell Us	3
Audit Experiments of Racial Discrimination and the Importance of Symmetry in Exposure to Cues	2
Statistically Valid Inferences from Differentially Private Data Releases, with Application to the Facebook URLs Dataset	2
PAN volume 31 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2
PAN volume 31 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
Improving Computer Vision Interpretability: Transparent Two-Level Classification for Complex Scenes	2

Human Rights Violations in Space: Assessing the External Validity of Machine-Geocoded versus Human-Geocoded Data	2
PAN volume 29 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	2
PAN volume 31 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	2
Adding Regularized Horseshoes to the Dynamics of Latent Variable Models	2
Analyzing Ballot Order Effects When Voters Rank Candidates	2
The Ideologies of Organized Interests and Amicus Curiae Briefs: Large-Scale, Social Network Imputation of Ideal Points	2
What Would You Say? Estimating Causal Effects of Social Context on Political Expression	2
Addressing Measurement Errors in Ranking Questions for the Social Sciences	2
Return to the Scene of the Crime: Revisiting Process Tracing, Bayesianism, and Murder	2
Trading Liberties: Estimating COVID-19 Policy Preferences from Conjoint Data	2