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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring Distances in High Dimensional Spaces	269
Integrating Data Across Misaligned Spatial Units	155
Creating and Comparing Dictionary, Word Embedding, and Transformer-Based Models to Measure Discrete Emotions in German Political Text	67
Accessibility and Equity in the Research Process: Gender Bias in Elite Interview Recruitment	67
When Correlation Is Not Enough: Validating Populism Scores from Supervised Machine-Learning Models	47
Measuring Closeness in Proportional Representation Systems	47
Parameterizing Spatial Weight Matrices in Spatial Econometric Models	45
Ends Against the Middle: Measuring Latent Traits when Opposites Respond the Same Way for Antithetical Reasons	36
Less Annotating, More Classifying: Addressing the Data Scarcity Issue of Supervised Machine Learning with Deep Transfer Learning and BERT-NLI	34
Relatio: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives – ERRATUM	31
Synthetically generated text for supervised text analysis	31
A Nonparametric Bayesian Model for Detecting Differential Item Functioning: An Application to Political Representation in the US	30
PAN volume 30 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	28
Detecting and Correcting for Separation in Strategic Choice Models	28
Using Multiple Pretreatment Periods to Improve Difference-in-Differences and Staggered Adoption Designs	21
Choosing Imputation Models	20
On Finetuning Large Language Models	19
Validating the Applicability of Bayesian Inference with Surname and Geocoding to Congressional Redistricting	19
Rejoinder: Concluding Remarks on Scholarly Communications	17
Contagion, Confounding, and Causality: Confronting the Three C’s of Observational Political Networks Research	16
Selecting More Informative Training Sets with Fewer Observations	15
Estimating the Local Average Treatment Effect Without the Exclusion Restriction	15
Party Positions from Wikipedia Classifications of Party Ideology	14
How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies	14
Categorizing Topics Versus Inferring Attitudes: A Theory and Method for Analyzing Open-ended Survey Responses	13

Quantifying Bias from Measurable and Unmeasurable Confounders Across Three Domains of Individual Determinants of Political Preferences	13
Priming Bias Versus Post-Treatment Bias in Experimental Designs	13
Proportionally Less Difficult?: Reevaluating Keele’s “Proportionally Difficult”	11
Hierarchically Regularized Entropy Balancing	11
Bin-Conditional Conformal Prediction of Fatalities from Armed Conflict	10
PAN volume 30 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	9
A Framework for the Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Analysis of Visual Frames	9
The Probability of Casting a Pivotal Vote in an Instant Runoff Voting Election	9
Exponential Random Graph Models for Dynamic Signed Networks: An Application to International Relations	8
Countering Non-Ignorable Nonresponse in Survey Models with Randomized Response Instruments and Doubly Robust Estimation	8
Cross-Lingual Classification of Political Texts Using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings	7
Attention and Political Choice: A Foundation for Eye Tracking in Political Science	7
Introduction to the Special Issue: Innovations and Current Challenges in Experimental Methods	7
Identification of Preferences in Forced-Choice Conjoint Experiments: Reassessing the Quantity of Interest	7
Generalized Kernel Regularized Least Squares	7
Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples	7
The Essential Role of Statistical Inference in Evaluating Electoral Systems: A Response to DeFord et al.	7
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging - CORRIGENDUM	7
When Can We Trust Regression Discontinuity Design Estimates from Close Elections? Evidence from Experimental Benchmarks	7
Ordered Beta Regression: A Parsimonious, Well-Fitting Model for Continuous Data with Lower and Upper Bounds	7
Learning from Null Effects: A Bottom-Up Approach	6
PAN volume 31 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	6
What Makes Party Systems Different? A Principal Component Analysis of 17 Advanced Democracies 1970–2013	6
Odd Profiles in Conjoint Experimental Designs: Effects on Survey-Taking Attention and Behavior	5
Balance as a Pre-Estimation Test for Time Series Analysis	5
Sentiment is Not Stance: Target-Aware Opinion Classification for Political Text Analysis	4
Recalibration of Predicted Probabilities Using the “Logit Shift”: Why Does It Work, and When Can It Be Expected to Work Well?	4
Geographic Boundaries and Local Economic Conditions Matter for Views of the Economy	4
Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content - ERRATUM	4
Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Conjoint Analysis	4
Synthetic Replacements for Human Survey Data? The Perils of Large Language Models	4
PAN volume 30 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Explaining Recruitment to Extremism: A Bayesian Hierarchical Case–Control Approach	3
Using Machine Learning to Test Causal Hypotheses in Conjoint Analysis	3
Acquiescence Bias Inflates Estimates of Conspiratorial Beliefs and Political Misperceptions - CORRIGENDUM	3
Racing the Clock: Using Response Time as a Proxy for Attentiveness on Self-Administered Surveys	3
Trading Liberties: Estimating COVID-19 Policy Preferences from Conjoint Data – CORRIGENDUM	3
Polls, Context, and Time: A Dynamic Hierarchical Bayesian Forecasting Model for US Senate Elections	3
Nonrandom Tweet Mortality and Data Access Restrictions: Compromising the Replication of Sensitive Twitter Studies	3
PAN volume 30 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Contents	3
PopBERT. Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag	3
Seeing Like a District: Understanding What Close-Election Designs for Leader Characteristics Can and Cannot Tell Us	2
Fixed Effects, Lagged Dependent Variables, and Bracketing: Cautionary Remarks	2
Analyzing Ballot Order Effects When Voters Rank Candidates	2
Statistically Valid Inferences from Differentially Private Data Releases, with Application to the Facebook URLs Dataset	2
Bridging the Grade Gap: Reducing Assessment Bias in a Multi-Grader Class	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

Trading Liberties: Estimating COVID-19 Policy Preferences from Conjoint Data	2
Automated Coding of Political Campaign Advertisement Videos: An Empirical Validation Study	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
The Ideologies of Organized Interests and Amicus Curiae Briefs: Large-Scale, Social Network Imputation of Ideal Points	2