Standout Papers

The Third Wave: Democrati... 1982 2026 1996 2011 1992 1991 1985 1982 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century
    1992 900 citations Andrew J. Pierre, Samuel P. Huntington Foreign Affairs profile →
  2. Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World
    1991 728 citations Andrew J. Pierre, Robert H. Jackson Foreign Affairs profile →
  3. The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain and Germany between the World Wars
    1985 463 citations Andrew J. Pierre, Barry R. Posen Foreign Affairs profile →
  4. The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy
    1982 212 citations Andrew J. Pierre, Lawrence Freedman Foreign Affairs profile →

Immediate Impact

14 by Nobel laureates 27 from Science/Nature 59 hit
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Citing Papers

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2023 HitScience
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2020 HitNature
2 intermediate papers

Works of Andrew J. Pierre being referenced

The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy
1982 Hit
The War Game: A Critique of Military Problem Solving
1980

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Andrew J. Pierre 5.1k 4.1k 1.3k 807 323 355 9.0k
Donald S. Zagoria 3.9k 0.8× 3.9k 0.9× 934 0.7× 615 0.8× 106 0.3× 443 7.9k
Larry Diamond 6.4k 1.3× 7.4k 1.8× 767 0.6× 1.2k 1.5× 261 0.8× 211 10.9k
John Agnew 4.0k 0.8× 4.9k 1.2× 828 0.6× 464 0.6× 297 0.9× 231 9.2k
Lawrence Freedman 4.1k 0.8× 3.8k 0.9× 787 0.6× 450 0.6× 292 0.9× 315 6.8k
Lucian W. Pye 5.3k 1.0× 6.1k 1.5× 958 0.7× 931 1.2× 240 0.7× 316 11.3k
Robert Jervis 4.9k 1.0× 4.1k 1.0× 1.0k 0.8× 799 1.0× 128 0.4× 168 8.2k
Gaddis Smith 3.7k 0.7× 3.0k 0.7× 702 0.5× 327 0.4× 479 1.5× 322 7.1k
Ted Robert Gurr 3.8k 0.7× 6.9k 1.7× 869 0.7× 898 1.1× 291 0.9× 112 9.0k
Bob Jessop 5.6k 1.1× 5.4k 1.3× 1.3k 1.0× 382 0.5× 246 0.8× 276 13.4k
Kenneth Maxwell 3.8k 0.8× 4.9k 1.2× 876 0.7× 543 0.7× 626 1.9× 277 10.1k

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