Standout Papers

City and Regime in the Am... 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 100 200 300 400
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. City and Regime in the American Republic
    1987 419 citations Stephen L. Elkin profile →

Immediate Impact

1 from Science/Nature 63 hit
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Citing Papers

The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation
2019 HitScience
Attitude roots and Jiu Jitsu persuasion: Understanding and overcoming the motivated rejection of science.
2017 Hit
2 intermediate papers

Works of Stephen L. Elkin being referenced

Citizen competence and democratic institutions
1999
Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform
1993

Author Peers

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

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Stephen L. Elkin 540 397 254 177 160 35 1.1k
Peter P. Houtzager 392 0.7× 539 1.4× 179 0.7× 128 0.7× 100 0.6× 42 950
Michael Goldsmith 675 1.3× 383 1.0× 116 0.5× 188 1.1× 184 1.1× 44 1.1k
David Wilson 438 0.8× 470 1.2× 324 1.3× 268 1.5× 120 0.8× 56 1.2k
Yves Sintomer 618 1.1× 804 2.0× 364 1.4× 221 1.2× 108 0.7× 82 1.5k
Floyd Hunter 572 1.1× 615 1.5× 143 0.6× 214 1.2× 104 0.7× 12 1.4k
Juliet Musso 535 1.0× 448 1.1× 97 0.4× 421 2.4× 150 0.9× 34 1.1k
Ismael Blanco 360 0.7× 302 0.8× 395 1.6× 103 0.6× 78 0.5× 53 1.0k
Rob Jenkins 513 0.9× 641 1.6× 99 0.4× 164 0.9× 272 1.7× 32 1.2k
Ronald J. Oakerson 485 0.9× 345 0.9× 82 0.3× 322 1.8× 335 2.1× 21 1.1k
Stefan Toepler 241 0.4× 875 2.2× 166 0.7× 233 1.3× 71 0.4× 51 1.3k

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