Alexander Wuttke

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 459 citations indexed

About

Alexander Wuttke is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Communication and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Wuttke has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 459 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 6 papers in Communication and 6 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Alexander Wuttke's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (11 papers), Populism, Right-Wing Movements (7 papers) and Social Media and Politics (6 papers). Alexander Wuttke is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (11 papers), Populism, Right-Wing Movements (7 papers) and Social Media and Politics (6 papers). Alexander Wuttke collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Canada. Alexander Wuttke's co-authors include Harald Schoen, Christian Schimpf, Konstantin Gavras, Andreas Jungherr, Matthias Mader, Nils D. Steiner, Florian Foos, Filip Kostelka, Nicolas Sauger and Eike Mark Rinke and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and American Political Science Review.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Wuttke

24 papers receiving 440 citations

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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 threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

When the Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: On the Conceptualization and Measurement of Populist Attitudes and Other Multidimensional Constructs

2020 194 citations Alexander Wuttke, Christian Schimpf et al. American Political Science Review profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Wuttke Germany	10	360	242	123	39	37	26	459
Jenifer Whitten‐Woodring United States	8	101 0.3×	208 0.9×	68 0.6×	18 0.5×	24 0.6×	13	275
Matthias Mader Germany	13	311 0.9×	226 0.9×	51 0.4×	50 1.3×	6 0.2×	36	445
Francisco Cantú United States	11	247 0.7×	187 0.8×	47 0.4×	22 0.6×	33 0.9×	30	375
Jelle Koedam Switzerland	6	454 1.3×	176 0.7×	119 1.0×	123 3.2×	27 0.7×	11	550
Eduardo L. Leoni United States	5	239 0.7×	155 0.6×	46 0.4×	31 0.8×	16 0.4×	6	338
Oscar Mazzoleni Switzerland	14	442 1.2×	232 1.0×	45 0.4×	30 0.8×	15 0.4×	57	539
Stan Hok‐Wui Wong Hong Kong	12	192 0.5×	223 0.9×	24 0.2×	29 0.7×	24 0.6×	32	309
Bilge Yeşil United States	9	181 0.5×	188 0.8×	107 0.9×	22 0.6×	22 0.6×	15	319
Kai Oppermann Germany	15	430 1.2×	183 0.8×	33 0.3×	80 2.1×	6 0.2×	56	543

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Wuttke

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Diehl, Claudia, et al.. (2025). Students’ motives for restricting academic freedom: Viewpoint discrimination and prosocial concerns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(47). e2503804122–e2503804122.

Wuttke, Alexander, et al.. (2025). AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers. 179–204. 4 indexed citations

Wuttke, Alexander & Florian Foos. (2024). Making the case for democracy: A field-experiment on democratic persuasion. European Journal of Political Research. 64(2). 559–579. 2 indexed citations

Schimpf, Christian, Alexander Wuttke, & Harald Schoen. (2023). Neither a Trait nor Wildly Fluctuating: On the Stability of Populist Attitudes and its Implications for Empirical Research. British Journal of Political Science. 54(3). 979–992. 8 indexed citations

Wuttke, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Null Effects of Pro-Democracy Speeches by U.S. Republicans in the Aftermath of January 6th. Journal of Experimental Political Science. 11(1). 27–41. 8 indexed citations

Steiner, Nils D., Christian Schimpf, & Alexander Wuttke. (2022). Left Behind and United by Populism? Populism’s Multiple Roots in Feelings of Lacking Societal Recognition. Politische Vierteljahresschrift. 64(1). 107–132. 17 indexed citations

Wuttke, Alexander, Christian Schimpf, & Harald Schoen. (2022). Populist Citizens in four European Countries: Widespread Dissatisfaction goes with Contradictory but Pro‐democratic Regime Preferences. Swiss Political Science Review. 29(2). 246–257. 20 indexed citations

Rinke, Eike Mark & Alexander Wuttke. (2021). Open Minds, Open Methods: Transparency and Inclusion in Pursuit of Better Scholarship. PS Political Science & Politics. 54(2). 281–284. 4 indexed citations

Jungherr, Andreas, Alexander Wuttke, Matthias Mader, & Harald Schoen. (2021). A Source Like Any Other? Field and Survey Experiment Evidence on How Interest Groups Shape Public Opinion. Journal of Communication. 71(2). 276–304. 10 indexed citations

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Wuttke, Alexander, Konstantin Gavras, & Harald Schoen. (2020). Have Europeans Grown Tired of Democracy? New Evidence from Eighteen Consolidated Democracies, 1981–2018. British Journal of Political Science. 52(1). 416–428. 71 indexed citations

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Wuttke, Alexander. (2020). The pleasure principle. Politics and the Life Sciences. 40(1). 19–39. 2 indexed citations

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Wuttke, Alexander, Christian Schimpf, & Harald Schoen. (2020). When the Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: On the Conceptualization and Measurement of Populist Attitudes and Other Multidimensional Constructs. American Political Science Review. 114(2). 356–374. 194 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jungherr, Andreas, Matthias Mader, Harald Schoen, & Alexander Wuttke. (2018). Context-driven attitude formation: the difference between supporting free trade in the abstract and supporting specific trade agreements. Review of International Political Economy. 25(2). 215–242. 34 indexed citations

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Rabe, Markus, et al.. (2018). EVALUATING THE CONSOLIDATION OF DISTRIBUTION FLOWS USING A DISCRETE EVENT SUPPLY CHAIN SIMULATION TOOL: APPLICATION TO A CASE STUDY IN GREECE. 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). 2815–2826. 7 indexed citations

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Breznau, Nate, Eike Mark Rinke, & Alexander Wuttke. (2018). How Reliable Are Replications? Measuring Routine Researcher Variability in Macro-Comparative Secondary Data Analyses. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints).

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Wuttke, Alexander. (2018). Why Too Many Political Science Findings Cannot Be Trusted and What We Can Do About It: A Review of Meta-Scientific Research and a Call for Academic Reform. Politische Vierteljahresschrift. 60(1). 1–19. 15 indexed citations

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Wuttke, Alexander, Andreas Jungherr, & Harald Schoen. (2017). More than opinion expression: Secondary effects of intraparty referendums on party members. Party Politics. 25(6). 817–827. 15 indexed citations

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Roßteutscher, Sigrid, Rüdiger Schmitt‐Beck, Harald Schoen, et al.. (2017). Wahlkampf-Panel 2017 (GLES). GESIS Data Archive. 2 indexed citations

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Roßteutscher, Sigrid, Rüdiger Schmitt‐Beck, Harald Schoen, et al.. (2017). Wahlkampf-Panel 2017 (GLES). GESIS Data Archive. 2 indexed citations

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Wuttke, Alexander. (2017). When the World Around You Is Changing. Oxford University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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