Arthur Spirling

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Arthur Spirling is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and General Social Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Arthur Spirling has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in General Social Sciences. Recurrent topics in Arthur Spirling's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (22 papers), Computational and Text Analysis Methods (13 papers) and Media Influence and Politics (8 papers). Arthur Spirling is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (22 papers), Computational and Text Analysis Methods (13 papers) and Media Influence and Politics (8 papers). Arthur Spirling collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Venezuela. Arthur Spirling's co-authors include Matthew J. Denny, Andrew C. Eggers, Pedro L. Rodríguez, Iain McLean, Torun Dewan, Andrew F. Peterson, Kenneth Benoit, Kevin Munger, Brandon Stewart and Michael Peress and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Statistical Association and American Political Science Review.

In The Last Decade

Arthur Spirling

48 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Text Preprocessing For Unsupervised Learning: Why It Matters, When It Misleads, And What To Do About It

2018 278 citations Matthew J. Denny, Arthur Spirling Political Analysis profile →
Word Embeddings: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Tell the Difference for Applied Research

2021 107 citations Pedro L. Rodríguez, Arthur Spirling The Journal of Politics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Arthur Spirling United States	20	592	407	354	296	171	49	1.3k
Michael H. Crespin United States	18	703 1.2×	316 0.8×	276 0.8×	159 0.5×	185 1.1×	42	1.2k
Luigi Curini Italy	17	657 1.1×	614 1.5×	89 0.3×	278 0.9×	463 2.7×	66	1.4k
Sven‐Oliver Proksch Germany	20	1.4k 2.4×	496 1.2×	313 0.9×	166 0.6×	373 2.2×	48	1.9k
Andrea Cerón Italy	20	630 1.1×	677 1.7×	102 0.3×	351 1.2×	715 4.2×	65	1.6k
Kevin M. Quinn United States	15	858 1.4×	469 1.2×	286 0.8×	214 0.7×	175 1.0×	34	2.0k
Jonathan Slapin United States	24	1.7k 2.9×	541 1.3×	277 0.8×	124 0.4×	303 1.8×	58	2.1k
Silke Adam Switzerland	14	337 0.6×	562 1.4×	259 0.7×	183 0.6×	541 3.2×	51	1.3k
Barbara Pfetsch Germany	16	331 0.6×	656 1.6×	252 0.7×	228 0.8×	879 5.1×	59	1.5k
Arjen van Dalen Denmark	22	329 0.6×	773 1.9×	45 0.1×	127 0.4×	1.3k 7.7×	56	1.7k
Christian Katzenbach Germany	12	197 0.3×	550 1.4×	28 0.1×	363 1.2×	266 1.6×	46	1.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Avila, Sandra, et al.. (2025). Measuring Distances in High Dimensional Spaces. Political Analysis. 33(3). 266–273.

Rodríguez, Pedro Luis González, et al.. (2024). Multilanguage Word Embeddings for Social Scientists: Estimation, Inference, and Validation Resources for 157 Languages. Political Analysis. 33(2). 156–163. 2 indexed citations

Spirling, Arthur & Brandon Stewart. (2024). What Good Is a Regression? Inference to the Best Explanation and the Practice of Political Science Research. The Journal of Politics. 87(4). 1587–1599. 1 indexed citations

Rodríguez, Pedro L., Arthur Spirling, & Brandon Stewart. (2023). Embedding Regression: Models for Context-Specific Description and Inference. American Political Science Review. 117(4). 1255–1274. 30 indexed citations

Spirling, Arthur, et al.. (2023). Large Language Models Can Argue in Convincing Ways About Politics, But Humans Dislike AI Authors: implications for Governance. Political Science. 75(3). 281–291. 10 indexed citations

Cirone, Alexandra & Arthur Spirling. (2021). Turning History into Data: Data Collection, Measurement, and Inference in HPE. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1(1). 127–154. 7 indexed citations

Connelly, Matthew, et al.. (2020). Diplomatic documents data for international relations: the Freedom of Information Archive Database. Conflict Management and Peace Science. 38(6). 762–781. 8 indexed citations

Spirling, Arthur, et al.. (2020). A General Model of Author “Style” with Application to the UK House of Commons, 1935–2018. Political Analysis. 28(3). 412–434. 3 indexed citations

Benoit, Kenneth, Kevin Munger, & Arthur Spirling. (2019). Measuring and Explaining Political Sophistication through Textual Complexity. American Journal of Political Science. 63(2). 491–508. 64 indexed citations

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Denny, Matthew J. & Arthur Spirling. (2018). Text Preprocessing For Unsupervised Learning: Why It Matters, When It Misleads, And What To Do About It. Political Analysis. 26(2). 168–189. 278 indexed citations breakdown →

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Peterson, Andrew F. & Arthur Spirling. (2018). Classification Accuracy as a Substantive Quantity of Interest: Measuring Polarization in Westminster Systems. Political Analysis. 26(1). 120–128. 49 indexed citations

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Han, Rujun, Michael Gill, Arthur Spirling, & Kyunghyun Cho. (2018). Conditional Word Embedding and Hypothesis Testing via Bayes-by-Backprop. 4890–4895. 6 indexed citations

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Eggers, Andrew C. & Arthur Spirling. (2016). The Shadow Cabinet in Westminster Systems: Modeling Opposition Agenda Setting in the House of Commons, 1832–1915. British Journal of Political Science. 48(2). 343–367. 19 indexed citations

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Denny, Matthew J. & Arthur Spirling. (2016). Assessing the Consequences of Text Preprocessing Decisions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations

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Eggers, Andrew C. & Arthur Spirling. (2014). Guarding the Guardians: Legislative Self-Policing and Electoral Corruption in Victorian Britain. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 9(3). 337–370. 12 indexed citations

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Eggers, Andrew C. & Arthur Spirling. (2014). Party Cohesion in Westminster Systems: Inducements, Replacement and Discipline in the House of Commons, 1836–1910. British Journal of Political Science. 46(3). 567–589. 28 indexed citations

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Eggers, Andrew C. & Arthur Spirling. (2014). Ministerial Responsiveness in Westminster Systems: Institutional Choices and House of Commons Debate, 1832–1915. American Journal of Political Science. 58(4). 873–887. 30 indexed citations

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Spirling, Arthur. (2009). Bargaining Power in Practice US Treaty-making with American Indians, 1784-1911. 4 indexed citations

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Spirling, Arthur & Iain McLean. (2006). The Rights and Wrongs of Roll Calls. Government and Opposition. 41(4). 581–588. 18 indexed citations

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McLean, Iain, Arthur Spirling, & Meg Russell. (2003). None of the Above: The UK House of Commons votes on reforming the House of Lords. UCL Discovery (University College London). 6 indexed citations

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