Bert N. Bakker

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Bert N. Bakker is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bert N. Bakker has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 17 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 8 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Bert N. Bakker's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (16 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (12 papers) and Social and Cultural Dynamics (11 papers). Bert N. Bakker is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (16 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (12 papers) and Social and Cultural Dynamics (11 papers). Bert N. Bakker collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Denmark. Bert N. Bakker's co-authors include Gijs Schumacher, Yphtach Lelkes, Matthijs Rooduijn, Kevin Arceneaux, Ariel Malka, Sara B. Hobolt, Catherine E. De Vries, Claes H. de Vreese, Mark J. Brandt and Martijn Schoonvelde and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Bert N. Bakker

39 papers receiving 969 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.

Crisis signaling: how Italy's coronavirus lockdown affected incumbent support in other European countries

2021 73 citations Catherine E. De Vries, Bert N. Bakker et al. Political Science Research and Methods profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bert N. Bakker Netherlands	18	715	451	194	154	132	41	1.0k
Nathan P. Kalmoe United States	13	670 0.9×	441 1.0×	131 0.7×	240 1.6×	52 0.4×	32	924
Flávio Azevedo United Kingdom	16	710 1.0×	209 0.5×	206 1.1×	143 0.9×	57 0.4×	40	933
Tobias Stark Netherlands	19	807 1.1×	134 0.3×	298 1.5×	163 1.1×	74 0.6×	53	1.1k
Joanna Sterling United States	10	616 0.9×	138 0.3×	231 1.2×	238 1.5×	30 0.2×	11	882
Miriam Matthews United States	12	533 0.7×	96 0.2×	269 1.4×	74 0.5×	73 0.6×	60	792
Antoine Banks United States	13	848 1.2×	501 1.1×	127 0.7×	387 2.5×	30 0.2×	20	1.1k
Charles Crabtree United States	16	603 0.8×	308 0.7×	91 0.5×	90 0.6×	25 0.2×	72	850
Sean P. Wojcik United States	10	454 0.6×	84 0.2×	233 1.2×	111 0.7×	73 0.6×	13	708
C. Thi Nguyen United States	15	550 0.8×	115 0.3×	62 0.3×	112 0.7×	49 0.4×	28	982
Jerrold M. Post United States	20	1.0k 1.4×	287 0.6×	293 1.5×	42 0.3×	372 2.8×	77	1.4k

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Rooduijn, Matthijs, et al.. (2025). Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support. Social Science & Medicine. 366. 117676–117676. 2 indexed citations

Skovsgaard, Morten, et al.. (2025). Affective Storytelling for Video News: Introducing and Testing Batman Affective Structure in the Age of Streaming. Journalism Studies. 26(9). 1108–1128. 1 indexed citations

Schumacher, Gijs, et al.. (2025). Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization. European Journal of Political Research. 64(4). 2146–2160.

Bakker, Bert N. & Yphtach Lelkes. (2024). Putting the affect into affective polarisation. Cognition & Emotion. 38(4). 418–436. 11 indexed citations

Hopp, Frederic R., et al.. (2024). The Dutch moral foundations stimulus database: An adaptation and validation of moral vignettes and sociomoral images in a Dutch sample. Judgment and Decision Making. 19. 2 indexed citations

Schumacher, Gijs, et al.. (2024). Establishing the validity and robustness of facial electromyography measures for political science. Politics and the Life Sciences. 43(2). 1–18. 1 indexed citations

Schumacher, Gijs, et al.. (2024). Replicating and Extending Soroka, Fournier, and Nir: Negative News Increases Arousal and Negative Affect. Media and Communication. 12. 2 indexed citations

Bakker, Bert N., et al.. (2024). Tone in politics is not systematically related to macro trends, ideology, or experience. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 3241–3241. 4 indexed citations

Brandt, Mark J. & Bert N. Bakker. (2022). The complicated but solvable threat–politics relationship. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 26(5). 368–370. 25 indexed citations

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Brandt, Mark J. & Bert N. Bakker. (2022). Threat-politics perceptions are intertwined with emotional processes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 26(9). 733–734. 2 indexed citations

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Bakker, Bert N., Yphtach Lelkes, & Ariel Malka. (2021). Reconsidering the Link Between Self-Reported Personality Traits and Political Preferences. American Political Science Review. 115(4). 1482–1498. 49 indexed citations

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Vries, Catherine E. De, Bert N. Bakker, Sara B. Hobolt, & Kevin Arceneaux. (2021). Crisis signaling: how Italy's coronavirus lockdown affected incumbent support in other European countries. Political Science Research and Methods. 9(3). 451–467. 73 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bakker, Bert N., et al.. (2020). Questionable and open research practices: attitudes and perceptions among quantitative communication researchers. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 6 indexed citations

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Malka, Ariel, et al.. (2020). Who Is Open to Authoritarian Governance within Western Democracies?. Perspectives on Politics. 20(3). 808–827. 29 indexed citations

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Vliegenthart, Rens, et al.. (2020). COVID-19 panel study in the Netherlands. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 5 indexed citations

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Bakker, Bert N., et al.. (2020). Conservatives and liberals have similar physiological responses to threats. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(6). 613–621. 89 indexed citations

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Bakker, Bert N., et al.. (2020). Yikes! Are we disgusted by politicians?. Politics and the Life Sciences. 39(2). 135–153. 13 indexed citations

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Schoonvelde, Martijn, Anna Brosius, Gijs Schumacher, & Bert N. Bakker. (2019). Liberals lecture, conservatives communicate: Analyzing complexity and ideology in 381,609 political speeches. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0208450–e0208450. 34 indexed citations

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Bakker, Bert N., Matthijs Rooduijn, & Gijs Schumacher. (2015). The psychological roots of populist voting: Evidence from the United States, the Netherlands and Germany. European Journal of Political Research. 55(2). 302–320. 158 indexed citations

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Bakker, Bert N., David Nicolas Hopmann, & Mikael Persson. (2014). Personality traits and party identification over time. European Journal of Political Research. 54(2). 197–215. 30 indexed citations

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