Bram Spruyt

4.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
137 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Bram Spruyt is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Bram Spruyt has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 54 papers in Education and 33 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Bram Spruyt's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (22 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (15 papers) and Youth Substance Use and School Attendance (13 papers). Bram Spruyt is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (22 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (15 papers) and Youth Substance Use and School Attendance (13 papers). Bram Spruyt collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Bram Spruyt's co-authors include Filip Van Droogenbroeck, Gil Keppens, Mark Elchardus, Christophe Vanroelen, Toon Kuppens, Andrej Zaslove, Agnes Akkerman, Jessy Siongers, Russell Spears and Dimokritos Kavadias and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Social Forces.

In The Last Decade

Bram Spruyt

124 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Who Supports Populism and What Attracts People to It? 2014 2026 2018 2022 2016 2018 2014 100 200 300
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 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.

  1. Who Supports Populism and What Attracts People to It?
    2016 323 citations Bram Spruyt, Filip Van Droogenbroeck et al. profile →
  2. Gender differences in mental health problems among adolescents and the role of social support: results from the Belgian health interview surveys 2008 and 2013
    2018 248 citations Filip Van Droogenbroeck, Bram Spruyt et al. profile →
  3. Populism, Persistent Republicanism and Declinism: An Empirical Analysis of Populism as a Thin Ideology
    2014 212 citations Mark Elchardus, Bram Spruyt profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bram Spruyt Belgium 23 1.2k 921 626 524 483 137 2.6k
Wing Hong Chui Hong Kong 24 1.3k 1.1× 311 0.3× 449 0.7× 698 1.3× 850 1.8× 163 2.6k
Oksana Malanchuk United States 18 1.1k 0.9× 585 0.6× 490 0.8× 339 0.6× 365 0.8× 57 2.2k
Anita S. Mak Australia 29 690 0.6× 130 0.1× 457 0.7× 712 1.4× 625 1.3× 82 2.1k
Philip H. Pollock United States 22 486 0.4× 298 0.3× 377 0.6× 198 0.4× 497 1.0× 65 1.6k
Inga Jasinskaja‐Lahti Finland 31 2.5k 2.1× 119 0.1× 388 0.6× 1.1k 2.2× 808 1.7× 119 3.2k
Amy L. Reynolds United States 22 727 0.6× 87 0.1× 646 1.0× 888 1.7× 534 1.1× 61 1.9k
S. Mark Pancer Canada 33 1.0k 0.9× 97 0.1× 921 1.5× 1.0k 2.0× 870 1.8× 85 3.2k
Laura Wray‐Lake United States 29 975 0.8× 73 0.1× 802 1.3× 750 1.4× 712 1.5× 95 2.8k
Susan Condor United Kingdom 23 1.3k 1.1× 229 0.2× 146 0.2× 483 0.9× 109 0.2× 41 1.9k
L. Edward Wells United States 23 1.4k 1.2× 312 0.3× 171 0.3× 464 0.9× 540 1.1× 40 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Bram Spruyt

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bram Spruyt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bram Spruyt

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Spruyt, Bram, et al.. (2025). ‘Taking it slower’: how Chinese middle-class parents negotiate a new time perspective in alternative education. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 46(4). 546–561.
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Spruyt, Bram, Didier Caluwaerts, Céline Darnon, et al.. (2025). Backlash among the dominant: Assessing support for elitism in four European countries. Political Psychology. 46(6). 1768–1787. 2 indexed citations
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Spruyt, Bram, et al.. (2024). Socioeconomic and sociocultural differences in adolescents’ leisure motivations. Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure. 47(3). 487–500. 1 indexed citations
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Brandt, Mark J., et al.. (2023). Finding (dis‐)advantaged system justifiers: A bottom‐up approach to explore system justification theory. European Journal of Social Psychology. 54(1). 81–96. 6 indexed citations
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Spruyt, Bram, et al.. (2023). Classified out of society? How educational classification induces political alienation through feelings of misrecognition. British Journal of Sociology. 74(5). 858–872. 4 indexed citations
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Spruyt, Bram, et al.. (2022). ‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China. Comparative Education. 58(4). 434–450. 7 indexed citations
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Tienoven, Theun Pieter van, et al.. (2022). Graduate students locked down? PhD students’ satisfaction with supervision during the first and second COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium. PLoS ONE. 17(5). e0268923–e0268923. 14 indexed citations
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Dury, Sarah, Sara De Gieter, Filip Van Droogenbroeck, et al.. (2022). Researching Compassionate Communities From an Interdisciplinary Perspective: The Case of the Compassionate Communities Center of Expertise. The Gerontologist. 62(10). 1392–1401. 11 indexed citations
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Spruyt, Bram, et al.. (2022). The perceived quality, fairness of and corruption in education in Europe. Oxford Review of Education. 50(2). 272–289. 3 indexed citations
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Bradt, Lieve, et al.. (2021). Over leven op school : de rol van school in het leven van jongeren. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations
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Borre, Laura Van den, Bram Spruyt, & Filip Van Droogenbroeck. (2021). Early career teacher retention intention: Individual, school and country characteristics. Teaching and Teacher Education. 105. 103427–103427. 51 indexed citations
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Janssen, Jeroen, Bram Spruyt, & Michel Vandenbroeck. (2020). Is everybody happy? Exploring the predictability of parent satisfaction with childcare in Flanders. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 55. 97–106. 4 indexed citations
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Spruyt, Bram, et al.. (2020). Parents’ role in adolescents’ leisure time use: From goals to parenting practices. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 43–62. 1 indexed citations
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Spruyt, Bram, et al.. (2018). Talking Politics? Educational Category Salience Reinforces Differences in People’s Willingness to Participate in Deliberative Initiatives. Political Psychology. 41(3). 461–478. 11 indexed citations
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Elchardus, Mark & Bram Spruyt. (2008). Beïnvloedt hoger onderwijs de houding ten opzichte van extreem rechts?. Sociologie. 4(4).

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