Bruce Desmarais

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Bruce Desmarais is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce Desmarais has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 17 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Bruce Desmarais's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (21 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (13 papers) and Policy Transfer and Learning (12 papers). Bruce Desmarais is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (21 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (13 papers) and Policy Transfer and Learning (12 papers). Bruce Desmarais collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Bruce Desmarais's co-authors include Skyler Cranmer, Jeffrey J. Harden, Philip Leifeld, Frederick J. Boehmke, Fridolin Linder, Justin H. Kirkland, Tobias Heinrich, John Hird, Raymond J. La Raja and Hanna Wallach and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, NeuroImage and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Bruce Desmarais

55 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Inferential Network Analysis with Exponential Random Graph Models

2010 315 citations Skyler Cranmer, Bruce Desmarais Political Analysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruce Desmarais United States	21	700	581	386	325	298	64	1.8k
Skyler Cranmer United States	18	575 0.8×	821 1.4×	458 1.2×	231 0.7×	324 1.1×	52	1.9k
Philip Leifeld United Kingdom	21	875 1.3×	752 1.3×	200 0.5×	387 1.2×	209 0.7×	52	2.1k
Frans N. Stokman Netherlands	20	475 0.7×	549 0.9×	274 0.7×	363 1.1×	179 0.6×	90	1.5k
Jörg Raab Netherlands	19	270 0.4×	789 1.4×	150 0.4×	282 0.9×	99 0.3×	60	1.6k
Michael Timberlake United States	20	678 1.0×	905 1.6×	77 0.2×	380 1.2×	704 2.4×	36	2.4k
Kevin Esterling United States	18	808 1.2×	673 1.2×	91 0.2×	329 1.0×	145 0.5×	66	1.9k
Miguel Ángel Centeno United States	22	1.0k 1.4×	1.2k 2.1×	59 0.2×	140 0.4×	388 1.3×	63	2.5k
Johan Koskinen United Kingdom	20	119 0.2×	786 1.4×	641 1.7×	160 0.5×	202 0.7×	62	1.9k
Michael T. Heaney United States	22	562 0.8×	620 1.1×	75 0.2×	358 1.1×	87 0.3×	69	1.4k
Paul J. Quirk United States	18	1.4k 2.0×	1.3k 2.3×	75 0.2×	477 1.5×	388 1.3×	48	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Bruce Desmarais

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce Desmarais

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bruce Desmarais. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bruce Desmarais based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bruce Desmarais. Bruce Desmarais is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Desmarais, Bruce, et al.. (2025). Collaborative diffusion: The dynamics of policy output in COVID ‐19 interstate compacts. Policy Studies Journal. 53(4). 944–970.

Baker, Wayne E., et al.. (2025). Networks of inclusion: Using teams and technology to create diverse social capital. Social Networks. 83. 120–133.

Boehmke, Frederick J., et al.. (2024). The national network of US state legislators on Twitter. Political Science Research and Methods. 13(4). 1042–1054.

Boehmke, Frederick J., et al.. (2023). SPRC19: A Database of State Policy Responses to COVID-19 in the United States. Scientific Data. 10(1). 526–526.

Desmarais, Bruce, et al.. (2023). Contagion, Confounding, and Causality: Confronting the Three C’s of Observational Political Networks Research. Political Analysis. 31(3). 472–479. 1 indexed citations

Desmarais, Bruce, et al.. (2022). Spatial modeling of dyadic geopolitical interactions between moving actors. Political Science Research and Methods. 11(3). 633–644. 2 indexed citations

Desmarais, Bruce, et al.. (2021). Attention to the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Twitter: Partisan Differences Among U.S. State Legislators. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 47(4). 1023–1041. 8 indexed citations

Zhu, Boliang, et al.. (2020). Complex dependence in foreign direct investment: network theory and empirical analysis. Political Science Research and Methods. 10(2). 243–259. 21 indexed citations

Liu, Xi, Clio Andris, & Bruce Desmarais. (2019). Migration and political polarization in the U.S.: An analysis of the county-level migration network. PLoS ONE. 14(11). e0225405–e0225405. 22 indexed citations

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Stillman, Paul E., James Wilson, Matthew J. Denny, et al.. (2019). A consistent organizational structure across multiple functional subnetworks of the human brain. NeuroImage. 197. 24–36. 4 indexed citations

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Boehmke, Frederick J., et al.. (2019). SPID: A New Database for Inferring Public Policy Innovativeness and Diffusion Networks. Policy Studies Journal. 48(2). 517–545. 44 indexed citations

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Linder, Fridolin, et al.. (2018). Text as Policy: Measuring Policy Similarity through Bill Text Reuse. Policy Studies Journal. 48(2). 546–574. 44 indexed citations

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Stillman, Paul E., James Wilson, Matthew J. Denny, et al.. (2017). Statistical Modeling of the Default Mode Brain Network Reveals a Segregated Highway Structure. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 11694–11694. 12 indexed citations

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Boehmke, Frederick J., et al.. (2016). The Seeds of Policy Change: Leveraging Diffusion to Disseminate Policy Innovations. Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law. 42(2). 285–307. 10 indexed citations

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Wilson, James, et al.. (2016). Stochastic Weighted Graphs: Flexible Model Specification and Simulation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Desmarais, Bruce & Jeffrey J. Harden. (2013). An unbiased model comparison test using cross-validation. Quality & Quantity. 48(4). 2155–2173. 2 indexed citations

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Krafft, P. M., et al.. (2012). Topic-Partitioned Multinetwork Embeddings. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 25. 2807–2815. 6 indexed citations

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Desmarais, Bruce & Skyler Cranmer. (2012). Micro‐Level Interpretation of Exponential Random Graph Models with Application to Estuary Networks. Policy Studies Journal. 40(3). 402–434. 82 indexed citations

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Cranmer, Skyler & Bruce Desmarais. (2010). Inferential Network Analysis with Exponential Random Graph Models. Political Analysis. 19(1). 66–86. 315 indexed citations breakdown →

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Benz, Jennifer, Thomas M. Carsey, & Bruce Desmarais. (2009). How Partisan Frames Affect Public Consideration of Policy Problems. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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