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.
Modernization, cultural change, and democracy the human development sequence
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Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy
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Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness: A Global Perspective (1981–2007)
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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Welzel
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Christian Welzel. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Christian Welzel. The network helps show where Christian Welzel may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Welzel
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Inglehart, Ronald, et al.. (2014). Genetic Factors, Cultural Predispositions, Happiness and Gender Equality. Journal of Research in Gender Studies. 4(1). 32–100.16 indexed citations
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Welzel, Christian. (2012). The Myth of Asian Exceptionalism: Response to Bomhoff and Gu. SSRN Electronic Journal.2 indexed citations
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Alexander, Amy C. & Christian Welzel. (2011). Islam and Patriarchy. International Review of Sociology. 4(2).1 indexed citations
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Welzel, Christian. (2011). The Asian Values Thesis Revisited: Evidence from the World Values Surveys. SSRN Electronic Journal.1 indexed citations
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Welzel, Christian & Ronald Inglehart. (2010). Agency, Values and Well-Being: A Human Development Model. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Welzel, Christian. (2010). How Selfish are Self-Expression Values? A Civicness Test. SSRN Electronic Journal.3 indexed citations
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Inglehart, Ronald & Christian Welzel. (2009). How Development Leads to Democracy: What We Know About Modernization. SSRN Electronic Journal.86 indexed citations
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Inglehart, Ronald & Christian Welzel. (2009). Cómo conduce el desarrollo hacia la democracia: Lo que sabemos de la modernización. 9(4). 117–130.2 indexed citations
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Inglehart, Ronald & Christian Welzel. (2009). How development leads to democracy. Foreign Affairs. 88(2). 33–48.86 indexed citations
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Welzel, Christian & Hans‐Dieter Klingemann. (2007). Understanding Democratic Congruence: A Demand-Supply Perspective. eScholarship (California Digital Library).3 indexed citations
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Welzel, Christian. (2007). Are Levels of Democracy Affected by Mass Attitudes? Testing Attainment and Sustainment Effects on Democracy. SSRN Electronic Journal.1 indexed citations
Welzel, Christian & Ronald Inglehart. (2006). Emancipative Values and Democracy. SSRN Electronic Journal.2 indexed citations
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Welzel, Christian. (2006). Are Levels of Democracy Influenced by Mass Attitudes? Testing a Central Premise of the Political Culture Approach. eScholarship (California Digital Library).2 indexed citations
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Welzel, Christian. (2005). Liberalism, Postmaterialism, and the Growth of Freedom: The Human Development Perspective. SSRN Electronic Journal.9 indexed citations
Welzel, Christian. (1998). Vom Konsens zum Dissens? Politische Ordnungspräferenzen von Eliten und Bürgern im ost-westdeutschen Vergleich. KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. 50(2). 238–262.
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