Christopher Zorn

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Christopher Zorn is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Law and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Zorn has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 22 papers in Law and 20 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Christopher Zorn's work include Judicial and Constitutional Studies (20 papers), Legal and Constitutional Studies (18 papers) and Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (16 papers). Christopher Zorn is often cited by papers focused on Judicial and Constitutional Studies (20 papers), Legal and Constitutional Studies (18 papers) and Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (16 papers). Christopher Zorn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Netherlands. Christopher Zorn's co-authors include Janet M. Box‐Steffensmeier, Zaryab Iqbal, Dan Reiter, Clifford J. Carrubba, Virginia A. Hettinger, Todd C. Peppers, Alexander Hicks, Micheal W. Giles, Tom Walker and Amy Yuen and has published in prestigious journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science and International Organization.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Zorn

55 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Generalized Estimating Equation Models for Correlated Data: A Review with Applications

2001 505 citations Christopher Zorn American Journal of Political Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Zorn United States	25	899	847	794	511	306	58	2.5k
Jeffrey B. Lewis United States	21	973 1.1×	598 0.7×	695 0.9×	148 0.3×	309 1.0×	39	2.7k
Jason Wittenberg United States	17	2.4k 2.7×	822 1.0×	2.0k 2.6×	249 0.5×	676 2.2×	27	4.4k
Christopher H. Achen United States	23	2.8k 3.1×	796 0.9×	2.1k 2.7×	151 0.3×	534 1.7×	43	4.5k
Langche Zeng United States	16	618 0.7×	513 0.6×	692 0.9×	64 0.1×	154 0.5×	29	1.9k
Robert J. Franzese United States	23	1.4k 1.6×	1.3k 1.6×	746 0.9×	49 0.1×	322 1.1×	54	3.0k
Jonathan Mummolo United States	16	1.1k 1.2×	415 0.5×	1.3k 1.6×	76 0.1×	214 0.7×	32	2.2k
William D. Berry United States	26	3.4k 3.8×	2.0k 2.4×	1.4k 1.8×	345 0.7×	1.0k 3.3×	53	5.9k
Tom Clark United States	21	608 0.7×	937 1.1×	394 0.5×	920 1.8×	237 0.8×	75	2.0k
Thomas B. Pepinsky United States	28	1.3k 1.4×	720 0.9×	1.8k 2.2×	53 0.1×	307 1.0×	109	3.4k
Jstor	7	758 0.8×	291 0.3×	778 1.0×	130 0.3×	206 0.7×	11	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Zorn

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Zorn

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sweet-Cushman, Jennie, Rebecca D. Gill, & Christopher Zorn. (2025). Legislating in the First Female Majority State Legislature: Gendered Power, Leadership, and Patterns of Sponsorship and Cosponsorship. Political Research Quarterly. 78(3). 1045–1059.

Carlson, Elizabeth & Christopher Zorn. (2021). Toward Better Hiring Practices. PS Political Science & Politics. 54(3). 517–520. 3 indexed citations

Zorn, Christopher, et al.. (2019). Corpus-based dictionaries for sentiment analysis of specialized vocabularies. Political Science Research and Methods. 9(1). 20–35. 61 indexed citations

Zorn, Christopher, et al.. (2018). Motivation of student radiographers in learning situations based on role-play simulation: A multicentric approach involving trainers and students. Radiography. 25(1). e18–e25. 21 indexed citations

Zorn, Christopher, et al.. (2013). Exploring Minecraft as a conduit for increasing interest in programming.. Foundations of Digital Games. 352–359. 22 indexed citations

Peppers, Todd C., et al.. (2012). Random Chance or Loaded Dice: The Politics of Judicial Designation. University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester). 10(1). 4. 4 indexed citations

Zorn, Christopher, et al.. (2010). Ideological Influences on Decision Making in the Federal Judicial Hierarchy: An Empirical Assessment. The Journal of Politics. 72(4). 1212–1221. 47 indexed citations

Peppers, Todd C. & Christopher Zorn. (2008). Law Clerk Influence on Supreme Court Decision Making: An Empirical Assessment. The De Paul law review. 58(1). 51. 19 indexed citations

Zorn, Christopher. (2008). Surface vs. Contour Plots for the Presentation of Three-Dimensional Data. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Zorn, Christopher, et al.. (2007). The Etiology of Public Support for the Designated Hitter Rule. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 2(2). 189–203. 1 indexed citations

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Peppers, Todd C. & Christopher Zorn. (2007). Law Clerk Influence on Supreme Court Decision Making. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10 indexed citations

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Carrubba, Clifford J., Amy Yuen, & Christopher Zorn. (2007). Reply to Signorino. Political Analysis. 15(4). 502–504. 2 indexed citations

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Giles, Micheal W., Virginia A. Hettinger, Christopher Zorn, & Todd C. Peppers. (2007). The Etiology of the Occurrence of En Banc Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals. American Journal of Political Science. 51(3). 449–463. 30 indexed citations

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Carrubba, Clifford J., Amy Yuen, & Christopher Zorn. (2007). In Defense of Comparative Statics: Specifying Empirical Tests of Models of Strategic Interaction. Political Analysis. 15(4). 465–482. 35 indexed citations

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Zorn, Christopher. (2006). Comparing GEE and Robust Standard Errors for Conditionally Dependent Data. Political Research Quarterly. 59(3). 329–341. 74 indexed citations

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Hicks, Alexander & Christopher Zorn. (2005). Economic Globalization, the Macro Economy, and Reversals of Welfare: Expansion in Affluent Democracies, 1978–94. International Organization. 59(3). 41 indexed citations

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Haynes, Audrey A., et al.. (2004). The Calculus of Concession. American Politics Research. 32(3). 310–337. 21 indexed citations

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Zorn, Christopher. (2001). Generalized Estimating Equation Models for Correlated Data: A Review with Applications. American Journal of Political Science. 45(2). 470–470. 505 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zorn, Christopher, et al.. (2000). A Competing Risks Model of Supreme Court Vacancies, 1789–1992. Political Behavior. 22(2). 145–166. 48 indexed citations

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Zorn, Christopher. (1998). An Analytic and Empirical Examination of Zero-Inflated and Hurdle Poisson Specifications. Sociological Methods & Research. 26(3). 368–400. 79 indexed citations

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