Frederick Solt

5.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
29 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Frederick Solt is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Frederick Solt has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 4 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Frederick Solt's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (13 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (7 papers) and Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 papers). Frederick Solt is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (13 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (7 papers) and Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 papers). Frederick Solt collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Frederick Solt's co-authors include Évelyne Huber, Philip Habel, J. Tobin Grant, Yue Hu, Ivor Crewe, Pamela Johnston Conover, Donald D. Searing, Lisa A. Keister, Jen’nan Ghazal Read and Nadia Amin and has published in prestigious journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science and The Journal of Politics.

In The Last Decade

Frederick Solt

27 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Standardizing the World I... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2009 2016 2020 2008 200 400 600
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. Standardizing the World Income Inequality Database*
    2009 726 citations Frederick Solt Social Science Quarterly profile →
  2. The Standardized World Income Inequality Database*
    2016 634 citations Frederick Solt Social Science Quarterly profile →
  3. Measuring Income Inequality Across Countries and Over Time: The Standardized World Income Inequality Database
    2020 577 citations Frederick Solt Social Science Quarterly profile →
  4. Economic Inequality and Democratic Political Engagement
    2008 547 citations Frederick Solt American Journal of Political Science profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Frederick Solt 1.9k 1.3k 1.3k 433 249 29 3.4k
José García Montalvo 2.0k 1.1× 1.4k 1.1× 734 0.6× 375 0.9× 248 1.0× 103 4.2k
Arthur S. Alderson 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 631 0.5× 354 0.8× 269 1.1× 33 2.5k
Kenneth F. Scheve 2.3k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 2.0k 1.6× 409 0.9× 356 1.4× 67 4.5k
Björn Gustafsson 1.6k 0.9× 883 0.7× 821 0.7× 155 0.4× 448 1.8× 137 2.7k
Thomas B. Pepinsky 1.8k 1.0× 720 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 139 0.3× 146 0.6× 109 3.4k
Daniele Checchi 1.5k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 559 0.4× 318 0.7× 286 1.1× 146 3.1k
Andreas Bergh 776 0.4× 937 0.7× 516 0.4× 240 0.6× 193 0.8× 93 1.9k
Shi Li 1.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 1.0k 0.8× 162 0.4× 321 1.3× 117 3.1k
Casey B. Mulligan 1.0k 0.6× 2.0k 1.6× 373 0.3× 439 1.0× 341 1.4× 89 3.4k
Sergio Kurlat 1.5k 0.8× 866 0.7× 572 0.5× 280 0.6× 71 0.3× 9 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Frederick Solt

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frederick Solt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frederick Solt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Frederick Solt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Frederick Solt 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 Frederick Solt. Frederick Solt is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hoffmann, Roman, et al.. (2025). Rising income inequality across half of global population and socioecological implications. Nature Sustainability. 8(12). 1601–1613.
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Hu, Yue, et al.. (2024). Revisiting the evidence on thermostatic response to democratic change: degrees of democratic support or researcher degrees of freedom?. Political Science Research and Methods. 13(1). 237–243. 1 indexed citations
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Solt, Frederick, et al.. (2022). Public Gender Egalitarianism: A Dataset of Dynamic Comparative Public Opinion toward Egalitarian Gender Roles in the Public Sphere. British Journal of Political Science. 53(2). 766–775. 12 indexed citations
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Solt, Frederick. (2020). Measuring Income Inequality Across Countries and Over Time: The Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Social Science Quarterly. 101(3). 1183–1199. 577 indexed citations breakdown →
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Solt, Frederick, et al.. (2019). Economic Inequality and Campaign Participation*. Social Science Quarterly. 100(3). 678–688. 20 indexed citations
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Solt, Frederick. (2017). The Standardized World Income Inequality Database. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 6 indexed citations
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Solt, Frederick, et al.. (2016). Economic inequality and belief in meritocracy in the United States. Research & Politics. 3(4). 30 indexed citations
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Solt, Frederick. (2016). The Standardized World Income Inequality Database*. Social Science Quarterly. 97(5). 1267–1281. 634 indexed citations breakdown →
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Solt, Frederick. (2015). On the assessment and use of cross-national income inequality datasets. The Journal of Economic Inequality. 13(4). 683–691. 54 indexed citations
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Solt, Frederick, et al.. (2014). Neoliberal reform and protest in Latin American democracies: A replication and correction. Research & Politics. 1(2). 7 indexed citations
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Keister, Lisa A., Lisa A. Keister, Rebekah Peeples Massengill, et al.. (2014). Religion and Inequality in America. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 25 indexed citations
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Solt, Frederick, Philip Habel, & J. Tobin Grant. (2011). Economic Inequality, Relative Power, and Religiosity*. Social Science Quarterly. 92(2). 447–465. 69 indexed citations
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Solt, Frederick. (2011). The Social Origins of Authoritarianism. Political Research Quarterly. 65(4). 703–713. 40 indexed citations
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Solt, Frederick. (2009). Standardizing the World Income Inequality Database*. Social Science Quarterly. 90(2). 231–242. 726 indexed citations breakdown →
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Solt, Frederick. (2008). Economic Inequality and Democratic Political Engagement. American Journal of Political Science. 52(1). 48–60. 547 indexed citations breakdown →
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Searing, Donald D., Frederick Solt, Pamela Johnston Conover, & Ivor Crewe. (2007). Public Discussion in the Deliberative System: Does It Make Better Citizens?. British Journal of Political Science. 37(4). 587–618. 35 indexed citations
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Solt, Frederick. (2004). Electoral Competition, Legislative Pluralism, and Institutional Development: Evidence From Mexico's States. Latin American Research Review. 39(1). 155–167. 5 indexed citations
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Solt, Frederick. (2003). Civics or Structure? Revisiting the Origins of Democratic Quality in the Italian Regions. British Journal of Political Science. 34(1). 123–135. 27 indexed citations
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Solt, Frederick. (2001). Institutional effects on democratic transitions: Neo-Patrimonial regimes in Africa, 1989–1994. Studies in Comparative International Development. 36(2). 82–91. 4 indexed citations

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