Gretchen Ritter

956 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 532 citations indexed

About

Gretchen Ritter is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Gretchen Ritter has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 532 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Gretchen Ritter's work include American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 papers), Gender Politics and Representation (2 papers) and Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (2 papers). Gretchen Ritter is often cited by papers focused on American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 papers), Gender Politics and Representation (2 papers) and Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (2 papers). Gretchen Ritter collaborates with scholars based in United States and Nepal. Gretchen Ritter's co-authors include Laura Keane, Shannon T. Brady, Robert W. Cherny, Carol S. Dweck, Eric M. Gomez, Gregory M. Walton, Angela Duckworth, David Paunesku, David S. Yeager and Hazel Rose Markus and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Gretchen Ritter

13 papers receiving 465 citations

Hit Papers

Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement ... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 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. Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale
    2016 317 citations David S. Yeager, Gregory M. Walton et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gretchen Ritter United States 9 160 143 143 125 105 16 532
David Hogan Singapore 15 170 1.1× 185 1.3× 122 0.9× 500 4.0× 79 0.8× 34 809
Ben Dalton United States 12 83 0.5× 247 1.7× 87 0.6× 450 3.6× 49 0.5× 31 732
Lawrence J. Saha Australia 17 108 0.7× 262 1.8× 34 0.2× 561 4.5× 131 1.2× 47 859
Elizabeth M. Almquist United States 14 106 0.7× 343 2.4× 85 0.6× 142 1.1× 55 0.5× 21 815
Christina Hoff Sommers United States 8 57 0.4× 223 1.6× 44 0.3× 154 1.2× 41 0.4× 24 576
Shaki Asgari United States 4 200 1.3× 335 2.3× 89 0.6× 78 0.6× 22 0.2× 7 651
Lamont A. Flowers United States 19 214 1.3× 180 1.3× 51 0.4× 715 5.7× 51 0.5× 47 865
Heather Mendick United Kingdom 17 65 0.4× 310 2.2× 97 0.7× 441 3.5× 96 0.9× 55 872
Ratna Ghosh Canada 14 79 0.5× 284 2.0× 26 0.2× 246 2.0× 114 1.1× 54 593
Pier Paolo Giglioli Lithuania 6 34 0.2× 237 1.7× 121 0.8× 82 0.7× 68 0.6× 13 867

Countries citing papers authored by Gretchen Ritter

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gretchen Ritter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Gretchen Ritter. 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 Gretchen Ritter. The network helps show where Gretchen Ritter may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gretchen Ritter

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Yeager, David S., Gregory M. Walton, Shannon T. Brady, et al.. (2016). Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(24). E3341–8. 317 indexed citations breakdown →
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King, Desmond, Robert C. Lieberman, Gretchen Ritter, & Laurence Whitehead. (2009). Democratization in America : a comparative-historical analysis. Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks. 20 indexed citations
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Ritter, Gretchen. (2009). Domestic Containment or Equal Standing? Gender, Nationalism, and the War on Terror. Journal of Policy History. 21(4). 439–447. 3 indexed citations
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Ritter, Gretchen. (2007). Gender and Politics over Time. Politics & Gender. 3(3). 386–397. 8 indexed citations
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Ritter, Gretchen. (2006). The Constitution as Social Design. Stanford University Press eBooks. 23 indexed citations
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Ritter, Gretchen. (2002). Jury Service and Women's Citizenship before and after the Nineteenth Amendment. Law and History Review. 20(3). 479–515. 8 indexed citations
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Ritter, Gretchen. (2000). Gender and Citizenship after the Nineteenth Amendment. Polity. 32(3). 345–375. 10 indexed citations
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Ritter, Gretchen, et al.. (2000). The State of Gender Studies in Political Science. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 571(1). 121–134. 12 indexed citations
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Cherny, Robert W. & Gretchen Ritter. (1999). Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America. The American Historical Review. 104(5). 1679–1679. 46 indexed citations
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Ritter, Gretchen. (1998). Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign Against Woman Suffrage. Political Science Quarterly. 113(2). 333–334.
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Ritter, Gretchen. (1997). Modernity, Subjectivity, and Law: Reflections on Marianne Constable's The Law of the Other. Law & Social Inquiry. 22(3). 809–828. 1 indexed citations
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Ritter, Gretchen. (1997). Silver Slippers and a Golden Cap: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Historical Memory in American Politics. Journal of American Studies. 31(2). 171–202. 8 indexed citations
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Ritter, Gretchen. (1997). Goldbugs and Greenbacks. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 46 indexed citations
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Ritter, Gretchen. (1992). Parties and the politics of money : the antimonopoly tradition and American political development, 1865-1896. 2 indexed citations
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Skocpol, Theda & Gretchen Ritter. (1991). Gender and the Origins of Modern Social Policies in Britain and the United States. Studies in American Political Development. 5(1). 36–93. 28 indexed citations

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