Heike Klüver

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Heike Klüver is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Heike Klüver has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 42 papers in Strategy and Management and 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Heike Klüver's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (47 papers), Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (42 papers) and Policy Transfer and Learning (15 papers). Heike Klüver is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (47 papers), Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (42 papers) and Policy Transfer and Learning (15 papers). Heike Klüver collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Heike Klüver's co-authors include Jae‐Jae Spoon, Iñaki Sagarzazu, Christine Mahoney, Nathalie Giger, Jan Beyers, Caelesta Braun, Hanna Bäck, Radosław Zubek, Sabine Saurugger and Johannes Giesecke and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Heike Klüver

62 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Who Responds? Voters, Parties and Issue Attention 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 50 100 150
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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.

  1. Who Responds? Voters, Parties and Issue Attention
    2014 150 citations Heike Klüver, Jae‐Jae Spoon British Journal of Political Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Heike Klüver Germany 30 1.9k 1.5k 574 348 223 66 2.6k
Marc Debus Germany 28 1.9k 1.0× 815 0.5× 403 0.7× 222 0.6× 71 0.3× 109 2.3k
Marie Hojnacki United States 15 1.3k 0.7× 1.7k 1.1× 860 1.5× 185 0.5× 458 2.1× 28 2.3k
Pascal Sciarini Switzerland 24 1.3k 0.7× 473 0.3× 476 0.8× 322 0.9× 153 0.7× 92 1.7k
Jonathan Polk Sweden 18 1.9k 1.0× 431 0.3× 681 1.2× 349 1.0× 42 0.2× 35 2.2k
Boris Shor United States 17 1.0k 0.5× 406 0.3× 320 0.6× 119 0.3× 112 0.5× 37 1.4k
Diana Evans United States 9 1.1k 0.6× 287 0.2× 449 0.8× 269 0.8× 134 0.6× 18 1.4k
Daniel A. Smith United States 23 1.5k 0.8× 355 0.2× 585 1.0× 537 1.5× 103 0.5× 104 1.8k
Erica Edwards United States 8 1.8k 1.0× 556 0.4× 538 0.9× 309 0.9× 43 0.2× 11 2.1k
Philip Manow Germany 21 1.3k 0.7× 204 0.1× 518 0.9× 77 0.2× 159 0.7× 97 1.8k
Klaus Armingeon Switzerland 20 1.3k 0.7× 183 0.1× 474 0.8× 127 0.4× 177 0.8× 66 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Heike Klüver

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heike Klüver

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heike Klüver

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

All Works

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Stoetzer, Lukas F., Johannes Giesecke, & Heike Klüver. (2025). Perceived inequality and populism. European Journal of Political Research. 65(1). 124–144.
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Klüver, Heike, et al.. (2025). How nuclear power hurts the Greens: Evidence from German nuclear power plants. Electoral Studies. 96. 102959–102959. 1 indexed citations
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Hobolt, Sara B., et al.. (2025). The youth gender gap in support for the far right. Journal of European Public Policy. 33(2). 444–468. 4 indexed citations
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Kuhn, Theresa, et al.. (2025). Closed borders, closed minds? COVID‐related border closures, EU support and hostility towards immigrants. European Journal of Political Research. 64(4). 1923–1944. 1 indexed citations
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Giebler, Heiko, Johannes Giesecke, Macartan Humphreys, Swen Hutter, & Heike Klüver. (2025). Mobilizing Europe’s citizens to take action on migration and climate change: behavioral evidence from 27 EU member states. Journal of European Public Policy. 33(2). 607–635. 1 indexed citations
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Klüver, Heike, et al.. (2024). Adopting restriction: how coalition governments respond to radical right parties. West European Politics. 48(6). 1299–1331.
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Klüver, Heike, et al.. (2024). Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Political Science Research and Methods. 13(4). 1025–1030. 2 indexed citations
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Hartmann, Felix, et al.. (2023). Trading Liberties: Estimating COVID-19 Policy Preferences from Conjoint Data. Political Analysis. 32(2). 285–293. 2 indexed citations
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Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd, Heike Klüver, David Marshall, et al.. (2022). Introducing the party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets. Party Politics. 29(2). 394–403. 9 indexed citations
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Hartmann, Felix, et al.. (2022). Public support for global vaccine sharing in the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Germany. PLoS ONE. 17(12). e0278337–e0278337. 3 indexed citations
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Rasmussen, Anne, Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz, & Heike Klüver. (2021). Organised interests in the media and policy congruence: The contingent impact of the status quo. European Journal of Political Research. 60(4). 975–993. 10 indexed citations
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Spoon, Jae‐Jae & Heike Klüver. (2019). Party convergence and vote switching: Explaining mainstream party decline across Europe. European Journal of Political Research. 58(4). 1021–1042. 87 indexed citations
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Klüver, Heike. (2018). Setting the Party Agenda: Interest Groups, Voters and Issue Attention. British Journal of Political Science. 50(3). 979–1000. 37 indexed citations
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Spoon, Jae‐Jae & Heike Klüver. (2016). Does anybody notice? How policy positions of coalition parties are perceived by voters. European Journal of Political Research. 56(1). 115–132. 40 indexed citations
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Spoon, Jae‐Jae & Heike Klüver. (2015). Voter polarisation and party responsiveness: Why parties emphasise divided issues, but remain silent on unified issues. European Journal of Political Research. 54(2). 343–362. 45 indexed citations
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Klüver, Heike & Christine Mahoney. (2015). Measuring interest group framing strategies in public policy debates. Journal of Public Policy. 35(2). 223–244. 38 indexed citations
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Sagarzazu, Iñaki & Heike Klüver. (2015). Coalition Governments and Party Competition: Political Communication Strategies of Coalition Parties. Political Science Research and Methods. 5(2). 333–349. 100 indexed citations
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Klüver, Heike & Jae‐Jae Spoon. (2014). Who Responds? Voters, Parties and Issue Attention. British Journal of Political Science. 46(3). 633–654. 150 indexed citations breakdown →
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Klüver, Heike & Toni Rodón. (2012). Explaining Policy Position Choice of Europarties: The Effect of Legislative Resources. British Journal of Political Science. 43(3). 629–650. 11 indexed citations

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