John Brehm

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

John Brehm is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Public Administration. According to data from OpenAlex, John Brehm has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 4 papers in Public Administration. Recurrent topics in John Brehm's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (7 papers), Public Policy and Administration Research (4 papers) and Social Capital and Networks (3 papers). John Brehm is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (7 papers), Public Policy and Administration Research (4 papers) and Social Capital and Networks (3 papers). John Brehm collaborates with scholars based in United States. John Brehm's co-authors include Wendy M. Rahn, R. Michael Alvarez, J. Phillip Thompson, Mark R. Warren, Susan Saegert, Scott Gates, James T. Hamilton, Paul Gronke, Henry E. Brady and Simon Jackman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

John Brehm

21 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 500 1000 1.5k
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. Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital
    1997 1.6k citations John Brehm, Wendy M. Rahn 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
John Brehm United States 12 1.9k 896 428 321 314 21 2.9k
Tom van der Meer Netherlands 29 2.0k 1.0× 1.4k 1.6× 451 1.1× 180 0.6× 202 0.6× 78 2.9k
Roger Jowell United Kingdom 24 1.4k 0.8× 1.1k 1.2× 425 1.0× 284 0.9× 236 0.8× 44 2.8k
Steven E. Finkel United States 23 2.2k 1.2× 1.6k 1.8× 1.0k 2.4× 296 0.9× 241 0.8× 46 4.0k
Frederick D. Weil United States 11 1.4k 0.7× 604 0.7× 175 0.4× 280 0.9× 225 0.7× 33 2.2k
Claire Wallace United Kingdom 30 2.0k 1.0× 771 0.9× 139 0.3× 453 1.4× 531 1.7× 154 3.6k
Wendy M. Rahn United States 20 2.9k 1.5× 2.1k 2.3× 1.1k 2.6× 390 1.2× 242 0.8× 35 4.4k
Laura Stoker United States 15 2.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.8× 783 1.8× 286 0.9× 128 0.4× 23 3.3k
Jeffrey Milyo United States 22 1.3k 0.7× 704 0.8× 391 0.9× 608 1.9× 471 1.5× 49 2.8k
Fay Lomax Cook United States 22 2.0k 1.0× 1.4k 1.5× 1.3k 3.0× 246 0.8× 259 0.8× 57 3.6k
J. Miller McPherson United States 18 1.9k 1.0× 247 0.3× 359 0.8× 196 0.6× 278 0.9× 23 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by John Brehm

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Brehm

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Brehm

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Brehm. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Brehm 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 John Brehm. John Brehm 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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Brehm, John & Scott Gates. (2011). Teaching, Tasks, and Trust: Functions of the Public Executive (Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust). 2 indexed citations
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Brehm, John & Scott Gates. (2008). Teaching, Tasks, and Trust: Functions of the Public Executive. 15 indexed citations
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Brehm, John, Susan Saegert, J. Phillip Thompson, & Mark R. Warren. (2003). Social Capital and Poor Communities. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 32(3). 345–345. 408 indexed citations
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Gronke, Paul & John Brehm. (2002). History, heterogeneity, and presidential approval: a modified ARCH approach. Electoral Studies. 21(3). 425–452. 37 indexed citations
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Brehm, John. (1999). Alternative Corrections for Sample Truncation: Applications to the 1988, 1990, and 1992 Senate Election Studies. Political Analysis. 8(2). 183–199. 10 indexed citations
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Rahn, Wendy M., et al.. (1999). National Elections as Institutions for Building Social Capital. 111–160. 9 indexed citations
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Rahn, Wendy M., et al.. (1998). National Elections as Institutions for Generating Social Capital. 36 indexed citations
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Brehm, John. (1998). Not Asked and Not Answered: Multiple Imputation for Multiple Surveys: Comment. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 93(443). 859–859. 1 indexed citations
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Alvarez, R. Michael & John Brehm. (1998). Speaking in Two Voices: American Equivocation about the Internal Revenue Service. American Journal of Political Science. 42(2). 418–418. 63 indexed citations
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Brehm, John & Wendy M. Rahn. (1997). Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital. American Journal of Political Science. 41(3). 999–999. 1605 indexed citations breakdown →
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Alvarez, R. Michael & John Brehm. (1997). Are Americans Ambivalent Towards Racial Policies?. American Journal of Political Science. 41(2). 345–345. 132 indexed citations
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Brehm, John & Emerson M. S. Niou. (1997). Police Patrol versus Self-Policing. Journal of Theoretical Politics. 9(1). 107–130. 1 indexed citations
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Brehm, John. (1996). Steps Towards a Political Science of Compliance: Common Insights and Recurring Problems. 2 indexed citations
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Brehm, John. (1996). Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification.Timur Kuran. The Journal of Politics. 58(3). 889–890. 6 indexed citations
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Brehm, John & James T. Hamilton. (1996). Noncompliance in Environmental Reporting: Are Violators Ignorant, or Evasive, of the Law?. American Journal of Political Science. 40(2). 444–444. 113 indexed citations
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Alvarez, R. Michael & John Brehm. (1995). American Ambivalence Towards Abortion Policy: Development of a Heteroskedastic Probit Model of Competing Values. American Journal of Political Science. 39(4). 1055–1055. 285 indexed citations
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Brehm, John & Scott Gates. (1994). When Supervision Fails to Induce Compliance. Journal of Theoretical Politics. 6(3). 323–343. 26 indexed citations
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Brehm, John & Scott Gates. (1993). Donut Shops and Speed Traps: Evaluating Models of Supervision on Police Behavior. American Journal of Political Science. 37(2). 555–555. 80 indexed citations
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Brehm, John. (1990). Opinion surveys and political representation.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 4 indexed citations

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