John Stephens

16.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
149 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

John Stephens is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, John Stephens has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 39 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 35 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in John Stephens's work include Social Policy and Reform Studies (34 papers), Themes in Literature Analysis (26 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (12 papers). John Stephens is often cited by papers focused on Social Policy and Reform Studies (34 papers), Themes in Literature Analysis (26 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (12 papers). John Stephens collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. John Stephens's co-authors include Évelyne Huber, Charles C. Ragin, François Nielsen, Torben Iversen, Stephanie Möller, David Bradley, Evelyne Huber Stephens, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, York W. Bradshaw and Dietrich Rueschemeyer and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

John Stephens

126 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

Development and Crisis of the Welfare State 1979 2026 1994 2010 2001 1979 1993 1993 2008 250 500 750 1000
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. Development and Crisis of the Welfare State
    2001 1.1k citations Évelyne Huber, John Stephens profile →
  2. The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
    1979 629 citations John Stephens profile →
  3. Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State
    1993 572 citations Évelyne Huber, John Stephens et al. profile →
  4. Capitalist Development and Democracy.
    1993 463 citations Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens et al. profile →
  5. Partisan Politics, the Welfare State, and Three Worlds of Human Capital Formation
    2008 348 citations John Stephens et al. 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 Stephens United States 34 4.7k 2.7k 1.4k 1.3k 1.1k 149 7.3k
Torben Iversen United States 31 4.1k 0.9× 1.4k 0.5× 1.5k 1.1× 918 0.7× 1.0k 1.0× 71 5.6k
David Brady United States 44 3.6k 0.8× 2.2k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 435 0.4× 163 6.0k
Guy Standing United Kingdom 38 2.6k 0.6× 3.9k 1.5× 1.4k 0.9× 2.9k 2.2× 784 0.7× 162 8.1k
Erik Olín Wright United States 44 2.2k 0.5× 4.7k 1.7× 1.1k 0.7× 1.4k 1.0× 500 0.5× 139 8.1k
Walter Korpi Sweden 22 3.7k 0.8× 1.9k 0.7× 770 0.5× 1.7k 1.3× 908 0.8× 53 5.3k
Kathleen Thelen United States 15 3.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.5× 720 0.5× 832 0.6× 812 0.8× 21 5.1k
Francis G. Castles Australia 33 2.9k 0.6× 1.1k 0.4× 856 0.6× 778 0.6× 784 0.7× 107 4.1k
Frank Dobbin United States 36 1.7k 0.4× 2.5k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 455 0.3× 327 0.3× 131 7.5k
Benjamin I. Page United States 36 6.9k 1.5× 3.7k 1.4× 1.9k 1.3× 304 0.2× 265 0.2× 81 9.8k
Geoffrey Garrett United States 37 5.6k 1.2× 1.4k 0.5× 2.3k 1.6× 388 0.3× 1.1k 1.0× 60 8.0k

Countries citing papers authored by John Stephens

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Stephens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Stephens

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stewart, David R., Steven E. Sesnie, Paige M. Schmidt, et al.. (2025). Assessing trends and density of bird species in bottomland hardwood forests and riparian forests using simulation and sample size optimization for surveys. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 7137–7137.
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Huber, Évelyne, et al.. (2025). Goodbye to Meltzer-Richard: Testing major theories of redistribution. Journal of European Social Policy. 35(3). 233–247.
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Huber, Évelyne, et al.. (2020). Financialization, labor market institutions and inequality. Review of International Political Economy. 29(2). 425–452. 24 indexed citations
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Stephens, Evelyne Huber & John Stephens. (2017). Democratic Socialism in Jamaica. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Stephens, John. (2016). Politics, Markets, and Top Income Shares. 2 indexed citations
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Stephens, John. (2015). Roberta Trites: Literary Conceptualizations of Growth. Metaphors andCognition in Adolescent Literature. Cognitive Semiotics. 8(1). 87–91. 1 indexed citations
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Stephens, John. (2015). Affective Strategies, Emotion Schemas, and Empathic Endings: Selkie Girls and A Critical Odyssey. The Deakin Law Review (Deakin University). 23(1). 17–33.
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Stephens, John. (2015). Revisiting Pierson’s Work on the Politics of Welfare State Reform in the Era of Retrenchment Twenty Years Later. PS Political Science & Politics. 48(2). 274–278. 10 indexed citations
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Huber, Évelyne & John Stephens. (2014). Partisan Impacts on Social Policy and Distributive Outcomes in the Eras of Welfare State Expansion and Retrenchment. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Stephens, John. (2010). The Social Rights of Citizenship. Oxford University Press eBooks. 20 indexed citations
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Huber, Évelyne, Stephanie Möller, François Nielsen, David Bradley, & John Stephens. (2009). The Politics of Women's Economic Independence. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 1 indexed citations
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Stephens, John, et al.. (2005). Japanese Popular Culture and Character Fashioning: The Quest for Subjective Agency in the Animated Films, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Perfect Blue. The International Journal of the Humanities Annual Review. 1(1). 0–0. 1 indexed citations
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Stephens, John. (2003). (FAB_13_1_063) The Architecture of Discipline – The Perth Drill Hall. Fabrications. 13(1). 63–78. 1 indexed citations
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Möller, Stephanie, Évelyne Huber, John Stephens, David Bradley, & François Nielsen. (2003). Determinants of Relative Poverty in Advanced Capitalist Democracies. American Sociological Review. 68(1). 22–22. 220 indexed citations
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Stephens, John. (1995). Preserving the Social Democratic Welfare State. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 22. 143–161. 14 indexed citations
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Stephens, John, et al.. (1995). Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyn Stephens y John D. Stephens. Capitalist development and democracy. University of Chicago, 1992. Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México. 13(37). 189–195. 7 indexed citations
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Priestley, Joseph, Richard Price, & John Stephens. (1994). A free discussion of the doctrines of materialism and philosophical necessity. 5 indexed citations
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Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, et al.. (1994). Capitalist Development and Democracy.. Social Forces. 72(3). 930–930. 9 indexed citations
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Evans, Peter & John Stephens. (1988). Studying development since the sixties. Theory and Society. 17(5). 713–745. 37 indexed citations
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Stephens, John. (1976). The consequences of social structural change for the development of socialism in Sweden. University Microfilms International eBooks. 9 indexed citations

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