John Wilkerson

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

John Wilkerson is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management and General Social Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, John Wilkerson has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 12 papers in Strategy and Management and 11 papers in General Social Sciences. Recurrent topics in John Wilkerson's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (19 papers), Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (12 papers) and Computational and Text Analysis Methods (11 papers). John Wilkerson is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (19 papers), Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (12 papers) and Computational and Text Analysis Methods (11 papers). John Wilkerson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Denmark. John Wilkerson's co-authors include Andreu Casas, E. Scott Adler, Bryan D. Jones, Kenya Amano, Nancy Fullman, Bree Bang-Jensen, Christopher Adolph, Frank R. Baumgartner, David A. Smith and Christoffer Green‐Pedersen 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

John Wilkerson

46 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Large-Scale Computerized Text Analysis in Political Science: Opportunities and Challenges

2017 164 citations John Wilkerson, Andreu Casas Annual Review of Political Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Wilkerson United States	19	774	439	346	258	258	49	1.7k
Will Lowe United Kingdom	19	958 1.2×	984 2.2×	301 0.9×	150 0.6×	195 0.8×	43	2.2k
Michael P. Colaresi United States	22	817 1.1×	1.1k 2.5×	141 0.4×	173 0.7×	385 1.5×	41	1.9k
Joshua D. Clinton United States	26	1.7k 2.2×	885 2.0×	635 1.8×	758 2.9×	114 0.4×	55	2.7k
Jennifer Pan United States	23	1.2k 1.6×	1.7k 3.8×	106 0.3×	118 0.5×	164 0.6×	56	2.8k
Skyler Cranmer United States	18	575 0.7×	821 1.9×	231 0.7×	324 1.3×	23 0.1×	52	1.9k
Alexander Coppock United States	22	1.1k 1.4×	1.7k 3.8×	115 0.3×	266 1.0×	27 0.1×	42	2.8k
Todd Landman United Kingdom	24	741 1.0×	1.1k 2.5×	133 0.4×	136 0.5×	33 0.1×	72	1.8k
Thomas J. Leeper United Kingdom	15	1.4k 1.8×	1.9k 4.4×	154 0.4×	284 1.1×	37 0.1×	42	3.1k
Yonatan Lupu United States	20	566 0.7×	925 2.1×	149 0.4×	166 0.6×	11 0.0×	45	1.5k
Peter John Loewen Canada	21	751 1.0×	1.2k 2.7×	104 0.3×	401 1.6×	15 0.1×	99	2.2k

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Casas, Andreu, et al.. (2025). When Conservatives See Red but Liberals Feel Blue: Labeler Characteristics and Variation in Content Annotation. The Journal of Politics. 88(2). 631–646. 1 indexed citations

Casas, Andreu, et al.. (2023). When Conservatives See Red but Liberals Feel Blue: Why Labeler-Characteristic Bias Matters for Data Annotation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Adolph, Christopher, Kenya Amano, Bree Bang-Jensen, et al.. (2021). Governor Partisanship Explains the Adoption of Statewide Mask Mandates in Response to COVID-19. State Politics & Policy Quarterly. 22(1). 24–49. 19 indexed citations

Adolph, Christopher, Kenya Amano, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, & John Wilkerson. (2020). Pandemic Politics: Timing State-Level Social Distancing Responses to COVID-19. Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law. 46(2). 211–233. 283 indexed citations

Gade, Emily Kalah, et al.. (2020). Dangers, Toils, and Snares: U.S. Senators' Rhetoric of Public Insecurity and Religiosity. Politics and Religion. 14(3). 460–483.

Gade, Emily Kalah, et al.. (2020). Archived Attributes: An Internet-Text Approach to Measuring Legislator Attitudes and Behavior. British Journal of Political Science. 51(4). 1734–1741. 2 indexed citations

Yano, Tae, Noah A. Smith, & John Wilkerson. (2018). Textual Predictors of Bill Survival in Congressional Committees. Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University). 793–802. 23 indexed citations

Smith, David A., et al.. (2014). Detecting and modeling local text reuse. 183–192. 17 indexed citations

Collingwood, Loren & John Wilkerson. (2012). Tradeoffs in Accuracy and Efficiency in Supervised Learning Methods. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 9(3). 298–318. 50 indexed citations

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Parker, Walter C., Susan Mosborg, John D. Bransford, et al.. (2011). Rethinking advanced high school coursework: tackling the depth/breadth tension in the AP US Government and Politics course. Journal of Curriculum Studies. 43(4). 533–559. 80 indexed citations

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Adler, E. Scott & John Wilkerson. (2010). The Evolution of Policy: Congress and the Timing and Degree of Policy Change. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Wilkerson, John. (2009). Greening the Federal Supply Chain : how to comply with Executive Order 13514. 65(6). 1 indexed citations

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Brouard, Sylvain, John Wilkerson, Frank R. Baumgartner, et al.. (2009). Comparing Legislative Production: Issues and Methods. Revue internationale de politique comparée. 16(3). 381–404. 3 indexed citations

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Wilkerson, John, Frank R. Baumgartner, Sylvain Brouard, et al.. (2009). The Comparative Agenda Project: Objectives and Content. 16(3). 365–379. 1 indexed citations

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Purpura, Stephen, John Wilkerson, & Dustin Hillard. (2008). The U.S. Policy Agenda Legislation Corpus Volume 1 - a Language Resource from 1947 - 1998.. Language Resources and Evaluation. 1 indexed citations

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Hillard, Dustin, Stephen Purpura, & John Wilkerson. (2008). Computer-Assisted Topic Classification for Mixed-Methods Social Science Research. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 4(4). 31–46. 96 indexed citations

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Cardie, Claire & John Wilkerson. (2008). Text Annotation for Political Science Research. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 5(1). 1–6. 34 indexed citations

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Wilkerson, John & R. M. Fruland. (2006). Simulating a Federal Legislature. Academic exchange quarterly. 10(4). 38–44. 4 indexed citations

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Wilkerson, John. (2003). THEPOLITICALECONOMY OFHEALTH INTHEUNITEDSTATES. Annual Review of Political Science. 6(1). 327–343. 8 indexed citations

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Bianco, William T., David B. Spence, & John Wilkerson. (1996). The Electoral Connection in the Early Congress: The Case of the Compensation Act of 1816. American Journal of Political Science. 40(1). 145–145. 49 indexed citations

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