Jonathan Mellon

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Mellon is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Mellon has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Mellon's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (33 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (16 papers) and Social Media and Politics (12 papers). Jonathan Mellon is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (33 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (16 papers) and Social Media and Politics (12 papers). Jonathan Mellon collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Jonathan Mellon's co-authors include Christopher Prosser, Geoffrey Evans, Tiago Peixoto, Fredrik M. Sjöberg, Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoffrey M. Evans, Cees van der Eijk, Hermann Schmitt and Paolo Spada and has published in prestigious journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science and Public Administration Review.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Mellon

65 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Twitter and Facebook are not representative of the general population: Political attitudes and demographics of British social media users

2017 267 citations Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser Research & Politics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan Mellon United Kingdom	18	674	603	310	112	98	72	1.4k
Nicole Curato Australia	18	596 0.9×	746 1.2×	503 1.6×	84 0.8×	60 0.6×	60	1.5k
John Wilkerson United States	19	774 1.1×	439 0.7×	165 0.5×	193 1.7×	258 2.6×	49	1.7k
Samuel J. Best United States	14	378 0.6×	571 0.9×	416 1.3×	75 0.7×	129 1.3×	32	1.1k
Brian S. Krueger United States	13	463 0.7×	749 1.2×	700 2.3×	123 1.1×	35 0.4×	29	1.2k
Michael Sances United States	16	515 0.8×	701 1.2×	162 0.5×	63 0.6×	248 2.5×	40	1.3k
Taylor C. Boas United States	18	755 1.1×	912 1.5×	314 1.0×	66 0.6×	194 2.0×	41	1.7k
Adam Glynn United States	15	309 0.5×	566 0.9×	169 0.5×	218 1.9×	213 2.2×	33	1.3k
Robert F. Rich United States	16	546 0.8×	787 1.3×	438 1.4×	107 1.0×	135 1.4×	47	1.7k
Fabio Rojas United States	14	360 0.5×	767 1.3×	388 1.3×	131 1.2×	27 0.3×	43	1.3k
Luigi Curini Italy	17	657 1.0×	614 1.0×	463 1.5×	278 2.5×	92 0.9×	66	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan Mellon

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All Works

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Griffiths, J. D., Edward Fieldhouse, Christopher Prosser, et al.. (2025). The Brexit realignment amid electoral volatility: The role of party blocs in the 2024 General Election. Parliamentary Affairs. 79(1). 154–189.

Leggett, C., et al.. (2025). Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Cadet Education. 12(1). 7–12.

Mellon, Jonathan, et al.. (2024). Do AIs know what the most important issue is? Using language models to code open-text social survey responses at scale. Research & Politics. 11(1). 22 indexed citations

Fieldhouse, Edward, et al.. (2024). Who lacks voter identification? The electoral implications of the Elections Act 2022. Parliamentary Affairs.

Mellon, Jonathan & Christopher Prosser. (2024). Regularized Regression Can Reintroduce Backdoor Confounding: The Case of Mass Polarization. American Political Science Review. 119(4). 2002–2010.

Mellon, Jonathan. (2024). Rain, rain, go away: 194 potential exclusion‐restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable. American Journal of Political Science. 69(3). 881–898. 13 indexed citations

Fieldhouse, Edward, et al.. (2023). Volatility, Realignment, and Electoral Shocks: Brexit and the UK General Election of 2019. PS Political Science & Politics. 56(4). 537–545. 6 indexed citations

Mellon, Jonathan, et al.. (2022). The Haves and the Have Nots: Civic Technologies and the Pathways to Government Responsiveness. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 3 indexed citations

Mellon, Jonathan, et al.. (2021). Which Promises Actually Matter? Election Pledge Centrality and Promissory Representation. Political Studies. 71(3). 573–596. 7 indexed citations

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Mellon, Jonathan, et al.. (2021). How Do Coronavirus Attitudes Fit into Britain’s Ideological Landscape?. Parliamentary Affairs. 74(3). 597–616. 9 indexed citations

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Mellon, Jonathan. (2021). Tactical Voting and Electoral Pacts in the 2019 UK General Election. Political Studies Review. 20(3). 504–516. 4 indexed citations

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Hanretty, Chris, et al.. (2021). Members of Parliament are Minimally Accountable for Their Issue Stances (and They Know It). American Political Science Review. 115(4). 1275–1291. 11 indexed citations

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Fieldhouse, Edward, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans, et al.. (2019). Electoral Shocks. 34 indexed citations

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Mellon, Jonathan, Geoffrey Evans, Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, & Christopher Prosser. (2018). Brexit or Corbyn? Campaign and Inter-Election Vote Switching in the 2017 UK General Election. Parliamentary Affairs. 71(4). 719–737. 39 indexed citations

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Prosser, Christopher & Jonathan Mellon. (2018). The Twilight of the Polls? A Review of Trends in Polling Accuracy and the Causes of Polling Misses. Government and Opposition. 53(4). 757–790. 38 indexed citations

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Mellon, Jonathan, Tiago Peixoto, & Fredrik M. Sjöberg. (2017). Does online voting change the outcome? Evidence from a multi-mode public policy referendum. Electoral Studies. 47. 13–24. 16 indexed citations

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Mellon, Jonathan. (2017). Making Inferences About Elections and Public Opinion Using Incidentally Collected Data. SSRN Electronic Journal. 522–533. 1 indexed citations

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Peixoto, Tiago, Fredrik M. Sjöberg, & Jonathan Mellon. (2017). A Get-Out-the-Vote Experiment on the World’s Largest Participatory Budgeting Vote in Brazil. British Journal of Political Science. 50(1). 381–389. 24 indexed citations

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Sjöberg, Fredrik M., Jonathan Mellon, & Tiago Peixoto. (2015). The Effect of Government Responsiveness on Future Political Participation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 13 indexed citations

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Hollway, James & Jonathan Mellon. (2014). Leading the Conversation: Comparing State Department Communication Networks Under Rogers and Kissinger. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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