Kathrin Ackermann

971 total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 544 citations indexed

About

Kathrin Ackermann is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathrin Ackermann has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 544 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 10 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Kathrin Ackermann's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (10 papers), Social Media and Politics (10 papers) and Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (7 papers). Kathrin Ackermann is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (10 papers), Social Media and Politics (10 papers) and Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (7 papers). Kathrin Ackermann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Netherlands. Kathrin Ackermann's co-authors include Markus Freitag, Paul Cornelius Bauer, Pablo Barberá, Anita Manatschal, Ralf Kinscherf, Pascal D. König, Anja Schwarz, Gabriel A. Bonaterra, Markus Β. Siewert and Birte Gundelach and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Climatic Change and Atherosclerosis.

In The Last Decade

Kathrin Ackermann

31 papers receiving 506 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.

Is the Left-Right Scale a Valid Measure of Ideology?

2016 168 citations Paul Cornelius Bauer, Pablo Barberá et al. Political Behavior profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kathrin Ackermann	315	199	108	40	37	35	544
Marcus Holmes	420 1.3×	363 1.8×	223 2.1×	87 2.2×	15 0.4×	39	869
Carolyn Martin Shaw	184 0.6×	94 0.5×	20 0.2×	15 0.4×	4 0.1×	38	408
Miguel Carreras	480 1.5×	568 2.9×	82 0.8×	9 0.2×	9 0.2×	39	830
Ruth Gavison	304 1.0×	198 1.0×	24 0.2×	8 0.2×	37 1.0×	31	571
Liam Kennedy	161 0.5×	57 0.3×	40 0.4×	24 0.6×	31 0.8×	43	334
Christopher Hewitt	478 1.5×	271 1.4×	49 0.5×	61 1.5×	39 1.1×	32	831
Agnes S. Ku	400 1.3×	126 0.6×	76 0.7×	31 0.8×	20 0.5×	20	562
David Denemark	306 1.0×	361 1.8×	130 1.2×	9 0.2×	21 0.6×	44	601
Jimmy Carter	176 0.6×	215 1.1×	126 1.2×	12 0.3×	12 0.3×	38	513
Aaron C. Weinschenk	302 1.0×	231 1.2×	138 1.3×	59 1.5×	58 1.6×	60	487

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kathrin Ackermann

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Claassen, Christopher, Kathrin Ackermann, Christopher Carman, et al.. (2025). Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe. Electoral Studies. 95. 102912–102912. 2 indexed citations

Ackermann, Kathrin, et al.. (2025). The trouble with carbon footprint analysis in behavioral climate research. Climatic Change. 178(3).

Ackermann, Kathrin, et al.. (2025). Living Up to Your Own Standards? Patterns of Civic Norms and Volunteering in Germany. Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences). 1 indexed citations

Ackermann, Kathrin, et al.. (2024). Tradition and Transformation: Spirituality in Church-Related Caring Communities in a Pluralistic Society. Religions. 15(3). 363–363.

Meer, Tom van der, et al.. (2024). Can we aggregate voters’ perceptions of political parties’ left–right positions? Formal and probabilistic tests of the left–right scale as a unidimensional common space on cross-national and longitudinal data. Comparative European Politics. 22(6). 839–864. 1 indexed citations

Ackermann, Kathrin, Martin Elff, & Heiko Giebler. (2023). The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?. Electoral Studies. 86. 102697–102697. 3 indexed citations

Ackermann, Kathrin, et al.. (2023). The key determinants of individual greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are mostly domain-specific. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 6 indexed citations

Ackermann, Kathrin, et al.. (2023). Crafting Social Integration? Welfare State and Volunteering Across Social Groups and Policy Areas in 23 European Countries. KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. 75(S1). 283–304. 3 indexed citations

König, Pascal D., Markus Β. Siewert, & Kathrin Ackermann. (2022). Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizens’ Preferences for Democracy: Taking Stock of Three Decades of Research in a Fragmented Field. Comparative Political Studies. 55(12). 2015–2049. 33 indexed citations

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Ackermann, Kathrin & Birte Gundelach. (2020). Psychological roots of political consumerism: Personality traits and participation in boycott and buycott. International Political Science Review. 43(1). 36–54. 16 indexed citations

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Ackermann, Kathrin, et al.. (2019). Surfing to help? An empirical analysis of Internet use and volunteering in 27 European societies. European Societies. 22(3). 368–389. 12 indexed citations

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Ackermann, Kathrin, Gabriel A. Bonaterra, Ralf Kinscherf, & Anja Schwarz. (2019). Data on autophagy markers in human macrophages exposed to oxLDL and growth differentiation factor-15. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 23. 103728–103728. 1 indexed citations

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Ackermann, Kathrin. (2019). Predisposed to Volunteer? Personality Traits and Different Forms of Volunteering. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 48(6). 1119–1142. 34 indexed citations

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Ackermann, Kathrin, Gabriel A. Bonaterra, Ralf Kinscherf, & Anja Schwarz. (2018). Growth differentiation factor-15 regulates oxLDL-induced lipid homeostasis and autophagy in human macrophages. Atherosclerosis. 281. 128–136. 32 indexed citations

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Ackermann, Kathrin, et al.. (2018). Personality and Voting for a Right‐Wing Populist Party – Evidence from Switzerland. Swiss Political Science Review. 24(4). 545–564. 14 indexed citations

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Ackermann, Kathrin, et al.. (2017). Vereins-Monitor das ehrenamtliche Engagement in der Schweiz. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 2 indexed citations

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Freitag, Markus, et al.. (2016). Freiwilligen-Monitor Schweiz 2016. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 14 indexed citations

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Bauer, Paul Cornelius, et al.. (2016). Is the Left-Right Scale a Valid Measure of Ideology?. Political Behavior. 39(3). 553–583. 168 indexed citations breakdown →

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Freitag, Markus & Kathrin Ackermann. (2015). Direct Democracy and Institutional Trust: Relationships and Differences Across Personality Traits. Political Psychology. 37(5). 707–723. 44 indexed citations

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Traunmüller, Richard, Isabelle Stadelmann‐Steffen, Kathrin Ackermann, & Markus Freitag. (2012). Zivilgesellschaft in der Schweiz Analysen zum Vereinsengagement auf lokaler Ebene. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 10 indexed citations

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