Kenneth Benoit

11.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
90 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Kenneth Benoit is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenneth Benoit has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 17 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Kenneth Benoit's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (52 papers), Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (17 papers) and Computational and Text Analysis Methods (14 papers). Kenneth Benoit is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (52 papers), Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (17 papers) and Computational and Text Analysis Methods (14 papers). Kenneth Benoit collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United Kingdom and United States. Kenneth Benoit's co-authors include Michael Laver, Michael Laver, Slava Mikhaylov, John Garry, Will Lowe, Paul Nulty, Akitaka Matsuo, Kohei Watanabe, Adam Obeng and H. P. Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science and The American Statistician.

In The Last Decade

Kenneth Benoit

86 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

Party Policy in Modern Democracies 2003 2026 2010 2018 2006 2003 2018 2011 250 500 750 1000

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kenneth Benoit Ireland 37 4.4k 1.9k 1.5k 931 769 90 6.7k
Stuart Soroka United States 43 3.4k 0.8× 4.2k 2.2× 925 0.6× 2.3k 2.5× 301 0.4× 125 8.0k
Justin Grimmer United States 25 1.5k 0.3× 1.5k 0.8× 554 0.4× 813 0.9× 1.2k 1.6× 46 4.1k
Daniel J. Hopkins United States 29 2.6k 0.6× 3.8k 1.9× 392 0.3× 716 0.8× 226 0.3× 124 6.1k
Keith T. Poole United States 42 6.4k 1.4× 2.6k 1.4× 2.2k 1.5× 827 0.9× 220 0.3× 98 8.9k
Margaret E. Roberts United States 27 1.4k 0.3× 2.7k 1.4× 376 0.2× 1.4k 1.5× 1.5k 2.0× 62 5.9k
Marco R. Steenbergen Switzerland 32 5.1k 1.2× 2.5k 1.3× 1.3k 0.8× 1.7k 1.8× 73 0.1× 64 6.9k
Brandon Stewart United States 22 1.2k 0.3× 2.4k 1.2× 512 0.3× 1.1k 1.2× 2.2k 2.9× 75 6.1k
Rens Vliegenthart Netherlands 47 2.3k 0.5× 3.9k 2.0× 899 0.6× 3.5k 3.8× 260 0.3× 209 6.9k
Donatella della Porta Italy 43 4.0k 0.9× 6.4k 3.3× 736 0.5× 1.4k 1.5× 120 0.2× 298 9.9k
Stefaan Walgrave Belgium 41 4.2k 0.9× 2.7k 1.4× 1.1k 0.7× 2.8k 3.0× 92 0.1× 182 6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Kenneth Benoit

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kenneth Benoit

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenneth Benoit

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Benoit, Kenneth. (2024). AI and Data Science for Public Policy. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 3(3). 3 indexed citations
2.
Mullen, Lincoln, et al.. (2018). Fast, Consistent Tokenization of Natural Language Text. The Journal of Open Source Software. 3(23). 655–655. 67 indexed citations
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Benoit, Kenneth, Kohei Watanabe, H. P. Wang, et al.. (2018). quanteda: An R package for the quantitative analysis of textual data. The Journal of Open Source Software. 3(30). 774–774. 780 indexed citations breakdown →
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Welbers, Kasper, Wouter van Atteveldt, & Kenneth Benoit. (2017). Text Analysis in R. Communication Methods and Measures. 11(4). 245–265. 173 indexed citations
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Nulty, Paul, et al.. (2016). Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. Electoral Studies. 44. 429–444. 118 indexed citations
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Schwarz, Dániel, Denise Traber, & Kenneth Benoit. (2015). Estimating Intra-Party Preferences: Comparing Speeches to Votes. Political Science Research and Methods. 5(2). 379–396. 45 indexed citations
7.
Herzog, Alexander & Kenneth Benoit. (2014). The Most Unkindest Cuts: Government Cohesion and Economic Crisis. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Däubler, Thomas & Kenneth Benoit. (2013). The Empirical Determinants of Manifesto Content. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Lowe, Will & Kenneth Benoit. (2012). Validating Estimates of Latent Traits from Textual Data Using Human Judgment as a Benchmark. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 1 indexed citations
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Däubler, Thomas, Kenneth Benoit, Slava Mikhaylov, & Michael Laver. (2012). Natural Sentences as Valid Units for Coded Political Texts. British Journal of Political Science. 42(4). 937–951. 43 indexed citations
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Lowe, Will, Kenneth Benoit, Slava Mikhaylov, & Michael Laver. (2009). Scaling Policy Positions From Coded Units of Political Texts. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 36(1). 125–155. 18 indexed citations
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Benoit, Kenneth & Michael Marsh. (2009). A relative impact ranking of political studies in Ireland. Economic and social review. 40(3). 269–298. 9 indexed citations
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Benoit, Kenneth. (2007). Electoral Laws as Political Consequences: Explaining the Origins and Change of Electoral Institutions. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 8 indexed citations
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Laver, Michael, Kenneth Benoit, & Nicolas Sauger. (2006). Policy competition in the 2002 French legislative and presidential elections. European Journal of Political Research. 45(4). 667–697. 31 indexed citations
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Benoit, Kenneth & Michael Laver. (2005). Mapping the Irish policy space: Voter and party spaces in preferential elections. Economic and social review. 36(2). 83–108. 23 indexed citations
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King, Gary, Jonathan Wakefield, David Steel, et al.. (2004). Ecological Inference. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 98 indexed citations
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Laver, Michael & Kenneth Benoit. (2002). Locating TDs in policy spaces using computer word-scoring. Irish Political Studies. 17(1). 59–72. 6 indexed citations
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Benoit, Kenneth. (2001). District magnitude, electoral formula, and the number of parties. European Journal of Political Research. 39(2). 203–224. 1 indexed citations
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Benoit, Kenneth. (2001). Simulation methodologies for political scientists. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 2 indexed citations
20.
Benoit, Kenneth. (2001). Two Step Forward, One Steps Back: Electoral Coordination in the Hungarian Elections of 1998 *. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 2 indexed citations

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