Luca Messerschmidt

743 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 416 citations indexed

About

Luca Messerschmidt is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Economics and Econometrics and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Messerschmidt has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 416 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Modeling and Simulation, 6 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 3 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Luca Messerschmidt's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (7 papers), COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (5 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (2 papers). Luca Messerschmidt is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (7 papers), COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (5 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (2 papers). Luca Messerschmidt collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Luca Messerschmidt's co-authors include Cindy Cheng, Joan Barceló, Robert Kubinec, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Tim Büthe, Nicole Janz, Stefan Wurster, Alexander Zapf, Yuxi Zhang and Markus Β. Siewert and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, World Development and Scientific Data.

In The Last Decade

Luca Messerschmidt

13 papers receiving 399 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0)

2020 302 citations Cindy Cheng, Joan Barceló et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Messerschmidt Germany	7	151	146	92	56	44	14	416
Allison Spencer Hartnett United States	4	136 0.9×	131 0.9×	82 0.9×	53 0.9×	32 0.7×	10	335
Robert Kubinec United States	7	147 1.0×	195 1.3×	148 1.6×	60 1.1×	79 1.8×	22	591
Joan Barceló United States	13	160 1.1×	188 1.3×	212 2.3×	86 1.5×	129 2.9×	38	623
Bree Bang-Jensen United States	3	129 0.9×	104 0.7×	90 1.0×	46 0.8×	49 1.1×	4	317
Kenya Amano United States	3	129 0.9×	104 0.7×	90 1.0×	46 0.8×	50 1.1×	4	318
Wuqi Qiu China	9	107 0.7×	148 1.0×	115 1.3×	83 1.5×	9 0.2×	31	481
Ayan Mao China	11	91 0.6×	195 1.3×	88 1.0×	75 1.3×	10 0.2×	31	581
Yuxi Zhang China	8	75 0.5×	80 0.5×	51 0.6×	28 0.5×	34 0.8×	27	276
Austin L. Wright United States	11	207 1.4×	204 1.4×	319 3.5×	93 1.7×	113 2.6×	40	625
Kyutaro Matsuzawa United States	8	196 1.3×	186 1.3×	65 0.7×	54 1.0×	14 0.3×	13	326

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Messerschmidt

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All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Messerschmidt, Luca, et al.. (2025). Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies. International Studies Quarterly. 69(2).

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Cheng, Cindy, et al.. (2024). A General Primer for Data Harmonization. Scientific Data. 11(1). 152–152. 30 indexed citations

3.

Cheng, Cindy, et al.. (2024). Harmonizing government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data. 11(1). 204–204. 3 indexed citations

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Parimbelli, Enea, et al.. (2023). A comparative analysis of the effects of containment policies on the epidemiological manifestation of the COVID-19 pandemic across nine European countries. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 11631–11631. 2 indexed citations

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Cheng, Cindy, Amélie Desvars-Larrive, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, et al.. (2022). Capturing the COVID-19 Crisis through Public Health and Social Measures Data Science. Scientific Data. 9(1). 520–520. 7 indexed citations

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Barceló, Joan, et al.. (2022). Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?. Journal of Peace Research. 59(1). 73–89. 21 indexed citations

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Messerschmidt, Luca & Nicole Janz. (2022). Unravelling the ‘race to the bottom’ argument: Foreign direct investment and different types of labour rights. World Development. 161. 106097–106097. 6 indexed citations

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Kubinec, Robert, Joan Barceló, Rafael Goldszmidt, et al.. (2021). Cross-National Measures of the Intensity of COVID-19 Public Health Policies. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 4 indexed citations

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Kubinec, Robert, et al.. (2020). Partisanship and the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Cindy, Joan Barceló, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Robert Kubinec, & Luca Messerschmidt. (2020). COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0). Nature Human Behaviour. 4(7). 756–768. 302 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Cindy, Joan Barceló, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Robert Kubinec, & Luca Messerschmidt. (2020). CoronaNet: A Dyadic Dataset of Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Büthe, Tim, Luca Messerschmidt, & Cindy Cheng. (2020). Policy Responses to the Coronavirus in Germany. SSRN Electronic Journal. 20 indexed citations

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Büthe, Tim, Joan Barceló, Cindy Cheng, et al.. (2020). Patterns of Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Federal vs. Unitary European Democracies. SSRN Electronic Journal. 12 indexed citations

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Siewert, Markus Β., Stefan Wurster, Luca Messerschmidt, Cindy Cheng, & Tim Büthe. (2020). A German Miracle? Crisis Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Multi-Level System. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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