Nate Silver

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 641 citations indexed

About

Nate Silver is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Economics and Econometrics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Nate Silver has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 641 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1 paper in Political Science and International Relations, 1 paper in Economics and Econometrics and 0 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Nate Silver's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (1 paper), Game Theory and Voting Systems (1 paper) and Sports Analytics and Performance (1 paper). Nate Silver is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (1 paper), Game Theory and Voting Systems (1 paper) and Sports Analytics and Performance (1 paper). Nate Silver collaborates with scholars based in United States. Nate Silver's co-authors include Andrew Gelman, Aaron S. Edlin and David Byrne and has published in prestigious journals such as Economic Inquiry, Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University) and CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research).

In The Last Decade

Nate Silver

5 papers receiving 556 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.

The signal and the noise : why so many predictions fail but some don't

2012 423 citations Nate Silver CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nate Silver United States	5	136	121	85	78	74	6	641
Peter Stone United States	14	101 0.7×	102 0.8×	72 0.8×	127 1.6×	223 3.0×	61	687
Yanis Varoufakis Australia	12	253 1.9×	248 2.0×	86 1.0×	32 0.4×	94 1.3×	51	777
Paul Weirich United States	13	105 0.8×	106 0.9×	84 1.0×	71 0.9×	48 0.6×	59	560
Julian Reiss United Kingdom	18	238 1.8×	333 2.8×	78 0.9×	70 0.9×	85 1.1×	61	1.0k
Stefano Balietti United States	13	138 1.0×	78 0.6×	67 0.8×	40 0.5×	19 0.3×	22	455
James Surowiecki	2	131 1.0×	46 0.4×	45 0.5×	25 0.3×	42 0.6×	2	436
Eric Stone United States	7	127 0.9×	143 1.2×	268 3.2×	129 1.7×	46 0.6×	9	683
David K. Hildebrand United States	16	115 0.8×	136 1.1×	162 1.9×	141 1.8×	41 0.6×	34	1.1k
Siri Isaksson Sweden	3	131 1.0×	198 1.6×	63 0.7×	109 1.4×	16 0.2×	4	889
Michelle Baddeley United Kingdom	18	208 1.5×	427 3.5×	74 0.9×	64 0.8×	47 0.6×	63	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Nate Silver

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This map shows the geographic impact of Nate Silver's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Nate Silver with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Nate Silver more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Nate Silver

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Nate Silver. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Nate Silver. The network helps show where Nate Silver may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nate Silver

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nate Silver. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nate Silver based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nate Silver. Nate Silver is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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6 of 6 papers shown

1.

Byrne, David, et al.. (2013). The best American infographics. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 5 indexed citations

2.

Silver, Nate. (2012). The signal and the noise : why so many predictions fail but some don't. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 423 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Silver, Nate. (2012). The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 93 indexed citations

4.

Silver, Nate. (2012). The Signal and the Noise. 70 indexed citations

5.

Gelman, Andrew, Nate Silver, & Aaron S. Edlin. (2010). WHAT IS THE PROBABILITY YOUR VOTE WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE?. Economic Inquiry. 50(2). 321–326. 50 indexed citations

6.

Gelman, Andrew & Nate Silver. (2008). What will we know on Tuesday at 7pm?. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University).

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