Nathan J. Kelly

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Nathan J. Kelly is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan J. Kelly has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 14 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Nathan J. Kelly's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (15 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (10 papers) and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (7 papers). Nathan J. Kelly is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (15 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (10 papers) and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (7 papers). Nathan J. Kelly collaborates with scholars based in United States. Nathan J. Kelly's co-authors include Luke Keele, Peter K. Enns, Thomas W. Volscho, Christopher Witko, Jana Morgan, Jacob S. Hacker, Casey D. Morrow, J. Tobin Grant, William W. Franko and Matthew T. Palmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, American Sociological Review and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

Nathan J. Kelly

36 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Dynamic Models for Dynamic Theories: The Ins and Outs of Lagged Dependent Variables

2005 674 citations Luke Keele, Nathan J. Kelly Political Analysis profile →
Inequality and the Dynamics of Public Opinion: The Self‐Reinforcing Link Between Economic Inequality and Mass Preferences

2010 226 citations Nathan J. Kelly, Peter K. Enns American Journal of Political Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nathan J. Kelly United States	19	911	749	533	216	203	41	1.9k
Paul Bowles Canada	20	423 0.5×	411 0.5×	277 0.5×	174 0.8×	49 0.2×	125	1.3k
Robert Elgie Ireland	24	1.2k 1.4×	537 0.7×	174 0.3×	121 0.6×	155 0.8×	97	1.8k
Marieke de Goede Netherlands	24	673 0.7×	1.5k 2.0×	200 0.4×	459 2.1×	104 0.5×	66	2.3k
Bryant G. Garth United States	21	931 1.0×	922 1.2×	340 0.6×	131 0.6×	176 0.9×	115	2.5k
Mark A. Pollack United States	27	3.1k 3.3×	712 1.0×	270 0.5×	308 1.4×	359 1.8×	90	3.9k
Timothy J. Power United Kingdom	28	2.7k 2.9×	1.7k 2.2×	441 0.8×	54 0.3×	211 1.0×	78	3.4k
R. Daniel Kelemen United States	27	2.7k 3.0×	808 1.1×	368 0.7×	338 1.6×	57 0.3×	85	3.7k
Patrick Heller United States	20	824 0.9×	995 1.3×	359 0.7×	107 0.5×	68 0.3×	48	1.9k
Daniel Carpenter United States	20	869 1.0×	609 0.8×	491 0.9×	127 0.6×	52 0.3×	49	2.3k
Barbara Vis Netherlands	24	983 1.1×	787 1.1×	336 0.6×	180 0.8×	107 0.5×	64	2.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Morgan, Jana & Nathan J. Kelly. (2025). Ethnoracial Hierarchies and Democratic Commitments. Perspectives on Politics. 23(3). 822–846.

Kelly, Nathan J., et al.. (2024). The Structural Origins of Racial Inequality and Attitudes Toward Redistribution. Race and Social Problems. 17(2). 128–139. 1 indexed citations

Kelly, Nathan J., et al.. (2022). The Representational Deficit of Latinxs in the U.S. House of Representatives. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. 44(2). 99–122.

Hacker, Jacob S., Jacob S. Hacker, Jacob S. Hacker, & Nathan J. Kelly. (2021). The American Political Economy. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 30 indexed citations

Kelly, Nathan J.. (2020). America's Inequality Trap. 13 indexed citations

Enns, Peter K., Nathan J. Kelly, Takaaki Masaki, & Patrick C. Wohlfarth. (2017). Moving forward with time series analysis. Research & Politics. 4(4). 3 indexed citations

Franko, William W., Nathan J. Kelly, & Christopher Witko. (2016). Class Bias in Voter Turnout, Representation, and Income Inequality. Perspectives on Politics. 14(2). 351–368. 46 indexed citations

Kelly, Nathan J. & Thomas W. Volscho. (2014). The Politics of Oligarchy: Taxation, Financial Regulation, Power Resources, and the Super-Rich in the United States, 1918-2012. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Grant, J. Tobin & Nathan J. Kelly. (2008). Legislative Productivity of the U.S. Congress, 1789–2004. Political Analysis. 16(3). 303–323. 36 indexed citations

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Kelly, Nathan J. & Jana Morgan. (2007). Religious Traditionalism and Latino Politics in the United States. American Politics Research. 36(2). 236–263. 38 indexed citations

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Prajapati, Shashi, et al.. (2006). IKKα Regulates Estrogen-induced Cell Cycle Progression by Modulating E2F1 Expression. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(10). 6699–6706. 35 indexed citations

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Kelly, Nathan J., et al.. (2005). Religion and Latino Partisanship in the United States. Political Research Quarterly. 58(1). 87–95. 62 indexed citations

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Kelly, Nathan J., et al.. (2005). Religion and Latino Partisanship in the United States. Political Research Quarterly. 58(1). 87–87.

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Keele, Luke & Nathan J. Kelly. (2005). Dynamic Models for Dynamic Theories: The Ins and Outs of Lagged Dependent Variables. Political Analysis. 14(2). 186–205. 674 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kelly, Nathan J. & Casey D. Morrow. (2005). Structural Elements of the tRNA TΨC Loop Critical for Nucleocytoplasmic Transport Are Important for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Primer Selection. Journal of Virology. 79(10). 6532–6539. 4 indexed citations

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Kelly, Nathan J.. (2005). Political Choice, Public Policy, and Distributional Outcomes. American Journal of Political Science. 49(4). 865–880. 46 indexed citations

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Kosloff, Barry, Nathan J. Kelly, Richard Kirkman, et al.. (2004). HIV Type 1 That Select tRNA ^His or tRNA ^Lys1,2 as Primers for Reverse Transcription Exhibit Different Infectivities in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 20(4). 373–381. 9 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Brian J., et al.. (2004). Issue Attitudes and Survey Continuity across Interview Mode in the 2000 NES. Political Analysis. 13(1). 95–108. 3 indexed citations

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Kelly, Nathan J. & Casey D. Morrow. (2003). Yeast tRNAPhe expressed in human cells can be selected by HIV-1 for use as a reverse transcription primer. Virology. 313(2). 354–363. 12 indexed citations

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Dupuy, Lesley C., et al.. (2003). Probing the Importance of tRNA Anticodon: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) RNA Genome Complementarity with an HIV-1 That Selects tRNA ^Glu for Replication. Journal of Virology. 77(16). 8756–8764. 22 indexed citations

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