Pamela Paxton

16.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
92 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Pamela Paxton is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Pamela Paxton has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 26 papers in Gender Studies and 20 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Pamela Paxton's work include Gender Politics and Representation (25 papers), Social Capital and Networks (19 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (17 papers). Pamela Paxton is often cited by papers focused on Gender Politics and Representation (25 papers), Social Capital and Networks (19 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (17 papers). Pamela Paxton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Taiwan. Pamela Paxton's co-authors include Kenneth A. Bollen, Melanie M. Hughes, Patrick J. Curran, Feinian Chen, James B. Kirby, Sheri Kunovich, Jennifer L. Glanville, Melissa S. Williams, Staffan I. Lindberg and Stephen Knack and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Pamela Paxton

92 papers receiving 8.7k 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.

An Empirical Evaluation of the Use of Fixed Cutoff Points in RMSEA Test Statistic in Structural Equation Models

2008 1.2k citations Feinian Chen, Patrick J. Curran et al. Sociological Methods & Research profile →
Is Social Capital Declining in the United States? A Multiple Indicator Assessment

1999 1.0k citations Pamela Paxton American Journal of Sociology profile →
Social Capital and Democracy: An Interdependent Relationship

2002 623 citations Pamela Paxton profile →
Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach

2011 445 citations Michael Coppedge, John Gerring et al. Perspectives on Politics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pamela Paxton United States	48	4.9k	2.6k	2.3k	938	657	92	9.6k
Michèle Lamont United States	41	7.3k 1.5×	1.8k 0.7×	891 0.4×	704 0.8×	400 0.6×	142	10.9k
Jeremy Freese United States	41	3.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	893 0.4×	984 1.0×	428 0.7×	112	9.6k
Gregory A. Huber United States	37	4.7k 1.0×	2.8k 1.1×	699 0.3×	877 0.9×	1.3k 1.9×	119	8.1k
Charles W. Mills United States	29	6.5k 1.3×	2.3k 0.9×	832 0.4×	584 0.6×	445 0.7×	124	11.7k
Duane F. Alwin United States	54	6.6k 1.4×	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	2.2k 2.4×	535 0.8×	118	13.4k
Edward G. Carmines United States	30	3.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	795 0.4×	989 1.1×	918 1.4×	71	8.7k
Stanley Feldman United States	38	6.0k 1.2×	4.3k 1.7×	849 0.4×	1.5k 1.6×	1.4k 2.1×	63	9.6k
Mark Ritter	7	6.0k 1.2×	1.6k 0.6×	635 0.3×	558 0.6×	516 0.8×	9	10.8k
George Ritzer United States	50	5.3k 1.1×	956 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	701 0.7×	656 1.0×	198	10.8k
E. Allan Lind United States	41	6.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	3.0k 3.2×	559 0.9×	84	12.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Velasco, Kristopher & Pamela Paxton. (2022). Deconstructed and Constructive Logics: Explaining Inclusive Language Change in Queer Nonprofits, 1998–2016. American Journal of Sociology. 127(4). 1267–1310. 6 indexed citations

Paxton, Pamela, et al.. (2018). Revisiting Declines in Social Capital: Evidence from a New Measure. Social Indicators Research. 142(3). 1015–1029. 8 indexed citations

Sundström, Aksel, Pamela Paxton, Yi-Ting Wang, & Staffan I. Lindberg. (2017). Women’s Political Empowerment: A New Global Index, 1900–2012. World Development. 94. 321–335. 149 indexed citations

Wang, Yi-Ting, Patrik Lindenfors, Aksel Sundström, et al.. (2017). Women's rights in democratic transitions: A global sequence analysis, 1900–2012. European Journal of Political Research. 56(4). 735–756. 27 indexed citations

Paxton, Pamela & Jennifer L. Glanville. (2015). Is Trust Rigid or Malleable? A Laboratory Experiment. Social Psychology Quarterly. 78(2). 194–204. 67 indexed citations

Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, David Altman, et al.. (2011). Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach. Perspectives on Politics. 9(2). 247–267. 445 indexed citations breakdown →

Paxton, Pamela, Melanie M. Hughes, & Matthew A. Painter. (2009). Growth in women's political representation: A longitudinal exploration of democracy, electoral system and gender quotas. European Journal of Political Research. 49(1). 25–52. 194 indexed citations

Hughes, Melanie M., Lindsay L. Peterson, Judith A. Harrison, & Pamela Paxton. (2009). Power and Relation in the World Polity: The INGO Network Country Score, 1978-1998. Social Forces. 87(4). 1711–1742. 62 indexed citations

Paxton, Pamela, Matthew A. Painter, & Melanie M. Hughes. (2008). Year of the Woman, Decade of the Man: Trajectories of growth in women’s state legislative representation. Social Science Research. 38(1). 86–102. 7 indexed citations

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Paxton, Pamela. (2007). Gender in Politics. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Bollen, Kenneth A., James B. Kirby, Patrick J. Curran, Pamela Paxton, & Feinian Chen. (2007). Latent Variable Models Under Misspecification: Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) and Maximum Likelihood (ML) Estimators. Sociological Methods & Research. 36(1). 48–86. 122 indexed citations

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Paxton, Pamela, Sheri Kunovich, & Melanie M. Hughes. (2007). Gender in Politics. Annual Review of Sociology. 33(1). 263–284. 235 indexed citations

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Bollen, Kenneth A., et al.. (2005). Assessing International Evaluations. American Journal of Evaluation. 26(2). 189–203. 14 indexed citations

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Paxton, Pamela & Kenneth A. Bollen. (2003). Perceived Quality and Methodology in Graduate Department Ratings: Sociology, Political Science, and Economics. Sociology of Education. 76(1). 71–71. 18 indexed citations

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Bollen, Kenneth A. & Pamela Paxton. (2000). Subjective Measures of Liberal Democracy. Comparative Political Studies. 33(1). 58–86. 237 indexed citations

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Paxton, Pamela, et al.. (1999). Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables.. Social Forces. 77(3). 1245–1245. 10 indexed citations

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Bollen, Kenneth A. & Pamela Paxton. (1998). Interactions of latent variables in structural equation models. Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal. 5(3). 267–293. 85 indexed citations

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Paxton, Pamela. (1997). Women in National Legislatures: A Cross-National Analysis. Social Science Research. 26(4). 442–464. 200 indexed citations

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Fuller, N. J., M. B. Sawyer, W. A. Coward, Pamela Paxton, & M. Elia. (1996). Components of total energy expenditure in free-living elderly men (over 75 years of age): Measurement, predictability and relationship to quality-of-life indices. British Journal Of Nutrition. 75(2). 161–173. 26 indexed citations

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Fuller, N. J., M. B. Sawyer, M. Ann Laskey, Pamela Paxton, & M. Elia. (1996). Prediction of body composition in elderly men over 75 years of age. Annals of Human Biology. 23(2). 127–147. 22 indexed citations

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