Philip Leifeld

3.3k total citations
52 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Philip Leifeld is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Philip Leifeld has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Philip Leifeld's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (17 papers), Social Media and Politics (11 papers) and Policy Transfer and Learning (10 papers). Philip Leifeld is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (17 papers), Social Media and Politics (11 papers) and Policy Transfer and Learning (10 papers). Philip Leifeld collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Philip Leifeld's co-authors include Volker Schneider, Skyler Cranmer, Dana R. Fisher, Karin Ingold, Sebastian Haunss, Bruce Desmarais, Manuel Fischer, Scott D. McClurg, Meredith Rolfe and Shona Hilton and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Philip Leifeld

48 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Peers

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Bruce Desmarais United States

Dana R. Fisher United States

Skyler Cranmer United States

Simon Niemeyer Australia

André Bächtiger Switzerland

Christopher Warshaw United States

William D. Leach United States

Maija Setälä Finland

John Parkinson United Kingdom

Jack Knight United States

Bruce Desmarais United States

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581 ×0.8

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Countries citing papers authored by Philip Leifeld

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philip Leifeld

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Leifeld, Philip, et al.. (2025). Ground-truthing political elites in the public sphere: Measuring the arena effects of elite opinion. Research & Politics. 12(1). 1 indexed citations

Leifeld, Philip, et al.. (2025). Goodbye human annotators? Content analysis of social policy debates using ChatGPT. Journal of Social Policy. 55(2). 385–404. 2 indexed citations

Leifeld, Philip, et al.. (2025). When does discursive change happen? Detecting phase transitions in discourse networks of sustainability transitions. Energy Research & Social Science. 122. 104020–104020. 3 indexed citations

Leifeld, Philip, et al.. (2025). A Three‐Stage Model of the Maturation of Nascent Policy Subsystems Toward Stable Advocacy Coalitions, With Evidence From the UK 's Response to COVID ‐19. Policy Studies Journal. 54(1).

Leifeld, Philip & Skyler Cranmer. (2022). The stochastic actor-oriented model is a theory as much as it is a method and must be subject to theory tests. Network Science. 10(1). 15–19. 6 indexed citations

Malang, Thomas & Philip Leifeld. (2021). The Latent Diffusion Network among National Parliaments in the Early Warning System of the European Union. JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies. 59(4). 873–890. 9 indexed citations

Leifeld, Philip, et al.. (2021). Belief system alignment and cross-sectoral advocacy efforts in policy debates. Journal of European Public Policy. 29(8). 1225–1248. 9 indexed citations

Buckton, Christina, Gillian Fergie, Philip Leifeld, & Shona Hilton. (2019). A discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage of the “sugar tax” debate before and after the announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. BMC Public Health. 19(1). 490–490. 54 indexed citations

Metz, Florence, Philip Leifeld, & Karin Ingold. (2018). Interdependent policy instrument preferences: a two-mode network approach. Journal of Public Policy. 39(4). 609–636. 29 indexed citations

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Leifeld, Philip. (2018). Polarization in the social sciences: Assortative mixing in social science collaboration networks is resilient to interventions. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 507. 510–523. 8 indexed citations

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Leifeld, Philip, et al.. (2017). Collaboration patterns in the German political science co-authorship network. PLoS ONE. 12(4). e0174671–e0174671. 12 indexed citations

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Malang, Thomas, et al.. (2017). Networks and Social Influence in European Legislative Politics. British Journal of Political Science. 49(4). 1475–1498. 21 indexed citations

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Leifeld, Philip. (2016). Discourse Network Analysis. Oxford University Press eBooks. 82 indexed citations

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Cranmer, Skyler, Philip Leifeld, Scott D. McClurg, & Meredith Rolfe. (2016). Navigating the Range of Statistical Tools for Inferential Network Analysis. American Journal of Political Science. 61(1). 237–251. 154 indexed citations

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Czarna, Anna Z., Philip Leifeld, Magdalena Śmieja, Michael Dufner, & Peter Salovey. (2016). Do Narcissism and Emotional Intelligence Win Us Friends? Modeling Dynamics of Peer Popularity Using Inferential Network Analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 42(11). 1588–1599. 50 indexed citations

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Fischer, Manuel & Philip Leifeld. (2015). Policy forums: Why do they exist and what are they used for?. Policy Sciences. 48(3). 363–382. 92 indexed citations

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Leifeld, Philip & Sebastian Haunss. (2011). Political discourse networks and the conflict over software patents in Europe. European Journal of Political Research. 51(3). 382–409. 134 indexed citations

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Leifeld, Philip & Sebastian Haunss. (2010). A Comparison between Political Claims Analysis and Discourse Network Analysis: The Case of Software Patents in the European Union. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations

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Leifeld, Philip, et al.. (2009). Glossar der Politiknetzwerkanalyse. Max Planck Digital Library. 371–389. 1 indexed citations

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Schneider, Volker, Achim Lang, Philip Leifeld, & Birte Gundelach. (2007). Political Networks - A Structured Bibliography. Max Planck Digital Library. 6 indexed citations

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