Richard D. McKelvey

14.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
73 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Richard D. McKelvey is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard D. McKelvey has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 42 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 22 papers in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Richard D. McKelvey's work include Game Theory and Voting Systems (36 papers), Game Theory and Applications (31 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (22 papers). Richard D. McKelvey is often cited by papers focused on Game Theory and Voting Systems (36 papers), Game Theory and Applications (31 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (22 papers). Richard D. McKelvey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Korea. Richard D. McKelvey's co-authors include Thomas R. Palfrey, Peter C. Ordeshook, Talbot Page, John H. Aldrich, Norman Schofield, Andrew McLennan, Richard G. Niemi, Richard E. Wendell, Theodore L. Turocy and John Ferejohn and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica and Management Science.

In The Last Decade

Richard D. McKelvey

70 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

A statistical model for the analysis of ordinal level dep... 1975 2026 1992 2009 1975 1995 1976 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. A statistical model for the analysis of ordinal level dependent variables
    1975 2.0k citations Richard D. McKelvey et al. Journal of Mathematical Sociology profile →
  2. Quantal Response Equilibria for Normal Form Games
    1995 1.5k citations Richard D. McKelvey, Thomas R. Palfrey profile →
  3. Intransitivities in multidimensional voting models and some implications for agenda control
    1976 626 citations Richard D. McKelvey Journal of Economic Theory profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard D. McKelvey United States 37 4.0k 2.6k 2.5k 2.2k 1.5k 73 8.7k
Thomas R. Palfrey United States 53 5.0k 1.2× 4.2k 1.6× 5.0k 2.0× 2.3k 1.0× 2.2k 1.4× 166 10.4k
John C. Harsanyi United States 32 5.9k 1.5× 5.2k 2.0× 2.7k 1.1× 1.0k 0.5× 2.2k 1.4× 84 11.8k
Charles R. Plott United States 48 5.1k 1.3× 2.7k 1.0× 3.0k 1.2× 702 0.3× 800 0.5× 162 8.6k
Ken Binmore United Kingdom 40 4.4k 1.1× 2.8k 1.1× 1.9k 0.8× 407 0.2× 1.5k 1.0× 145 8.3k
David K. Levine United States 43 4.9k 1.2× 3.5k 1.3× 2.9k 1.2× 341 0.2× 1.6k 1.1× 173 9.6k
Jack Hirshleifer United States 35 4.0k 1.0× 1.2k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 584 0.3× 2.0k 1.3× 84 7.6k
David M. Kreps United States 36 9.3k 2.3× 5.2k 2.0× 3.3k 1.3× 812 0.4× 2.2k 1.4× 68 17.5k
Paul A. Samuelson United States 61 13.9k 3.4× 1.7k 0.6× 848 0.3× 1.6k 0.7× 2.7k 1.8× 335 21.1k
Richard Zeckhauser United States 63 9.0k 2.2× 2.7k 1.0× 2.3k 0.9× 1.4k 0.6× 3.9k 2.5× 316 20.6k
Larry Samuelson United States 42 5.4k 1.3× 3.1k 1.2× 2.1k 0.9× 271 0.1× 1.8k 1.2× 196 9.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McKelvey, Richard D. & Talbot Page. (2002). Status Quo Bias in Bargaining: An Extension of the Myerson–Satterthwaite Theorem with an Application to the Coase Theorem. Journal of Economic Theory. 107(2). 336–355. 20 indexed citations
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McKelvey, Richard D. & Thomas R. Palfrey. (1998). Quantal Response Equilibria for Extensive Form Games. Experimental Economics. 1(1). 9–41. 409 indexed citations
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McKelvey, Richard D.. (1998). A Liapunov Function for Nash Equilibria. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 9 indexed citations
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McKelvey, Richard D. & Andrew McLennan. (1997). The Maximal Number of Regular Totally Mixed Nash Equilibria. Journal of Economic Theory. 72(2). 411–425. 38 indexed citations
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Boylan, Richard T., John O. Ledyard, & Richard D. McKelvey. (1996). Political competition in a model of economic growth: Some theoretical results. Economic Theory. 7(2). 191–205.
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Boylan, Richard T. & Richard D. McKelvey. (1995). Voting over economic plans. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 10 indexed citations
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El‐Gamal, Mahmoud A., Richard D. McKelvey, & Thomas R. Palfrey. (1994). Learning in experimental games. Economic Theory. 4(6). 901–922. 7 indexed citations
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El‐Gamal, Mahmoud A., Richard D. McKelvey, & Thomas R. Palfrey. (1993). A Bayesian Sequential Experimental Study of Learning in Games. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 88(422). 428–435. 28 indexed citations
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McKelvey, Richard D., et al.. (1993). Computational Issues in the Statistical Design and Analysis of Experimental Games. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 7(3). 189–200. 1 indexed citations
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Ferejohn, John, Morris P. Fiorina, & Richard D. McKelvey. (1987). Sophisticated Voting and Agenda Independence in the Distributive Politics Setting. American Journal of Political Science. 31(1). 169–169. 64 indexed citations
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McKelvey, Richard D. & Peter C. Ordeshook. (1986). Sequential elections with limited information. Social Choice and Welfare. 3(3). 199–211. 9 indexed citations
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McKelvey, Richard D. & Peter C. Ordeshook. (1985). Sequential Elections with Limited Information. American Journal of Political Science. 29(3). 480–480. 59 indexed citations
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McKelvey, Richard D. & Peter C. Ordeshook. (1984). An Experimental Study of the Effects of Procedural Rules on Committee Behavior. The Journal of Politics. 46(1). 182–205. 47 indexed citations
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McKelvey, Richard D.. (1981). A Theory of Optimal Agenda Design. Management Science. 27(3). 303–321. 8 indexed citations
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McKelvey, Richard D. & Peter C. Ordeshook. (1980). Vote trading: An experimental study. Public Choice. 35(2). 151–184. 26 indexed citations
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McKelvey, Richard D. & Peter C. Ordeshook. (1979). Experiments on the Core: Some Disconcerting Results for Majority Rule Voting Games. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations
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McKelvey, Richard D.. (1979). General Conditions for Global Intransitivities in Formal Voting Models. Econometrica. 47(5). 1085–1085. 411 indexed citations
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McKelvey, Richard D.. (1976). Intransitivities in multidimensional voting models and some implications for agenda control. Journal of Economic Theory. 12(3). 472–482. 626 indexed citations breakdown →
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McKelvey, Richard D., et al.. (1975). A statistical model for the analysis of ordinal level dependent variables. Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 4(1). 103–120. 1982 indexed citations breakdown →
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Palmer, Charles, et al.. (1954). Bibliography of Middle English texts. University of Michigan Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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