Robert Blair

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Robert Blair is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Blair has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 17 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 9 papers in Development. Recurrent topics in Robert Blair's work include Political Conflict and Governance (23 papers), Peacebuilding and International Security (11 papers) and International Development and Aid (9 papers). Robert Blair is often cited by papers focused on Political Conflict and Governance (23 papers), Peacebuilding and International Security (11 papers) and International Development and Aid (9 papers). Robert Blair collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Colombia. Robert Blair's co-authors include Benjamin S. Morse, Lily L. Tsai, Alexandra Hartman, Christopher Blattman, Philip Roessler, Sabrina Karim, Robert Marty, Hannah Smidt, Christopher Blattman and Jessica Di Salvatore and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, The British Journal of Psychiatry and American Political Science Review.

In The Last Decade

Robert Blair

57 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Public health and public trust: Survey evidence from the ... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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. Public health and public trust: Survey evidence from the Ebola Virus Disease epidemic in Liberia
    2016 391 citations Robert Blair, Benjamin S. Morse et al. Social Science & Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Blair United States 20 838 323 183 172 168 61 1.4k
Sara E. Davies Australia 19 782 0.9× 256 0.8× 90 0.5× 54 0.3× 165 1.0× 99 1.6k
Joakim Karlsen Norway 5 908 1.1× 236 0.7× 52 0.3× 102 0.6× 77 0.5× 9 1.4k
Maarten Voors Netherlands 14 597 0.7× 112 0.3× 84 0.5× 34 0.2× 277 1.6× 44 1.3k
Graeme Blair United States 14 926 1.1× 445 1.4× 25 0.1× 45 0.3× 172 1.0× 23 1.4k
Cynthia Miller‐Idriss United States 20 969 1.2× 526 1.6× 83 0.5× 10 0.1× 98 0.6× 49 1.6k
Lily L. Tsai United States 14 338 0.4× 115 0.4× 167 0.9× 12 0.1× 130 0.8× 26 843
Peter M. Aronow United States 19 641 0.8× 336 1.0× 16 0.1× 34 0.2× 138 0.8× 46 1.4k
Andrew Lakoff United States 20 878 1.0× 249 0.8× 48 0.3× 16 0.1× 94 0.6× 46 2.1k
Simon Rushton United Kingdom 16 573 0.7× 109 0.3× 31 0.2× 59 0.3× 76 0.5× 55 933
Erik Melander Sweden 20 1.7k 2.1× 649 2.0× 30 0.2× 309 1.8× 146 0.9× 58 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Blair

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Blair

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Blair

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robert Blair. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robert Blair 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 Robert Blair. Robert Blair is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Blair, Robert, et al.. (2025). Mano dura: An experimental evaluation of military policing in Cali, Colombia. American Journal of Political Science.
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Blair, Robert, et al.. (2025). Depolarizing within the Comfort of Your Party: Experimental Evidence from Online Workshops. Political Communication. 42(6). 925–950. 1 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert, et al.. (2025). Couples Therapy for a Divided America: Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization. Political Behavior. 47(3). 1363–1388. 2 indexed citations
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Gwilym, Brenig Llwyd, Robert Blair, Nikesh Dattani, et al.. (2024). Outcomes Following Vascular and Endovascular Procedures Performed During the First COVID-19 Pandemic Wave. EJVES Vascular Forum. 62. 64–71.
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Blair, Robert, et al.. (2024). An Events-Based Approach to Understanding Democratic Erosion. PS Political Science & Politics. 57(2). 208–215. 2 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert, et al.. (2023). Interventions to counter misinformation: Lessons from the Global North and applications to the Global South. Current Opinion in Psychology. 55. 101732–101732. 30 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert, Jessica Di Salvatore, & Hannah Smidt. (2023). UN Peacekeeping and Democratization in Conflict-Affected Countries. American Political Science Review. 117(4). 1308–1326. 13 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert & Michael Weintraub. (2023). Little evidence that military policing reduces crime or improves human security. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(6). 861–873. 16 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert, et al.. (2022). Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime. Social Science & Medicine. 305. 115045–115045. 19 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert, Sabrina Karim, Michael Gilligan, & Kyle Beardsley. (2021). Policing Ethnicity: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence on Discrimination, Cooperation, and Ethnic Balancing in the Liberian National Police. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 17(2). 141–181. 7 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert, Robert Marty, & Philip Roessler. (2021). Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early Twenty-first Century. British Journal of Political Science. 52(3). 1355–1376. 73 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert. (2021). Civil War and Citizens' Demand for the State: An Empirical Test of Hobbesian Theory. British Journal of Political Science. 52(4). 1748–1768. 4 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert & Nicholas Sambanis. (2020). Forecasting Civil Wars: Theory and Structure in an Age of “Big Data” and Machine Learning. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 64(10). 1885–1915. 30 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert. (2019). International Intervention and the Rule of Law after Civil War: Evidence from Liberia. International Organization. 73(2). 365–398. 31 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert. (2019). Civil War and Citizens' Demand for the State: An Empirical Test of Hobbesian Theory. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert, et al.. (2018). Recommendations for the Creation of a Center for Citizen Science. Journal of Extension. 56(4). 2 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert, Christopher Blattman, & Alexandra Hartman. (2017). Predicting local violence. Journal of Peace Research. 54(2). 298–312. 40 indexed citations
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Blair, Robert, Benjamin S. Morse, & Lily L. Tsai. (2016). Public health and public trust: Survey evidence from the Ebola Virus Disease epidemic in Liberia. Social Science & Medicine. 172. 89–97. 391 indexed citations breakdown →
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Blair, Robert. (1980). Update on Canadian regulations governing drugs and growth promoters in animal feeds.. 52(25). 34–37. 1 indexed citations

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