Robert Kubinec

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 591 citations indexed

About

Robert Kubinec is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Kubinec has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 591 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 5 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in Robert Kubinec's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (5 papers), COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (4 papers) and Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (4 papers). Robert Kubinec is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (5 papers), COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (4 papers) and Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (4 papers). Robert Kubinec collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Arab Emirates and Germany. Robert Kubinec's co-authors include Cindy Cheng, Joan Barceló, Luca Messerschmidt, Jonathan Kropko, Allison Spencer Hartnett, John M. Owen, Tim Büthe, Sharan Grewal, David Francis and Helen V. Milner and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, World Politics and Scientific Data.

In The Last Decade

Robert Kubinec

20 papers receiving 571 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.

COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0)

2020 302 citations Cindy Cheng, Joan Barceló et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Kubinec United States	7	195	148	147	79	60	22	591
Joan Barceló United States	13	188 1.0×	212 1.4×	160 1.1×	129 1.6×	86 1.4×	38	623
Luca Messerschmidt Germany	7	146 0.7×	92 0.6×	151 1.0×	44 0.6×	56 0.9×	14	416
Henny Warsilah Indonesia	4	183 0.9×	401 2.7×	70 0.5×	59 0.7×	92 1.5×	8	826
Gusti Ayu Ketut Surtiari Indonesia	6	189 1.0×	429 2.9×	70 0.5×	58 0.7×	92 1.5×	16	891
Soojong Kim United States	6	100 0.5×	224 1.5×	122 0.8×	61 0.8×	65 1.1×	23	488
Irina Rafliana Indonesia	6	185 0.9×	428 2.9×	70 0.5×	57 0.7×	93 1.6×	11	869
Muhammad Sabaruddin Sinapoy Indonesia	3	190 1.0×	462 3.1×	72 0.5×	58 0.7×	93 1.6×	9	902
Austin L. Wright United States	11	204 1.0×	319 2.2×	207 1.4×	113 1.4×	93 1.6×	40	625
Ulugbek Aminjonov France	4	253 1.3×	244 1.6×	235 1.6×	46 0.6×	116 1.9×	6	605
Asha Herten-Crabb United Kingdom	11	89 0.5×	126 0.9×	51 0.3×	19 0.2×	92 1.5×	16	545

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Kubinec

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kubinec, Robert, et al.. (2025). Tariffs and corporate political activity: a survey experiment on US businesses. Business and Politics. 27(3). 395–416.

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Kubinec, Robert & Helen V. Milner. (2024). Taxes in the Time of Revolution: An Experimental Test of the Rentier State during Algeria's Hirak. World Politics. 76(2). 294–333. 2 indexed citations

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Cheng, Cindy, et al.. (2024). A General Primer for Data Harmonization. Scientific Data. 11(1). 152–152. 30 indexed citations

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Cheng, Cindy, et al.. (2024). Harmonizing government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data. 11(1). 204–204. 3 indexed citations

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Grewal, Sharan, et al.. (2023). Ghosts of the Black Decade: How legacies of violence shaped Algeria’s Hirak protests. Journal of Peace Research. 60(1). 9–25. 6 indexed citations

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Kubinec, Robert. (2023). Making Democracy Safe for Business. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Kubinec, Robert, et al.. (2023). Why Corporate Political Connections Can Impede Investment. Comparative Political Studies. 57(11). 1804–1836. 2 indexed citations

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Barceló, Joan, et al.. (2022). Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?. Journal of Peace Research. 59(1). 73–89. 21 indexed citations

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Kubinec, Robert. (2022). Ordered Beta Regression: A Parsimonious, Well-Fitting Model for Continuous Data with Lower and Upper Bounds. Political Analysis. 31(4). 519–536. 52 indexed citations

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Francis, David & Robert Kubinec. (2022). Beyond Political Connections: A Measurement Model Approach to Estimating Firm-Level Political Influence in 41 Economies. World Bank policy research working paper. 2 indexed citations

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Kubinec, Robert, Joan Barceló, Rafael Goldszmidt, et al.. (2021). Cross-National Measures of the Intensity of COVID-19 Public Health Policies. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 4 indexed citations

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Kubinec, Robert & John M. Owen. (2021). When Groups Fall Apart: Identifying Transnational Polarization During the Arab Uprisings. Political Analysis. 29(4). 522–540. 2 indexed citations

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Kubinec, Robert, et al.. (2020). Partisanship and the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Kubinec, Robert. (2020). Ordered Beta Regression: A Parsimonious, Well-Fitting Model for Survey Sliders and Visual Analog Scales. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics.

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Cheng, Cindy, Joan Barceló, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Robert Kubinec, & Luca Messerschmidt. (2020). COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0). Nature Human Behaviour. 4(7). 756–768. 302 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Cindy, Joan Barceló, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Robert Kubinec, & Luca Messerschmidt. (2020). CoronaNet: A Dyadic Dataset of Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Büthe, Tim, Joan Barceló, Cindy Cheng, et al.. (2020). Patterns of Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Federal vs. Unitary European Democracies. SSRN Electronic Journal. 12 indexed citations

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Kropko, Jonathan & Robert Kubinec. (2020). Interpretation and identification of within-unit and cross-sectional variation in panel data models. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0231349–e0231349. 128 indexed citations

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Kubinec, Robert. (2018). Politically-Connected Firms and the Military-Clientelist Complex in North Africa. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 2 indexed citations

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Kropko, Jonathan & Robert Kubinec. (2017). Analyzing Variation in the Cross-Section and Over Time: A Reassessment of Fixed Effects. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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