Scott Clifford

4.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
53 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Scott Clifford is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Clifford has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 16 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Scott Clifford's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (24 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (16 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (14 papers). Scott Clifford is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (24 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (16 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (14 papers). Scott Clifford collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Scott Clifford's co-authors include Philip Waggoner, Ryan Jewell, Kyle A. Thomas, Jennifer Jerit, Ryan Kennedy, Tyler Burleigh, Nicholas Winter, Spencer Piston, Roberto Cabeza and Walter Sinnott‐Armstrong and has published in prestigious journals such as Cancer, Computers in Human Behavior and American Political Science Review.

In The Last Decade

Scott Clifford

51 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Are samples drawn from Mechanical Turk valid for research on political ideology?

2015 530 citations Scott Clifford, Ryan Jewell et al. Research & Politics profile →
Validity and Mechanical Turk: An assessment of exclusion methods and interactive experiments

2017 463 citations Scott Clifford et al. profile →
The shape of and solutions to the MTurk quality crisis

2020 339 citations Ryan Kennedy, Scott Clifford et al. Political Science Research and Methods profile →
Increasing Precision without Altering Treatment Effects: Repeated Measures Designs in Survey Experiments

2021 105 citations Scott Clifford, Geoffrey Sheagley et al. American Political Science Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott Clifford United States	25	1.7k	638	604	550	385	53	3.1k
Kevin B. Smith United States	29	2.3k 1.3×	852 1.3×	1.1k 1.8×	659 1.2×	239 0.6×	119	3.7k
Cristina Bicchieri United States	27	1.9k 1.1×	722 1.1×	444 0.7×	307 0.6×	116 0.3×	89	3.9k
Rose McDermott United States	32	2.3k 1.4×	322 0.5×	649 1.1×	1.3k 2.4×	233 0.6×	143	4.2k
Joanne M. Miller United States	26	2.1k 1.2×	208 0.3×	412 0.7×	841 1.5×	809 2.1×	58	3.9k
Werner Wirth Switzerland	27	1.5k 0.9×	211 0.3×	411 0.7×	608 1.1×	843 2.2×	99	3.3k
John R. Alford United States	26	2.1k 1.3×	685 1.1×	935 1.5×	885 1.6×	272 0.7×	52	3.4k
Stephen Vaisey United States	27	2.3k 1.4×	255 0.4×	693 1.1×	324 0.6×	183 0.5×	49	3.4k
Eugene Borgida United States	32	2.5k 1.5×	410 0.6×	1.0k 1.7×	790 1.4×	439 1.1×	123	5.2k
David De Cremer Netherlands	40	2.8k 1.6×	840 1.3×	1.6k 2.7×	165 0.3×	195 0.5×	91	5.0k
Thomas E. Nelson United States	15	2.0k 1.2×	175 0.3×	496 0.8×	1.0k 1.8×	1.0k 2.7×	29	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Scott Clifford

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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Clifford

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Clifford

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Clifford, Scott & Carlisle Rainey. (2025). The Limits (and Strengths) of Single-Topic Experiments. Political Analysis. 33(2). 164–170.

Clifford, Scott & Carlisle Rainey. (2024). Estimators for Topic-Sampling Designs. Political Analysis. 32(4). 431–444. 2 indexed citations

Clifford, Scott, et al.. (2024). The policy basis of group sentiments. Political Science Research and Methods. 13(2). 482–488. 1 indexed citations

Sheagley, Geoffrey & Scott Clifford. (2023). No Evidence that Measuring Moderators Alters Treatment Effects. American Journal of Political Science. 69(1). 49–63. 14 indexed citations

Clifford, Scott & Brian W. Sullivan. (2023). Do Survey Questions Spread Conspiracy Beliefs?. Journal of Experimental Political Science. 10(2). 231–241. 3 indexed citations

Clifford, Scott, D.J. Flynn, Brendan Nyhan, & Kasey Rhee. (2023). Decider in Chief? Why and How the Public Exaggerates the Power of the Presidency. Political Research Quarterly. 77(2). 469–484. 2 indexed citations

Clifford, Scott, et al.. (2022). Disgust sensitivity and support for immigration across five nations. Politics and the Life Sciences. 42(1). 65–80. 10 indexed citations

Clifford, Scott, Geoffrey Sheagley, & Spencer Piston. (2021). Increasing Precision without Altering Treatment Effects: Repeated Measures Designs in Survey Experiments. American Political Science Review. 115(3). 1048–1065. 105 indexed citations breakdown →

Clifford, Scott, Elizabeth Simas, & Justin H. Kirkland. (2021). Do Elections Keep the Compassionate out of the Candidate Pool?. Public Opinion Quarterly. 85(2). 649–662. 2 indexed citations

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Marques, Lucas Murrins, Scott Clifford, V. Iyengar, et al.. (2020). Translation and validation of the Moral Foundations Vignettes (MFVs) for the Portuguese language in a Brazilian sample. Judgment and Decision Making. 15(1). 149–158. 3 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Ryan, Scott Clifford, Tyler Burleigh, et al.. (2020). The shape of and solutions to the MTurk quality crisis. Political Science Research and Methods. 8(4). 614–629. 339 indexed citations breakdown →

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Clifford, Scott. (2020). How Moral Motives Link Party Stereotypes. Political Behavior. 44(2). 705–724. 4 indexed citations

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Simas, Elizabeth, Scott Clifford, & Justin H. Kirkland. (2019). How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization. American Political Science Review. 114(1). 258–269. 96 indexed citations

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Clifford, Scott, et al.. (2019). TRENDS : How Internet Search Undermines the Validity of Political Knowledge Measures. Political Research Quarterly. 73(1). 141–155. 13 indexed citations

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Clifford, Scott, Ryan Jewell, & Philip Waggoner. (2015). Are samples drawn from Mechanical Turk valid for research on political ideology?. Research & Politics. 2(4). 530 indexed citations breakdown →

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Clifford, Scott, V. Iyengar, Roberto Cabeza, & Walter Sinnott‐Armstrong. (2015). Moral foundations vignettes: a standardized stimulus database of scenarios based on moral foundations theory. Behavior Research Methods. 47(4). 1178–1198. 213 indexed citations

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Clifford, Scott, Jennifer Jerit, Carlisle Rainey, & Matt Motyl. (2014). Moral Concerns and Policy Attitudes: Investigating the Influence of Elite Rhetoric. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Clifford, Scott, et al.. (2014). Is There a Cost to Convenience? An Experimental Comparison of Data Quality in Laboratory and Online Studies. Journal of Experimental Political Science. 1(2). 120–131. 155 indexed citations

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Clifford, Scott & Jennifer Jerit. (2012). Do Attempts to Improve Respondent Attention Increase Social Desirability Bias. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Burger, Peter C., Charles E. Rawlings, Edwin B. Cox, et al.. (1987). Clinicopathologic correlations in the oligodendroglioma. Cancer. 59(7). 1345–1352. 112 indexed citations

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