Steven Sylvester

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 778 citations indexed

About

Steven Sylvester is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Sylvester has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 778 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Health and 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Steven Sylvester's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (9 papers), Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (9 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 papers). Steven Sylvester is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (9 papers), Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (9 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 papers). Steven Sylvester collaborates with scholars based in United States. Steven Sylvester's co-authors include Timothy Callaghan, Matt Motta, Simon F. Haeder, Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Mark R. Joslyn, Donald P. Haider‐Markel and Alesha E. Doan and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Social Science & Medicine and Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Steven Sylvester

22 papers receiving 746 citations

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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.

Knowing less but presuming more: Dunning-Kruger effects and the endorsement of anti-vaccine policy attitudes

2018 196 citations Matt Motta, Timothy Callaghan 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						Papers	Cites
Steven Sylvester United States	14	429	394	180	105	87	22	778
Jennifer Gaskell United Kingdom	6	499 1.2×	385 1.0×	119 0.7×	170 1.6×	112 1.3×	9	869
Viktor Orri Valgarðsson United Kingdom	8	405 0.9×	359 0.9×	97 0.5×	98 0.9×	109 1.3×	20	674
Frederik Juhl Jørgensen Denmark	12	414 1.0×	397 1.0×	174 1.0×	130 1.2×	157 1.8×	19	841
Lawrence McKay United Kingdom	9	371 0.9×	331 0.8×	83 0.5×	97 0.9×	106 1.2×	17	670
Alexander Bor Denmark	14	754 1.8×	374 0.9×	208 1.2×	136 1.3×	133 1.5×	30	1.3k
Florian Justwan United States	10	301 0.7×	276 0.7×	96 0.5×	70 0.7×	72 0.8×	25	544
Mete Sefa Uysal United Kingdom	13	325 0.8×	315 0.8×	84 0.5×	82 0.8×	179 2.1×	37	598
Elizabeth Hill Australia	12	281 0.7×	182 0.5×	65 0.4×	77 0.7×	69 0.8×	31	537
Haoran Chu United States	18	547 1.3×	349 0.9×	129 0.7×	89 0.8×	92 1.1×	40	1.1k
Benjamin S. Morse United States	8	394 0.9×	136 0.3×	42 0.2×	118 1.1×	78 0.9×	15	687

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Sylvester

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Sylvester, Steven & Simon F. Haeder. (2025). Who's to Blame? How Recipient Deservingness Influences Attitudes About Access to the Organ Transplants. Social Science Quarterly. 106(3). 1 indexed citations

Haeder, Simon F. & Steven Sylvester. (2024). I paid into it with every paycheck I earned: How benefit type and beneficiary contributions shape attitudes about increasing or decreasing administrative burdens for social protections. Policy Studies Journal. 53(1). 91–113. 4 indexed citations

Haeder, Simon F. & Steven Sylvester. (2024). Stability and policy threats: US public opinion after a decade of the Affordable Care Act. World Medical & Health Policy. 16(4). 520–546. 2 indexed citations

Haeder, Simon F., Steven Sylvester, & Timothy Callaghan. (2023). More Than Words? How Highlighting Target Populations Affects Public Opinion about the Medicaid Program. Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law. 48(5). 713–760. 13 indexed citations

Sylvester, Steven, Simon F. Haeder, & Timothy Callaghan. (2022). Just say no? Public attitudes about supportive and punitive policies to combat the opioid epidemic. Journal of Public Policy. 42(2). 270–297. 18 indexed citations

Sylvester, Steven, Matt Motta, Kristin Lunz Trujillo, & Timothy Callaghan. (2022). Vaccinating across the aisle: using co-partisan source cues to encourage COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the ideological right. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 46(1-2). 311–323. 18 indexed citations

Haider‐Markel, Donald P., et al.. (2022). Staying in Class: Representative Bureaucracy and Student Praise and Punishment. 37(2). 27–42. 2 indexed citations

Callaghan, Timothy, Simon F. Haeder, & Steven Sylvester. (2021). Past experiences with surprise medical bills drive issue knowledge, concern and attitudes toward federal policy intervention. Health Economics Policy and Law. 17(3). 298–331. 12 indexed citations

Motta, Matt, et al.. (2021). Identifying the prevalence, correlates, and policy consequences of anti-vaccine social identity. Politics Groups and Identities. 11(1). 108–122. 44 indexed citations

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Sylvester, Steven. (2021). COVID‐19 and Motivated Reasoning: The Influence of Knowledge on COVID‐Related Policy and Health Behavior. Social Science Quarterly. 102(5). 2341–2359. 36 indexed citations

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Haeder, Simon F., Steven Sylvester, & Timothy Callaghan. (2021). Shared Stigma: The Effect of LGBT Status on Attitudes About the Opioid Epidemic. World Medical & Health Policy. 13(3). 414–435. 9 indexed citations

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Motta, Matt, et al.. (2021). Encouraging COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Through Effective Health Communication. Frontiers in Political Science. 3. 113 indexed citations

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Trujillo, Kristin Lunz, Matt Motta, Timothy Callaghan, & Steven Sylvester. (2020). Correcting Misperceptions about the MMR Vaccine: Using Psychological Risk Factors to Inform Targeted Communication Strategies. Political Research Quarterly. 74(2). 464–478. 45 indexed citations

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Callaghan, Timothy, et al.. (2019). Parent psychology and the decision to delay childhood vaccination. Social Science & Medicine. 238. 112407–112407. 97 indexed citations

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Callaghan, Timothy & Steven Sylvester. (2019). Autism spectrum disorder, politics, and the generosity of insurance mandates in the United States. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0217064–e0217064. 18 indexed citations

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Callaghan, Timothy & Steven Sylvester. (2019). Private Citizens as Policy Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Autism Mandates and Parental Political Mobilization. Policy Studies Journal. 49(1). 123–145. 19 indexed citations

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Motta, Matt, Timothy Callaghan, & Steven Sylvester. (2018). Knowing less but presuming more: Dunning-Kruger effects and the endorsement of anti-vaccine policy attitudes. Social Science & Medicine. 211. 274–281. 196 indexed citations breakdown →

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Joslyn, Mark R. & Steven Sylvester. (2018). Why educated Republicans are still less likely to trust childhood vaccinations than educated Democrats. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 1 indexed citations

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Joslyn, Mark R. & Steven Sylvester. (2017). The Determinants and Consequences of Accurate Beliefs About Childhood Vaccinations. American Politics Research. 47(3). 628–649. 60 indexed citations

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Sylvester, Steven & Donald P. Haider‐Markel. (2015). Buzz Kill: State Adoption of DUI Interlock Laws, 2005–11. Policy Studies Journal. 44(4). 491–509. 17 indexed citations

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