Tom Clark

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Tom Clark is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Law and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Clark has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 38 papers in Law and 19 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Tom Clark's work include Judicial and Constitutional Studies (38 papers), Legal and Constitutional Studies (30 papers) and Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (28 papers). Tom Clark is often cited by papers focused on Judicial and Constitutional Studies (38 papers), Legal and Constitutional Studies (30 papers) and Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (28 papers). Tom Clark collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Tom Clark's co-authors include Drew A. Linzer, Benjamin Lauderdale, Brandice Canes‐Wrone, Jonathan Kastellec, Clifford J. Carrubba, R. G. Hynes, Paul E. Hardisty, J. Kelly, Andrew Leicester and Jeffrey R. Lax and has published in prestigious journals such as The Economic Journal, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and American Political Science Review.

In The Last Decade

Tom Clark

72 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Should I Use Fixed or Random Effects? 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400 500
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. Should I Use Fixed or Random Effects?
    2014 525 citations Tom Clark, Drew A. Linzer Political Science Research and Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tom Clark United States 21 937 920 608 394 237 75 2.0k
Matthew D. Adler United States 24 1.3k 1.4× 276 0.3× 239 0.4× 346 0.9× 106 0.4× 113 2.2k
Daniel A. Farber United States 18 452 0.5× 408 0.4× 290 0.5× 389 1.0× 170 0.7× 253 1.4k
Benjamin van Rooij United States 23 470 0.5× 162 0.2× 565 0.9× 688 1.7× 428 1.8× 106 1.8k
Christopher Warshaw United States 25 626 0.7× 110 0.1× 1.4k 2.4× 879 2.2× 439 1.9× 53 2.4k
E. Donald Elliott United States 17 421 0.4× 124 0.1× 282 0.5× 359 0.9× 219 0.9× 90 1.2k
Bruce E. Cain United States 26 678 0.7× 307 0.3× 2.7k 4.5× 1.2k 3.0× 637 2.7× 106 3.5k
Sean Nicholson‐Crotty United States 30 527 0.6× 119 0.1× 1.3k 2.2× 923 2.3× 483 2.0× 76 2.9k
Thomas W. Merrill United States 18 463 0.5× 538 0.6× 235 0.4× 160 0.4× 124 0.5× 116 1.2k
David A. McDonald Canada 25 155 0.2× 201 0.2× 493 0.8× 790 2.0× 173 0.7× 79 1.7k
Laura Langbein United States 23 469 0.5× 64 0.1× 608 1.0× 710 1.8× 445 1.9× 62 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Clark

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Clark

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Clark

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tom Clark. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tom Clark 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 Tom Clark. Tom Clark 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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Clark, Tom, Adam Glynn, & Michael Leo Owens. (2025). Deadly Force. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Clark, Tom. (2024). A Political-Economic Model of Police Administration. The Journal of Politics. 86(4). 1462–1478. 1 indexed citations
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Clark, Tom, et al.. (2023). Police Shooting Statistics and Public Support for Police Reforms. Journal of Experimental Political Science. 11(3). 288–299. 6 indexed citations
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Clark, Tom & John W. Patty. (2021). Why Are Pandemics Ideological?. 2(1). 103–141. 1 indexed citations
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Maranto, Robert, et al.. (2021). Choosing cyber during COVID. Phi Delta Kappan. 103(1). 30–33. 6 indexed citations
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Clark, Tom, et al.. (2020). Counterevidence of crime-reduction effects from federal grants of military equipment to local police. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(2). 194–204. 16 indexed citations
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Clark, Tom. (2019). The Supreme Court. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Callander, Steven & Tom Clark. (2017). Precedent and Doctrine in a Complicated World. American Political Science Review. 111(1). 184–203. 22 indexed citations
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Clark, Tom, et al.. (2015). Estimating the Effect of Leisure on Judicial Performance. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Clark, Tom & Drew A. Linzer. (2014). Should I Use Fixed or Random Effects?. Political Science Research and Methods. 3(2). 399–408. 525 indexed citations breakdown →
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Clark, Tom. (2013). A Note on the Moore Cases and Judicial Administration. Justice System Journal. 26(3). 355. 1 indexed citations
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Clark, Tom, Robert D. Putnam, & Edward Fieldhouse. (2013). The age of Obama. Manchester University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Lauderdale, Benjamin & Tom Clark. (2012). The Supreme Court's Many Median Justices. American Political Science Review. 106(4). 847–866. 86 indexed citations
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Hardisty, Paul E., Tom Clark, & R. G. Hynes. (2012). Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Electricity Generation: A Comparative Analysis of Australian Energy Sources. Energies. 5(4). 872–897. 93 indexed citations
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Clark, Tom. (2009). The Separation of Powers, Court Curbing, and Judicial Legitimacy. American Journal of Political Science. 53(4). 971–989. 177 indexed citations
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Whittington, Keith E. & Tom Clark. (2006). Judicial Review of Acts of Congress, 1789-2006. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Clark, Tom. (2004). Under No Circumstances Resolve the Main Problem Higher Education Policy Overview in Australia. Australian universities' review. 46(2). 12–15. 3 indexed citations
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Brewer, Mike, Tom Clark, & Alissa Goodman. (2003). What really happened to child poverty under Labour's first term?. The Economic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Clark, Tom, et al.. (2002). Trends in British public investment. Fiscal Studies. 23(3). 305–342. 5 indexed citations
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Clark, Tom & Jayne Taylor. (1999). Income Inequality: A Tale of Two Cycles?. Fiscal Studies. 20(4). 387–408. 14 indexed citations

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