Vanessa Williamson

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Vanessa Williamson is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Vanessa Williamson has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Vanessa Williamson's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (2 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 papers). Vanessa Williamson is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (2 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 papers). Vanessa Williamson collaborates with scholars based in United States. Vanessa Williamson's co-authors include Theda Skocpol, Kris‐Stella Trump and Katherine Levine Einstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Perspectives on Politics, PS Political Science & Politics and American Politics Research.

In The Last Decade

Vanessa Williamson

12 papers receiving 963 citations

Hit Papers

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism 2011 2026 2016 2021 2012 2011 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. The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
    2012 561 citations Theda Skocpol, Vanessa Williamson Oxford University Press eBooks profile →
  2. The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
    2011 296 citations Vanessa Williamson, Theda Skocpol et al. Perspectives on Politics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vanessa Williamson United States 7 673 583 187 108 93 12 1.1k
Ryan Enos United States 17 676 1.0× 980 1.7× 206 1.1× 136 1.3× 147 1.6× 31 1.3k
Armèn Hakhverdian Netherlands 16 925 1.4× 566 1.0× 230 1.2× 127 1.2× 120 1.3× 19 1.2k
Erik Peterson United States 16 426 0.6× 666 1.1× 332 1.8× 106 1.0× 152 1.6× 29 1.1k
Yosef Bhatti Denmark 19 632 0.9× 371 0.6× 190 1.0× 157 1.5× 159 1.7× 46 961
Anna Lührmann Sweden 20 1.3k 1.9× 1.3k 2.2× 160 0.9× 67 0.6× 156 1.7× 47 2.0k
Marc Meredith United States 19 822 1.2× 588 1.0× 145 0.8× 125 1.2× 253 2.7× 46 1.2k
Grigore Pop-Elecheș United States 19 1.1k 1.6× 848 1.5× 107 0.6× 81 0.8× 180 1.9× 45 1.6k
Elias Dinas United Kingdom 22 1.3k 1.9× 1.1k 1.9× 275 1.5× 134 1.2× 114 1.2× 70 1.9k
Oliver Heath United Kingdom 16 805 1.2× 502 0.9× 67 0.4× 156 1.4× 109 1.2× 48 1.1k
Damien Bol United Kingdom 14 546 0.8× 602 1.0× 165 0.9× 107 1.0× 232 2.5× 51 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Vanessa Williamson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vanessa Williamson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vanessa Williamson

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

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
1.
Williamson, Vanessa. (2019). The Philanthropy Con. Dissent. 66(1). 85–90. 5 indexed citations
2.
Williamson, Vanessa. (2018). Who are “The Taxpayers”?. The Forum. 16(3). 399–418. 1 indexed citations
3.
Williamson, Vanessa. (2018). Public Ignorance or Elitist Jargon? Reconsidering Americans’ Overestimates of Government Waste and Foreign Aid. American Politics Research. 47(1). 152–173. 9 indexed citations
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Williamson, Vanessa, Kris‐Stella Trump, & Katherine Levine Einstein. (2018). Black Lives Matter: Evidence that Police-Caused Deaths Predict Protest Activity. Perspectives on Politics. 16(2). 400–415. 98 indexed citations
5.
Williamson, Vanessa. (2017). Read My Lips. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
6.
Williamson, Vanessa. (2017). Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 24 indexed citations
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Williamson, Vanessa. (2017). Read My Lips. Princeton University Press eBooks. 19 indexed citations
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Einstein, Katherine Levine, Kris‐Stella Trump, & Vanessa Williamson. (2016). The Polarizing Effect of the Stimulus: Partisanship and Voter Responsiveness to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Presidential Studies Quarterly. 46(2). 264–283. 2 indexed citations
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Williamson, Vanessa. (2016). On the Ethics of Crowdsourced Research. PS Political Science & Politics. 49(1). 77–81. 59 indexed citations
10.
Skocpol, Theda & Vanessa Williamson. (2012). The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. Oxford University Press eBooks. 561 indexed citations breakdown →
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Williamson, Vanessa, et al.. (2011). The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. Perspectives on Politics. 9(1). 25–43. 296 indexed citations breakdown →
12.
Skocpol, Theda & Vanessa Williamson. (2010). Obama and the Transformation of US Public Policy: The Struggle to Reform Health Care. 42. 3 indexed citations

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