Victor Shih

91 total papers · 2.1k total citations
40 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Victor Shih is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Victor Shih has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in Victor Shih's work include China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (24 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 papers) and Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (5 papers). Victor Shih is often cited by papers focused on China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (24 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 papers) and Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (5 papers). Victor Shih collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Victor Shih's co-authors include Christopher Adolph, Mingxing Liu, David A. Steinberg, Qi Zhang, Wei Shan, David Meyer, Dong Zhang, Dong Zhang, Josef Faller and Sameer Saproo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review and Computer.

In The Last Decade

Victor Shih

39 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Getting Ahead in the Comm... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Getting Ahead in the Communist Party: Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China
    2012 494 citations Victor Shih, Christopher Adolph et al. American Political Science Review profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Victor Shih 728 498 256 173 164 40 1.2k
Kellee S. Tsai 722 1.0× 525 1.1× 355 1.4× 130 0.8× 220 1.3× 53 1.4k
Daniel Gingerich 541 0.7× 498 1.0× 260 1.0× 132 0.8× 197 1.2× 26 1.1k
Isabela Mares 975 1.3× 496 1.0× 305 1.2× 152 0.9× 86 0.5× 46 1.3k
Cathie Jo Martin 972 1.3× 337 0.7× 241 0.9× 269 1.6× 318 1.9× 43 1.4k
Minxin Pei 905 1.2× 798 1.6× 178 0.7× 78 0.5× 125 0.8× 39 1.4k
Ayşe Buḡra 792 1.1× 571 1.1× 117 0.5× 223 1.3× 158 1.0× 39 1.3k
Andrew Wedeman 617 0.8× 613 1.2× 364 1.4× 80 0.5× 294 1.8× 28 1.3k
Jude C. Hays 814 1.1× 446 0.9× 660 2.6× 142 0.8× 191 1.2× 35 1.5k
Leon N. Lindberg 861 1.2× 319 0.6× 233 0.9× 163 0.9× 330 2.0× 26 1.4k
Ronen Palan 347 0.5× 305 0.6× 225 0.9× 269 1.6× 171 1.0× 52 970

Countries citing papers authored by Victor Shih

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Fields of papers citing papers by Victor Shih

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Victor Shih. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Victor Shih. The network helps show where Victor Shih may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Victor Shih

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

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