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D-Index
30
Citations
9050
World Ranking
261
National Ranking
190

Donald Wittman publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Donald Wittman sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 262+

This scientist: 115 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

Donald Wittman D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Donald Wittman sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 30 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

Overview

Donald Wittman is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with notable work in education, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, gender studies, and statistics and probability.

The scholar's recent publications illustrate a strong emphasis on topics related to educational methods, policy analysis, and political economy. Key areas of study include school choice and performance, higher education research studies, fiscal policy and economic growth, innovations in educational methods, local government finance and decentralization, electoral systems and political participation, and gender, labor, and family dynamics.

Recent papers include the following works:

  • "Average Rank and Adjusted Rank Are Better Measures of College Student Success than GPA" (2022) published in Educational Measurement Issues and Practice
  • "District Versus At-Large Voting: When District Voting Results in Worse Policy for Minorities" (2023) published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "District versus at-large voting: Why district voting results in worse policy for minorities" (2024) published in European Journal of Political Economy
  • "The University of California Was Wrong to Abolish the SAT: Admissions When Affirmative Action Was Banned" (2024) published in Educational Measurement Issues and Practice

Educational Measurement Issues and Practice, SSRN Electronic Journal, and European Journal of Political Economy are among the main venues where they have published their research. Educational Measurement Issues and Practice features prominently, with multiple papers presented there.

Their work does not indicate frequent collaboration with other researchers as no frequent co-authors are listed. Rather, the publications seem largely authored independently.

The range of topics covered by Donald Wittman includes:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Innovations in Educational Methods
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

This profile shows a concentration on understanding educational outcomes, electoral policy impacts, and fiscal policy implications through quantitative and policy-focused research methods within the social sciences.

Best Publications

  • Why Democracies Produce Efficient Results

    Donald Wittman

  • Candidate Motivation: A Synthesis of Alternative Theories

    Donald Wittman

  • The myth of democratic failure : why political institutions are efficient

    Donald A. Wittman

  • Candidates with policy preferences: A dynamic model

    Donald Wittman

  • Parties as Utility Maximizers

    Donald A. Wittman

  • How a War Ends A Rational Model Approach

    Donald Wittman

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy

    Barry R. Weingast;Donald Wittman

  • The myth of democratic failure

    Donald A. Wittman

  • Prior Regulation versus Post Liability: The Choice between Input and Output Monitoring

    Donald A. Wittman

  • Nonmyopic Equilibria in 2×2 Games

    Steven J. Brams;Donald Wittman

  • THE MYTH OF THE RATIONAL VOTER

    Donald Wittman

  • FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF "COMING TO THE NUISANCE"

    Donald A. Wittman

  • Dispute Resolution, Bargaining, and the Selection of Cases for Trial: A Study of the Generation of Biased and Unbiased Data

    Donald A. Wittman

  • Nations and States: Mergers and Acquisitions; Dissolutions and Divorce

    Donald Wittman

  • Optimal Pricing of Sequential Inputs: Last Clear Chance, Mitigation of Damages, and Related Doctrines in the Law

    Donald A. Wittman

  • The Wealth and Size of Nations

    Donald Wittman

  • The Federalist Papers and the new institutionalism

    Bernard Grofman;Donald Wittman

  • Is the Selection of Cases for Trial Biased

    Donald A. Wittman

  • The Reach of Political Economy

    Barry R. Weingast;Donald A. Wittman

  • Litigation with Symmetric Bargaining and Two-Sided Incomplete Information

    Daniel Friedman;Donald Wittman

  • Liability for Harm or Restitution for Benefit

    Donald A. Wittman

  • Final-Offer Arbitration

    Donald Wittman

  • Punishment as retribution

    Donald Wittman

Frequent Co-Authors

Nirvikar Singh
Nirvikar Singh University of California, Santa Cruz
Barry R. Weingast
Barry R. Weingast Stanford University
Daniel Friedman
Daniel Friedman University of California, Santa Cruz
Michelle J. White
Michelle J. White University of California, San Diego
Bernard Grofman
Bernard Grofman University of California, Irvine
Robert H. Bates
Robert H. Bates Harvard University

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