2026 Gary King: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	104	73	62	38	35	295	117292

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Gary King is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has published extensively across multiple fields, focusing on social science and health-related topics.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including:

COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Global Maternal and Child Health
COVID-19 and Mental Health
Global Health Care Issues
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Judicial and Constitutional Studies
Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Gary King has contributed to subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Modeling and Simulation, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's notable recent papers include:

"Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities" (2020, Science)
"Evaluating COVID-19 Public Health Messaging in Italy: Self-Reported Compliance and Growing Mental Health Concerns" (2020, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
"Population-scale longitudinal mapping of COVID-19 symptoms, behaviour and testing" (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
"How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It" (2021, American Journal of Political Science)
"Facebook Privacy-Protected Full URLs Data Set" (2020, Harvard Dataverse)

Frequent coauthors working alongside Gary King include:

Soubhik Barari
Stefano Caria
Antonio Davola
Paolo Falco
Thiemo Fetzer

Their publications appear regularly in venues such as:

Harvard Dataverse
Nature Medicine
Political Analysis
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
UNC Libraries

Awards received over the course of their career include:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2004)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998)

Best Publications

Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research

Gary King;Robert O. Keohane;Sidney Verba

14350
Citations
Designing Social Inquiry

Gary King;Robert O. Keohane;Sidney Verba

11591
Citations
Logistic Regression in Rare Events Data

Gary King;Langche Zeng

5520
Citations
Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference

Daniel E. Ho;Kosuke Imai;Gary King;Elizabeth A. Stuart

5299
Citations
Making the Most of Statistical Analyses: Improving Interpretation and Presentation

Gary King;Michael Tomz;Jason Wittenberg

5150
Citations
MatchIt: Nonparametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inference

Daniel E. Ho;Kosuke Imai;Gary King;Elizabeth A. Stuart

4684
Citations
Computational Social Science

David M. Lazer;Alex Pentland;Lada Adamic;Sinan Aral;Sinan Aral

4586
Citations
Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching

Stefano M. Iacus;Gary King;Giuseppe Porro

4062
Citations
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression

Gary King;Jennifer Jie Pan;Margaret Earling Roberts

3345
Citations
The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis

David Lazer;Ryan Kennedy;Ryan Kennedy;Ryan Kennedy;Gary King;Alessandro Vespignani;Alessandro Vespignani

3113
Citations
Analyzing Incomplete Political Science Data: An Alternative Algorithm for Multiple Imputation

Gary King;James Honaker;Anne Joseph;Kenneth Scheve

2754
Citations
A solution to the ecological inference problem

Gary King

2080
Citations
Why Propensity Scores Should Not Be Used for Matching

Gary King;Richard Nielsen

2074
Citations
CEM: Coarsened Exact Matching in Stata

Matthew Blackwell;Stefano Iacus;Gary King;Giuseppe Porro

2001
Citations
Enhancing the Validity and Cross-cultural Comparability of Measurement in Survey Research

Gary King;Christopher J. L. Murray;Joshua A. Salomon;Ajay Tandon

1726
Citations
Unifying Political Methodology: The Likelihood Theory of Statistical Inference

Gary King

1435
Citations
What to Do about Missing Values in Time-Series Cross-Section Data

James Honaker;Gary King

1292
Citations
How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, Not Engaged Argument

Gary King;Jennifer Pan;Margaret E. Roberts

1235
Citations
Misunderstandings between experimentalists and observationalists about causal inference

Kosuke Imai;Gary King;Elizabeth A. Stuart

1145
Citations
Why are American Presidential Election Campaign Polls so Variable when Votes are so Predictable

Andrew Gelman;Gary King

1134
Citations
Explaining Rare Events in International Relations

Gary King;Langche Zeng

1111
Citations
Analyzing Incomplete Political Science Data: An Alternative Algorithm for Multiple Imputation

Gary King;James Honaker;Anne Joseph O'Connell;Kenneth Scheve

554
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kosuke Imai Harvard University

David Lazer Northeastern University

Feng Zhang MIT

Elizabeth A. Stuart Johns Hopkins University

Xihong Lin Harvard University

Sinan Aral MIT

Nathaniel Beck New York University

Olli Kallioniemi Karolinska Institute

Eran Segal Weizmann Institute of Science

Tim D. Spector King's College London

External Links

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