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Hank C. Jenkins-Smith

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
45
Citations
16904
World Ranking
329
National Ranking
188

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hank C. Jenkins-Smith sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 182 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hank C. Jenkins-Smith sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States and specializes primarily in the Social Sciences. Their research spans 58 publications in this broad field, with particular focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Communication, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to Risk Perception and Management, Disaster Management and Resilience, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Fire effects on ecosystems, Public Relations and Crisis Communication, and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research.

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Hank C. Jenkins-Smith include:

  • Partisan asymmetry in temporal stability of climate change beliefs, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • The effects of light pollution on migratory animal behavior, 2023, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • The Relevance and Operations of Political Trust in the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020, Public Administration Review
  • Construct Validity of Cultural Theory Survey Measures, 2020, Social Science Quarterly
  • Geographic Distributions of Extreme Weather Risk Perceptions in the United States, 2020, Risk Analysis

Hank frequently collaborates with coauthors including Joseph Ripberger, Carol Silva, Makenzie Krocak, Andrew Fox, and Kuhika Gupta.

Publication output is often found in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, Weather and Forecasting, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Risk Analysis, and Weather Climate and Society.

Among book publications, Hank has contributed to works published by Cambridge University Press, including the book Trust in Government Agencies in the Time of COVID-19, released in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Policy Change And Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach

    Alasdair Roberts;Paul A. Sabatier;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith

  • Cultural cognition of scientific consensus

    Dan M. Kahan;Hank Jenkins‐Smith;Donald Braman

  • Evaluating the Advocacy Coalition Framework

    Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Paul A. Sabatier

  • A Quarter Century of the Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Introduction to the Special Issue

    Christopher M. Weible;Paul A. Sabatier;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Daniel Nohrstedt

  • The Advent of Internet Surveys for Political Research: A Comparison of Telephone and Internet Samples

    Robert P. Berrens;Alok K. Bohara;Hank Jenkins‐Smith;Carol Silva

  • The Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Overview of the Research Program

    Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Daniel Nohrstedt;Christopher M. Weible;Karin Ingold

  • Democratic Politics and Policy Analysis

    Hank C. Jenkins-Smith

  • Risk perceptions of men and women scientists

    Richard P. Barke;Hank Jenkins-Smith;Paul Slovic

  • Politics and Scientific Expertise: Scientists, Risk Perception, and Nuclear Waste Policy

    Richard P. Barke;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith

  • Explaining Change in Policy Subsystems: Analysis of Coalition Stability and Defection over Time

    Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Gilbert K. St. Clair;Brian Woods

  • Information and effort in contingent valuation surveys: application to global climate change using national internet samples ☆

    Robert P. Berrens;Alok K. Bohara;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Carol L. Silva

  • Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization Testing a Two-Channel Model of Science Communication

    Dan M. Kahan;Hank Jenkins-Smith;Tor Tarantola;Carol L. Silva

  • Weather, Climate, and Worldviews: The Sources and Consequences of Public Perceptions of Changes in Local Weather Patterns*

    Kevin Goebbert;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Kim Klockow;Matthew C. Nowlin

  • Trans-Subsystem Dynamics: Policy Topography, Mass Opinion, and Policy Change

    Michael D. Jones;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith

  • Nuclear Waste Transport and Residential Property Values: Estimating the Effects of Perceived Risks

    Kishore Gawande;Hank Jenkins-Smith

  • Public Support for Reducing US Reliance on Fossil Fuels: Investigating Household Willingness-to-Pay for Energy Research and Development

    Hui Li;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Carol L. Silva;Robert P. Berrens

  • Reversing nuclear opposition: evolving public acceptance of a permanent nuclear waste disposal facility.

    Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Carol L. Silva;Matthew C. Nowlin;Grant deLozier

  • Belief System Continuity and Change in Policy Advocacy Coalitions: Using Cultural Theory to Specify Belief Systems, Coalitions, and Sources of Change

    Hank Jenkins-Smith;Carol L. Silva;Kuhika Gupta;Joseph T. Ripberger

  • Sharpening Advocacy Coalitions

    Christopher M. Weible;Karin Ingold;Daniel Nohrstedt;Adam Douglas Henry

  • Symposium editors' introduction

    Paul A. Sabatier;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith

  • Cultural Theory and the Measurement of Deep Core Beliefs Within the Advocacy Coalition Framework

    Joseph T. Ripberger;Kuhika Gupta;Carol L. Silva;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith

  • Professional roles for policy analysts: A critical assessment

    Hank C. Jenkins-Smith

  • Analytical debates and policy learning: analysis and change in the federal bureaucracy

    Hank C. Jenkins-Smith

  • Further Investigation of Voluntary Contribution Contingent Valuation: Fair Share, Time of Contribution, and Respondent Uncertainty

    Robert P. Berrens;Hank Jenkins-Smith;Alok K. Bohara;Carol L. Silva

  • Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus

    Dan M. Kahan;Hank Jenkins-Smith;Donald Braman

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert P. Berrens
Robert P. Berrens University of New Mexico
Christopher M. Weible
Christopher M. Weible University of Colorado Denver
Alok K. Bohara
Alok K. Bohara University of New Mexico
David L. Weimer
David L. Weimer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul A. Sabatier
Paul A. Sabatier University of California, Davis
Dan M. Kahan
Dan M. Kahan Yale University
Daniel Nohrstedt
Daniel Nohrstedt Uppsala University
Michael D. Jones
Michael D. Jones University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Riley E. Dunlap
Riley E. Dunlap Oklahoma State University
Ibrahim Hoteit
Ibrahim Hoteit King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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