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D-Index
25
Citations
3450
World Ranking
1605
National Ranking
802

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1918 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

John R. Freeman is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research work is primarily situated within the Social Sciences, with specific focus areas spanning Sociology and Political Science, Epidemiology, Economics and Econometrics, Parasitology, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • Human Rights Violations in Space: Assessing the External Validity of Machine-Geocoded versus Human-Geocoded Data (2021, Political Analysis)
  • Replication Data for: Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences (2022, Harvard Dataverse)
  • Heritable Immunization Establishes a New Model for Pathogen Control (2024, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
  • 754 The altered toddler: ingestion or something more? (2025, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences)

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Logan Stundal
  • Benjamin E. Bagozzi
  • Jennifer S. Holmes
  • Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier
  • Matthew P. Hitt

John R. Freeman's research has been published in venues such as:

  • Political Analysis
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of areas including:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Vector-borne Infectious Diseases
  • Viral Infections and Vectors

John R. Freeman has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009 and has been a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1918.

Best Publications

  • Granger Causality and the Time Series Analysis of Political Relationships

    John R Freeman

  • Vector Autoregression and the Study of Politics

    John R Freeman;John T Williams;Tse-min Lin

  • Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences

    Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier;John R. Freeman;Matthew P. Hitt;Jon C. W. Pevehouse

  • Three-Way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics

    John R Freeman;Joshua S Goldstein

  • Real Time, Time Series Forecasting of Inter- and Intra-State Political Conflict:

    Patrick T. Brandt;John R. Freeman;Philip A. Schrodt

  • The Economic Origins of Democracy Reconsidered

    John R. Freeman;Dennis P. Quinn

  • Democracy and markets: The case of exchange rates

    John R. Freeman;Jude C. Hays;Helmut Stix

  • Advances in Bayesian Time Series Modeling and the Study of Politics: Theory Testing, Forecasting, and Policy Analysis

    Patrick T. Brandt;John R. Freeman

  • The State and Dependent Capitalism

    Raymond D. Duvall;John R. Freeman

  • Systematic Sampling, Temporal Aggregation, and the Study of Political Relationships

    John R. Freeman

  • U.S.-Soviet-Chinese Relations: Routine, Reciprocity, or Rational Expectations?

    Joshua S. Goldstein;John R. Freeman

  • Exchange Rate Volatility and Democratization in Emerging Market Countries

    Jude C. Hays;John R. Freeman;Hans Nesseth

  • The Dynamics of Reciprocity, Accountability, and Credibility

    Patrick T. Brandt;Michael Colaresi;John R. Freeman

  • The Relationship Between Defense Spending and Inflation

    Harvey Starr;Francis W. Hoole;Jeffrey A. Hart;John R. Freeman

  • The Techno-Bureaucratic Elite and the Entrepreneurial State in Dependent Industrialization

    Raymond D. Duvall;John R. Freeman

  • Modeling Macro-Political Dynamics

    Patrick T. Brandt;John R. Freeman

  • Long-memoried processes, unit roots, and causal inference in political science

    John R Freeman;Daniel Houser;Paul M. Kellstedt;John T. Williams

  • Democracy and Markets: The Politics of Mixed Economies

    John R Freeman

  • Evaluating forecasts of political conflict dynamics

    Patrick T. Brandt;John R. Freeman;Philip A. Schrodt

  • The American Public and the Room to Maneuver: Responsibility Attributions and Policy Efficacy in an Era of Globalization

    Timothy T. Hellwig;Eve M. Ringsmuth;John R. Freeman

  • Democracy and markets

    John R Freeman

  • Three-Way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics.

    Ethan B. Kapstein;Joshua S. Goldstein;John R. Freeman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon C. Pevehouse
Jon C. Pevehouse University of Wisconsin–Madison
Daniel Houser
Daniel Houser George Mason University
Duncan Snidal
Duncan Snidal University of Oxford
Vivek Kapur
Vivek Kapur Pennsylvania State University
James E. Alt
James E. Alt Harvard University
Harvey Starr
Harvey Starr University of South Carolina

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