2026 Jonathan Nagler: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	50	236	210	137	116	153	14528

Overview

Jonathan Nagler is affiliated with New York University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences with 124 publications. Their research spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, communication, artificial intelligence, political science and international relations, and general social sciences.

The main topics covered in Jonathan Nagler's work include:

Social Media and Politics
Media Influence and Politics
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Computational and Text Analysis Methods
Media Studies and Communication

Their recent notable papers include:

SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater foreshadow dynamics and clinical presentation of new COVID-19 cases, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
Automated Text Classification of News Articles: A Practical Guide, 2020, Political Analysis
SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater foreshadow dynamics and clinical presentation of new COVID-19 cases, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
News credibility labels have limited average effects on news diet quality and fail to reduce misperceptions, 2022, Science Advances
Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior, 2023, Nature Communications

Jonathan Nagler has frequently published in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, SSRN Electronic Journal, Political Analysis, arXiv (Cornell University), and the Journal of Experimental Political Science.

Their frequent coauthors include:

Pablo Barberá
Suzanna Linn
Amber E. Boydstun
Ryan McMahon
Joshua A. Tucker

Best Publications

Tweeting From Left to Right Is Online Political Communication More Than an Echo Chamber

Pablo Barberá;John T. Jost;Jonathan Nagler;Joshua A. Tucker

1899
Citations
Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook

Andrew Guess;Jonathan Nagler;Joshua Tucker

1176
Citations
When Politics and Models Collide: Estimating Models of Multiparty Elections

R. Michael Alvarez;Jonathan Nagler

645
Citations
Economics, Issues and the Perot Candidacy: Voter Choice in the 1992 Presidential Election

Jonathan Nagler;R. Michael Alvarez

564
Citations
How social media facilitates political protest: information, motivation and social networks

John T. Jost;Pablo Barberá;Richard Bonneau;Melanie Langer

544
Citations
A New Approach for Modelling Strategic Voting in Multiparty Elections

R. Michael Alvarez;Jonathan Nagler

521
Citations
Who Votes Now?: Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States

Jan E. Leighley;Jonathan Nagler

513
Citations
Who Leads? Who Follows? Measuring Issue Attention and Agenda Setting by Legislators and the Mass Public Using Social Media Data.

Pablo Barberá;Andreu Casas;Jonathan Nagler;Patrick J. Egan

502
Citations
Individual and Systemic Influences on Turnout: Who Votes? 1984

Jan E. Leighley;Jonathan Nagler

447
Citations
Socioeconomic Class Bias in Turnout, 1964–1988: The Voters Remain the Same.

Jan E. Leighley;Jonathan Nagler

372
Citations
The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests

Pablo Barberá;Ning Wang;Richard Bonneau;John T. Jost

336
Citations
Scobit: An Alternative Estimator to Logit and Probit

Jonathan Nagler

296
Citations
Economics, Entitlements and Social Issues: Voter Choice in the 1996 Presidential Election

R. Michael Alvarez;Jonathan Nagler

295
Citations
Political expression and action on social media: Exploring the relationship between lower- and higher-threshold political activities among Twitter users in Italy

Cristian Vaccari;Cristian Vaccari;Augusto Valeriani;Pablo Barberá;Richard Bonneau

282
Citations
How Many People Live in Political Bubbles on Social Media? Evidence From Linked Survey and Twitter Data:

Gregory Eady;Jonathan Nagler;Andy Guess;Jan Zilinsky

255
Citations
SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater foreshadow dynamics and clinical presentation of new COVID-19 cases.

Fuqing Wu;Amy Xiao;Jianbo Zhang;Katya Moniz

247
Citations
Strategic Voting In British Elections

R. Michael Alvarez;Frederick J. Boehmke;Jonathan Nagler

241
Citations
Explaining the gender gap in U.S. presidential elections, 1980-1992

Carole Kennedy Chaney;R. Michael Alvarez;Jonathan Nagler

230
Citations
Issues, Economics, and the Dynamics of Multiparty Elections: The British 1987 General Election

R. Michael Alvarez;Jonathan Nagler;Shaun Bowler

220
Citations
Party System Compactness: Measurement and Consequences

R. Michael Alvarez;Jonathan Nagler

212
Citations
The Likely Consequences of Internet Voting for Political Representation

R. Michael Alvarez;Jonathan Nagler

204
Citations
Where Is the Schema? Going Beyond the “S” Word in Political Psychology

Jonathan Nagler

197
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua A. Tucker New York University

R. Michael Alvarez California Institute of Technology

Richard Bonneau New York University

Jan E. Leighley American University

John T. Jost New York University

Cristian Vaccari University of Edinburgh

Shaun Bowler University of California, Riverside

Eric J. Alm MIT

William P. Hanage Harvard University

Stefan Wuertz Nanyang Technological University

External Links

Personal website of Jonathan Nagler

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