2026 Jonathan Wilkenfeld: 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	32	1017	919	522	451	99	4496

Overview

Jonathan Wilkenfeld is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research contributions span various domains within social sciences and business, management, and accounting, with an emphasis on communication and organizational studies.

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on human-machine interaction, artificial intelligence, and organizational dynamics. Notable papers include:

Negotiating Agency and Control: Theorizing Human-Machine Communication from a Structurational Perspective, 2021, Human-Machine Communication
"AI Am Here to Represent You": Understanding How Institutional Logics Shape Attitudes Toward Intelligent Technologies in Legal Work, 2023, Management Communication Quarterly
"AI Love You": Linguistic Convergence in Human-Chatbot Relationship Development, 2022, Academy of Management Proceedings
Examining how organizational continuities and discontinuities affect the job satisfaction of global contractors, 2023, Journal of International Management
Exoskeletons and the Future of Work: Envisioning Power and Control in a Workforce Without Limits, 2022, Human-Machine Communication

Wilkenfeld's work often intersects with the study of the ethics and social impacts of AI, misinformation and its consequences, outsourcing and supply chain management, and legal aspects of artificial intelligence. Their research topics cover:

Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
Information Systems Theories and Implementation
Management and Organizational Studies
Artificial Intelligence in Law
Legal Education and Practice Innovations

Their main fields of study include social sciences and business-related disciplines, with specific subfields in sociology and political science, safety research, artificial intelligence, management information systems, and social psychology. This multidisciplinary approach informs their investigations into both theoretical and applied dimensions of technology and organizational behavior.

Frequent collaborators have contributed to Wilkenfeld's research, including:

Chengyu Fang
Jennifer L. Gibbs
Gavin Kirkwood Kirkwood
Julia Eisenberg
Norah E. Dunbar

The scholar's work appears regularly in venues such as Human-Machine Communication, Academy of Management Proceedings, Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of International Management, and Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Their cross-disciplinary publications contribute to ongoing academic conversations about the evolving role of technology in society and organizations.

Best Publications

Multiagent negotiation under time constraints

Sarit Kraus;Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Gilad Zlotkin

516
Citations
A study of crisis

Michael Brecher;Jonathan Wilkenfeld

490
Citations
Mediation Style and Crisis Outcomes

Kyle C. Beardsley;David M. Quinn;Bidisha Biswas;Jonathan Wilkenfeld

438
Citations
Mediating International Crises Cross-National and Experimental Perspectives

Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Kathleen Young;Victor Asal;David Quinn

214
Citations
Negotiating with bounded rational agents in environments with incomplete information using an automated agent

Raz Lin;Sarit Kraus;Jonathan Wilkenfeld;James Barry

211
Citations
Gender ideologies and forms of contentious mobilization in the Middle East

Victor Asal;Richard Legault;Ora Szekely;Jonathan Wilkenfeld

189
Citations
Crisis, conflict, and instability

Michael Brecher;Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Patrick James

161
Citations
Domestic and Foreign Conflict Behavior of Nations

Jonathan Wilkenfeld

151
Citations
Mediating International Crises

Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Kathleen J. Young;David M. Quinn;Victor Asal

126
Citations
Conflict Behavior and Linkage Politics

Edward E. Azar;Jonathan Wilkenfeld

116
Citations
Power Play: Mediation in Symmetric and Asymmetric International Crises

David Quinn;Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Kathleen Smarick;Victor Asal

105
Citations
Resolving crises through automated bilateral negotiations

Sarit Kraus;Penina Hoz-Weiss;Jonathan Wilkenfeld;David R. Andersen

100
Citations
Wars in the midst of peace : the international politics of ethnic conflict

David Carment;Patrick James;John F. Stack;Gerald R. Alfred

85
Citations
Socially relevant ethnic groups, ethnic structure, and AMAR

Jóhanna K Birnir;Jonathan Wilkenfeld;James D Fearon;David D Laitin

82
Citations
Crises in World Politics

Michael Brecher;Jonathan Wilkenfeld

77
Citations
Exploitation vs. exploration: choosing a supplier in an environment of incomplete information

Rina Azoulay-Schwartz;Sarit Kraus;Jonathan Wilkenfeld

77
Citations
GENIE: A decision support system for crisis negotiations

Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Sarit Kraus;Kim M. Holley;Michael A. Harris

75
Citations
Negotiating a Complex World: An Introduction to International Negotiation

Brigid Starkey;Mark A. Boyer;Jonathan Wilkenfeld

73
Citations
Negotiations over time in a multi-agent environment preliminary report

Sarit Kraus;Jonathan Wilkenfeld

67
Citations
The function of time in cooperative negotiations

Sarit Kraus;Jonathan Wilkenfeld

66
Citations
Crisis managers but not conflict resolvers: Mediating ethnic intrastate conflict in Africa

David Quinn;Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Pelin Eralp;Victor Asal

59
Citations
Democracies in international crisis

J. Joseph Hewitt;Jonathan Wilkenfeld

59
Citations
CARA: A Cultural-Reasoning Architecture

V.S. Subrahmanian;M. Albanese;M.V. Martinez;D. Nau

54
Citations
Peace and Conflict 2008

J. Joseph Hewitt;Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Ted Robert Gurr

51
Citations
International Crises, 1945–1975: The UN Dimension

Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Michael Brecher

32
Citations
A strategic negotiations model with applications to an international crisis

S. Kraus;J. Wilkenfeld

32
Citations
Introducing the AMAR (All Minorities at Risk) Data

Jóhanna K. Birnir;David D. Laitin;Jonathan Wilkenfeld;David M. Waguespack

24
Citations
Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents: A Case Study with Hezbollah

Aaron Mannes;Mary Michael;Amy Pate;Amy Sliva

21
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarit Kraus Bar-Ilan University

Victor Asal University at Albany, State University of New York

Michael Brecher McGill University

Kyle Beardsley Duke University

Patrick James University of Southern California

Ted Robert Gurr University of Maryland, College Park

Michele J. Gelfand Stanford University

Dana S. Nau University of Maryland, College Park

Paul K. Huth University of Maryland, College Park

David D. Laitin Stanford University

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