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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Political Science 62 95 83 59 49 288 25795

Joshua A. Tucker publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Joshua A. Tucker between 1995 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Joshua A. Tucker published across 31 years, from 1995 to 2025, averaging 13.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 90 publications in 2019. 36 of the 416 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60 80
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1995 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 90. Peak 90 publications in 2019. 1995: 1 publication 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 2 publications 2002: 5 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 5 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 15 publications 2007: 11 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 7 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 9 publications 2013: 20 publications 2014: 16 publications 2015: 14 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 26 publications 2018: 20 publications 2019: 90 publications 2020: 28 publications 2021: 24 publications 2022: 22 publications 2023: 20 publications 2024: 14 publications 2025: 22 publications
1995 2025

416 publications in total across all disciplines

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Joshua A. Tucker: publications per year, 1995 to 2025
Year Publications
1995 1
1996 0
1997 0
1998 0
1999 0
2000 1
2001 2
2002 5
2003 1
2004 5
2005 3
2006 15
2007 11
2008 8
2009 7
2010 10
2011 12
2012 9
2013 20
2014 16
2015 14
2016 10
2017 26
2018 20
2019 90
2020 28
2021 24
2022 22
2023 20
2024 14
2025 22
Total 416
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Joshua A. Tucker 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 Joshua A. Tucker sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
20 40 60 80
Bar chart with 61 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 36–40 to 333+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 97. Most scientists, 97, have 333+ publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 286–290 publications, is where this scientist sits. 36–40 publications: 10 scientists 41–45 publications: 11 scientists 46–50 publications: 25 scientists 51–55 publications: 27 scientists 56–60 publications: 44 scientists 61–65 publications: 52 scientists 66–70 publications: 62 scientists 71–75 publications: 62 scientists 76–80 publications: 79 scientists 81–85 publications: 71 scientists 86–90 publications: 82 scientists 91–95 publications: 65 scientists 96–100 publications: 85 scientists 101–105 publications: 76 scientists 106–110 publications: 66 scientists 111–115 publications: 78 scientists 116–120 publications: 67 scientists 121–125 publications: 73 scientists 126–130 publications: 73 scientists 131–135 publications: 64 scientists 136–140 publications: 45 scientists 141–145 publications: 53 scientists 146–150 publications: 44 scientists 151–155 publications: 45 scientists 156–160 publications: 33 scientists 161–165 publications: 32 scientists 166–170 publications: 28 scientists 171–175 publications: 31 scientists 176–180 publications: 29 scientists 181–185 publications: 27 scientists 186–190 publications: 36 scientists 191–195 publications: 27 scientists 196–200 publications: 24 scientists 201–205 publications: 16 scientists 206–210 publications: 16 scientists 211–215 publications: 19 scientists 216–220 publications: 16 scientists 221–225 publications: 17 scientists 226–230 publications: 18 scientists 231–235 publications: 23 scientists 236–240 publications: 17 scientists 241–245 publications: 13 scientists 246–250 publications: 17 scientists 251–255 publications: 9 scientists 256–260 publications: 13 scientists 261–265 publications: 8 scientists 266–270 publications: 12 scientists 271–275 publications: 8 scientists 276–280 publications: 10 scientists 281–285 publications: 13 scientists 286–290 publications: 13 scientists 291–295 publications: 5 scientists 296–300 publications: 6 scientists 301–305 publications: 11 scientists 306–310 publications: 9 scientists 311–315 publications: 6 scientists 316–320 publications: 4 scientists 321–325 publications: 4 scientists 326–330 publications: 2 scientists 331–332 publications: 5 scientists 333+ publications: 97 scientists
36–40 publications 333+

This scientist: 288 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Political Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 2,033 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
36–40 10
41–45 11
46–50 25
51–55 27
56–60 44
61–65 52
66–70 62
71–75 62
76–80 79
81–85 71
86–90 82
91–95 65
96–100 85
101–105 76
106–110 66
111–115 78
116–120 67
121–125 73
126–130 73
131–135 64
136–140 45
141–145 53
146–150 44
151–155 45
156–160 33
161–165 32
166–170 28
171–175 31
176–180 29
181–185 27
186–190 36
191–195 27
196–200 24
201–205 16
206–210 16
211–215 19
216–220 16
221–225 17
226–230 18
231–235 23
236–240 17
241–245 13
246–250 17
251–255 9
256–260 13
261–265 8
266–270 12
271–275 8
276–280 10
281–285 13
286–290 13 288
291–295 5
296–300 6
301–305 11
306–310 9
311–315 6
316–320 4
321–325 4
326–330 2
331–332 5
333+ 97
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Joshua A. Tucker 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 Joshua A. Tucker sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100
Bar chart with 43 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 20 to 62+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 100. Most scientists, 100, have 62+ D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 62+ D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 20 D-Index: 76 scientists 21 D-Index: 79 scientists 22 D-Index: 84 scientists 23 D-Index: 68 scientists 24 D-Index: 88 scientists 25 D-Index: 82 scientists 26 D-Index: 76 scientists 27 D-Index: 75 scientists 28 D-Index: 99 scientists 29 D-Index: 96 scientists 30 D-Index: 96 scientists 31 D-Index: 81 scientists 32 D-Index: 86 scientists 33 D-Index: 81 scientists 34 D-Index: 84 scientists 35 D-Index: 72 scientists 36 D-Index: 58 scientists 37 D-Index: 53 scientists 38 D-Index: 48 scientists 39 D-Index: 40 scientists 40 D-Index: 40 scientists 41 D-Index: 32 scientists 42 D-Index: 26 scientists 43 D-Index: 25 scientists 44 D-Index: 33 scientists 45 D-Index: 33 scientists 46 D-Index: 17 scientists 47 D-Index: 21 scientists 48 D-Index: 22 scientists 49 D-Index: 18 scientists 50 D-Index: 19 scientists 51 D-Index: 19 scientists 52 D-Index: 15 scientists 53 D-Index: 14 scientists 54 D-Index: 10 scientists 55 D-Index: 13 scientists 56 D-Index: 9 scientists 57 D-Index: 11 scientists 58 D-Index: 12 scientists 59 D-Index: 10 scientists 60 D-Index: 5 scientists 61 D-Index: 7 scientists 62+ D-Index: 100 scientists
20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Political Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 2,033 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
20 76
21 79
22 84
23 68
24 88
25 82
26 76
27 75
28 99
29 96
30 96
31 81
32 86
33 81
34 84
35 72
36 58
37 53
38 48
39 40
40 40
41 32
42 26
43 25
44 33
45 33
46 17
47 21
48 22
49 18
50 19
51 19
52 15
53 14
54 10
55 13
56 9
57 11
58 12
59 10
60 5
61 7
62+ 100 62
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Overview

Joshua A. Tucker is affiliated with New York University in the United States and focuses primarily on research within the social sciences. Their scholarly work broadly covers several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Political Science and International Relations, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics of their research encompass Social Media and Politics, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Media Influence and Politics, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Media Studies and Communication, and Computational and Text Analysis Methods. These focus areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach combining social science methods with computational techniques.

Tucker has contributed frequently to various academic venues. These include multiple publications in the SSRN Electronic Journal and Harvard Dataverse, alongside contributions to the Journal of Experimental Political Science, Science, and Nature. The diversity of these venues shows engagement with both preprint and peer-reviewed platforms.

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on current political and social issues, including:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Political sectarianism in America (2020, Science)
  • SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater foreshadow dynamics and clinical presentation of new COVID-19 cases (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook (2023, Science)
  • How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign? (2023, Science)

Tucker's research collaboration network includes frequent partnerships with Jonathan Nagler, Richard Bonneau, Andrew M. Guess, Megan Brown, and Brendan Nyhan. These coauthors appear across many publications, indicating sustained collaborative efforts.

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

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

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

  • Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

    William J. Brady;Julian A. Wills;John T. Jost;Joshua A. Tucker

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

    Andrew Guess;Jonathan Nagler;Joshua Tucker

  • Social media, political polarization, and political disinformation: a review of the scientific literature

    Joshua A. Tucker;Andrew Guess;Pablo Barbera;Cristian Vaccari;Cristian Vaccari

  • Enough! Electoral Fraud, Collective Action Problems, and Post-Communist Colored Revolutions

    Joshua A. Tucker

  • Political sectarianism in America

    Eli J. Finkel;Christopher A. Bail;Mina Cikara;Peter H. Ditto

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

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

  • 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

  • Transitional winners and losers: Attitudes toward EU membership in post-communist countries

    Joshua A. Tucker;Alexander C. Pacek;Adam J. Berinsky

  • From Liberation to Turmoil: Social Media And Democracy

    Joshua A. Tucker;Yannis Theocharis;Margaret E. Roberts;Pablo Barberá

  • Revisiting Electoral Volatility in Post-Communist Countries: New Data, New Results and New Approaches

    Eleanor Neff Powell;Joshua A. Tucker

  • The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests

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

  • Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990–1999

    Joshua A. Tucker

  • 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

  • Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook

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  • How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?

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  • 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

  • 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

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • The economy, corruption, and the vote: Evidence from experiments in Sweden and Moldova

    Marko Klašnja;Joshua A. Tucker

  • An Easy and Accurate Regression Model for Multiparty Electoral Data

    Michael Tomz;Joshua A. Tucker;Jason Wittenberg

  • The emergence of mass partisanship in Russia, 1993-1996

    Ted Brader;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Disenchanted or Discerning: Voter Turnout in Post-Communist Countries

    Alexander C. Pacek;Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Pocketbook vs. Sociotropic Corruption Voting

    Marko Klašnja;Joshua A. Tucker;Kevin Deegan-Krause

  • Communist socialization and post-communist economic and political attitudes

    Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

  • THE FIRST DECADE OF POST-COMMUNIST ELECTIONS AND VOTING: What Have We Studied, and How Have We Studied It?

    Joshua A. Tucker

  • Which Parties Can Lead Opinion? Experimental Evidence on Partisan Cue Taking in Multiparty Democracies

    Ted Brader;Joshua A. Tucker;Dominik Duell

  • Political Psychology in the Digital (mis)Information age: A Model of News Belief and Sharing

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Elizabeth A. Harris;Philip Pärnamets;Philip Pärnamets;Steve Rathje

  • Associated with the Past?: Communist Legacies and Civic Participation in Post-Communist Countries

    Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Communism's Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes

    Grigore Pop-Eleches;Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Elections, Protest, and Alternation of Power

    Andrew T. Little;Joshua A. Tucker;Tom LaGatta

  • People Power or a One-Shot Deal? A Dynamic Model of Protest

    Adam Meirowitz;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Communism's Shadow: Postcommunist Legacies, Values, and Behavior

    Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Nagler
Jonathan Nagler New York University
Richard Bonneau
Richard Bonneau New York University
Grigore Pop-Eleches
Grigore Pop-Eleches Princeton University
Ted Brader
Ted Brader University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Cristian Vaccari
Cristian Vaccari University of Edinburgh
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
Rebecca B. Morton
Rebecca B. Morton New York University
Aleksandra Cichocka
Aleksandra Cichocka University of Kent
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University

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