2026 Matt A. Barreto: 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	33	920	832	482	415	104	5336

Overview

Matt A. Barreto is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans primarily the social sciences, with a focus on subfields such as sociology and political science, political science and international relations, communication, clinical psychology, and gender studies.

Their recent publications reflect a wide range of topics, including electoral systems and political participation, social and intergroup psychology, policing practices and perceptions, migration, refugees, and integration, law, rights, and freedoms, migration, health and trauma, alongside racial and ethnic identity research.

Recent notable papers include:

"Xenophobia in the time of pandemic: othering, anti-Asian attitudes, and COVID-19" (2020) in Politics Groups and Identities
"Spanish-Language News Consumption and Latino Reactions to COVID-19" (2021) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
"The Ripple Effect: The Political Consequences of Proximal Contact with Immigration Enforcement" (2020) in The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics
"Black Lives Matter and the Racialized Support for the January 6th Insurrection" (2023) in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
"Health Care Discrimination and Immigration Fears: Unpacking COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Latino Adults" (2024) in American Journal of Public Health

Their frequent co-authors include Gabriel R. Sánchez, Hannah Walker, Marcel Roman, Bárbara Gómez-Aguiñaga, and Alein Y. Haro-Ramos.

Matt A. Barreto has regularly published in venues such as:

The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics
Politics Groups and Identities
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
American Journal of Public Health

Their research interests largely cover themes related to electoral systems and political participation, social and intergroup psychology, and various dimensions of migration and racial and ethnic identity, addressing contemporary political and social issues through multidisciplinary approaches.

Best Publications

Change They Can't Believe In

Christopher S. Parker;Matt A. Barreto

528
Citations
The Mobilizing Effect of Majority–Minority Districts on Latino Turnout

Matt A. Barreto;Gary M. Segura;Nathan D. Woods

472
Citations
İSí Se Puede! Latino Candidates and the Mobilization of Latino Voters

Matt A. Barreto

398
Citations
Change They Can't Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America

Christopher S. Parker;Matt A. Barreto

310
Citations
Xenophobia in the time of pandemic: othering, anti-Asian attitudes, and COVID-19

Tyler T. Reny;Matt A. Barreto

297
Citations
Mobilization, Participation, and Solidaridad: Latino Participation in the 2006 Immigration Protest Rallies

Matt A. Barreto;Sylvia Manzano;Ricardo Ramírez;Kathy Rim

282
Citations
Ethnic Cues: The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Participation

Matt A. Barreto

242
Citations
The Disproportionate Impact of Voter-ID Requirements on the Electorate—New Evidence from Indiana

Matt A. Barreto;Stephen A. Nuño;Gabriel R. Sanchez

184
Citations
Reexamining the “Politics of In-between”: Political Participation among Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Matt A. Barreto;José A. Muñoz

184
Citations
Latino Immigrants at the Polls: Foreign-born Voter Turnout in the 2002 Election

Matt A. Barreto

146
Citations
Metropolitan Latino Political Behavior: Voter Turnout and Candidate Preference in Los Angeles

Matt A. Barreto;Mario Villarreal;Nathan D. Woods

119
Citations
The Tea Party in the Age of Obama: Mainstream Conservatism or Out-Group Anxiety?

Matt A. Barreto;Betsy L. Cooper;Benjamin Gonzalez;Christopher S. Parker

115
Citations
The latino vote in the 2004 election

David L. Leal;Matt A. Barreto;Jongho Lee;Rodolfo O. de la Garza

111
Citations
Democrat, Republican, or None of the Above? The Role of Religiosity in Muslim American Party Identification

Matt A. Barreto;Dino N. Bozonelos

107
Citations
The renewal and persistence of group identification in American politics

Matt A. Barreto;Francisco I. Pedraza

99
Citations
Do Absentee Voters Differ from Polling Place Voters? New Evidence from California

Matt A. Barreto;Matthew J. Streb;Mara Marks;Fernando Guerra

98
Citations
Mosques as American Institutions: Mosque Attendance, Religiosity and Integration into the Political System among American Muslims

Karam Dana;Matt A. Barreto;Kassra A.R. Oskooii

96
Citations
Best practices in collecting online data with Asian, Black, Latino, and White respondents: evidence from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-election Survey

Matt A. Barreto;Lorrie Frasure-Yokley;Edward D. Vargas;Janelle Wong

92
Citations
VOTER ID REQUIREMENTS AND THE DISENFRANCHISEMENTS OF LATINO, BLACK AND ASIAN VOTERS 1

Matt A Barreto;Stephen Nuño;Gabriel Sanchez

84
Citations
Revisiting Latino Voting: Cross-Racial Mobilization in the 2012 Election

Loren Collingwood;Matt A. Barreto;Sergio I. Garcia-Rios

72
Citations
The Effectiveness of Coethnic Contact on Latino Political Recruitment

Matt A. Barreto;Stephen A. Nuño

69
Citations
Are Naturalized Voters Driving the California Latino Electorate? Measuring the Effect of IRCA Citizens on Latino Voting*

Matt A. Barreto;Ricardo Ramírez;Nathan D. Woods

66
Citations
“Should They Dance with the One Who Brung 'Em?” Latinos and the 2008 Presidential Election

Matt A. Barreto;Luis R. Fraga;Sylvia Manzano;Valerie Martinez-Ebers

59
Citations
Somos Más: How Racial Threat and Anger Mobilized Latino Voters in the Trump Era:

Angela Gutierrez;Angela X. Ocampo;Matt A. Barreto;Gary Segura

50
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary M. Segura Stanford University

Gabriel R. Sanchez University of New Mexico

Jennifer L. Merolla University of California, Riverside

Todd Donovan Western Washington University

Janelle Wong University of Maryland, College Park

David L. Leal The University of Texas at Austin

Bernard Grofman University of California, Irvine

Caroline J. Tolbert University of Iowa

David P. Redlawsk University of Delaware

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