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Matthijs Rooduijn 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 Matthijs Rooduijn sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 93 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Matthijs Rooduijn 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 Matthijs Rooduijn sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 28 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Matthijs Rooduijn is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has a research focus primarily within the social sciences. Their work includes significant contributions to political science and related interdisciplinary fields.

Rooduijn has authored multiple research papers across a range of topics involving populism, electoral systems, media influence, and social psychology, contributing to the understanding of political and social phenomena. Notable recent publications include:

  • The PopuList: A Database of Populist, Far-Left, and Far-Right Parties Using Expert-Informed Qualitative Comparative Classification (EiQCC), 2023, British Journal of Political Science
  • Affective Polarization and the Populist Radical Right: Creating the Hating?, 2021, Government and Opposition
  • Hot Politics? Affective Responses to Political Rhetoric, 2020, American Political Science Review
  • 'Immigrationization' of welfare politics? Anti-immigration and welfare attitudes in context, 2020, West European Politics
  • The Populist Appeal: Personality and Antiestablishment Communication, 2020, The Journal of Politics

Key frequent co-authors of Matthijs Rooduijn include:

  • Gijs Schumacher
  • Bert N. Bakker
  • Jante Parlevliet
  • Massimo Giuliodori
  • Sarah L. de Lange

Rooduijn's research is prominently published in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, Political Psychology, SSRN Electronic Journal, British Journal of Political Science, and Government and Opposition. The Harvard Dataverse holds the highest number of their publications among these outlets.

Their main fields of study fall under social sciences broadly, with notable emphases on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, communication, economics and econometrics, and social psychology.

Themes and topics frequently addressed in their work include:

  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Measuring populism: comparing two methods of content analysis

    Matthijs Rooduijn;Teun Pauwels

  • A populist Zeitgeist? Programmatic contagion by populist parties in Western Europe

    Matthijs Rooduijn;Sarah L de Lange;Wouter van der Brug

  • What unites the voter bases of populist parties? Comparing the electorates of 15 populist parties

    Matthijs Rooduijn

  • The Nucleus of Populism: In Search of the Lowest Common Denominator

    Matthijs Rooduijn

  • Radical right-wing populist parties in Western Europe : into the mainstream?

    T. Akkerman;S.L. de Lange;M. Rooduijn

  • Flank attacks : Populism and left-right radicalism in Western Europe

    Matthijs Rooduijn;Tjitske Akkerman

  • The psychological roots of populist voting: Evidence from the United States, the Netherlands and Germany

    Bert N. Bakker;Matthijs Rooduijn;Gijs Schumacher

  • The Mesmerising Message: The Diffusion of Populism in Public Debates in Western European Media:

    Matthijs Rooduijn

  • The PopuList: an overview of populist, far right, far left and Eurosceptic parties in Europe

    Matthijs Rooduijn;Stijn van Kessel;Caterina Froio;Andrea Pirro

  • Expressing or fuelling discontent? The relationship between populist voting and political discontent

    Matthijs Rooduijn;Wouter van der Brug;Sarah L. de Lange

  • State of the field: how to study populism and adjacent topics? A plea for both more and less focus

    Matthijs Rooduijn

  • Radical distinction : Support for radical left and radical right parties in Europe

    Matthijs Rooduijn;Brian Burgoon;Erika J van Elsas;Herman G van de Werfhorst

  • The PopuList: A Database of Populist, Far-Left, and Far-Right Parties Using Expert-Informed Qualitative Comparative Classification (EiQCC)

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  • The Paradox of Well-being: Do Unfavorable Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Contexts Deepen or Dampen Radical Left and Right Voting Among the Less Well-Off?

    Matthijs Rooduijn;Brian Burgoon

  • Populism and nationalism in a comparative perspective: a scholarly exchange

    Bart Bonikowski;Daphne Halikiopoulou;Eric Kaufmann;Matthijs Rooduijn

  • The Rise of the Populist Radical Right in Western Europe

    Matthijs Rooduijn

  • Positional Deprivation and Support for Radical Right and Radical Left Parties

    B. Burgoon;S. van Noort;M. Rooduijn;G. Underhill

  • Sympathy for the ‘devil’? Voting for populists in the 2006 and 2010 Dutch general elections

    Gijs Schumacher;Gijs Schumacher;Matthijs Rooduijn

  • Pariahs or Partners? Inclusion and Exclusion of Radical Right Parties and the Effects on Their Policy Positions

    Tjitske Akkerman;Matthijs Rooduijn

  • Vox populismus: a populist radical right attitude among the public?

    Matthijs Rooduijn

  • Affective Polarization and the Populist Radical Right: Creating the Hating?

    Eelco Harteveld;Philipp Mendoza;Matthijs Rooduijn

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Burgoon
Brian Burgoon University of Amsterdam
Wouter van der Brug
Wouter van der Brug University of Amsterdam
Daphne Halikiopoulou
Daphne Halikiopoulou University of York
Herman G. van de Werfhorst
Herman G. van de Werfhorst University of Amsterdam
Cas Mudde
Cas Mudde University of Georgia
Paul Taggart
Paul Taggart University of Sussex
Eric P. Kaufmann
Eric P. Kaufmann Birkbeck, University of London

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