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Michael D. Ward

Michael D. Ward

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
36
Citations
8293
World Ranking
2755
National Ranking
1535

Overview

Michael D. Ward was affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spanned multiple disciplines with a notable focus on Medicine and Social Sciences.

The main fields of study in their work included:

  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences

Subfields of study encompassed:

  • Rheumatology
  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Pharmacology

The primary topics covered in their publications were:

  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Medical Imaging and Analysis
  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis

Among their recent papers were:

  • 2024 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Guideline for the Screening, Treatment, and Management of Lupus Nephritis, 2025, Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • Reassessing the Role of Theory and Machine Learning in Forecasting Civil Conflict, 2021, Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • 2024 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Guideline for the Screening, Treatment, and Management of Lupus Nephritis, 2025, Arthritis Care & Research
  • BORS/BJR TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP: IMAGE-DRIVEN SUBJECT-SPECIFIC SPINE MODELS: DEVELOPING A NOVEL TOOL TO MEASURE IN VIVO LOADING, 2023, Orthopaedic Proceedings
  • Integration of Consumer Price Indices and the International Comparison Program for the Asia and Pacific Region: How Can They Be Achieved?, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent coauthors included:

  • Lisa R. Sammaritano
  • Anca Askanase
  • Bonnie L. Bermas
  • Maria Dall'Era
  • Alí Duarte-García

The venues where Michael D. Ward most often published were:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • Arthritis Care & Research
  • Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • Orthopaedic Proceedings

Best Publications

  • Diffusion and the International Context of Democratization

    Kristian Skrede Gleditsch;Michael D. Ward

  • Spatial Regression Models

    Michael Don Ward;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

  • The perils of policy by p-value: Predicting civil conflicts

    Michael D Ward;Brian D Greenhill;Kristin M Bakke

  • Double Take A Reexamination of Democracy and Autocracy in Modern Polities

    Kristian S. Gleditsch;Michael D. Ward

  • The Diffusion of Democracy, 1946–1994

    John O'Loughlin;Michael D. Ward;Corey L. Lofdahl;Jordin S. Cohen

  • Democratizing for Peace

    Michael D. Ward;Kristian S. Gleditsch

  • War and Peace in Space and Time: The Role of Democratization

    Kristian S. Gleditsch;Michael D. Ward

  • Location, Location, Location: An MCMC Approach to Modeling the Spatial Context of War and Peace

    Michael D. Ward;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

  • Disputes, democracies, and dependencies: A reexamination of the Kantian peace

    Michael D. Ward;Randolph M. Siverson;Xun Cao

  • Modeling Dependencies in International Relations Networks

    Peter D. Hoff;Michael D. Ward

  • Sizing up the Peace Dividend: Economic Growth and Military Spending in the United States, 1948–1996.

    Michael D. Ward;David R. Davis

  • Predicting Conflict in Space and Time

    Nils B. Weidmann;Michael D. Ward

  • A revised list of independent states since the congress of Vienna

    Kristian S. Gleditsch;Michael D. Ward

  • The Separation Plot: A New Visual Method for Evaluating the Fit of Binary Models

    Brian Greenhill;Michael D. Ward;Audrey Sacks

  • Improving Predictions Using Ensemble Bayesian Model Averaging

    Jacob M. Montgomery;Florian M. Hollenbach;Michael D. Ward

  • Military Spending in the United States, Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China

    Thomas R. Cusack;Michael Don Ward

  • Differential Paths to Parity: A Study of the Contemporary Arms Race

    Michael Don Ward

  • Gravity's Rainbow: A dynamic latent space model for the world trade network

    Michael D. Ward;John S. Ahlquist;Arturas Rozenas

  • Reconciliation in Conflict-Affected Societies: Multilevel Modeling of Individual and Contextual Factors in the North Caucasus of Russia

    Kristin M. Bakke;John O'Loughlin;Michael D. Ward

  • Persistent Patterns of International Commerce

    Michael D. Ward;Peter D. Hoff

  • Cooperation and Conflict in Foreign Policy BehaviorReaction and Memory

    Michael Don Ward

Frequent Co-Authors

David V. Budescu
David V. Budescu Fordham University
Emilio Ferrara
Emilio Ferrara University of Southern California
Mark Steyvers
Mark Steyvers University of California, Irvine
Pedro Szekely
Pedro Szekely Amazon (United States)
Jure Leskovec
Jure Leskovec Stanford University
Aram Galstyan
Aram Galstyan University of Southern California

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