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Nils B. Weidmann

Nils B. Weidmann

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Political Science

D-Index
34
Citations
7126
World Ranking
830
National Ranking
39

Overview

Nils B. Weidmann is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany. Their academic work spans multiple fields with significant contributions in Social Sciences and Computer Science. Within these areas, their research engages with subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Artificial Intelligence, Software, and Information Systems.

The scholar's main research topics include:

  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
  • Social Media and Politics
  • International Development and Aid
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Among recent publications authored or coauthored by Weidmann are:

  • "Estimating Local Inequality from Nighttime Lights," 2021, Remote Sensing
  • "How Dictators Control the Internet: A Review Essay," 2020, Comparative Political Studies
  • "Mapping the International System, 1886-2019: The CShapes 2.0 Dataset," 2021, Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • "United they stand: Findings from an escalation prediction competition," 2022, International Interactions
  • "Thin-skinned leaders: regime legitimation, protest issues, and repression in autocracies," 2021, Political Science Research and Methods

Frequent collaborators in Weidmann's research include:

  • Anthony Anjorin
  • Eda Keremoğlu
  • Gregor Engels
  • Enes Yigitbas
  • Lars-Erik Cederman

The academic venues where Weidmann has published most frequently are:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Comparative Political Studies
  • International Interactions
  • Political Science Research and Methods

Weidmann's contributions extend to book publications as well, with a title published by Cambridge University Press:

  • "Data Management for Social Scientists," 2023

This profile highlights Weidmann's multidisciplinary engagement, encompassing both social scientific inquiry and computational methodologies, regularly intersecting with politically relevant themes and software engineering approaches.

Best Publications

  • Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Nils B. Weidmann;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

  • Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time : Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset

    Julian Wucherpfennig;Nils B. Weidmann;Luc Girardin;Lars-Erik Cederman

  • The Geography of the International System: The CShapes Dataset

    Nils B. Weidmann;Doreen Kuse;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

  • Representing Ethnic Groups in Space: A New Dataset

    Nils B. Weidmann;Jan Ketil Rød;Lars-Erik Cederman

  • Empowering activists or autocrats? The Internet in authoritarian regimes

    Espen Geelmuyden Rød;Nils B. Weidmann

  • Geography as Motivation and Opportunity: Group Concentration and Ethnic Conflict

    Nils B. Weidmann

  • A Closer Look at Reporting Bias in Conflict Event Data

    Nils B. Weidmann

  • Is the phone mightier than the sword? Cellphones and insurgent violence in iraq

    Jacob N. Shapiro;Nils B. Weidmann

  • Predicting Conflict in Space and Time

    Nils B. Weidmann;Michael D. Ward

  • On the Accuracy of Media-based Conflict Event Data:

    Nils B. Weidmann

  • A two-level learning method for generalized multi-instance problems

    Nils Weidmann;Eibe Frank;Bernhard Pfahringer

  • Using night light emissions for the prediction of local wealth

    Nils B Weidmann;Sebastian Schutte

  • Predicting armed conflict: Time to adjust our expectations?

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Nils B. Weidmann

  • Violence and Ethnic Segregation: A Computational Model Applied to Baghdad

    Nils B. Weidmann;Idean Salehyan

  • Diffusion patterns of violence in civil wars

    Sebastian Schutte;Nils B. Weidmann;Nils B. Weidmann

  • Violence “from above” or “from below”? The Role of Ethnicity in Bosnia’s Civil War1

    Nils B. Weidmann

  • The Internet and Political Protest in Autocracies

    Nils B. Weidmann;Espen Geelmuyden Rød

  • Digital discrimination: Political bias in Internet service provision across ethnic groups

    Nils B. Weidmann;Suso Benitez-Baleato;Suso Benitez-Baleato;Philipp Hunziker;Eduard Glatz

  • Using machine-coded event data for the micro-level study of political violence

    Jesse Hammond;Jesse Hammond;Nils B Weidmann

  • Triangulating horizontal inequality : Toward improved conflict analysis

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Nils B Weidmann;Nils-Christian Bormann

  • Violence and Election Fraud : Evidence from Afghanistan

    Nils B. Weidmann;Michael Callen

  • Communication networks and the transnational spread of ethnic conflict

    Nils B Weidmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch University of Essex
Xenofontas Dimitropoulos
Xenofontas Dimitropoulos University of Crete
Michael D. Ward
Michael D. Ward Duke University
Jacob N. Shapiro
Jacob N. Shapiro Princeton University
Bernhard Pfahringer
Bernhard Pfahringer University of Waikato
Eibe Frank
Eibe Frank University of Waikato
Andreas Wimmer
Andreas Wimmer Columbia University
Idean Salehyan
Idean Salehyan University of North Texas

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