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Sean J. Westwood

Sean J. Westwood

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
20
Citations
8530
World Ranking
1959
National Ranking
972

Sean J. Westwood 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 Sean J. Westwood sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 76 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sean J. Westwood 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 Sean J. Westwood sits on this spectrum.

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: 20 D-Index — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • Fear and Loathing across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization

    Shanto Iyengar;Sean J. Westwood

  • The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States

    Shanto Iyengar;Yphtach Lelkes;Matthew Levendusky;Neil Malhotra

  • Selective Exposure in the Age of Social Media: Endorsements Trump Partisan Source Affiliation When Selecting News Online

    Solomon Messing;Sean J. Westwood

  • How Words and Money Cultivate a Personal Vote: The Effect of Legislator Credit Claiming on Constituent Credit Allocation

    Justin Grimmer;Solomon Messing;Sean J. Westwood

  • The tie that divides: Cross‐national evidence of the primacy of partyism

    Sean J. Westwood;Shanto Iyengar;Stefaan Walgrave;Rafael Leonisio

  • The Limits of Partisan Prejudice

    Yphtach Lelkes;Sean J Westwood

  • Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not

    Unknown

  • Current research overstates American support for political violence

    Unknown

  • Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and the Effects of Heterogeneous Treatments with Ensemble Methods

    Justin Grimmer;Solomon Messing;Sean J. Westwood

  • Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not

    Unknown

  • The Inseparability of Race and Partisanship in the United States

    Sean J. Westwood;Erik Peterson

  • Projecting Confidence: How the Probabilistic Horse Race Confuses and Demobilizes the Public

    Sean Jeremy Westwood;Solomon Messing;Yphtach Lelkes

  • Are there Still Limits on Partisan Prejudice

    Sean J Westwood;Erik Peterson;Yphtach Lelkes

  • The Limits of Partisan Loyalty

    Jonathan Mummolo;Erik Peterson;Sean Westwood

  • An exploration of Donald Trump's allegations of massive voter fraud in the 2016 General Election

    David Cottrell;Michael C. Herron;Sean J. Westwood

  • Effects of a US Supreme Court ruling to restrict abortion rights

    Unknown

  • Uncommon and nonpartisan: Antidemocratic attitudes in the American public.

    Unknown

  • The Effects of Chronic Multitasking on Analytical Writing

    Danielle M. Lottridge;Christine Rosakranse;Catherine S. Oh;Sean J. Westwood

  • The Role of Persuasion in Deliberative Opinion Change

    Sean J. Westwood

  • Of course I wouldn't do that in real life: advancing the arguments for increasing realism in HCI experiments

    Letitia Lew;Truc Nguyen;Solomon Messing;Sean Westwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Shanto Iyengar
Shanto Iyengar Stanford University
Yphtach Lelkes
Yphtach Lelkes University of Pennsylvania
Clifford Nass
Clifford Nass Stanford University
Stefaan Walgrave
Stefaan Walgrave University of Antwerp
Neil Malhotra
Neil Malhotra Stanford University
Michael C. Herron
Michael C. Herron Dartmouth College
Matthew S. Levendusky
Matthew S. Levendusky University of Pennsylvania

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