2026 Thomas B. Pepinsky: 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	38	586	535	325	284	146	6890

Overview

Thomas B. Pepinsky is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has conducted research primarily within the social sciences, with a notable focus on sociology and political science as well as political science and international relations.

Their work spans various subfields including health, linguistics and language, and general health professions. Key research topics covered in their publications include Asian studies and history, populism and right-wing movements, electoral systems and political participation, Southeast Asian sociopolitical studies, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, linguistic variation and morphology, and misinformation and its impacts.

Thomas B. Pepinsky has authored papers such as:

"Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic," 2021, PLoS ONE
"Partisanship, Health Behavior, and Policy Attitudes in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
"Urbanization, Ethnic Diversity, and Language Shift in Indonesia," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
"Historical Persistence," 2021, Annual Review of Political Science
"Authoritarian innovations: theoretical foundations and practical implications," 2020, Democratization

The scientist has co-authored frequently with several collaborators, including Sara Wallace Goodman, Shana Kushner Gadarian, Nicholas Kuipers, Saiful Mujani, and Conrad Ziller.

Their research has been published in a range of journals and platforms, including:

Harvard Dataverse
SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of East Asian Studies
Democratization
American Political Science Review

Thomas B. Pepinsky has contributed to book publications through Princeton University Press, including titles such as "Pandemic Politics" released in 2022.

Best Publications

Lagged Explanatory Variables and the Estimation of Causal Effect

Marc F. Bellemare;Takaaki Masaki;Thomas B. Pepinsky

849
Citations
Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shana Kushner Gadarian;Sara Wallace Goodman;Thomas B. Pepinsky

749
Citations
The Institutional Turn in Comparative Authoritarianism

Thomas Pepinsky

471
Citations
Aerial Bombing and Counterinsurgency in the Vietnam War

Matthew Adam Kocher;Thomas B. Pepinsky;Stathis N. Kalyvas

450
Citations
Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes: Indonesia and Malaysia in Comparative Perspective

Thomas B. Pepinsky

422
Citations
Bureaucracy and Service Delivery

Thomas Blake Pepinsky;Jan Henryk Pierskalla;Audrey Sacks

185
Citations
Testing Islam's Political Advantage: Evidence from Indonesia

Thomas B. Pepinsky;R. William Liddle;Saiful Mujani

176
Citations
Decentralization and Economic Performance in Indonesia

Thomas B. Pepinsky;Maria M. Wihardja

173
Citations
Autocracy, Elections, and Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Malaysia

Thomas Pepinsky

158
Citations
The 2008 Malaysian Elections: An End to Ethnic Politics?

Thomas B. Pepinsky

131
Citations
A Note on Listwise Deletion versus Multiple Imputation

Thomas B. Pepinsky

126
Citations
Lessons from Europe

Sheri Berman

124
Citations
The Trump Presidency and American Democracy: A Historical and Comparative Analysis

Robert C. Lieberman;Suzanne Mettler;Thomas B. Pepinsky;Kenneth M. Roberts

118
Citations
The Return of the Single-Country Study

Thomas B. Pepinsky

98
Citations
Modeling social factors in language shift

Maya Ravindranath Abtahian;Abigail C. Cohn;Thomas Pepinsky

92
Citations
Capital Mobility and Coalitional Politics: Authoritarian Regimes and Economic Adjustment in Southeast Asia

Thomas B. Pepinsky

85
Citations
Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes: Cross-National Perspectives

Thomas B. Pepinsky

80
Citations
Can Results-Free Review Reduce Publication Bias? The Results and Implications of a Pilot Study:

Michael G. Findley;Nathan M. Jensen;Edmund J. Malesky;Thomas B. Pepinsky

70
Citations
Urbanization, Ethnic Diversity, and Language Shift in Indonesia

Thomas B. Pepinsky;Maya Abtahian;Abigail Cohn

57
Citations
The Exclusionary Foundations of Embedded Liberalism

Sara Wallace Goodman;Thomas B. Pepinsky

57
Citations
The Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Non‐Transitions

Thomas B. Pepinsky

54
Citations
Development, Social Change, and Islamic Finance in Contemporary Indonesia

Thomas B. Pepinsky

51
Citations
Islam and Indonesia's 2019 Presidential Election

Thomas Pepinsky

50
Citations
The domestic politics of financial internationalization in the developing world

Thomas B. Pepinsky

45
Citations
Authoritarian innovations: theoretical foundations and practical implications

Thomas Pepinsky

42
Citations
Decompensating domestically: the political economy of anti-globalism

James Bisbee;Layna Mosley;Thomas B. Pepinsky;B. Peter Rosendorff

30
Citations
Coping with Crisis: Government Reactions to the Great Recession edited by Nancy Bermeo and Jonas Pontusson. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2012. 422 pp. Paper, $42.50.

Thomas B. Pepinsky

26
Citations
Beyond Oligarchy: Wealth, Power, and Contemporary Indonesian Politics

Michele Ford;Thomas B. Pepinsky

25
Citations
Testing Islam’s Political Advantage: Evidence from Indonesia

Thomas B. Pepinsky;R. W Liddle;Saiful Mujani

7
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc F. Bellemare University of Minnesota

Suzanne Mettler Cornell University

Duncan McCargo University of Leeds

Kenneth M. Roberts Cornell University

Edmund J. Malesky Duke University

Nathan M. Jensen The University of Texas at Austin

Stathis N. Kalyvas University of Oxford

Michael G. Findley The University of Texas at Austin

B. Peter Rosendorff New York University

External Links

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