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Thomas B. Pepinsky

Thomas B. Pepinsky

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
38
Citations
6890
World Ranking
586
National Ranking
325

Thomas B. Pepinsky 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 Thomas B. Pepinsky sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 146 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas B. Pepinsky 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 Thomas B. Pepinsky sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 38 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

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

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

  • The Institutional Turn in Comparative Authoritarianism

    Thomas Pepinsky

  • Aerial Bombing and Counterinsurgency in the Vietnam War

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

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

    Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • Bureaucracy and Service Delivery

    Thomas Blake Pepinsky;Jan Henryk Pierskalla;Audrey Sacks

  • Testing Islam's Political Advantage: Evidence from Indonesia

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

  • Decentralization and Economic Performance in Indonesia

    Thomas B. Pepinsky;Maria M. Wihardja

  • Autocracy, Elections, and Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Malaysia

    Thomas Pepinsky

  • The 2008 Malaysian Elections: An End to Ethnic Politics?

    Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • A Note on Listwise Deletion versus Multiple Imputation

    Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • Lessons from Europe

    Sheri Berman

  • The Trump Presidency and American Democracy: A Historical and Comparative Analysis

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

  • The Return of the Single-Country Study

    Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • Modeling social factors in language shift

    Maya Ravindranath Abtahian;Abigail C. Cohn;Thomas Pepinsky

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

    Thomas B. Pepinsky

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

    Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • 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

  • Urbanization, Ethnic Diversity, and Language Shift in Indonesia

    Thomas B. Pepinsky;Maya Abtahian;Abigail Cohn

  • The Exclusionary Foundations of Embedded Liberalism

    Sara Wallace Goodman;Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • The Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Non‐Transitions

    Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • Development, Social Change, and Islamic Finance in Contemporary Indonesia

    Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • Islam and Indonesia's 2019 Presidential Election

    Thomas Pepinsky

  • The domestic politics of financial internationalization in the developing world

    Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • Authoritarian innovations: theoretical foundations and practical implications

    Thomas Pepinsky

  • Decompensating domestically: the political economy of anti-globalism

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

  • 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

  • Beyond Oligarchy: Wealth, Power, and Contemporary Indonesian Politics

    Michele Ford;Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • Testing Islam’s Political Advantage: Evidence from Indonesia

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc F. Bellemare
Marc F. Bellemare University of Minnesota
Kenneth M. Roberts
Kenneth M. Roberts Cornell University
Duncan McCargo
Duncan McCargo University of Leeds
Suzanne Mettler
Suzanne Mettler Cornell University
Robert C. Lieberman
Robert C. Lieberman Johns Hopkins University
Michael G. Findley
Michael G. Findley The University of Texas at Austin
Stathis N. Kalyvas
Stathis N. Kalyvas University of Oxford
Nathan M. Jensen
Nathan M. Jensen The University of Texas at Austin
Edmund J. Malesky
Edmund J. Malesky Duke University
B. Peter Rosendorff
B. Peter Rosendorff New York University

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