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Austria
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
48
Citations
9728
World Ranking
3145
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Thomas Plümper is affiliated with the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria. Their research predominantly focuses on social sciences, particularly within the subfields of sociology and political science, political science and international relations, modeling and simulation, economics and econometrics, as well as general health professions.

The scientist's recent scholarly contributions mainly address various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its societal impacts. Notable research topics include COVID-19 epidemiological studies, the pandemic's effects on public health and society, populism and right-wing movements, electoral systems and political participation, political conflict and governance, and mental health consequences associated with the pandemic.

Thomas Plümper's publication record features multiple works in recognized venues specializing in social sciences and public health. Frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some recent publications authored or coauthored by Thomas Plümper include:

  • The COVID-19 Pandemic Predominantly Hits Poor Neighborhoods, or does it?, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Protest Against COVID-19 Containment Policies in European Countries, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Lockdown Policies and the Dynamics of the First Wave of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in Europe, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Does 'Data Fudging' Explain the Autocratic Advantage? Evidence from the Gap between Official COVID-19 Mortality and Excess Mortality, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Concept and Measurement of Robustness, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Collaborations have been established most frequently with Eric Neumayer and Katharina Pfaff, with Eric Neumayer being the primary coauthor on multiple projects.

The scope of Thomas Plümper's work crosses multiple dimensions of social sciences, emphasizing political and health-related issues in the context of global health crises. Their research contributes data-driven insights into pandemic policy effects, social responses, and the intersection of political behavior and public health challenges.

Best Publications

  • The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, 1981–2002

    Eric Neumayer;Thomas Plümper

  • Efficient Estimation of Time-Invariant and Rarely Changing Variables in Finite Sample Panel Analyses with Unit Fixed Effects

    Thomas Plumper;Vera E. Troeger

  • Panel Data Analysis in Comparative Politics: Linking Method to Theory

    Thomas Plümper;Vera E. Troeger;Philip Manow

  • The Unequal Burden of War: The Effect of Armed Conflict on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy

    Thomas Plümper;Eric Neumayer

  • Model specification in the analysis of spatial dependence

    Thomas Plümper;Eric Neumayer

  • Democracy, government spending, and economic growth: A political-economic explanation of the Barro-effect

    Thomas Plümper;Christian W. Martin

  • Regulatory Competition and International Co-operation

    Philipp Genschel;Thomas Plümper

  • The political economy of natural disaster damage

    Eric Neumayer;Thomas Plümper;Fabian Barthel

  • Why is there no race to the bottom in capital taxation

    Thomas Plümper;Vera E. Troeger;Hannes Winner

  • Spatial Effects in Dyadic Data

    Eric Neumayer;Thomas Plümper

  • Robustness Tests for Quantitative Research

    Eric Neumayer;Thomas Plümper

  • Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention

    Philip Keefer;Eric Neumayer;Thomas Plumper

  • Bringing Putnam to the European regions : on the relevance of social capital for economic growth

    Gerald Schneider;Thomas Plümper;Steffen Baumann

  • The demand-side politics of EU enlargement: democracy and the application for EU membership

    Walter Mattli;Thomas Plümper

  • Fixed-Effects Vector Decomposition: Properties, Reliability, and Instruments

    Thomas Plümper;Vera E. Troeger

  • International Terrorism and the Clash of Civilizations

    Eric Neumayer;Thomas Plümper

  • Foreign terror on Americans

    Eric Neumayer;Thomas Plümper

  • The analysis of policy convergence, or: how to chase a black cat in a dark room

    Thomas Plümper;Christina J. Schneider

  • Conditional spatial policy dependence: theory and model specification

    Eric Neumayer;Thomas Plümper

  • Lockdown policies and the dynamics of the first wave of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic in Europe

    Thomas Plümper;Eric Neumayer

  • The Unequal Burden of War: The Effect of Armed Conflict on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy

    Thomas Pluemper;Thomas Pluemper;Eric Neumayer

  • The Political Economy of Natural Disaster Damage

    Eric Neumayer;Thomas Pluemper;Thomas Pluemper;Fabian Barthel

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