2026 Virginia Gray: 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	41	456	411	252	216	118	8634

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

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Political Science

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Overview

Virginia Gray is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including Strategy and Management, Political Science and International Relations, and Education.

The main topics of their work include:

Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Social Policy and Reform Studies
Child Development and Digital Technology

Virginia Gray has published in several venues, with frequent contributions to UNC Libraries, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, Interest Groups & Advocacy, and Congress & the Presidency.

Notable recent papers include:

"I choose you! Interest group endorsements in the 2018 US House midterm elections" (2020), published in Interest Groups & Advocacy
"O24 Today's Mom: HappyHealthy Baby: Transforming a Traditional Nutrition Education Curriculum Into an Online Course for SNAP-Ed" (2022), published in Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
"P071 COVID-Related Diet Changes in a Multiethnic Sample of College Students" (2022), published in Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
"McKay, Amy Melissa. Stealth Lobbying: Interest Group Influence and Health Care Reform" (2023), published in Congress & the Presidency
"The Construction of Interest Communities: Distinguishing Bottom-Up and Top-Down Models" (2021), published in UNC Libraries

Virginia Gray often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

David Lowery
Tyler Steelman
Sylvia H. Byrd
Sondra Parmer
Carson Purcell

Best Publications

Innovation in the States: A Diffusion Study

Virginia Gray

2101
Citations
The Population Ecology of Interest Representation: Lobbying Communities in the American States

Virginia Gray;David Lowery

864
Citations
Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis

Virginia Gray;Russell L. Hanson;Thad Kousser

408
Citations
A Niche Theory of Interest Representation

Virginia Gray;David Lowery

302
Citations
The Population Ecology of Gucci Gulch, or the Natural Regulation of Interest Group Numbers in the American States

David Lowery;Virginia Gray

301
Citations
A Neopluralist Perspective on Research on Organized Interests

David Lowery;Virginia H Gray

289
Citations
Public opinion, public policy, and organized interests in the American states

Virginia Gray;David Lowery;Matthew Fellowes;Andrea McAtee

191
Citations
Models of Comparative State Politics: A Comparison of Cross-Sectional and Time Series Analyses

Virginia Gray

177
Citations
Interest Group Politics and Economic Growth in the U.S. States

Virginia Gray;David Lowery

156
Citations
A Neopluralist Perspective on Research on Organized Interests

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156
Citations
External Limits and Internal Determinants of State Public Policy

Sung-Don Hwang;Virginia Gray

152
Citations
Reconceptualizing Pac Formation: It's Not a Collective Action Problem, and It May Be an Arms Race

Virginia Gray;David Lowery

130
Citations
Bias in the Heavenly Chorus Interests in Society and before Government

David Lowery;Virginia H Gray

129
Citations
To Lobby Alone or in a Flock Foraging Behavior Among Organized Interests

Virginia Gray;David Lowery

128
Citations
The Density of State Interest Group Systems

David Lynn Lowery;Virginia Gray

125
Citations
Interest Representation and Democratic Gridlock

Virginia Gray;David Lowery

124
Citations
The Institutionalization of State Communities of Organized Interests

Virginia Gray;David Lynn Lowery

110
Citations
The Expression of Density Dependence in State Communities of Organized Interests

Virginia Gray;David Lynn Lowery

106
Citations
Federal Policy Activity and the Mobilization of State Lobbying Organizations

Frank R. Baumgartner;Virginia H Gray;David Lowery

105
Citations
How some rules just don't matter: The regulation of lobbyists

David Lynn Lowery;Virginia Gray

94
Citations
Legislative Agendas and Interest Advocacy: Understanding the Demand Side of Lobbying

Virginia Gray;David Lynn Lowery;Matthew Fellowes;Jennifer L. Anderson

92
Citations
Sisyphus meets the borg: Economic scale and inequalities in interest representation

David Lowery;Virginia Gray;Matthew Fellowes

89
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Lowery Pennsylvania State University

Jennifer Wolak Michigan State University

Darren Halpin Australian National University

Pamela Johnston Conover University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Frank R. Baumgartner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Daniel J. Elazar Bar-Ilan University

Malcolm M Feeley University of California, Berkeley

Paul Brace Rice University

Austin Sarat Amherst College

Peter L. Berger Boston University

External Links

Personal website of Virginia Gray

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