2026 Yanna Krupnikov: 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	30	1182	1069	598	520	136	4025

Overview

Yanna Krupnikov is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad domain of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The main topics that characterize their academic work cover Social Media and Politics, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Media Studies and Communication, Evaluation and Performance Assessment, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, and Gender Politics and Representation.

Yanna Krupnikov has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications and books. Their frequent publication venues include Harvard Dataverse, American Political Science Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, Nature Human Behaviour, and The Journal of Politics.

The scientist has a record of published papers such as:

"Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America" (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
"How Affective Polarization Undermines Support for Democratic Norms" (2021, Public Opinion Quarterly)
"(Mis)estimating Affective Polarization" (2021, The Journal of Politics)
"How Affective Polarization Shapes Americans' Political Beliefs: A Study of Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2020, Journal of Experimental Political Science)
"Using social media to promote academic research: Identifying the benefits of twitter for sharing academic work" (2020, PLoS ONE)

In terms of authored books, all published by Cambridge University Press, notable titles include:

"The Other Divide" (2022)
"The Increasing Viability of Good News" (2021)
"Constructing Political Expertise in the News" (2023)

Yanna Krupnikov collaborates regularly with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators include John Barry Ryan, Eric Groenendyk, Samara Klar, James Druckman, and Matthew Levendusky.

Best Publications

Cross-Sample Comparisons and External Validity

Yanna Krupnikov;Adam Seth Levine

327
Citations
Independent Politics

Unknown

311
Citations
Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America.

James N. Druckman;Samara Klar;Yanna Krupnikov;Matthew Levendusky

285
Citations
When Does Negativity Demobilize? Tracing the Conditional Effect of Negative Campaigning on Voter Turnout

Yanna Krupnikov

215
Citations
How Affective Polarization Undermines Support for Democratic Norms

Jon Kingzette;James N Druckman;Samara Klar;Yanna Krupnikov

170
Citations
Affective Polarization or Partisan Disdain?Untangling a Dislike for the Opposing Party from a Dislike of Partisanship

Samara Klar;Yanna Krupnikov;John Barry Ryan

163
Citations
The Relationship Between Campaign Negativity, Gender and Campaign Context

Yanna Krupnikov;Nichole M. Bauer

162
Citations
How Affective Polarization Shapes Americans’ Political Beliefs: A Study of Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

James N. Druckman;Samara Klar;Yanna Krupnikov;Matthew Levendusky

122
Citations
Using social media to promote academic research: Identifying the benefits of twitter for sharing academic work.

Samara Klar;Yanna Krupnikov;John Barry Ryan;Kathleen Searles

121
Citations
Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction

Samara M Klar;Yanna Krupnikov

115
Citations
(Mis-)Estimating Affective Polarization

James N. Druckman;Samara Klar;Yanna Krupnikov;Matthew Levendusky

113
Citations
The Other Divide

Unknown

98
Citations
Saving Face: Identifying Voter Responses to Black Candidates and Female Candidates

Yanna Krupnikov;Spencer Piston;Nichole M. Bauer

92
Citations
Measuring Gubernatorial Budgetary Power A New Approach

Yanna Krupnikov;Charles Shipan

56
Citations
Convenience Samples in Political Science Experiments

Yanna Krupnikov;H. Hannah Nam;Hillary Style

53
Citations
Who is Punished? Conditions Affecting Voter Evaluations of Legislators Who Do Not Compromise

Nichole M. Bauer;Laurel Harbridge Yong;Yanna Krupnikov

51
Citations
Racial Prejudice, Partisanship, and White Turnout in Elections with Black Candidates

Yanna Krupnikov;Spencer Piston

43
Citations
The effects of ambiguous rhetoric in congressional elections

Kerri Milita;Elizabeth N. Simas;John Barry Ryan;Yanna Krupnikov

42
Citations
Women Also Know Stuff: Meta-Level Mentoring to Battle Gender Bias in Political Science

Emily Beaulieu;Amber E. Boydstun;Nadia E. Brown;Kim Yi Dionne

41
Citations
Social Media and the Changing Information Environment

Patrick W Kraft;Yanna Krupnikov;Kerri Milita;John Barry Ryan

41
Citations
What Motivates Reasoning? A Theory of Goal‐Dependent Political Evaluation

Eric W. Groenendyk;Yanna Krupnikov

39
Citations
Voter Uncertainty, Political Institutions, and Legislative Turnover

Yanna Krupnikov;Charles R. Shipan

29
Citations
Accentuating the Negative: Candidate Race and Campaign Strategy

Yanna Krupnikov;Spencer Piston

29
Citations
The Political Consequences of Latino Prejudice against Blacks

Yanna Krupnikov;Spencer Piston

25
Citations
Clear as Black and White: The Effects of Ambiguous Rhetoric Depend on Candidate Race

Spencer Piston;Yanna Krupnikov;John Barry Ryan;Kerri Milita

24
Citations
How Negativity Can Increase and Decrease Voter Turnout: The Effect of Timing

Yanna Krupnikov

18
Citations
Negative Advertising and Voter Choice: The Role of Ads in Candidate Selection

Yanna Krupnikov

14
Citations
Why State Constitutions Differ in their Treatment of Same-Sex Marriage

Arthur Lupia;Yanna Krupnikov;Adam Seth Levine;Spencer Piston

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur Lupia University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

James N. Druckman University of Rochester

Stuart Soroka University of California, Los Angeles

Markus Prior Princeton University

Charles R. Shipan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

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