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Yphtach Lelkes 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 Yphtach Lelkes sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 132 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yphtach Lelkes 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 Yphtach Lelkes sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yphtach Lelkes is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant concentration on sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and communication. Lelkes also engages with topics in artificial intelligence and statistical and nonlinear physics.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

Lelkes has contributed a significant number of publications across various venues. These frequent publication venues include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Communication
  • PNAS Nexus

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Lelkes are:

  • The Nature of Affective Polarization: Disentangling Policy Disagreement from Partisan Identity (2021), published in American Journal of Political Science
  • Link recommendation algorithms and dynamics of polarization in online social networks (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Reconsidering the Link Between Self-Reported Personality Traits and Political Preferences (2021), published in American Political Science Review
  • The nonlinear feedback dynamics of asymmetric political polarization (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Do social media undermine social cohesion? A critical review (2022), published in Social Issues and Policy Review

Lelkes frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Bert N. Bakker
  • Kokil Jaidka
  • Ariel Malka
  • Sean Westwood
  • Eliyahu Spivack

Best Publications

  • Affect, Not Ideology A Social Identity Perspective on Polarization

    Shanto Iyengar;Gaurav Sood;Yphtach Lelkes

  • The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States

    Shanto Iyengar;Yphtach Lelkes;Matthew Levendusky;Neil Malhotra

  • Mass Polarization: Manifestations and Measurements

    Yphtach Lelkes

  • The Hostile Audience: The Effect of Access to Broadband Internet on Partisan Affect

    Yphtach Lelkes;Gaurav Sood;Shanto Iyengar

  • More than Ideology: Conservative–Liberal Identity and Receptivity to Political Cues

    Ariel Malka;Yphtach Lelkes

  • Implicit and explicit prejudice in the 2008 American presidential election

    B. Keith Payne;Jon A. Krosnick;Josh Pasek;Yphtach Lelkes

  • Do needs for security and certainty predict cultural and economic conservatism? A cross-national analysis.

    Ariel Malka;Christopher J. Soto;Michael Inzlicht;Yphtach Lelkes

  • Are Cultural and Economic Conservatism Positively Correlated? A Large-Scale Cross-National Test

    Ariel Malka;Yphtach Lelkes;Christopher J. Soto

  • Link recommendation algorithms and dynamics of polarization in online social networks

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  • The Limits of Partisan Prejudice

    Yphtach Lelkes;Sean J Westwood

  • Complete anonymity compromises the accuracy of self-reports

    Yphtach Lelkes;Jon A. Krosnick;David M. Marx;Charles M. Judd

  • Determinants of Turnout and Candidate Choice in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Illuminating the Impact of Racial Prejudice and Other Considerations

    Josh Pasek;Alexander Tahk;Yphtach Lelkes;Jon A. Krosnick

  • The Association of Religiosity and Political Conservatism: The Role of Political Engagement

    Ariel Malka;Yphtach Lelkes;Sanjay Srivastava;Adam B. Cohen

  • The Nature of Affective Polarization: Disentangling Policy Disagreement from Partisan Identity

    Nicholas Dias;Yphtach Lelkes

  • Selling ourselves short? How abbreviated measures of personality change the way we think about personality and politics

    Bert N. Bakker;Yphtach Lelkes

  • Brevity is the soul of Twitter : the constraint affordance and political discussion

    Kokil Jaidka;Alvin Zhou;Yphtach Lelkes

  • The nonlinear feedback dynamics of asymmetric political polarization

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  • Policy over party: comparing the effects of candidate ideology and party on affective polarization

    Yphtach Lelkes

  • Affective Polarization and Ideological Sorting: A Reciprocal, Albeit Weak, Relationship

    Yphtach Lelkes

  • Reconsidering the Link Between Self-Reported Personality Traits and Political Preferences

    Bert N. Bakker;Yphtach Lelkes;Ariel Malka

  • Understanding Partisan Cue Receptivity: Tests of Predictions from the Bounded Rationality and Expressive Utility Models

    Bert N. Bakker;Yphtach Lelkes;Ariel Malka

  • Projecting Confidence: How the Probabilistic Horse Race Confuses and Demobilizes the Public

    Sean Jeremy Westwood;Solomon Messing;Yphtach Lelkes

  • The Ideological Asymmetry of the American Party System

    Yphtach Lelkes;Paul M. Sniderman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon A. Krosnick
Jon A. Krosnick Stanford University
Shanto Iyengar
Shanto Iyengar Stanford University
Christopher J. Soto
Christopher J. Soto Colby College
B. Keith Payne
B. Keith Payne University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dale T. Miller
Dale T. Miller Stanford University
A.B. Cohen
A.B. Cohen Arizona State University
Magdalena Wojcieszak
Magdalena Wojcieszak University of California, Davis
Danny Osborne
Danny Osborne University of Auckland
Emily B. Falk
Emily B. Falk University of Pennsylvania
Charles M. Judd
Charles M. Judd University of Colorado Boulder

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