| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Understanding Interaction Models: Improving Empirical Analyses | Political Analysis | 2006 | 4,464 |
| 2 | Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk | Political Analysis | 2012 | 3,101 |
| 3 | Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference | Political Analysis | 2007 | 2,997 |
| 4 | Logistic Regression in Rare Events Data | Political Analysis | 2001 | 2,955 |
| 5 | Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects: A Multivariate Reweighting Method to Produce Balanced Samples in Observational Studies | Political Analysis | 2012 | 2,628 |
| 6 | Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching | Political Analysis | 2012 | 2,218 |
| 7 | Text as Data: The Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political Texts | Political Analysis | 2013 | 1,857 |
| 8 | Latent Class Modeling with Covariates: Two Improved Three-Step Approaches | Political Analysis | 2010 | 1,449 |
| 9 | Back to the Future: Modeling Time Dependence in Binary Data | Political Analysis | 2010 | 1,193 |
| 10 | Set Relations in Social Research: Evaluating Their Consistency and Coverage | Political Analysis | 2006 | 1,093 |
| 11 | Causal Inference in Conjoint Analysis: Understanding Multidimensional Choices via Stated Preference Experiments | Political Analysis | 2014 | 1,031 |
| 12 | Dynamic Ideal Point Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo for the U.S. Supreme Court, 1953–1999 | Political Analysis | 2002 | 932 |
| 13 | Why Propensity Scores Should Not Be Used for Matching | Political Analysis | 2019 | 839 |
| 14 | Estimating Latent Structure Models with Categorical Variables: One-Step Versus Three-Step Estimators | Political Analysis | 2004 | 733 |
| 15 | Nuisance vs. Substance: Specifying and Estimating Time-Series-Cross-Section Models | Political Analysis | 1996 | 686 |
| 16 | Dynamic Models for Dynamic Theories: The Ins and Outs of Lagged Dependent Variables | Political Analysis | 2006 | 665 |
| 17 | Efficient Estimation of Time-Invariant and Rarely Changing Variables in Finite Sample Panel Analyses with Unit Fixed Effects | Political Analysis | 2007 | 651 |
| 18 | Birds of the Same Feather Tweet Together: Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation Using Twitter Data | Political Analysis | 2015 | 545 |
| 19 | A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research | Political Analysis | 2006 | 536 |
| 20 | How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve Empirical Practice | Political Analysis | 2019 | 536 |
| 21 | Which Elections Can Be Lost? | Political Analysis | 2012 | 493 |
| 22 | Generalized Synthetic Control Method: Causal Inference with Interactive Fixed Effects Models | Political Analysis | 2017 | 487 |
| 23 | How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics | Political Analysis | 1990 | 440 |
| 24 | The Logic of the Survey Experiment Reexamined | Political Analysis | 2007 | 425 |
| 25 | Estimating Regression Models in Which the Dependent Variable Is Based on Estimates | Political Analysis | 2005 | 421 |
| 26 | Statistical Analysis of List Experiments | Political Analysis | 2012 | 391 |
| 27 | Democratic Compromise: A Latent Variable Analysis of Ten Measures of Regime Type | Political Analysis | 2010 | 383 |
| 28 | The Dangers of Extreme Counterfactuals | Political Analysis | 2006 | 381 |
| 29 | An Estimator for Some Binary-Outcome Selection Models Without Exclusion Restrictions | Political Analysis | 2003 | 378 |
| 30 | A Bayesian Hierarchical Topic Model for Political Texts: Measuring Expressed Agendas in Senate Press Releases | Political Analysis | 2010 | 373 |
| 31 | Spatial Econometric Models of Cross-Sectional Interdependence in Political Science Panel and Time-Series-Cross-Section Data | Political Analysis | 2007 | 371 |
| 32 | Connecting the Congress: A Study of Cosponsorship Networks | Political Analysis | 2006 | 364 |
| 33 | Gendered Citation Patterns across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields | Political Analysis | 2018 | 363 |
| 34 | Bayesian Multilevel Estimation with Poststratification: State-Level Estimates from National Polls | Political Analysis | 2004 | 356 |
| 35 | Does Survey Mode Still Matter? Findings from a 2010 Multi-Mode Comparison | Political Analysis | 2014 | 350 |
| 36 | Inferential Network Analysis with Exponential Random Graph Models | Political Analysis | 2011 | 325 |
| 37 | A Lot More to Do: The Sensitivity of Time-Series Cross-Section Analyses to Simple Alternative Specifications | Political Analysis | 2007 | 311 |
| 38 | Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Comparative Politics | Political Analysis | 2015 | 311 |
| 39 | Fightin' Words: Lexical Feature Selection and Evaluation for Identifying the Content of Political Conflict | Political Analysis | 2008 | 306 |
| 40 | Measuring Subgroup Preferences in Conjoint Experiments | Political Analysis | 2020 | 303 |
| 41 | Complex Causal Relations and Case Study Methods: The Example of Path Dependence | Political Analysis | 2006 | 302 |
| 42 | Mokken Scale Analysis: Between the Guttman Scale and Parametric Item Response Theory | Political Analysis | 2003 | 298 |
| 43 | Validation: What Big Data Reveal About Survey Misreporting and the Real Electorate | Political Analysis | 2012 | 293 |
| 44 | The Advent of Internet Surveys for Political Research: A Comparison of Telephone and Internet Samples | Political Analysis | 2003 | 288 |
| 45 | Comparing Incomparable Survey Responses: Evaluating and Selecting Anchoring Vignettes | Political Analysis | 2007 | 285 |
| 46 | Elections and the Regression Discontinuity Design: Lessons from Close U.S. House Races, 1942–2008 | Political Analysis | 2011 | 273 |
| 47 | Identification and Sensitivity Analysis for Multiple Causal Mechanisms: Revisiting Evidence from Framing Experiments | Political Analysis | 2013 | 255 |
| 48 | Text Preprocessing For Unsupervised Learning: Why It Matters, When It Misleads, And What To Do About It | Political Analysis | 2018 | 244 |
| 49 | Expert Opinion, Agency Characteristics, and Agency Preferences | Political Analysis | 2008 | 226 |
| 50 | A Simple Distribution-Free Test for Nonnested Model Selection | Political Analysis | 2007 | 223 |
