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Benjamin A. Valentino
Academic
RankFull
As of2021 · CV
DepartmentDartmouth Government
UniversityDartmouth
FieldPolitical Science
ORCID0000-0002-9393-9687
Scholarprofile
Totals
Publications46
Citations4,929
h-index23 · Scholar
Citations per year in post214.3
Years in post23 from the CV positions
Coverage
Works with a count39 of 46
Share85%
Positions
Chair, Department of Government, Dartmouth Co…2021–
Professor, Department of Government, Dartmout…2021–
Coordinator, War and Peace Studies Program, D…2013–
Associate Professor, Department of Government…2008–2021
Assistant Professor, Department of Government…2003–2008
Research Associate, Center for International…2001–2003
Instructor, Department of Political Science,…2001–2003
John M. Olin Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow i…2000–2001
and 1 more
Top venues 28 venues
The 8 holding the most of these works; 20 more hold at least one.
Security Studies5
International Security3
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists2
Ethics & International Affairs2
Foreign Affairs2
International Studies Quarterly2
The Monkey Cage2
The New York Times2
Publications per year
Works this academic published in each year, by the year each work appeared; an undated work is in no year, and a work two colleagues wrote counts for each of them. The kind, works and year filters decide which works are here at all.
Citations per year
Citations received in each year, from this academic’s verified Scholar profile, which counts every citation to everything they ever wrote: no publication filter reaches this line - not the kinds, not the works switch, not the year window on publication - and no journal weight either. It is a profile total, so it does not match the works listed below.
Publications 46 works
Every work these filters select, most cited first and the works with no count at the end: a work nobody has a figure for is unknown, never a zero to be ranked among the works that have one, and it prints an em dash. Each figure is that work’s own citations - Scholar’s count where there is one, else OpenAlex’s - and is not weighted.
| Year | Title | Venue | Kind | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Final solutions: Mass killing and genocide in the 20th century | — | book | 1,253 |
| 2004 | Draining the Sea: Mass Killing and Guerilla Warfare | International Organization | article | 1,034 |
| 2014 | Why We Kill: The Political Science of Political Violence against Civilians | Annual Review of Political Science | article | 364 |
| 2013 | Atomic Aversion: Experimental Evidence on Taboos, Traditions, and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons. | American Political Science Review | article | 339 |
| 2017 | Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran: American Attitudes about Nuclear Weapons and Non-Combatant Immunity | International Security | article | 279 |
| 2006 | Covenants Without the Sword: International Law and the Protection of Civilians in Times of War | World Politics | article | 219 |
| 2011 | A War of One’s Own: Understanding the Gender Gap in Support for War. | Public Opinion Quarterly | article | 216 |
| 2009 | Lost in Transition: A Critical Analysis of Power Transition Theory | International Relations | article | 191 |
| 2010 | Bear any Burden?: How Democracies Minimize the Costs of War. | The Journal of Politics | article | 154 |
| 2011 | The True Costs of Humanitarian Intervention: The Hard Truth Behind a Noble Notion. | Foreign Affairs | article | 135 |
| 2000 | Final Solutions: The Causes of Mass Killing and Genocide | Security Studies | article | 120 |
| 2022 | Kettles of Hawks: Public Opinion on the Nuclear Taboo and Noncombatant Immunity in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Israel | Security Studies | article | 115 |
| 2019 | What do Americans really think about conflict with nuclear North Korea? | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | article | 62 |
| 2018 | Not Just a War Theory: American Public Opinion on Ethics in Military Combat | International Studies Quarterly | article | 44 |
| 2019 | Just War and Unjust Soldiers: American Public Opinion on the Moral Equality of Combatants | Ethics & International Affairs | article | 42 |
| 2016 | Sustainable Security: Rethinking American National Security Strategy | Oxford University Press eBooks | edited volume | 38 |
| 2019 | Animals Are People Too: Explaining Variation in Respect for Animal Rights | Human Rights Quarterly | article | 35 |
| 2023 | Quantifying Participation Biases on Social Media | EPJ Data Science | article | 33 |
| 2016 | An Inflated View of the Facts? How Preferences and Predispositions Shape Conspiracy Beliefs About the Deflategate Scandal | Research & Politics | article | 32 |
| 2003 | Still Standing By: Why America and the International Community Fail to Prevent Genocide and Mass Killing | Perspectives on Politics | article | 31 |
| 2020 | Weighing Lives in War: How National Identity Influences American Public Opinion about Foreign Civilian and Compatriot Fatalities | Journal of Global Security Studies | article | 23 |
| 2017 | The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty: Opportunities Lost | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | article | 23 |
| 2020 | Does the Non-Combatant Immunity Norm Have Stopping Power? | International Security | article | 19 |
| 2017 | More Than Words: “Genocide,” Holocaust Analogies, and Public Opinion in the United States | Journal of Human Rights | article | 18 |
| 2021 | Using Impression Data to Improve Models of Online Social Influence | Scientific Reports | article | 17 |
| 2006 | The Perils of Limited Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the 1990s | — | article | 15 |
| 2025 | Atomic Arguments and Counter-Arguments: How Exposure to Conflicting Information Influences American Public Support for the Use of Nuclear Weapons | International Studies Quarterly | article | 12 |
| 2016 | Moral Character or Character of War? American Public Opinion on the Targeting of Civilians in Times of War. | Daedalus | article | 11 |
| 2006 | Time to Offshore Our Troops | The New York Times | article | 11 |
| 1997 | Allies No More: Small Nuclear Powers and Opponents of Ballistic Missile Defense in the Post-Cold War Era | Security Studies | article | 10 |
| 2022 | Inconstant Care: Public Attitudes Toward Force Protection and Civilian Casualties in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel | Journal of Conflict Resolution | article | 9 |
| 2023 | Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply | Security Studies | article | 6 |
| 2019 | On Reciprocity, Revenge, and Replication: A Rejoinder to Walzer, McMahan, and Keohane | Ethics & International Affairs | article | 5 |
| 2022 | An interpretable model for real-time tracking of economic indicators | ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science | article | 3 |
| 2019 | Who supports animal rights? | The Monkey Cage | article | 3 |
| 2015 | Use of Force: The American Public and The Ethics of War | — | article | 3 |
| 2004 | Final Solutions, Further Puzzles | Security Studies | article | 2 |
| 2004 | Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century | Foreign Affairs | book | 2 |
| 2004 | A Victory, But Little Is Gained | The New York Times | article | 1 |
| 2021 | Taboo or Not Taboo: A Rebuttal and Research Agenda | Mershon International Studies Review | article | — |
| 2020 | The Stopping Power of Norms: Saturation Bombing, Civilian Immunity, and US Attitudes toward the Laws of War | International Security | article | — |
| 2019 | Living with a Nuclear North Korea | The Wall Street journal (Eastern ed. : Online)/The Wall… | article | — |
| 2019 | Do Americans approve of Trump’s pardons for court-martialed military officers? | The Monkey Cage | article | — |
| 2016 | Would the U.S. Drop the Bomb Again? | The Wall Street journal (Eastern ed. : Online)/The Wall… | article | — |
| 2016 | Naming Crimes: Genocide and Public Opinion in the United States | — | article | — |
| 2016 | Atomic Attraction | — | article | — |