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Sean Nicholson‐Crotty

Social Sciences · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2002
Public Policy and Administration ResearchElectoral Systems and Political ParticipationPolicy Transfer and LearningCrime Patterns and InterventionsLocal Government Finance and Decentralization

Publications

91

Citations

4,109

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

24

Publishing since 2002

Research summary
AI-generated

This researcher studies public administration and policy, with a strong focus on policing—including police oversight, use-of-force reforms, citizen evaluations, and racial representation in government. Their work often uses experiments and data analysis to examine how public managers make decisions and how policies spread across cities and countries. Recent projects also cover the adoption of electric vehicles and renewable energy policy.

Policing and police reformRepresentative bureaucracy and racePublic management decision-makingPolicy diffusion and learningEnergy and transportation policy

Publication activity peaked around 2018-2019 and has slowed in recent years, averaging about one paper per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

In context
Among 947 mid career Social Sciences PIs within our index
Citations: 4,109cohort median 312
h-index: 35cohort median 8
Publications / year (recent): 1.2cohort median 2.2

Typically publishes in teams of ~3 · 68% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 25 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.2/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 7 publications182019: 8 publications8192020: 4 publications202021: 3 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 2 publications23242025: 2 publications2526
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 2 collaborators at the same institution2019: 2 collaborators at the same institution2020: 3 collaborators at the same institution2021: 2 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 0 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 2 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • International Public Management Journal×3
  • The American Review of Public Administration×3
  • Public Administration Review×2
  • Political Research Quarterly×2
  • Journal of Public Policy×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 27, 2026.

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