Peer-Reviewed Articles

Alona Dolinsky, Martijn Schoonvelde, Fabienne Lind, Christian Baden, Christian Pipal, Avital Zalik, Guy Shababo & Mariken van der Velden. (2026). Challenges for multilingual computational text analysis researchers: Evidence from a survey of social scientists. Acta Politica (online first). [article, replication materials].

Clint Claessen, Denise Traber & Martijn Schoonvelde. (2026). Moderation or amplification? Mapping speech distinctiveness among Green parties using a fictitious prediction problem approach. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 51(3). [article, replication materials].

Rosalie van Beuningen, Martijn Schoonvelde & Pieter de Wilde. (2026). Responding or responsiveness? How politicisation influences the European Commission’s policy formulation. Journal of European Public Policy. [article, replication materials].

Fabienne Lind, Martijn Schoonvelde, Christian Baden, Alona Dolinsky, Christian Pipal & Mariken van der Velden. (2025). Grounding the comparative turn in communications: A framework for validating multilingual computational text analysis. Computational Communication Research, 7(1), pp. 1–26. [article].

James P. Cross, Derek Greene, Stefan Müller & Martijn Schoonvelde. (2025). Mapping digital campaign strategies: How political candidates use social media to communicate constituency connection and policy stance. Computational Communication Research, 7(1), pp. 1–32. [article, replication materials].

Nate Breznau, Eike M. Rinke, Alexander Wuttke et al. (2025). The reliability of replications: A study in computational reproductions. Royal Society Open Science, 12(3), 241038. [article, replication materials].

Christian Pipal, Martijn Schoonvelde, Gijs Schumacher & Max Boiten. (2024). JST and rJST: Joint estimation of sentiment and topics in textual data using a semi-supervised approach. Communication Methods and Measures, 19(2), pp. 112–130. [article, replication materials].

Rachel Graham, Martijn Schoonvelde & Marij Swinkels. (2024). Unpacking the European Commission’s fiscal policy response to crisis: Mapping and explaining economic ideas in the European Semester 2011–22. Journal of European Public Policy, 31(11), pp. 3591–3616. [article, replication materials].

Mariken van der Velden, Martijn Schoonvelde & Christian Baden. (2023). Introduction to the special issue on multilingual text analysis. Computational Communication Research, 5(2), pp. 1–11. [article].

Nate Breznau, Eike M. Rinke, Alexander Wuttke et al. (2022). Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2203150119. [article, replication materials].

Christian Baden, Christian Pipal, Martijn Schoonvelde & Mariken van der Velden. (2022). Three gaps in computational text analysis methods for social sciences: A research agenda. Communication Methods and Measures, 16(1), pp. 1–18. [article, replication materials].

Sam Brazys & Martijn Schoonvelde. (2022). Home field advantage? EU–ACP economic partnership agreement meeting locations and textual tone. Journal of Common Market Studies, 60(4), pp. 903–925. [article].

Carsten Schwemmer, Carly Knight, Emily Bello-Pardo, Stan Oklobdzija, Martijn Schoonvelde & Jeff Lockhart. (2020). Diagnosing gender bias in image recognition systems. Socius, 6. [article, replication materials].

Christian Rauh, Bart Bes & Martijn Schoonvelde. (2020). Undermining, defusing, or defending European integration? Public communication of European executives in times of EU politicization. European Journal of Political Research, 59(2), pp. 397–423. [article, replication materials].

Denise Traber, Martijn Schoonvelde & Gijs Schumacher. (2020). Errors have been made, others will be blamed: Blame avoidance and blame-shifting in prime minister speeches during the economic crisis in Europe. European Journal of Political Research, 59(1), pp. 45–67. [article, replication materials].

Martijn Schoonvelde, Anna Brosius, Gijs Schumacher & Bert Bakker. (2019). Liberals lecture, conservatives communicate: Analyzing complexity and ideology in 381,609 political speeches. PLoS ONE, 14(2), e0208450. [article, replication materials].

Martijn Schoonvelde, Gijs Schumacher & Bert Bakker. (2019). Friends with text as data benefits: Assessing and extending the use of automated text analysis in political science and political psychology. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(1), pp. 124–143. [article, replication materials].

Christopher Williams & Martijn Schoonvelde. (2018). It takes three: How mass media coverage conditions public responsiveness to policy outputs in the United States. Social Science Quarterly, 99(5), pp. 1627–1636. [article, replication materials].

Erik de Vries, Martijn Schoonvelde & Gijs Schumacher. (2018). No longer lost in translation: Evidence that Google Translate works for comparative bag-of-words text applications. Political Analysis, 26(4), pp. 417–430. [article, replication materials].

Susan Banducci, Martijn Schoonvelde, Daniel Stevens, Jason Barabas, Jennifer Jerit & William Pollock. (2017). Model choices in observational media effects research: A systematic review and validation of effects. Political Science, 69(3), pp. 227–246. [article, replication materials].

Jennifer Jerit, Jason Barabas, William Pollock, Susan Banducci, Daniel Stevens & Martijn Schoonvelde. (2016). Manipulated vs. measured: Using an experimental benchmark to investigate the performance of self-reported media exposure. Communication Methods and Measures, 10(2–3), pp. 99–114. [article].

William Pollock, Jason Barabas, Jennifer Jerit, Martijn Schoonvelde, Susan Banducci & Daniel Stevens. (2015). Studying media events in the European Social Surveys across research designs, countries, time, issues, and outcomes. European Political Science, 14(4), pp. 394–421. [article].

Martijn Schoonvelde. (2014). Media freedom and the institutional underpinnings of political knowledge. Political Science Research & Methods, 2(2), pp. 163–178. [article, replication materials].

Special Issues

Mariken van der Velden, Martijn Schoonvelde & Christian Baden (guest editors). (2023). Multilingual text analysis. Computational Communication Research, 5(2).

Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings

Stefan Couperus & Martijn Schoonvelde. (2026). Golden age politics: A computational-interpretive analysis of the “Gouden Eeuw” as a trope in Dutch parliamentary speech, 1945–2024. In Revived Futures: The Turn to the Past in European Politics (Katarina Pettersson, Kalle Eriksson & Manuel Menke, eds.). [replication materials, dashboard].

Martijn Schoonvelde, Christian Pipal & Gijs Schumacher. (2022). Text as data in political psychology. In Atlas of Language Analysis in Psychology (Ryan Boyd & Morteza Deghani, eds).

Gijs Schumacher, Martijn Schoonvelde, Denise Traber, Tanushree Dahiya & Erik de Vries. (2016). EUSpeech: A new dataset of EU elite speeches. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Advances in Computational Analysis of Political Text, Dubrovnik, pp. 75–80. [article, replication materials].