Peer-Reviewed Articles

Alona Dolinsky, Martijn Schoonvelde, Fabienne Lind, Christian Baden, Christian Pipal, Avital Zalik, Guy Shababo & Mariken van der Velden. (nd). Challenges for multilingual computational text analysis researchers: evidence from a survey of social scientists. Forthcoming at Acta Politica.

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). Paper / 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. Paper / 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. Paper.

James P. Cross, Derek Greene, Stefan Müller and 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. Paper / Replication materials.

Nate Breznau, Eike. M. Rinke, Alexander Wuttke et al. (2025). The Reliability of Replications: A Study in Computational Reproductions. Royal Society Open Science12(3), 241038. Paper / 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. Paper / 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. Paper / 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. Paper.

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 Academies of Sciences 119(44): e2203150119. Paper / 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. Paper / 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. Paper.

Carsten Schwemmer, Carly Knight, Emily Bello-Pardo, Stan Oklobdzija, Martijn Schoonvelde & Jeff Lockhart. (2020). “Diagnosing Gender Bias in Image Recognition Systems.” Socius, 6. Paper / 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. Paper / 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. Paper / 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. Paper / 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. Paper / 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. Paper / 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. Paper / 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. Paper / 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. Paper.

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. Paper.

Martijn Schoonvelde. (2014). “Media Freedom and the Institutional Underpinnings of Political Knowledge.” Political Science Research & Methods, 2(2): pp. 163–178. Paper / Replication materials.

Special Issues

Mariken van der Velden, Martijn Schoonvelde & Christian Baden (Guest Editors) (2023). Multilingual Text Analysis. Computational Communication Research

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 (eds. Katarina Pettersson, Kalle Eriksson & Manuel Menke). Replication materials

Martijn Schoonvelde, Christian Pipal & Gijs Schumacher. (2022). “Text as Data in Political Psychology”. Chapter forthcoming in Atlas of Language Analysis in Psychology (eds: Ryan Boyd and Morteza Deghani).

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, 75–80. Paper / Replication materials