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Cameron Wimpy

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Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair

Arkansas State University

Also affiliated: Mitchell Institute (2010–2014); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010–2019); Texas A&M University (2010–2014)

Faculty Researcher

8 h-index 76 pubs 273 cited

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Cameron Wimpy is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Arkansas State University, where he also chairs a department. His research interests encompass political economy, political methodology, and political violence. Previously, Wimpy served as the Research Director at the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, focusing on the scientific study of elections. He also held an affiliate faculty position with the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

Wimpy's published work includes studies on American election results at the precinct level, political failure and bureaucratic potential in Africa, and the development of spatial statistical models for applied researchers. He has also developed resources for classifying and scoring rurality in U.S. counties and ZIP codes. His scholarly metrics include an h-index of 8, with 76 total publications and 271 citations. Wimpy leads a research group and has collaborated with Amanda Carpenter at Arkansas State University on shared publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 8
  • Publications: 76
  • Citations: 273

Selected Publications

  • cwimpy/slxr: slxr is now available on CRAN (2026)
    Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) DOI OpenAlex
  • cwimpy/slxr: slxr is now available on CRAN (2026)
    Open MIND DOI OpenAlex
  • rurality: Rurality Classification and Scoring for U.S. Counties and ZIP Codes (2026)
    Open MIND DOI OpenAlex
  • rurality: Rurality Classification and Scoring for U.S. Counties and ZIP Codes (2026)
    Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) DOI OpenAlex
  • cwimpy/rurality-app: v1.0.0 (2026)
    Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) DOI OpenAlex
  • cwimpy/rurality: v0.1.0 (2026)
    Open MIND DOI OpenAlex
  • cwimpy/rurality-app: v1.0.0 (2026)
    Open MIND DOI OpenAlex
  • The Politicization of COVID-19 and Implications for Public Health (2024)
    Risk, systems and decisions 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Rural and Other Minority Populations (2024)
    Risk, systems and decisions DOI OpenAlex
  • American election results at the precinct level (2022)
    Scientific Data 27 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • X Marks the Spot: Unlocking the Treasure of Spatial-X Models (2020)
    The Journal of Politics 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Europe War Illustration.tab (2019)
    Harvard Dataverse DOI OpenAlex
  • Patterns in the Spatial Survey.smcl (2019)
    Harvard Dataverse DOI OpenAlex
  • Military Spending--Monadic--SLX.tab (2019)
    Harvard Dataverse DOI OpenAlex
  • SAR Monte Carlo Experiments.do (2019)
    Harvard Dataverse DOI OpenAlex

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