Andrew McStay

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Andrew McStay is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew McStay has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Safety Research and 11 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Andrew McStay's work include Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (12 papers), Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (7 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (4 papers). Andrew McStay is often cited by papers focused on Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (12 papers), Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (7 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (4 papers). Andrew McStay collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Andrew McStay's co-authors include Vian Bakir, Lachlan Urquhart, Martina Feilzer, Jonathan Cable, Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz, Phoebe Li and Paul F. Long and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, New Media & Society and First Monday.

In The Last Decade

Andrew McStay

40 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Fake News and The Economy of Emotions

2017 470 citations Vian Bakir, Andrew McStay Digital Journalism profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew McStay United Kingdom	13	602	288	262	180	136	42	1.1k
Simone Natale United Kingdom	19	394 0.7×	166 0.6×	180 0.7×	222 1.2×	77 0.6×	50	1.0k
Andrea L. Guzman United States	11	454 0.8×	229 0.8×	425 1.6×	324 1.8×	60 0.4×	21	1.2k
María D. Molina United States	15	645 1.1×	242 0.8×	311 1.2×	128 0.7×	127 0.9×	23	979
Michael Ann DeVito United States	14	734 1.2×	402 1.4×	215 0.8×	234 1.3×	76 0.6×	36	1.3k
Niloufar Salehi United States	19	425 0.7×	171 0.6×	219 0.8×	123 0.7×	95 0.7×	43	1.0k
Yavuz Akbulut Türkiye	22	510 0.8×	101 0.4×	372 1.4×	127 0.7×	225 1.7×	77	1.7k
Kristen Vaccaro United States	13	503 0.8×	205 0.7×	345 1.3×	373 2.1×	131 1.0×	19	1.1k
Lingyun Qiu China	14	917 1.5×	135 0.5×	539 2.1×	87 0.5×	114 0.8×	26	1.6k
Kelley Cotter United States	14	738 1.2×	412 1.4×	296 1.1×	258 1.4×	104 0.8×	32	1.3k
Eun Go United States	13	584 1.0×	158 0.5×	571 2.2×	76 0.4×	62 0.5×	16	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew McStay

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Bakir, Vian & Andrew McStay. (2025). Move fast and break people? Ethics, companion apps, and the case of Character.ai. AI & Society. 40(8). 6365–6377. 1 indexed citations

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McStay, Andrew & Vian Bakir. (2025). Soft law for unintentional empathy: addressing the governance gap in emotion-recognition AI technologies. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 23. 100126–100126.

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McStay, Andrew. (2024). The hidden influence: exploring presence in human-synthetic interactions through ghostbots. Ethics and Information Technology. 26(3). 1 indexed citations

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Bakir, Vian, et al.. (2024). When is Deception OK? Developing the IEEE Recommended Practice for Ethical Considerations of Emulated Empathy in Partner-based General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems (IEEE P7014.1). 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Bakir, Vian, et al.. (2024). On manipulation by emotional AI: UK adults’ views and governance implications. Frontiers in Sociology. 9. 1339834–1339834. 9 indexed citations

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McStay, Andrew. (2023). The Metaverse: Surveillant Physics, Virtual Realist Governance, and the Missing Commons. Philosophy & Technology. 36(1). 26 indexed citations

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Bakir, Vian, et al.. (2023). Blurring the moral limits of data markets: biometrics, emotion and data dividends. AI & Society. 39(5). 2569–2583. 4 indexed citations

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McStay, Andrew. (2023). Automating Empathy. 4 indexed citations

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Bakir, Vian, et al.. (2023). Human-First, Please: Assessing Citizen Views and Industrial Ambition for Emotional AI in Recommender Systems. Surveillance & Society. 21(2). 205–222. 4 indexed citations

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McStay, Andrew. (2023). The Metaverse: Andrew McStay’s Responses to Cody Turner. Philosophy & Technology. 36(4). 1 indexed citations

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Bakir, Vian & Andrew McStay. (2022). Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods. Bangor University Research Portal (Bangor University). 6 indexed citations

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McStay, Andrew. (2022). Replika in the Metaverse: the moral problem with empathy in ‘It from Bit’. AI and Ethics. 3(4). 1433–1445. 19 indexed citations

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McStay, Andrew, et al.. (2021). Emotional artificial intelligence in children’s toys and devices: Ethics, governance and practical remedies. Big Data & Society. 8(1). 41 indexed citations

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McStay, Andrew. (2019). Emotional AI and EdTech: serving the public good?. Learning Media and Technology. 45(3). 270–283. 76 indexed citations

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McStay, Andrew. (2017). Digital Advertising. 5 indexed citations

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Bakir, Vian & Andrew McStay. (2017). Fake News and The Economy of Emotions. Digital Journalism. 6(2). 154–175. 470 indexed citations breakdown →

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McStay, Andrew. (2017). Privacy and the Media. 6 indexed citations

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Bakir, Vian, Martina Feilzer, & Andrew McStay. (2017). Introduction to Special Theme Veillance and transparency: A critical examination of mutual watching in the post-Snowden, Big Data era. Big Data & Society. 4(1). 7 indexed citations

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Bakir, Vian & Andrew McStay. (2015). Assessing interdisciplinary academic and multi-stakeholder positions on transparency in the post-Snowden leak era. 12. 25–38. 2 indexed citations

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Bakir, Vian, Jonathan Cable, Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz, & Andrew McStay. (2015). Public feeling on privacy, security and surveillance: a report by DATA‐PSST and DCSS. Goldsmiths (University of London). 5 indexed citations

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