Benjamin Lyons

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Lyons is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Lyons has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 25 papers in Communication and 9 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Lyons's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (23 papers), Social Media and Politics (19 papers) and Climate Change Communication and Perception (12 papers). Benjamin Lyons is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (23 papers), Social Media and Politics (19 papers) and Climate Change Communication and Perception (12 papers). Benjamin Lyons collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Benjamin Lyons's co-authors include Jason Reifler, Jacob Montgomery, Brendan Nyhan, Andrew M. Guess, Michael Lerner, Neelanjan Sircar, Vittorio Mérola, Aaron S. Veenstra, Florian Stoeckel and Ariel Hasell and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Lyons

49 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India

2020 402 citations Andrew M. Guess, Michael Lerner et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Lyons United States	16	919	469	255	138	121	56	1.2k
Steve Rathje United States	17	889 1.0×	442 0.9×	327 1.3×	101 0.7×	73 0.6×	27	1.2k
Cameron Martel United States	13	764 0.8×	290 0.6×	215 0.8×	143 1.0×	52 0.4×	22	1.0k
Michelle I. Seelig United States	13	817 0.9×	321 0.7×	221 0.9×	197 1.4×	102 0.8×	40	987
Thomas Wood United States	15	1.2k 1.3×	425 0.9×	301 1.2×	225 1.6×	257 2.1×	26	1.4k
Ethan Porter United States	18	1.3k 1.4×	641 1.4×	394 1.5×	86 0.6×	353 2.9×	46	1.6k
Jakob‐Moritz Eberl Austria	21	930 1.0×	625 1.3×	214 0.8×	137 1.0×	421 3.5×	48	1.5k
Michelle A. Amazeen United States	17	1.7k 1.9×	955 2.0×	534 2.1×	153 1.1×	80 0.7×	36	2.0k
Josh Compton United States	19	1.1k 1.2×	480 1.0×	153 0.6×	213 1.5×	60 0.5×	50	1.5k
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen Germany	16	704 0.8×	347 0.7×	228 0.9×	33 0.2×	65 0.5×	30	1.1k
Raffael Heiss Austria	19	652 0.7×	606 1.3×	141 0.6×	61 0.4×	170 1.4×	47	1.0k

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Lyons, Benjamin, Jacob Montgomery, & Jason Reifler. (2024). Partisanship and Older Americans’ Engagement with Dubious Political News. Public Opinion Quarterly. 88(3). 962–990. 2 indexed citations

Lyons, Benjamin, Andy J. King, & Kimberly A. Kaphingst. (2024). A Health Media Literacy Intervention Increases Skepticism of Both Inaccurate and Accurate Cancer News Among U.S. Adults. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 58(12). 820–831. 2 indexed citations

Lyons, Benjamin & Ariel Hasell. (2024). Communicating Republicans’ Level of Support for Climate Policy Briefly Increases Personal Support in the United States. Science Communication. 46(5). 653–671.

Lyons, Benjamin. (2023). How orientations to expertise condition the acceptance of (mis)information. Current Opinion in Psychology. 54. 101714–101714. 1 indexed citations

Schmierbach, Mike, Julie L. Andsager, Stephen A. Banning, et al.. (2023). Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research. Mass Communication & Society. 26(3). 359–383. 4 indexed citations

Lyons, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain. Public Understanding of Science. 32(6). 761–780. 10 indexed citations

Lyons, Benjamin. (2022). Why we should rethink the third-person effect: disentangling bias and earned confidence using behavioral data. Journal of Communication. 72(5). 565–577. 16 indexed citations

Lyons, Benjamin. (2022). Insidiously Trivial: Meme Format Reduces Perceived Influence and Intent to Debate Partisan Claims. Media and Communication. 10(3). 196–205.

Lyons, Benjamin, Jacob Montgomery, Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan, & Jason Reifler. (2021). Overconfidence in news judgments is associated with false news susceptibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(23). 90 indexed citations

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Lyons, Benjamin, Christina E. Farhart, Michael P. Hall, et al.. (2021). Self-Affirmation and Identity-Driven Political Behavior. Journal of Experimental Political Science. 9(2). 225–240. 15 indexed citations

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Lyons, Benjamin, et al.. (2021). Partisanship and public opinion of COVID-19: does emphasizing Trump and his administration’s response to the pandemic affect public opinion about the coronavirus?. Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties. 31(sup1). 145–154. 6 indexed citations

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Lyons, Benjamin, Vittorio Mérola, Jason Reifler, & Florian Stoeckel. (2020). How Politics Shape Views Toward Fact-Checking: Evidence from Six European Countries. The International Journal of Press/Politics. 25(3). 469–492. 48 indexed citations

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Guess, Andrew M., Michael Lerner, Benjamin Lyons, et al.. (2020). A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(27). 15536–15545. 402 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lyons, Benjamin, Vittorio Mérola, & Jason Reifler. (2020). Shifting medical guidelines: Compliance and spillover effects for revised antibiotic recommendations. Social Science & Medicine. 255. 112943–112943. 16 indexed citations

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Lyons, Benjamin, Heather Akin, & Natalie Jomini Stroud. (2019). Proximity (Mis)perception: Public Awareness of Nuclear, Refinery, and Fracking Sites. Risk Analysis. 40(2). 385–398. 12 indexed citations

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Lyons, Benjamin. (2019). Discussion Network Activation: An Expanded Approach to Selective Exposure. Media and Communication. 7(3). 32–41. 5 indexed citations

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Lyons, Benjamin, Amy Melissa McKay, & Jason Reifler. (2019). High-status lobbyists are most likely to overrate their success. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(2). 153–159. 7 indexed citations

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Lyons, Benjamin, Vittorio Mérola, & Jason Reifler. (2018). Not Just Asking Questions: Effects of Implicit and Explicit Conspiracy Information About Vaccines and Genetic Modification. Health Communication. 34(14). 1741–1750. 50 indexed citations

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Lyons, Benjamin, Ariel Hasell, & Natalie Jomini Stroud. (2018). Enduring Extremes? Polar Vortex, Drought, and Climate Change Beliefs. Environmental Communication. 12(7). 876–894. 32 indexed citations

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Lyons, Benjamin. (2017). When Readers Believe Journalists: Effects of Adjudication in Varied Dispute Contexts. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 30(4). 583–606. 8 indexed citations

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