Brian Guay

631 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 321 citations indexed

About

Brian Guay is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Guay has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 321 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Communication and 5 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Brian Guay's work include Social Media and Politics (6 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 papers) and Media Influence and Politics (4 papers). Brian Guay is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (6 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 papers) and Media Influence and Politics (4 papers). Brian Guay collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Germany. Brian Guay's co-authors include D. Sunshine Hillygus, Friedolin Merhout, Christopher A. Bail, Alexander Volfovsky, Christopher D. Johnston, Deen Freelon, Tyler Marghetis, David Landy, Gordon Pennycook and Adam J. Berinsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Political Science and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

In The Last Decade

Brian Guay

10 papers receiving 301 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.

How to think about whether misinformation interventions work

2023 56 citations Brian Guay, Adam J. Berinsky et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Guay United States	6	248	132	66	48	42	11	321
Emily Kubin United States	7	275 1.1×	207 1.6×	57 0.9×	68 1.4×	47 1.1×	15	437
Yingdan Lu United States	10	265 1.1×	155 1.2×	53 0.8×	58 1.2×	22 0.5×	20	385
Taylor N. Carlson United States	9	245 1.0×	185 1.4×	46 0.7×	121 2.5×	39 0.9×	17	323
Nicolas Anspach United States	7	263 1.1×	261 2.0×	74 1.1×	47 1.0×	44 1.0×	12	344
Moreno Mancosu Italy	11	351 1.4×	142 1.1×	90 1.4×	111 2.3×	17 0.4×	42	447
Dustin Carnahan United States	9	292 1.2×	276 2.1×	64 1.0×	89 1.9×	56 1.3×	20	397
Anni Sternisko United States	5	309 1.2×	95 0.7×	86 1.3×	23 0.5×	25 0.6×	9	365
Phyllis B. Gerstenfeld United States	6	236 1.0×	119 0.9×	142 2.2×	63 1.3×	19 0.5×	8	383
Fabian Prochazka Germany	10	280 1.1×	355 2.7×	86 1.3×	34 0.7×	26 0.6×	17	452
Hannes Rosenbusch Netherlands	7	147 0.6×	74 0.6×	49 0.7×	15 0.3×	21 0.5×	14	304

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Guay

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Guay

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Guay

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian Guay. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian Guay based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brian Guay. Brian Guay is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Guay, Brian, Tyler Marghetis, Cara Wong, & David Landy. (2025). Quirks of cognition explain why we dramatically overestimate the size of minority groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(14). e2413064122–e2413064122. 3 indexed citations

2.

Guay, Brian, Adam J. Berinsky, Gordon Pennycook, & David G. Rand. (2023). How to think about whether misinformation interventions work. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(8). 1231–1233. 56 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guay, Brian, et al.. (2023). Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(9). 1454–1461. 24 indexed citations

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Guay, Brian & Christopher D. Johnston. (2021). Ideological Asymmetries and the Determinants of Politically Motivated Reasoning. American Journal of Political Science. 66(2). 285–301. 38 indexed citations

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Guay, Brian, et al.. (2021). Partisan Bias in Bipartisan Places?. Public Opinion Quarterly. 2 indexed citations

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Valentino, Nicholas A., Kirill Zhirkov, D. Sunshine Hillygus, & Brian Guay. (2020). The Consequences of Personality Biases in Online Panels for Measuring Public Opinion. Public Opinion Quarterly. 84(2). 446–468. 13 indexed citations

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Guay, Brian, et al.. (2020). An Embedding Model for Estimating Legislative Preferences from the Frequency and Sentiment of Tweets. 627–641. 5 indexed citations

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Bail, Christopher A., Brian Guay, D. Sunshine Hillygus, et al.. (2019). Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency’s impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(1). 243–250. 132 indexed citations

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Marghetis, Tyler, et al.. (2018). The psychophysics of society: Uncertain estimates of invisible entities.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations

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Landy, David, Brian Guay, & Tyler Marghetis. (2017). Bias and ignorance in demographic perception. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 25(5). 1606–1618. 44 indexed citations

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Guay, Brian, et al.. (2016). Testing the Effectiveness of a Number-Based Classroom Exercise. PS Political Science & Politics. 49(2). 327–332. 3 indexed citations

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