Brian H. Spitzberg

10.8k citations

128 papers · 6.5k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 43

Impact in

Communication top 0.5%
Social Psychology top 0.2%
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression

Papers in

Social Psychology 43
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics 18
- Communication in Education and Healthcare 15
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression 9
Communication 13

Co-authors: William R. Cupach Daniel J. Canary Jean M. Twenge Gabrielle N. Martin W. Keith Campbell Michael L. Hecht Sandra Metts Peter E. Andersen
Journals: Violence and Victims (6 papers)Communication Reports (6 papers)Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (4 papers)Communication Education (3 papers)Human Communication Research (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Italy Finland

In The Last Decade

Brian H. Spitzberg

124 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Less in-person social interaction with peers among U.S. adolescents in the 21st century and links to loneliness 2019 · 288 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
2018 Psychology of Popular Media Culture
1984 Medical Entomology and Zoology

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All Works

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1	four digital horsemen: Disinformation, misinformation, fake news and pseudoscience Brian H. Spitzberg	2025	0
2	Sales managers' perceptions of interpersonal communication competence in leading AI-integrated sales teams Industrial Marketing Management ·Jonna Koponen, Saara Julkunen, Anne Laajalahti, Marianna Turunen, Brian H. Spitzberg	2024	2
3	Work Characteristics Needed by Middle Managers When Leading AI-Integrated Service Teams Journal of Service Research ·Jonna Koponen, Saara Julkunen, Anne Laajalahti, Marianna Turunen, Brian H. Spitzberg	2023	16
4	Theorizing Mediated Information Distortion Brian H. Spitzberg	2023	0
5	Twitter-based measures of neighborhood sentiment as predictors of residential population health PLoS ONE ·Joseph Gibbons, Robert Malouf, Brian H. Spitzberg, Lourdes S. Martinez, Bruce Appleyard, Caroline A. Thompson, Atsushi Nara, Ming‐Hsiang Tsou	2019	29
6	Exploratory Spatiotemporal Analysis in Risk Communication during the MERS Outbreak in South Korea The Professional Geographer ·Ick-Hoi Kim, Chen‐Chieh Feng, Yi‐Chen Wang, Brian H. Spitzberg, Ming‐Hsiang Tsou	2017	14
7	A Research Agenda for Online Linguistic Surveillance of Threatening Messages The journal of digital forensics, security and law ·Brian H. Spitzberg, Jean Mark Gawron	2016	2
8	Space–Time Analysis: Concepts, Quantitative Methods, and Future Directions Annals of the Association of American Geographers ·An Li, Ming‐Hsiang Tsou, Stephen E. S. Crook, Yongwan Chun, Brian H. Spitzberg, Jean Mark Gawron, Dipak Kumar Gupta	2015	55
9	A preliminary test of a relational goal pursuit theory of obsessive relational intrusion and stalking Studies in Communication Sciences ·Brian H. Spitzberg, William R. Cupach, Annegret F. Hannawa, John P. Crowley	2014	16
10	The Reliability of Tweets as a Supplementary Method of Seasonal Influenza Surveillance Journal of Medical Internet Research ·Anoshé Aslam, Ming‐Hsiang Tsou, Brian H. Spitzberg, Li An, Jean Mark Gawron, Dipak K. Gupta, K. Michael Peddecord, Anna Nagel, Christopher Allen, Jiue‐An Yang, Suzanne Lindsay	2014	76
11	Communication : motivation, knowledge, skills P. Lang eBooks ·Sherwyn P. Morreale, Brian H. Spitzberg, J. Kevin Barge	2013	6
12	The Complex Relationship of Realspace Events and Messages in Cyberspace: Case Study of Influenza and Pertussis Using Tweets Journal of Medical Internet Research ·Anna Nagel, Ming‐Hsiang Tsou, Brian H. Spitzberg, Li An, Jean Mark Gawron, Dipak K. Gupta, Jiue‐An Yang, Su Yeon Han, K. Michael Peddecord, Suzanne Lindsay, Mark H. Sawyer	2013	67
13	Persistence of Attempts to Reconcile a Terminated Romantic Relationship: A Partial Test of Relational Goal Pursuit Theory Communication Reports ·William R. Cupach, Brian H. Spitzberg, Colleen M. Bolingbroke, Bobbi Sue Tellitocci	2011	32
14	The Interactive Media Package for Assessment of Communication and Critical Thinking (IMPACCT ^© ): Testing a Programmatic Online Communication Competence Assessment System Communication Education ·Brian H. Spitzberg	2011	11
15	Fanning the Flames of Fandom: Celebrity Worship, Parasocial Interaction, and Stalking Nature Communications ·Brian H. Spitzberg, William R. Cupach	2007	10
16	The Personality of Pursuit: Personality Attributions of Unwanted Pursuers and Stalkers Violence and Victims ·Brian H. Spitzberg, Alice E. Veksler	2007	16
17	Are You Following Me? A Study of Unwanted Relationship Pursuit and Stalking in Japan: What Behaviors are Prevalent? Damon E. Chapman, Brian H. Spitzberg	2003	6
18	Reclaiming Control in Stalking Cases Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services ·Brian H. Spitzberg	2003	4
19	What Is Good Communication Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research ·Brian H. Spitzberg	2000	31
20	Competence in Communicating: A Taxonomy, Review, Critique, and Predictive Model. Brian H. Spitzberg	1981	8

About Brian H. Spitzberg

Brian H. Spitzberg is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Language and Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, having authored 128 papers that have together received 6.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment (26 papers), Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (19 papers), Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (18 papers), Communication in Education and Healthcare (15 papers), Marriage and Sexual Relationships (12 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (10 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (9 papers) and Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Communication (999 citations), Social Psychology (2.4k citations), Health (786 citations), Clinical Psychology (1.9k citations) and Sociology and Political Science (3.3k citations). Brian H. Spitzberg has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Italy and Finland. Frequent co-authors include William R. Cupach, Daniel J. Canary, Jean M. Twenge, Gabrielle N. Martin, W. Keith Campbell, Michael L. Hecht, Sandra Metts, Peter E. Andersen, Ming‐Hsiang Tsou and Laura K. Guerrero. Their work appears in journals such as Violence and Victims, Communication Reports, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Communication Education and Human Communication Research.

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