Chris J. Vargo

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Chris J. Vargo is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris J. Vargo has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Communication, 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Chris J. Vargo's work include Social Media and Politics (27 papers), Media Studies and Communication (14 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (10 papers). Chris J. Vargo is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (27 papers), Media Studies and Communication (14 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (10 papers). Chris J. Vargo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Ireland. Chris J. Vargo's co-authors include Лэй Гуо, Michelle A. Amazeen, Toby Hopp, Donald L. Shaw, Maxwell McCombs, Patrick Ferrucci, Weicong Ding, Prakash Ishwar, Zixuan Pan and Harsha Gangadharbatla and has published in prestigious journals such as Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Communication and New Media & Society.

In The Last Decade

Chris J. Vargo

37 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

The agenda-setting power of fake news: A big data analysis of the online media landscape from 2014 to 2016

2017 374 citations Chris J. Vargo, Лэй Гуо et al. New Media & Society profile →
Big Social Data Analytics in Journalism and Mass Communication

2016 158 citations Лэй Гуо, Chris J. Vargo et al. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris J. Vargo United States	16	1.0k	1.0k	286	156	128	38	1.5k
Summer Harlow United States	17	1.1k 1.1×	776 0.8×	189 0.7×	172 1.1×	74 0.6×	61	1.5k
Shannon C. McGregor United States	19	1.2k 1.1×	780 0.8×	246 0.9×	382 2.4×	123 1.0×	34	1.6k
Logan Molyneux United States	20	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	267 0.9×	197 1.3×	131 1.0×	34	2.1k
Christian Baden Israel	17	617 0.6×	564 0.6×	199 0.7×	153 1.0×	92 0.7×	59	1.1k
Rodrigo Zamith United States	15	817 0.8×	558 0.5×	131 0.5×	78 0.5×	54 0.4×	26	1.2k
Barbara Pfetsch Germany	16	879 0.8×	656 0.6×	228 0.8×	331 2.1×	67 0.5×	59	1.5k
Christoph Neuberger Germany	14	592 0.6×	678 0.7×	282 1.0×	68 0.4×	154 1.2×	61	1.3k
Andreu Casero-Ripollés Spain	26	2.0k 1.9×	1.1k 1.1×	210 0.7×	383 2.5×	44 0.3×	151	2.6k
K. Hazel Kwon United States	23	718 0.7×	932 0.9×	316 1.1×	53 0.3×	224 1.8×	70	1.4k
Nikki Usher United States	25	1.5k 1.5×	862 0.8×	87 0.3×	123 0.8×	57 0.4×	64	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris J. Vargo

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Vargo, Chris J., et al.. (2025). From Ads to Addiction: The Role of Online Gambling Advertising Spend in Problem Gambling Search Trends over a Decade. Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Vargo, Chris J., et al.. (2024). Balancing Brand Safety and User Engagement in a Two-Sided Market: An Analysis of Content Monetization on Reddit. Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising. 45(2). 242–256. 3 indexed citations

Vargo, Chris J.. (2024). The Computational Content Analyst. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 1 indexed citations

Vargo, Chris J., Gina Masullo Chen, & Torsten Hopp. (2024). Deciding to Delete Posts on Reddit: What Factors Influence Content Removal. Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 1 indexed citations

Vargo, Chris J., et al.. (2023). Incivility on Popular Politics and News Subreddits: An Analysis of In-groups, Community Guidelines and Relationships with Social Media Engagement. Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 1 indexed citations

Taylor, J. Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Agendamelding and COVID-19: the dance of horizontal and vertical media in a pandemic. Frontiers in Political Science. 5. 1 indexed citations

Vargo, Chris J.. (2021). Public “agendamelding” in the United States: assessing the relative influence of different types of online news on partisan agendas from 2015 to 2020. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 19(3). 284–301. 2 indexed citations

Amazeen, Michelle A. & Chris J. Vargo. (2021). Sharing Native Advertising on Twitter: Content Analyses Examining Disclosure Practices and Their Inoculating Influence. Journalism Studies. 22(7). 916–933. 12 indexed citations

Ferrucci, Patrick, Toby Hopp, & Chris J. Vargo. (2019). Civic engagement, social capital, and ideological extremity: Exploring online political engagement and political expression on Facebook. New Media & Society. 22(6). 1095–1115. 43 indexed citations

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Hopp, Toby & Chris J. Vargo. (2019). Social Capital as an Inhibitor of Online Political Incivility: An Analysis of Behavioral Patterns Among Politically Active Facebook Users. International journal of communication. 13. 21. 3 indexed citations

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Amazeen, Michelle A. & Chris J. Vargo. (2019). Sharing Native Advertising on Twitter: Content Analyses Examining Disclosure Practices and Their Inoculating Influence. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Shaw, Donald L., et al.. (2019). Agendamelding. 12 indexed citations

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Amazeen, Michelle A., Chris J. Vargo, & Toby Hopp. (2018). Reinforcing attitudes in a gatewatching news era: Individual-level antecedents to sharing fact-checks on social media. Communication Monographs. 86(1). 112–132. 52 indexed citations

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Гуо, Лэй & Chris J. Vargo. (2018). “Fake News” and Emerging Online Media Ecosystem: An Integrated Intermedia Agenda-Setting Analysis of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Communication Research. 47(2). 178–200. 109 indexed citations

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McGregor, Shannon C. & Chris J. Vargo. (2017). Election-related talk and agenda-setting effects on Twitter. 1(1). 44–62. 10 indexed citations

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Gonzenbach, William J., et al.. (2016). First and Second Levels of Intermedia Agenda Setting: Political Advertising, Newspapers, and Twitter during the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. International journal of communication. 10. 20. 15 indexed citations

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Vargo, Chris J. & Toby Hopp. (2016). Socioeconomic Status, Social Capital, and Partisan Polarity as Predictors of Political Incivility on Twitter. Social Science Computer Review. 35(1). 10–32. 27 indexed citations

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Shaw, Donald L., et al.. (2016). The Agenda Setting in the Digital Age* How We Use Media to Monitor Civic Life and Reframe Community. 9(1). 2 indexed citations

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Гуо, Лэй, Chris J. Vargo, Zixuan Pan, Weicong Ding, & Prakash Ishwar. (2016). Big Social Data Analytics in Journalism and Mass Communication. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 93(2). 332–359. 158 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vargo, Chris J. & Лэй Гуо. (2016). Networks, Big Data, and Intermedia Agenda Setting: An Analysis of Traditional, Partisan, and Emerging Online U.S. News. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 94(4). 1031–1055. 107 indexed citations

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