Christian Baden

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Christian Baden is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Baden has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Communication, 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Christian Baden's work include Social Media and Politics (23 papers), Media Studies and Communication (19 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 papers). Christian Baden is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (23 papers), Media Studies and Communication (19 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 papers). Christian Baden collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Germany and Netherlands. Christian Baden's co-authors include Moran Yarchi, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Stephanie Geise, Keren Tenenboim‐Weinblatt, Nina Springer, Sophie Lecheler, Mariken Anna Catharina Geertruida van der Velden, Martijn Schoonvelde, Giovanni Motta and Thomas Koch and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Communication, Communication Research and Human Communication Research.

In The Last Decade

Christian Baden

48 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Political Polarization on the Digital Sphere: A Cross-platform, Over-time Analysis of Interactional, Positional, and Affective Polarization on Social Media

2020 239 citations Christian Baden, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik et al. Political Communication profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Baden Israel	17	617	564	199	153	115	59	1.1k
Rodrigo Zamith United States	15	817 1.3×	558 1.0×	131 0.7×	78 0.5×	87 0.8×	26	1.2k
Mark Coddington United States	17	1.2k 1.9×	648 1.1×	166 0.8×	74 0.5×	39 0.3×	25	1.5k
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik Israel	24	981 1.6×	825 1.5×	224 1.1×	171 1.1×	34 0.3×	54	1.4k
Lisa P. Argyle United States	6	587 1.0×	726 1.3×	304 1.5×	210 1.4×	89 0.8×	19	1.3k
Ashley Muddiman United States	16	759 1.2×	637 1.1×	361 1.8×	142 0.9×	37 0.3×	33	1.1k
Lauren Guggenheim United States	7	496 0.8×	433 0.8×	66 0.3×	93 0.6×	54 0.5×	10	800
Summer Harlow United States	17	1.1k 1.9×	776 1.4×	189 0.9×	172 1.1×	27 0.2×	61	1.5k
Amber E. Boydstun United States	21	489 0.8×	649 1.2×	284 1.4×	505 3.3×	172 1.5×	42	1.4k
Adrian Rauchfleisch Taiwan	21	656 1.1×	700 1.2×	261 1.3×	178 1.2×	28 0.2×	45	1.1k
Marcus Mann United States	6	579 0.9×	768 1.4×	179 0.9×	222 1.5×	39 0.3×	12	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Baden

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Baden

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All Works

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Baden, Christian, Annett Heft, Michael Vaughan, & Barbara Pfetsch. (2025). Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements. Communication Theory.

Baden, Christian, et al.. (2025). Migration on digital news platforms: Using large-scale digital text analysis and time-series to estimate the effects of socioeconomic data on migration content. Communications. 50(4). 908–929.

Tenenboim‐Weinblatt, Keren, et al.. (2025). Journalists as Reluctant Political Prophets. Political Communication. 1–25.

Baden, Christian, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Nina Springer, et al.. (2025). Public Opinion Negotiations in a Digital Media Ecosystem: A Conceptual Framework. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 37(3).

Baden, Christian, et al.. (2024). An Ecosystem of Collective Futures: How Journalists and Experts Co-Construct Projections in Hybrid Media Environments. Digital Journalism. 13(9). 1668–1691. 1 indexed citations

Koç-Michalska, Karolina, Darren G. Lilleker, Christian Baden, et al.. (2024). Citizens, Participation and Media in Central and Eastern European Nations.

Baden, Christian, et al.. (2023). Meaning multiplicity and valid disagreement in textual measurement: A plea for a revised notion of reliability. Studies in Communication and Media. 12(4). 305–326. 3 indexed citations

Baden, Christian, et al.. (2023). Beyond sentiment: an algorithmic strategy for identifying evaluations within large text corpora. Communication Methods and Measures. 19(1). 24–45. 3 indexed citations

Koç-Michalska, Karolina, et al.. (2023). Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 21(1). 1–5.

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Haim, Mario, Valerie Hase, Marko Bachl, et al.. (2023). Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis. Studies in Communication and Media. 12(4). I–III. 1 indexed citations

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Baden, Christian, et al.. (2020). Who are ‘the people’?. Journal of Language and Politics. 19(4). 666–690. 5 indexed citations

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Meyer, Christoph O., Christian Baden, & Marie-Soleil Frère. (2017). Navigating the complexities of media roles in conflict: The INFOCORE approach. Media War & Conflict. 11(1). 3–21. 12 indexed citations

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Obermaier, Magdalena, Thomas Koch, & Christian Baden. (2015). Everybody Follows the Crowd?. Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications. 29(2). 1–12. 11 indexed citations

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Motta, Giovanni & Christian Baden. (2013). Evolutionary Factor Analysis of the Dynamics of Frames: Introducing a Method for Analyzing High-Dimensional Semantic Data with Time-Changing Structure. Communication Methods and Measures. 7(1). 48–82. 17 indexed citations

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Baden, Christian, et al.. (2012). The dynamic reconstruction of meaning in the debt crisis: An Evolutionary Factor Analysis of strategic frames and journalistic accounts in Germany and Greece. 1 indexed citations

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Baden, Christian & Alfons Schmid. (2007). Betriebspanel Report Hessen: betriebliche Arbeitszeiten in Hessen 2006 ; Ergebnisse aus dem IAB-Betriebspanel - Hessen 2006. Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences). 23.

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Baden, Christian, Thomas Kober, & Alfons Schmid. (2003). Technischer Wandel und Arbeitsmarktsegmentation: ein ausgewählter Literaturüberblick. Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung. 25(1). 61–72.

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Baden, Christian, Thomas Kober, & Alfons Schmid. (1996). Arbeitsmarktsegmentation im technologischen Wandel : Wirkungen neuer Informationstechnologien auf Struktur und Funktionsweise von Arbeitsmärkten. 2 indexed citations

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Baden, Christian, et al.. (1993). Planning tools for mobile networks. Electronics & Communications Engineering Journal. 5(5). 309–314. 2 indexed citations

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Beach, Mark A, et al.. (1992). Framework and Objectives. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 1 indexed citations

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