Christopher A. Bail

5.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
31 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Christopher A. Bail is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher A. Bail has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Communication and 9 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Christopher A. Bail's work include Social Media and Politics (14 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (9 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (6 papers). Christopher A. Bail is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (14 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (9 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (6 papers). Christopher A. Bail collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and United Kingdom. Christopher A. Bail's co-authors include Friedolin Merhout, Taylor Brown, Alexander Volfovsky, Marcus Mann, Lisa P. Argyle, M. B. Fallin Hunzaker, Haohan Chen, Jaemin Lee, Terence E. McDonnell and Iddo Tavory and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Christopher A. Bail

30 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization

2018 904 citations Christopher A. Bail, Lisa P. Argyle et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Political sectarianism in America

2020 461 citations Christopher A. Bail et al. profile →
The Configuration of Symbolic Boundaries against Immigrants in Europe

2008 307 citations Christopher A. Bail American Sociological Review profile →
The cultural environment: measuring culture with big data

2014 185 citations Christopher A. Bail Theory and Society profile →
Can Generative AI improve social science?

2024 85 citations Christopher A. Bail Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher A. Bail United States	20	2.0k	1.1k	607	446	428	31	3.1k
Deen Freelon United States	24	1.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.8×	503 0.8×	689 1.5×	408 1.0×	50	3.3k
Pablo Barberá United States	26	2.8k 1.4×	2.9k 2.6×	1.2k 2.0×	1.0k 2.3×	863 2.0×	44	4.8k
Damian Trilling Netherlands	23	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	209 0.3×	444 1.0×	203 0.5×	85	2.3k
Michael A. Xenos United States	40	3.1k 1.5×	2.9k 2.7×	691 1.1×	640 1.4×	224 0.5×	111	5.1k
David Rothschild United States	21	3.3k 1.6×	1.4k 1.3×	382 0.6×	997 2.2×	535 1.3×	67	4.8k
Robert M. Bond United States	13	1.3k 0.7×	950 0.9×	385 0.6×	311 0.7×	632 1.5×	45	2.5k
Eli Pariser United States	4	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	295 0.5×	502 1.1×	421 1.0×	4	3.2k
W. Russell Neuman United States	22	2.9k 1.4×	2.6k 2.4×	1.5k 2.5×	266 0.6×	243 0.6×	58	5.2k
Christopher J. Fariss United States	20	1.7k 0.8×	741 0.7×	699 1.2×	269 0.6×	581 1.4×	68	2.8k
Josh Pasek United States	29	1.7k 0.9×	866 0.8×	516 0.9×	186 0.4×	119 0.3×	65	2.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Watts, Duncan J., et al.. (2025). A research agenda for encouraging prosocial behaviour on social media. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(3). 441–449.

Kapoor, Sayash, Christopher A. Bail, Odd Erik Gundersen, et al.. (2024). REFORMS: Consensus-based Recommendations for Machine-learning-based Science. Science Advances. 10(18). eadk3452–eadk3452. 27 indexed citations

Bail, Christopher A.. (2024). Can Generative AI improve social science?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(21). e2314021121–e2314021121. 85 indexed citations breakdown →

Argyle, Lisa P., et al.. (2023). Perceived gender and political persuasion: a social media field experiment during the 2020 US Democratic presidential primary election. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 14051–14051. 2 indexed citations

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

Jahani, Eaman, Natalie M. Gallagher, Friedolin Merhout, et al.. (2022). An Online experiment during the 2020 US–Iran crisis shows that exposure to common enemies can increase political polarization. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 19304–19304. 7 indexed citations

Lena, Jennifer C., Omar Ližardo, Terence E. McDonnell, et al.. (2019). Measuring Culture. Columbia University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations

Bail, Christopher A., Lisa P. Argyle, Taylor Brown, et al.. (2018). Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(37). 9216–9221. 904 indexed citations breakdown →

Bail, Christopher A., Friedolin Merhout, & Peng Ding. (2018). Using Internet search data to examine the relationship between anti-Muslim and pro-ISIS sentiment in U.S. counties. Science Advances. 4(6). 18 indexed citations

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Bail, Christopher A.. (2017). Taming Big Data. Sociological Methods & Research. 46(2). 189–217. 6 indexed citations

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Bail, Christopher A.. (2016). Cultural carrying capacity: Organ donation advocacy, discursive framing, and social media engagement. Social Science & Medicine. 165. 280–288. 44 indexed citations

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Bail, Christopher A.. (2016). Combining natural language processing and network analysis to examine how advocacy organizations stimulate conversation on social media. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(42). 11823–11828. 98 indexed citations

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Bail, Christopher A.. (2016). Emotional Feedback and the Viral Spread of Social Media Messages About Autism Spectrum Disorders. American Journal of Public Health. 106(7). 1173–1180. 35 indexed citations

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Bail, Christopher A.. (2015). Taming Big Data. Sociological Methods & Research. 46(2). 189–217. 21 indexed citations

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Bail, Christopher A.. (2014). Terrified. Princeton University Press eBooks. 43 indexed citations

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Bail, Christopher A.. (2014). The cultural environment: measuring culture with big data. Theory and Society. 43(3-4). 465–482. 185 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bail, Christopher A.. (2012). The Fringe Effect. American Sociological Review. 77(6). 855–879. 179 indexed citations

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Bail, Christopher A.. (2008). The Configuration of Symbolic Boundaries against Immigrants in Europe. American Sociological Review. 73(1). 37–59. 307 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lamont, Michèle & Christopher A. Bail. (2005). Sur les frontières de la reconnaissance. Revue européenne de migrations internationales. 21(2). 61–90. 6 indexed citations

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Lamont, Michèle & Christopher A. Bail. (2005). Sur les frontières de la reconnaissance: Les catégories internes et externes de l’identité collective. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 32 indexed citations

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