D. Walker

18.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
31 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

D. Walker is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Walker has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 8 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in D. Walker's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (7 papers), Social Media and Politics (6 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (6 papers). D. Walker is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (7 papers), Social Media and Politics (6 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (6 papers). D. Walker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. D. Walker's co-authors include Sinan Aral, Sergei Maslov, Koon-Kiu Yan, Lev Muchnik, Arunima Krishna, Jacob Groshek, D. Snowden-Ifft, A. St. J. Murphy, M. Gold and J. Gauvreau and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

D. Walker

26 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Identifying Influential and Susceptible Members of Social Networks

2012 715 citations Sinan Aral, D. Walker Science profile →
Creating Social Contagion Through Viral Product Design: A Randomized Trial of Peer Influence in Networks

2011 505 citations Sinan Aral, D. Walker profile →
Tie Strength, Embeddedness, and Social Influence: A Large-Scale Networked Experiment

2014 285 citations Sinan Aral, D. Walker profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. Walker United States	11	957	820	338	236	215	31	2.0k
Gueorgi Kossinets United States	9	978 1.0×	1.3k 1.6×	413 1.2×	63 0.3×	440 2.0×	12	2.9k
Sitaram Asur United States	15	737 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	309 0.9×	115 0.5×	817 3.8×	23	2.4k
Dean Eckles United States	23	1.4k 1.5×	371 0.5×	561 1.7×	124 0.5×	502 2.3×	47	2.4k
Winter Mason United States	18	1.5k 1.6×	1.5k 1.9×	881 2.6×	176 0.7×	715 3.3×	35	4.1k
Jürgen Pfeffer Germany	21	891 0.9×	381 0.5×	534 1.6×	129 0.5×	389 1.8×	94	2.0k
Huaxia Rui United States	19	741 0.8×	132 0.2×	248 0.7×	262 1.1×	256 1.2×	71	1.5k
Markus Strohmaier Austria	25	911 1.0×	500 0.6×	712 2.1×	131 0.6×	810 3.8×	149	2.8k
Linh Dang-Xuan Germany	9	1.3k 1.4×	516 0.6×	962 2.8×	141 0.6×	569 2.6×	18	2.2k
Ko Kuwabara United States	13	1.0k 1.1×	144 0.2×	198 0.6×	195 0.8×	464 2.2×	21	2.0k
Manish Agrawal United States	14	610 0.6×	214 0.3×	356 1.1×	76 0.3×	202 0.9×	48	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by D. Walker

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Fields of papers citing papers by D. Walker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. Walker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of D. Walker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of D. Walker 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 D. Walker. D. Walker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bloomquist, Ryan F., et al.. (2025). Associations of time to the operating room on outcomes in odontogenic infection. BMC Oral Health. 25(1). 108–108.

Walker, D., et al.. (2024). The Promise and Pitfalls of AI Technology in Bridging Digital Language Divide: Insights from Machine Translation on Wikipedia. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Kim, Hyunuk, et al.. (2023). Understanding the Consumption of Antimicrobial Resistance–Related Content on Social Media: Twitter Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25. e42363–e42363.

Chen, Chen, D. Walker, & Venkatesh Saligrama. (2023). Ideology Prediction from Scarce and Biased Supervision: Learn to Disregard the “What” and Focus on the “How”!. Chapman University Digital Commons (Chapman University). 9529–9549. 1 indexed citations

Christenson, Dino, et al.. (2023). Disentangling positive and negative partisanship in social media interactions using a coevolving latent space network with attractors model. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). 186(3). 463–480. 1 indexed citations

Walker, D., et al.. (2022). If a Tree Falls in the Forest: Presidential Press Conferences and Early Media Narratives about the COVID-19 Crisis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 1 indexed citations

Walker, D., et al.. (2018). Content Growth and Attention Contagion in Information Networks: A Natural Experiment on Wikipedia. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Groshek, Jacob, et al.. (2017). Understanding and Diagnosing Antimicrobial Resistance on Social Media: A Yearlong Overview of Data and Analytics. Health Communication. 34(2). 248–258. 16 indexed citations

Walker, D. & Sinan Aral. (2014). Tie Strength, Embeddedness, and Social Influence: A Large-Scale Networked Experiment. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Walker, D. & Lev Muchnik. (2014). Design of Randomized Experiments in Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE. 102(12). 1940–1951. 16 indexed citations

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Aral, Sinan & D. Walker. (2012). Identifying Influential and Susceptible Members of Social Networks. Science. 337(6092). 337–341. 715 indexed citations breakdown →

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Daw, E. J., Joseph R. Fox, J. Gauvreau, et al.. (2011). Spin-dependent limits from the DRIFT-IId directional dark matter detector. Astroparticle Physics. 35(7). 397–401. 33 indexed citations

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Aral, Sinan & D. Walker. (2010). Creating Social Contagion Through Viral Product Design: A Randomized Trial of Peer Influence in Networks. SSRN Electronic Journal. 121 indexed citations

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Aral, Sinan & D. Walker. (2010). Identifying Influential and Susceptible Individuals in Social Networks: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment. 4 indexed citations

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Yan, Koon-Kiu, D. Walker, & Sergei Maslov. (2008). Fluctuations in Mass-Action Equilibrium of Protein Binding Networks. Physical Review Letters. 101(26). 268102–268102. 6 indexed citations

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Walker, D.. (2007). Rural cinema audiences in South Australia in the 1930s. Studies In Australasian Cinema. 1(3). 353–375. 3 indexed citations

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Walker, D.. (2007). Rural cinema audiences in South Australia in the 1930s. Studies In Australasian Cinema. 1(3). 353–375. 2 indexed citations

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Walker, D., et al.. (2007). Ranking scientific publications using a model of network traffic. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2007(6). P06010–P06010. 169 indexed citations

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Walker, D. & Steve Rowlinson. (1999). Procurement and the World Wide Web (WWW) - Presenting Company Capabilities for Selective Tendering. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 3 indexed citations

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Walker, D. & K. C. Misra. (1992). Tectonic significance of basalts of the Middle Run Formation (Upper Proterozoic) of the East Continent Rift Basin, Indiana and Kentucky. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States). 2 indexed citations

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