Dan Mercea

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

About

Dan Mercea is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Mercea has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Communication, 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Dan Mercea's work include Social Media and Politics (40 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (12 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (12 papers). Dan Mercea is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (40 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (12 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (12 papers). Dan Mercea collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Romania. Dan Mercea's co-authors include Marco Bastos, Brian D. Loader, Arthur Charpentier, Shawn Walker, Andrea Baronchelli, Lorenzo Mosca, Christina Neumayer, Michael Saker and Carrie‐Anne Myers and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences and Journal of Communication.

In The Last Decade

Dan Mercea

45 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.

  1. The Brexit Botnet and User-Generated Hyperpartisan News
    2017 241 citations Marco Bastos, Dan Mercea profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Dan Mercea 709 686 258 211 126 49 1.1k
Adrian Rauchfleisch 656 0.9× 700 1.0× 261 1.0× 178 0.8× 109 0.9× 45 1.1k
JungHwan Yang 694 1.0× 609 0.9× 214 0.8× 214 1.0× 135 1.1× 27 1.0k
Marco Bastos 696 1.0× 719 1.0× 299 1.2× 151 0.7× 184 1.5× 78 1.2k
Chris J. Vargo 1.0k 1.5× 1.0k 1.5× 286 1.1× 156 0.7× 128 1.0× 38 1.5k
Josephine Lukito 624 0.9× 598 0.9× 209 0.8× 206 1.0× 89 0.7× 42 956
Alexandra Siegel 616 0.9× 769 1.1× 304 1.2× 219 1.0× 123 1.0× 20 1.1k
Kevin Munger 576 0.8× 685 1.0× 288 1.1× 180 0.9× 104 0.8× 42 1.1k
Matthew Hindman 741 1.0× 508 0.7× 123 0.5× 321 1.5× 110 0.9× 19 1.1k
Devin Gaffney 654 0.9× 547 0.8× 236 0.9× 132 0.6× 300 2.4× 10 1.2k
Alberto Ardèvol‐Abreu 1.1k 1.5× 926 1.3× 186 0.7× 160 0.8× 128 1.0× 39 1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Mercea

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mercea, Dan, et al.. (2024). Policy over Protest: Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Support for Movement Parties. Perspectives on Politics. 23(3). 901–923. 2 indexed citations
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Mercea, Dan, et al.. (2024). Protesting the lockdown: geo-indexing a movement publicly opposing Covid-19 policies on Facebook. Social movement studies. 23(6). 695–718. 1 indexed citations
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Mercea, Dan, et al.. (2024). Protesting at the intersection of individual characteristics and obstacles to participation: an analysis of the in-person, online and pivoting styles. Journal of European Public Policy. 32(8). 1958–1985. 1 indexed citations
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Mercea, Dan, et al.. (2024). Young democrats, critical citizens and protest voters: studying the profiles of movement party supporters. Acta Politica. 60(1). 167–188. 4 indexed citations
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Saker, Michael, Dan Mercea, & Carrie‐Anne Myers. (2023). “Wayfearing” and the city: Exploring how experiential fear of crime frames the mobilities of women students at a city-based university using a bespoke chatbot app. Mobile Media & Communication. 12(1). 131–151. 1 indexed citations
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Neumayer, Christina, et al.. (2022). Lifting the Veil on the Use of Big Data News Repositories: A Documentation and Critical Discussion of A Protest Event Analysis. Communication Methods and Measures. 16(4). 283–302. 6 indexed citations
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Mercea, Dan & Lorenzo Mosca. (2021). Understanding movement parties through their communication. Information Communication & Society. 24(10). 1327–1343. 11 indexed citations
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Bastos, Marco, et al.. (2021). Guy next door and implausibly attractive young women: The visual frames of social media propaganda. New Media & Society. 25(8). 2014–2033. 6 indexed citations
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Walker, Shawn, Dan Mercea, & Marco Bastos. (2021). Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms. 2 indexed citations
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Bastos, Marco & Dan Mercea. (2018). The public accountability of social platforms: lessons from a study on bots and trolls in the Brexit campaign. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 376(2128). 20180003–20180003. 37 indexed citations
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Bastos, Marco, Dan Mercea, & Andrea Baronchelli. (2018). The geographic embedding of online echo chambers: Evidence from the Brexit campaign. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0206841–e0206841. 41 indexed citations
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Bastos, Marco & Dan Mercea. (2018). Parametrizing Brexit: mapping Twitter political space to parliamentary constituencies. Information Communication & Society. 21(7). 921–939. 22 indexed citations
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Bastos, Marco & Dan Mercea. (2017). The Brexit Botnet and User-Generated Hyperpartisan News. SSRN Electronic Journal. 19 indexed citations
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Mercea, Dan. (2016). Introduction: Civic Participation in Contentious Politics: The Digital Foreshadowing of Protest. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Bastos, Marco, Dan Mercea, & Arthur Charpentier. (2015). Tents, Tweets, and Events: The Interplay Between Ongoing Protests and Social Media. Journal of Communication. 65(2). 320–350. 91 indexed citations
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Mercea, Dan. (2014). Towards a Conceptualization of Casual Protest Participation. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures. 28(2). 386–410. 16 indexed citations
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Mercea, Dan. (2011). Digital prefigurative participation: The entwinement of online communication and offline participation in protest events. New Media & Society. 14(1). 153–169. 82 indexed citations
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Mercea, Dan. (2011). Networking Democracy? Social Media Innovations and Participatory Politics. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Loader, Brian D. & Dan Mercea. (2011). Networking Democracy? Social Media Innovations And Participatory Politics. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 25 indexed citations

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