Deen Freelon

7.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
50 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Deen Freelon is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Deen Freelon has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Communication, 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Deen Freelon's work include Social Media and Politics (35 papers), Media Studies and Communication (13 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (11 papers). Deen Freelon is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (35 papers), Media Studies and Communication (13 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (11 papers). Deen Freelon collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. Deen Freelon's co-authors include Chris Wells, Meredith D. Clark, Charlton D. McIlwain, W. Lance Bennett, Will Mari, Marwa Maziad, Philip N. Howard, Aiden Duffy, David Karpf and Daniel Kreiss and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Deen Freelon

48 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring?

2011 366 citations Philip N. Howard, Aiden Duffy et al. SSRN Electronic Journal profile →
Disinformation as Political Communication

2020 316 citations Deen Freelon, Chris Wells Political Communication profile →
Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities

2020 228 citations David Lazer, Deen Freelon et al. profile →
Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research: APIs, Data Donation, and (Screen) Tracking

2023 61 citations Jakob Ohme, Theo Araujo et al. Communication Methods and Measures profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deen Freelon United States	24	2.0k	1.9k	689	503	408	50	3.3k
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen United Kingdom	35	3.7k 1.9×	3.0k 1.6×	574 0.8×	585 1.2×	317 0.8×	125	5.2k
Eli Pariser United States	4	1.4k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	502 0.7×	295 0.6×	421 1.0×	4	3.2k
Pablo Barberá United States	26	2.9k 1.5×	2.8k 1.4×	1.0k 1.5×	1.2k 2.5×	863 2.1×	44	4.8k
Christopher A. Bail United States	20	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.1×	446 0.6×	607 1.2×	428 1.0×	31	3.1k
Alexandra Segerberg Sweden	9	2.9k 1.5×	2.1k 1.1×	583 0.8×	931 1.9×	327 0.8×	16	3.9k
Chris Wells United States	23	1.8k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	407 0.6×	447 0.9×	224 0.5×	51	2.5k
Andrew M. Guess United States	24	2.4k 1.2×	3.4k 1.8×	1.1k 1.5×	575 1.1×	492 1.2×	37	4.3k
David Rothschild United States	21	1.4k 0.7×	3.3k 1.7×	997 1.4×	382 0.8×	535 1.3×	67	4.8k
Bruce Bimber United States	32	3.5k 1.8×	2.4k 1.2×	565 0.8×	1.5k 2.9×	283 0.7×	70	5.1k
Natalie Jomini Stroud United States	29	3.7k 1.9×	3.1k 1.6×	683 1.0×	1.1k 2.2×	484 1.2×	75	4.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Linden, Sander van der, Dolores Albarracín, Lisa K. Fazio, et al.. (2025). Using psychological science to understand and fight health misinformation: An APA consensus statement.. American Psychologist.

Freelon, Deen, et al.. (2024). What's in your PIE? Understanding the contents of personalized information environments with PIEGraph. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 75(10). 1119–1133. 2 indexed citations

Freelon, Deen, et al.. (2023). STITCHING POLITICS AND IDENTITY ON TIKTOK. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. 2 indexed citations

Freelon, Deen, et al.. (2023). #politicalcommunicationsowhite: Race and Politics in Nine Communication Journals, 1991-2021. Political Communication. 40(4). 377–395. 15 indexed citations

Lazard, Allison J., et al.. (2023). TikToks Lead to Higher Knowledge and Perceived Severity of Sexual Violence among Adolescent Men. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 52(12). 2449–2463. 6 indexed citations

Freelon, Deen. (2023). The shared psychological roots of prejudice and conspiracy theory belief. Current Opinion in Psychology. 56. 101773–101773. 5 indexed citations

Ohme, Jakob, Theo Araujo, Laura Boeschoten, et al.. (2023). Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research: APIs, Data Donation, and (Screen) Tracking. Communication Methods and Measures. 18(2). 124–141. 61 indexed citations breakdown →

González‐Bailón, Sandra, Valeria d’Andrea, Deen Freelon, & Manlio De Domenico. (2022). The advantage of the right in social media news sharing. PNAS Nexus. 1(3). pgac137–pgac137. 21 indexed citations

Rohde, Jacob A., Edwin B. Fisher, Marcella H. Boynton, et al.. (2022). A Self-management SMS Text Messaging Intervention for People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Feasibility and Acceptability Study. JMIR Formative Research. 6(5). e34960–e34960. 5 indexed citations

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Lazer, David, Eszter Hargittai, Deen Freelon, et al.. (2021). Meaningful measures of human society in the twenty-first century. Nature. 595(7866). 189–196. 66 indexed citations

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Freelon, Deen. (2020). On Writing in Communication and Media Studies| Two Brief Points on Publication Impact. International journal of communication. 14. 3. 1 indexed citations

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Freelon, Deen, et al.. (2016). Net Neutrality| Narrowing the Gap: Gender and Mobilization in Net Neutrality Advocacy. International journal of communication. 10. 23. 3 indexed citations

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Freelon, Deen, Charlton D. McIlwain, & Meredith D. Clark. (2016). Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest. New Media & Society. 20(3). 990–1011. 208 indexed citations

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Freelon, Deen, Charlton D. McIlwain, & Meredith D. Clark. (2016). Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice. SSRN Electronic Journal. 255 indexed citations

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Freelon, Deen & David Karpf. (2014). Of big birds and bayonets: hybrid Twitter interactivity in the 2012 Presidential debates. Information Communication & Society. 18(4). 390–406. 119 indexed citations

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Lynch, Marc, Deen Freelon, & Sean Aday. (2014). Syria in the Arab Spring: The integration of Syria’s conflict with the Arab uprisings, 2011–2013. Research & Politics. 1(3). 13 indexed citations

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Freelon, Deen, Chris Wells, & W. Lance Bennett. (2013). Participation in the Youth Civic Web: Assessing User Activity Levels in Web Sites Presenting Two Civic Styles. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 10(3). 293–309. 9 indexed citations

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Freelon, Deen, Travis Kriplean, John Morgan, W. Lance Bennett, & Alan Borning. (2011). Facilitating Encounters with Political Difference: Engaging Voters with the Living Voters Guide. Pharmacology. 28(6). 301–20. 2 indexed citations

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Howard, Philip H., Aiden Duffy, Deen Freelon, et al.. (2011). Opening Closed Regimes: What was the Role of Social Media during the Arab Spring?. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 1 indexed citations

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Howard, Philip N., et al.. (2011). Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 366 indexed citations breakdown →

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