Hal Roberts

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Hal Roberts is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hal Roberts has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Communication, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hal Roberts's work include Social Media and Politics (13 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (6 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (6 papers). Hal Roberts is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (13 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (6 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (6 papers). Hal Roberts collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Hal Roberts's co-authors include Yochai Roberts Benkler, Robert Faris, Bruce Etling, Ethan Zuckerman, Alicia Solow-Niederman, Brittany Seymour, Jun Shan Wey, D. Nesset, Yuanqiu Luo and Klaus Grobe and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Communications Magazine and Journal of Health Communication.

In The Last Decade

Hal Roberts

31 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Network Propaganda 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2018 200 400 600
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.

  1. Network Propaganda
    2018 734 citations Yochai Roberts Benkler, Robert Faris et al. profile →
  2. Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
    2018 239 citations Yochai Roberts Benkler, Hal Roberts et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hal Roberts United States 14 1.0k 882 362 299 133 31 1.7k
Nic Newman United Kingdom 15 1.0k 1.0× 1.2k 1.4× 218 0.6× 132 0.4× 63 0.5× 34 2.0k
Лэй Гуо United States 25 1.3k 1.3× 1.4k 1.6× 348 1.0× 250 0.8× 24 0.2× 73 2.3k
Bernhard Rieder Netherlands 20 683 0.7× 594 0.7× 243 0.7× 118 0.4× 41 0.3× 56 1.6k
Brooke Foucault Welles United States 17 650 0.6× 768 0.9× 236 0.7× 143 0.5× 25 0.2× 46 1.6k
Anders Olof Larsson Norway 32 1.1k 1.0× 2.2k 2.5× 433 1.2× 789 2.6× 16 0.1× 102 2.8k
Michael Karlsson Sweden 21 639 0.6× 1.1k 1.2× 96 0.3× 61 0.2× 58 0.4× 48 1.4k
Sarita Yardi United States 17 748 0.7× 667 0.8× 307 0.8× 71 0.2× 14 0.1× 32 1.8k
Hyunseo Hwang United States 11 505 0.5× 607 0.7× 166 0.5× 111 0.4× 9 0.1× 23 994
Ethan Zuckerman United States 16 529 0.5× 470 0.5× 187 0.5× 140 0.5× 8 0.1× 54 1.1k
Savvas Zannettou United States 21 935 0.9× 572 0.6× 925 2.6× 68 0.2× 7 0.1× 59 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Hal Roberts

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hal Roberts

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hal Roberts

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Marotta, Andrea, et al.. (2024). End-to-end slicing of RAN based on next-generation optical access network. Photonic Network Communications. 48(1-3). 26–34. 2 indexed citations
2.
Roberts, Hal, Rahul Bhargava, Momin M. Malik, et al.. (2021). Media Cloud: Massive Open Source Collection of Global News on the Open Web. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 15. 1034–1045. 31 indexed citations
3.
Roberts, Hal. (2020). Status of ITU-T Q2/15: New Higher Speed PON Projects. IEEE Communications Standards Magazine. 4(1). 57–59. 3 indexed citations
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Faris, Robert, et al.. (2020). Partisanship, Impeachment, and the Democratic Primaries: American Political Discourse, January - February 2020. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Faris, Robert, et al.. (2020). Polarization and the Pandemic: American Political Discourse, March – May 2020. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Benkler, Yochai Roberts, et al.. (2020). Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign. SSRN Electronic Journal. 50 indexed citations
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Roberts, Hal, et al.. (2019). Lessons Learned from NG-PON2 Systems Developments and Deployment. Tu3B.2–Tu3B.2. 2 indexed citations
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Lavery, Domaniç, Marco Ruffini, Luca Valcarenghi, et al.. (2018). Networks for Future Services in a Smart City: Lessons Learned from the Connected OFCity Challenge 2017. IEEE Communications Magazine. 56(8). 138–144. 6 indexed citations
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Roberts, Hal, et al.. (2017). Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 205 indexed citations
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Matsui, Y., et al.. (2016). Transceiver for NG-PON2: Wavelength Tunablity for Burst Mode TWDM and Point-to-point WDM. Optical Fiber Communication Conference. Tu2C.1–Tu2C.1. 12 indexed citations
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Roberts, Hal. (2015). Examining tools for online public health media analysis: An Ebola case study. 2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo (Oct. 31 - Nov. 4, 2015). 1 indexed citations
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Wey, Jun Shan, et al.. (2015). Physical Layer Aspects of NG-PON2 Standards—Part 1: Optical Link Design [Invited]. Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. 8(1). 33–33. 64 indexed citations
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Faris, Robert, et al.. (2015). Score Another One for the Internet? The Role of the Networked Public Sphere in the U.S. Net Neutrality Policy Debate. SSRN Electronic Journal. 14 indexed citations
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Luo, Yuanqiu, Hal Roberts, Klaus Grobe, et al.. (2015). Physical Layer Aspects of NG-PON2 Standards—Part 2: System Design and Technology Feasibility [Invited]. Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. 8(1). 43–43. 51 indexed citations
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Etling, Bruce, Hal Roberts, & Robert Faris. (2014). Blogs as an Alternative Public Sphere: The Role of Blogs, Mainstream Media, and TV in Russia's Media Ecology. SSRN Electronic Journal. 25 indexed citations
16.
Murdoch, Steven J. & Hal Roberts. (2013). Introduction to: Internet Censorship and Control. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Roberts, Hal, Ethan Zuckerman, Jillian York, Robert Faris, & John Palfrey. (2011). International Bloggers and Internet Control. 1 indexed citations
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Gasser, Urs, et al.. (2011). Online Security in the Middle East and North Africa: A Survey of Perceptions, Knowledge and Practice. mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich). 3 indexed citations
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Roberts, Hal, Ethan Zuckerman, & John Palfrey. (2011). 2011 Circumvention Tool Evaluation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 16 indexed citations
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Roberts, Hal, Ethan Zuckerman, John Palfrey, Jillian York, & Robert Faris. (2011). The Evolving Landscape of Internet Control: A Summary of Our Recent Research and Recommendations. 5 indexed citations

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