Howard Rheingold

10.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
24 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Howard Rheingold is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Howard Rheingold has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Communication and 2 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Howard Rheingold's work include Impact of Technology on Adolescents (3 papers), Social Media and Politics (2 papers) and Knowledge Management and Sharing (1 paper). Howard Rheingold is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Technology on Adolescents (3 papers), Social Media and Politics (2 papers) and Knowledge Management and Sharing (1 paper). Howard Rheingold collaborates with scholars based in United States. Howard Rheingold's co-authors include Fred Truck, John Seely Brown, Howard B. Levine and Anthony M. Weeks and has published in prestigious journals such as Annual Review of Psychology, Leonardo and IEEE Technology and Society Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Howard Rheingold

23 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Fro... 1991 2026 2002 2014 1994 1991 2000 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
    1994 3.3k citations Howard Rheingold Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa) profile →
  2. Virtual Reality
    1991 1.2k citations Howard Rheingold profile →
  3. The Virtual Community
    2000 566 citations Howard Rheingold The MIT Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Howard Rheingold United States 14 2.5k 2.2k 854 575 459 24 6.0k
Marc A. Smith United States 29 1.9k 0.8× 2.2k 1.0× 613 0.7× 209 0.4× 740 1.6× 85 5.1k
Sherry Turkle United States 25 3.5k 1.4× 1.5k 0.7× 1.0k 1.2× 1.1k 1.9× 455 1.0× 61 7.6k
Kate Crawford United States 37 3.3k 1.3× 1.5k 0.7× 576 0.7× 302 0.5× 1.1k 2.5× 109 9.5k
Jennifer Preece United States 26 1.5k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 474 0.6× 380 0.7× 425 0.9× 75 3.8k
Stuart Levine United States 7 2.0k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 469 0.5× 545 0.9× 348 0.8× 21 5.6k
Stefan Stieglitz Germany 32 2.9k 1.1× 2.0k 0.9× 405 0.5× 173 0.3× 711 1.5× 205 6.2k
James E. Katz United States 32 3.2k 1.3× 2.0k 0.9× 509 0.6× 547 1.0× 446 1.0× 133 5.6k
Jenny Preece United States 37 3.2k 1.3× 2.6k 1.2× 1.8k 2.1× 920 1.6× 1.3k 2.9× 105 8.7k
Amy Bruckman United States 41 2.6k 1.0× 2.2k 1.0× 910 1.1× 718 1.2× 1.1k 2.3× 161 6.6k
Jan Kietzmann Canada 38 4.4k 1.7× 1.5k 0.7× 514 0.6× 380 0.7× 950 2.1× 100 8.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Howard Rheingold

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Howard Rheingold

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Howard Rheingold. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Howard Rheingold 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 Howard Rheingold. Howard Rheingold 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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Rheingold, Howard. (2012). Stewards of Digital Literacies.. Knowledge quest. 41(1). 52–55. 9 indexed citations
2.
Rheingold, Howard & Anthony M. Weeks. (2012). Crap Detection 101: How to Find What You Need to Know, and How to Decide If It's True. 336. 1 indexed citations
3.
Rheingold, Howard, et al.. (2010). An Interview with Howard Rheingold. eLearn. 2010(2).
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Rheingold, Howard. (2010). Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media Literacies.. 45(5). 14. 50 indexed citations
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Brown, John Seely, et al.. (2008). Entrepreneurial learning in the networked age: How new learning environments foster entrepreneurship and innovation. RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert) (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya). 16 indexed citations
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Rheingold, Howard. (2008). Using Social Media to Teach Social Media.. 23(1). 25–26. 13 indexed citations
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Rheingold, Howard. (2007). The tools of cultural production in the hands of teens : reason for optimism. 28–30. 1 indexed citations
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Rheingold, Howard. (2007). Natifs numériques ou des raisons d’être optimistes. Persée (Ministère de lEnseignement supérieur et de la Recherche). 21(1). 28–30. 2 indexed citations
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Rheingold, Howard. (2003). Smart mobs. Sociétés. 79(1). 75–75. 158 indexed citations
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Rheingold, Howard. (2000). The Virtual Community. The MIT Press eBooks. 566 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rheingold, Howard. (1996). La comunidad virtual: una sociedad sin fronteras. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 87 indexed citations
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Rheingold, Howard. (1994). The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa). 3312 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rheingold, Howard, et al.. (1994). Censorship on the Information Highway. Information Management & Computer Security. 2(4). 30–31. 2 indexed citations
14.
Rheingold, Howard. (1993). The Virtual Community: Finding Commection in a Computerized World. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. eBooks. 185 indexed citations
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Rheingold, Howard, et al.. (1992). Virtuelle Welten : Reisen im Cyberspace. Rowohlt eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Truck, Fred & Howard Rheingold. (1991). Tools for Thought: The People and Ideas behind the Next Computer Revolution. Leonardo. 24(2). 243–243. 33 indexed citations
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Rheingold, Howard. (1991). Virtual Reality: Exploring the Brave New Technologies. 65 indexed citations
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Rheingold, Howard. (1991). Virtual Reality. 1191 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rheingold, Howard. (1985). Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology. Digital Library Of The Commons Repository (Indiana University). 54 indexed citations
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Rheingold, Howard. (1970). Virtual communities - exchanging ideas through computer bulletin boards. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. 1(1). 38 indexed citations

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