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.
Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
20173.6k citationsHunt Allcott, Matthew GentzkowThe Journal of Economic Perspectivesprofile →
Social norms and energy conservation
20111.8k citationsHunt AllcottJournal of Public Economicsprofile →
The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation
2014846 citationsHunt Allcott et al.American Economic Reviewprofile →
Polarization and public health: Partisan differences in social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic
2020671 citationsHunt Allcott, Levi Boxell et al.Journal of Public Economicsprofile →
Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?
2012617 citationsHunt Allcott, Michael GreenstoneThe Journal of Economic Perspectivesprofile →
This map shows the geographic impact of Hunt Allcott's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Hunt Allcott with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Hunt Allcott more than expected).
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Hunt Allcott. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Hunt Allcott. The network helps show where Hunt Allcott may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hunt Allcott
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hunt Allcott.
A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hunt Allcott 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 Hunt Allcott. Hunt Allcott is excluded from
the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
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