Jennifer Allen

2.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
38 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Jennifer Allen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Jennifer Allen has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in General Health Professions and 8 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Jennifer Allen's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (11 papers), Health and Medical Studies (9 papers) and Social Media and Politics (7 papers). Jennifer Allen is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (11 papers), Health and Medical Studies (9 papers) and Social Media and Politics (7 papers). Jennifer Allen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Jennifer Allen's co-authors include Duncan J. Watts, Markus Möbius, David Rothschild, David G. Rand, Gordon Pennycook, Antonio A. Arechar, Cameron Martel, Matthias Wetzstein, Cornelia Lange and Elena von der Lippe and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Jennifer Allen

36 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

  1. Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem
    2020 314 citations Jennifer Allen, Markus Möbius et al. profile →
  2. Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents
    2023 79 citations Antonio A. Arechar, Jennifer Allen et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →
  3. Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook
    2024 37 citations Jennifer Allen, Duncan J. Watts et al. Science profile →

Peers

Jennifer Allen
Maeve Duggan United States
Jingwen Zhang United States
Francesc López Seguí Spain
Dari Alhuwail Kuwait
Kar‐Hai Chu United States
Yuxi Wang Italy
S. M. Murshid Hasan Bangladesh
Salman Bin Naeem Pakistan
Abu-Hena Mostofa Kamal Australia
Maeve Duggan United States
Jennifer Allen
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Countries citing papers authored by Jennifer Allen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jennifer Allen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jennifer Allen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jennifer Allen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jennifer Allen 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 Jennifer Allen. Jennifer Allen 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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Allen, Jennifer & Joshua A. Tucker. (2025). Platform-independent experiments on social media. Science. 390(6776). 883–884.
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Allen, Jennifer, et al.. (2025). Addressing misperceptions takes more than combating fake news. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 29(9). 779–782.
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Allen, Jennifer, Duncan J. Watts, & David G. Rand. (2024). Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook. Science. 384(6699). eadk3451–eadk3451. 37 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rattay, Petra, Jennifer Allen, Christina Poethko‐Müller, et al.. (2024). Soziale Lage, Gesundheit und Gesundheitsverhalten von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Ein-Eltern-Haushalten zum Ende der COVID-19-Pandemie. Ergebnisse der KIDA-Studie 2022–2023. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz. 67(9). 983–997. 2 indexed citations
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Heidemann, Christin, Yong Du, Elvira Mauz, et al.. (2024). Healthcare and health situation of adults with type 2 diabetes in Germany: The study GEDA 2021/2022-Diabetes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(2). e12128–e12128. 3 indexed citations
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Arechar, Antonio A., Jennifer Allen, Adam J. Berinsky, et al.. (2023). Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(9). 1502–1513. 79 indexed citations breakdown →
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Allen, Jennifer, et al.. (2023). A 2 million-person, campaign-wide field experiment shows how digital advertising affects voter turnout. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(3). 332–341. 20 indexed citations
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Bischof, Gallus, Anja Bischof, Richard Velleman, et al.. (2022). Prevalence and self‐rated health and depression of family members affected by addictive disorders: results of a nation‐wide cross‐sectional study. Addiction. 117(12). 3140–3147. 7 indexed citations
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Rosario, Angelika Schaffrath, Jennifer Allen, M. Lange, et al.. (2022). Waning of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies after vaccination: first results from the CoMoLo follow-up 2021. European Journal of Public Health. 32(Supplement_3). 1 indexed citations
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Eitze, Sarah, Lisa Felgendreff, Lars Korn, et al.. (2021). Vertrauen der Bevölkerung in staatliche Institutionen im ersten Halbjahr der Coronapandemie: Erkenntnisse aus dem Projekt COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO). Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz. 64(3). 268–276. 22 indexed citations
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Holtz, David, Seth Benzell, M. Amin Rahimian, et al.. (2020). Interdependence and the cost of uncoordinated responses to COVID-19. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(33). 19837–19843. 121 indexed citations
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Allen, Jennifer, et al.. (2020). Tips for pandemic response planning for Internal Medicine training programs. MedEdPublish. 9. 182–182. 1 indexed citations
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Konitzer, Tobias, Jennifer Allen, Stephanie Eckman, et al.. (2020). Measuring News Consumption With Behavioral Versus Survey Data. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Damerow, Stefan, Alexander Rommel, Franziska Prütz, et al.. (2020). Developments in the health situation in Germany during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic for selected indicators of GEDA 2019/2020-EHIS. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(4). 3–20. 25 indexed citations
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Mauz, Elvira, Michael Lange, Robert Hoffmann, et al.. (2019). Cohort profile: KiGGS cohort longitudinal study on the health of children, adolescents and young adults in Germany. International Journal of Epidemiology. 49(2). 375–375k. 55 indexed citations
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Lange, Cornelia, Jonas D. Finger, Jennifer Allen, et al.. (2017). Implementation of the European health interview survey (EHIS) into the German health update (GEDA). Archives of Public Health. 75(1). 40–40. 101 indexed citations
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Lange, Cornelia, Jennifer Allen, Jens Hoebel, et al.. (2015). Data Resource Profile: German Health Update (GEDA)--the health interview survey for adults in Germany. International Journal of Epidemiology. 44(2). 442–450. 101 indexed citations
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Kaminsky, David A., Charles G. Irvin, Lennart K. A. Lundblad, et al.. (2004). Oscillation mechanics of the human lung periphery in asthma. Journal of Applied Physiology. 97(5). 1849–1858. 57 indexed citations

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