Johan Bollen

13.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
85 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Johan Bollen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Johan Bollen has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 26 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 25 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Johan Bollen's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (23 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (12 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (12 papers). Johan Bollen is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (23 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (12 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (12 papers). Johan Bollen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Belgium. Johan Bollen's co-authors include Huina Mao, Xiao‐Jun Zeng, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Xiaoming Liu, Francis Heylighen, Aric Hagberg, Ryan Chute, Alberto Pepe and Xin Shuai and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Johan Bollen

80 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Twitter mood predicts the stock market

2011 3.2k citations Johan Bollen et al. profile →
Co-authorship networks in the digital library research community

2005 586 citations Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel et al. profile →
A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures

2009 410 citations Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Computational Fact Checking from Knowledge Networks

2015 270 citations Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Prashant Shiralkar et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Johan Bollen United States	29	2.3k	1.8k	1.7k	1.6k	1.4k	85	7.6k
Henry Small United States	32	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	468 0.3×	67	9.0k
Nigel Gilbert United Kingdom	44	984 0.4×	2.8k 1.5×	338 0.2×	841 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	236	10.8k
Jean‐Loup Guillaume France	12	2.5k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	5.1k 3.2×	334 0.2×	30	13.2k
Kevin W. Boyack United States	38	1.2k 0.5×	885 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	400 0.3×	92	7.8k
Ronald Rousseau Belgium	45	1.1k 0.5×	827 0.5×	1.9k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	517 0.4×	333	9.7k
Katy Börner United States	35	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	398 0.3×	166	7.8k
Frank Schweitzer Switzerland	44	577 0.3×	1.5k 0.8×	640 0.4×	2.9k 1.8×	476 0.4×	204	7.3k
Michael Newman United Kingdom	33	1.5k 0.7×	3.1k 1.7×	1.5k 0.9×	7.5k 4.7×	1.0k 0.8×	179	17.8k
Phillip Bonacich United States	25	676 0.3×	2.2k 1.2×	481 0.3×	3.3k 2.1×	826 0.6×	65	8.9k
Mark Steyvers United States	44	6.3k 2.8×	877 0.5×	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	749 0.6×	138	12.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Johan Bollen

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

All Works

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Lorenzo‐Luaces, Lorenzo, et al.. (2025). One-shot intervention reduces online engagement with distorted content. PNAS Nexus. 4(3). pgaf068–pgaf068. 1 indexed citations

Bollen, Johan, et al.. (2025). Cognitive distortions are associated with increasing political polarization. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 105–105.

Rutter, Lauren A., Marijn ten Thij, Lorenzo Lorenzo‐Luaces, Danny Valdez, & Johan Bollen. (2024). Negative affect variability differs between anxiety and depression on social media. PLoS ONE. 19(2). e0272107–e0272107. 4 indexed citations

Valdez, Danny, Eric R. Buhi, Jennifer S. Trueblood, et al.. (2023). Misinformation and Public Health Messaging in the Early Stages of the Mpox Outbreak: Mapping the Twitter Narrative With Deep Learning. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25. e43841–e43841. 34 indexed citations

Bollen, Johan. (2023). Usage based indicators to assess the impact of scholarly works: architecture and method. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

Bathina, Krishna C., Marijn ten Thij, & Johan Bollen. (2022). Quantifying societal emotional resilience to natural disasters from geo-located social media content. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0269315–e0269315. 4 indexed citations

Lorenzo‐Luaces, Lorenzo, Jacqueline Howard, Harry Yaojun Yan, et al.. (2022). Sociodemographics and Transdiagnostic Mental Health Symptoms in SOCIAL (Studies of Online Cohorts for Internalizing Symptoms and Language) I and II: Cross-sectional Survey and Botometer Analysis. JMIR Formative Research. 6(10). e39324–e39324. 3 indexed citations

Valdez, Danny, et al.. (2022). Deep learning for topical trend discovery in online discourse about Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). AIDS and Behavior. 27(2). 443–453. 1 indexed citations

Bathina, Krishna C., Marijn ten Thij, Lorenzo Lorenzo‐Luaces, Lauren A. Rutter, & Johan Bollen. (2021). Individuals with depression express more distorted thinking on social media. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(4). 458–466. 67 indexed citations

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Valdez, Danny, Marijn ten Thij, Krishna C. Bathina, Lauren A. Rutter, & Johan Bollen. (2020). Social Media Insights Into US Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Analysis of Twitter Data. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(12). e21418–e21418. 181 indexed citations

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Thij, Marijn ten, Krishna C. Bathina, Lauren A. Rutter, et al.. (2020). Depression alters the circadian pattern of online activity. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 17272–17272. 27 indexed citations

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Bollen, Johan, et al.. (2018). Power structure in Chilean news media. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0197150–e0197150. 15 indexed citations

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Bollen, Johan, et al.. (2016). An efficient system to fund science: from proposal review to peer-to-peer distributions. Scientometrics. 110(1). 521–528. 19 indexed citations

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Bollen, Johan, et al.. (2016). Collective Dynamics of Belief Evolution under Cognitive Coherence and Social Conformity. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0165910–e0165910. 38 indexed citations

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Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca, Prashant Shiralkar, Luís M. Rocha, et al.. (2015). Computational Fact Checking from Knowledge Networks. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0128193–e0128193. 270 indexed citations breakdown →

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DiGrazia, Joseph, Karissa McKelvey, Johan Bollen, & Fabio Rojas. (2013). More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e79449–e79449. 198 indexed citations

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Bollen, Johan. (2010). Determining the public mood state by analysis of microblogging posts. Artificial Life. 667–668. 26 indexed citations

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Bollen, Johan, Herbert Van de Sompel, Aric Hagberg, & Ryan Chute. (2009). A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures. PLoS ONE. 4(6). e6022–e6022. 410 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bollen, Johan, Herbert Van de Sompel, Aric Hagberg, et al.. (2009). Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science. PLoS ONE. 4(3). e4803–e4803. 133 indexed citations

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Bollen, Johan, et al.. (2008). Between conjecture and memento: shaping a collective emotional perception of the future. arXiv (Cornell University). 111–116. 7 indexed citations

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