John Palfrey

2.4k total citations
71 papers, 927 citations indexed

About

John Palfrey is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, John Palfrey has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 927 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 21 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 16 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in John Palfrey's work include Social Media and Politics (15 papers), Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (11 papers) and Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (9 papers). John Palfrey is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (15 papers), Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (11 papers) and Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (9 papers). John Palfrey collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. John Palfrey's co-authors include Urs Gasser, Bruce Etling, danah boyd, John Kelly, Jonathan Zittrain, Robert Faris, Robert E. L. Faris, Ronald J. Deibert, Alice Marwick and Eszter Hargittai and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New Media & Society and First Monday.

In The Last Decade

John Palfrey

68 papers receiving 771 citations

Peers

John Palfrey
Wayne Huang United States
Ann Peterson Bishop United States
Michael Latzer Switzerland
Moritz Büchi Switzerland
Sharon Strover United States
Lina Dencik United Kingdom
Charles D. Raab United Kingdom
Vicki McKinney United States
Steve Drew Australia
Wayne Huang United States
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Fields of papers citing papers by John Palfrey

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Palfrey. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Palfrey 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 John Palfrey. John Palfrey 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
1.
Palfrey, John. (2022). . Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation). 1 indexed citations
2.
Palfrey, John. (2017). Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces. The MIT Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations
3.
Rubin, Edward L., et al.. (2012). Legal Education in the Digital Age. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations
4.
Gasser, Urs & John Palfrey. (2011). Fostering Innovation and Trade in the Global Information Society: The Different Facets and Roles of Interoperability. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 6 indexed citations
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Palfrey, John. (2011). Intellectual Property Strategy. The MIT Press eBooks. 1. 11 indexed citations
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Palfrey, John. (2010). Local Nets on a Global Network: Filtering and the Internet Governance Problem. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 4 indexed citations
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Palfrey, John. (2010). The Challenge of Developing Effective Public Policy on the Use of Social Media by Youth. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 63(1). 3. 1 indexed citations
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Palfrey, John, et al.. (2010). Enhancing child safety and online technologies : final report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States. 36 indexed citations
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Palfrey, John. (2010). Cornerstones of Law Libraries for an Era of Digital-Plus. Law library journal. 102(2). 171–190. 5 indexed citations
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Palfrey, John, et al.. (2010). Accountability and Transparency at ICANN: An Independent Review. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 5 indexed citations
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Gasser, Urs, et al.. (2010). Working Towards a Deeper Understanding of Digital Safety for Children and Young People in Developing Nations. mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich). 31 indexed citations
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Gasser, Urs, et al.. (2009). Youth, Creativity, and Copyright in the Digital Age. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 45 indexed citations
13.
Danner, Richard A., et al.. (2009). The Twenty-First Century Law Library. Law library journal. 101(2). 143–156.
14.
Palfrey, John, Harold R. Roberts, & Ethan Zuckerman. (2009). 2007 Circumvention landscape report: methods, uses, and tools. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 9 indexed citations
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Palfrey, John. (2008). The Public and the Private at the United States Border with Cyberspace. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 7 indexed citations
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Palfrey, John & Urs Gasser. (2008). Opening Universities in a Digital Era.. mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich). 23(1). 22–24. 16 indexed citations
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Palfrey, John. (2007). Reluctant Gatekeepers: Corporate Ethics on a Filtered Internet. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Dutton, William H., John Palfrey, & Malcolm Peltu. (2007). Deciphering the Codes of Internet Governance: Understanding the Hard Issues at Stake. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations
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Palfrey, John, et al.. (2006). The Move to the Middle: The Enduring Threat of “Harmful” Speech to the End-to-End Principle. Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis). 21(1). 31–65. 6 indexed citations

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